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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
The violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has said that it is ready for dialogue with the Federal Government. But the sect says this will only happen if the government releases all its members in detention. The proposed talks, however, might not lead to the final solution that government had long searched for as the sect’s […]
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Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
MORE revelations emerged, Monday,in the on-going investigation over the gruesome murder of a Lagos business man, Mr. Kazeem Ademoye,as the principal suspect who incidentally, is the victim’s wife, Mrs. Ngozi Ademoye, disowned her earlier assertion that she used an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) electrical gadget to murder her husband. She reportedly admitted that she actually […]
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Anambra, Legislature, Senate, State News
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Anambra North Senator-elect, Senator Alphonsus Igbeke, has picked holes in the Senate leadership’s refusal to swear him in over alleged non-clearance. Igbeke was first denied swearing-in on June 6, 2011 and later, last Thursday, in spite of a Federal High Court’s order of September 26 ordering the Senate leadership to swear him in with immediate […]
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Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Bauchi—Power Holding Company, PHCN, has been ordered to pay N8.4million compensation to the family of a deceased pregnant woman who was electrocuted through alleged negligence by the company. The late Mrs Zainab Abubakar, 20, was said to have been electrocuted by a high tension transmission line which reportedly dropped on her building, causing her death […]
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Niger Delta
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
WARRI-Presidential Committee on Amnesty, Abuja, weekend, opposed the claim by a group of former militants, under the aegis of Transformed Niger Delta Ex-Militants Forum, that about 12,000 ex-agitators, who passed through transformational training at Obubra Camp, Calabar, Cross River State, had not been paid their monthly stipend. The ex-militants, in a letter to President Goodluck […]
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EFCC Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
ABUJA — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has disclosed that the immunity clause in the nation’s constitution which shields the President and state governors from prosecution while in office was an aberration to the dictates of the rule of law and an obstacle in the war against corruption. Making the disclosure, weekend, a […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
ABUJA- Members of the Jaamatus Ahlus Sunnah Lid Daawatis Wal Jihad, a.k.a. Boko Haram yesterday celebrated the inability of the Federal Government to celebrate the nation’s 51st independence anniversary at the Eagle Square owing to threats by the group and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), to bomb the nation’s capital […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
A crime management expert and acting Head, Political Science Department, University of Ibadan, Dr. Osisioma Nwolise, has said Boko Haram is not a terrorist organisation. Rather, the university don described the group as a liberation force in the mould of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the Oodua Peoples Congress that […]
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Governors, Legislature, Senate
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Facts emerged on Sunday that the Senate might not dance to the tune of state governors on the amendment of the Sovereign Wealth Fund. THE PUNCH learnt that the senators might insist that the law must be implemented. The law provides that government should save from the country’s excess crude oil earnings as a backup […]
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Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
A three-man robbery gang on Sunday attacked an Abuja bound bus dispossessing the passengers of property said to be worth millions of naira. However, one of the robbers was arrested by policemen attached to the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad, while others escaped. Our correspondent learnt that the three robbers were among 12 passengers […]