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Headlines, Plateau, State News, Yobe
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Over 200 Christian families from Yobe State and environs have taken refuge in some church premises within Jos, the Plateau State capital for alleged increasing threats to their lives and property in that part of the country. The families who were mainly n COCIN headquarters and ECWA Jarawa said they decided to leave various parts […]
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Headlines
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
After six days of street protests and mass rallies, the strike embarked upon by labour unions and civil society organizations have finally come to an end. The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) had called out workers to strike over the increase in the pump price of fuel from N65 to […]
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Akwa Ibom, State News
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Akwa Ibom State Government workers have suspended the strike which they embarked upon since January 3, 2012 over some problems in the implementation of the new minimum wage. The decision to suspend the strike, according to the labour leaders, was a response to the pleas by elder statesmen, the clergy and the royal fathers whom […]
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Soccer, Sports
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Following the threat from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to deal with any player who falsifies his or her age to qualify for the underage teams, four players have fled the camp of the female Under-17 team, the Flamingos, in Abuja this week. Member of the executive committee of the board, Barrister Chris Green, said […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012 • East Marine Diving Academy administrative block. Inset: Udokwu PHOTOS: Sun news Publishing More Stories on This Section Ordinarily, it would be expected that when officers of the Navy visit a marine academy, the students would be enthralled. And memories of the visit would linger in the hearts of such students […]
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Biafra, Headlines, South-East
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Nigerians in the United Kingdom (UK) will on Saturday, Jan 21, 2012 begin to pay their last respects to the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who died on November 26 last year. It is being organized under the auspices of Igbos in the Diaspora with a concelebrated high mass at the biggest catholic cathedral […]
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Headlines
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012 • Ajobola Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Detectives attached to the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Ikoyi, Lagos, have nabbed a 25-year-old youth corps member, Aliyu Ajobola, over an alleged fraud. Crimewatch had earlier published the report of one Fred Makanjuola (at large), who fraudulently packaged programmes and […]
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Headlines, South-East
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Barely 48 hours after the nationwide anti-subsidy removal protest ended, President Goodluck Jonathan may need an urgent and concrete action to douse the tension brewing in the South East geo-political zone. The people in the area have resolved to give back fire for fire in the event of any further killing of their kinsmen in […]
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Headlines
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Nineteen members of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were yesterday arraigned in an Onitsha Magistrate Court on a three-court charge of kidnapping, conspiracy and assault occasioning harm. The accused persons are Monday Uteze (36); Chukwuma Okwute (29); Onyedika Obiora (21); Iruka Nwagwu (27); Luke Egwuatu (81); Onwumyili Ogonna (32); Ugochukwu Mba […]
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Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency)
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
A drug suspect, currently in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), is telling the anti-narcotic officials all he knows about the 7.1kg of liquid cocaine found with him at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos . The suspect, 32-year-old Patrick Chukwuemeka emulsified the drug in a solvent and packaged it […]