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Articles, Columnists, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
IN response to my earlier article, “Dismantle these Roadblocks”, an irate policeman called me on the phone. The article was on the need to dismantle the police roadblocks across Nigeria because they have failed as a crime fighting strategy. They degenerated from their intended role of crime prevention to cesspools of police corruption, harassment and […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
BySimon Ebegbulem BENIN—Former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie, has called on the Attorney-General of the Federation to prosecute former President Olusegun Obasanjo over the dismantling of toll gates. Owie, who commended the re-introduction of toll gates by President Goodluck Jonathan, recalled the condemnation that greeted the destruction of the toll gates during […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG & NAOMI MGBAKOR LAGOS — ARMED soldiers, yesterday, took over most of the nation’s power stations, including Egbin Power Station, as Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers threatened to withdraw their services. This came as the State Security Service, SSS, invited the President and General Secretary of the National Union of […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Umuahia—Abia State Police Command has launched an investigation into how a day-old baby boy got missing from a private hospital, Analechi Hospital, located at 5 Ngbaronye/Udi Street, Amuzuku, Umuahia, Abia State. The police said yesterday that all the staff of the hospital were being interrogated on the matter, even as it ponders on the where- […]
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Latest Politics, Women Politics
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan may have ordered the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, to conduct full investigations into an Austrian newspaper report alleging the purchase of a 20 million Euro mansion by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. Alison-Madueke was one of the recipients of the national honours in Abuja yesterday and has […]
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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Headlines, Religion, Sultan of Sokoto
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Founder and Director of African Centre for Theological Studies, ACTS, Rev. H. Anie, said, weekend, that Nigerian religious leaders have failed in their duty of leading the nation on the right path. He spoke at the 14th convocation of ACTS in Lagos, Saturday. Rev. Anie said: “God commanded us to go and multiply. Religious leaders […]
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Bayelsa, Governors, Headlines, NNP Spotlight, State News
Monday, November 14th, 2011
Embattled Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, has decided to legally challenge his disqualification by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from contesting the November 19 state governorship primary election. Daily Sun learnt from an impeccable source close to the governor that Sylva’s lawyers filed an application at a Yenagoa High Court yesterday, praying the court to […]
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Headlines
Monday, November 14th, 2011
N igeria/Zambia friendly fixed for 5pm today in Kaduna is threatened as generating set to supply power to the stadium failed five times during evening training. Zambians were disappointed last night as they trained in the dark when the power supply to the Kaduna Stadium failed. Meanwhile, Coach Stephen Keshi will try all his best […]
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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Ebonyi, State News
Monday, November 14th, 2011
Ebonyi State Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has appealed to the state Governor, Martin Elechi to be compassionate to the organized labour in the state and pay all the workers their salaries for the month of September 2011. In a communiqué signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the association Rev. Emmanuel Nshii and Rev. […]
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Headlines
Monday, November 14th, 2011
It was a tragic end for nursing mother of two, Mrs. Nkechi Ozuku and her five-year-old daughter Nnenna, who lost their lives to a kerosene explosion believed to have been caused by adulterated kerosene bought by the family. Fire resulting from the explosion claimed the lives of the nursing mother, her five years old daughter […]
