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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
The chairman of the Oyo State Task Force on Flood Prevention and Management, Dr Bolanle Wahab, has disclosed that a total of 2,105 buildings were washed away by the flood disaster which ravaged the city of Ibadan on August 26, 2011. He also said that a total sum of N4.31 billion would be required by […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
CHIEF Emeka Wogu, the Minister of Labour and Productivity, on Tuesday said that the Federal Government would save about 6 billion dollars by removing fuel subsidy. Wogu said this while declaring open the 5th Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Association Institutions (NASU) in Abuja. The theme of the conference […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
FURTHER details have emerged as to the reasons that led President Goodluck Jonathan to relieve the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, of her position. Sources told the Nigerian Tribune that the final straw that compelled President Jonathan to effect the removal had to do with a representation of […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
THE Kano State police command has arrested one Shu’abiu Jibrin (80), for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl, just as the command also paraded a 65-year-old man, Ado Shehu, for allegedly raping another four-year-old girl. This is just as the command also nabbed a dismissed police corporal for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl. Disclosing this on Wednesday […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
A self-acclaimed man of God, Pastor Chukwudi Ibe, of Divine Power Ministry in Onitsha, is currently cooling his feet in a police cell over gross abuse of his ward. The pastor, with a hot electric iron, had inflicted severe burns on the 11-year-old boy, identified as Friday, who he accused of stealing N200 and keeping bad […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Residents of Oremeji at Aradagun near Badagry, Lagos State, were, on Sunday, thrown into shock when a man presumed dead suddenly woke up after three days in the mortuary. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the man, simply identified as Mr Agosu, died of an undisclosed illness on Friday in a hospital and his […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

The Senate Ad hoc Committee on Privatisation has indicted former Directors-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises for their roles in the sale of Federal Government enterprises from 1999 to date. The former BPE bosses, namely Dr. Julius Bala, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and Mrs. Irene Chigbue were recommended for reprimand by the committee for seeking […]
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Headlines, Sultan of Sokoto
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammed Sa’ad Abubakar III, on Wednesday in Zaria, Kaduna State, warned that Nigeria had started drifting. Abubakar expressed fears about the fate of the Nigerian nation and stressed that the country appeared to have lost direction. The Sultan, who is also the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic […]
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Headlines, United Nations
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
The United Nations, the World Bank, governors and prominent Nigerians on Wednesday joined others to mourn and extol the virtues of the late The Guardian publisher, Alex Ibru, who died on Sunday. Empowered Newswire reported that the AU-UN Joint Special Representative in Darfur, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari; Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof. Joy Ogwu; […]
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Bayelsa, Governors, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Sylva File The dust raised by the governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party in Bayelsa State on Saturday has not settled. MIKE ODIEGWUin this report asks whether indeed there was a contest. AN entertainment mogul and entrepreneur, Ben Bruce, may have been tricked into joining the race for the governorship ticket […]