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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
FORMER Brigade Commander of the 33 Artillery Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Muraina Raji, who is to lose three months in seniority over the escape of two Boko Haram suspects from the Wetland Detention Facility in Bauchi, has rejected the verdict. Raji was convicted for conduct prejudicial to service discipline contrary to section 103 (1) of the […]
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Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
A team of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Edo State, medical experts have recorded the first successful stem cell transplantation operation in the West African sub-region. The team led by a haematologist, Dr. Nosakhare Bazuaye, performed a successful surgery made on an indigent sickle cell patient, who suffered a stroke at seven. Chief […]
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Headlines, South-West
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
IKENNE, the home town of the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, will on Thursday host Yoruba sons and daughters from far and near for the inaugural conference of the Pan-Yoruba National Conference. The conference will be held inside the Efunyela Hall. A notice signed by the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II, and the […]
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Bayelsa, State News
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Despite the success that characterised the nation 51st independence anniversary, residents of Yenagoa, the capital city of the Bayelsa State trembled in fear, as a police patrol team attacked some youths on Imgbi Street, off popular Punch Road around 8.00 p.m, on Saturday, firing shots at close range at youths who were celebrating. A source told the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
The United States (US) government and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) have signed an agreement for a 300,000 dollars grant to train 77 officials on Nigeria’s new driver’s licence. The US Trade and Development grant was signed in Abuja at the weekend by Terence McCulley, the US ambassador to Nigeria and Osita Chidoka, the FRSC Corps […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
IT emerged, on Sunday, that the decision by the Federal Government to host the nation’s independence anniversary inside the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, was informed by the need to cut costs. President Goodluck Jonathan had hosted a number of former heads of state at the Presidential Villa where a parade also took place. The parade […]
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Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
TWENTY-THREE persons were reported to have died on Sunday, when suspected gunmen, numbering about 70, stormed the small village of Ligyado in Daraga District in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The attack came barely two months after a similar attack took place in Guru and Tungar villages in Dansadau district in the same […]
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Boko Haram, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
AS security services struggle to combat budding terrorism, a fresh alarm has been raised about the inflow of sophisticated arms of various types into northern Nigerian cities from the vast northern borders of the country with Niger and Chad. Nigerian Tribune was told that arms and ammunition taken by loyalists of ousted Libyan president, Moammar […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
OVER 100 security personnel including the police bomb disposal officers would be attached to the Guineans national team, the Syli National when they arrive Nigeria later in the week for the all important Africa Nations Cup qualifier against the Super Eagles in Abuja on October 8. The security details would include officers of the Nigeria […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Foremost religious leader and Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto State, Monsignor Matthew Hassan Kukah has enjoined Nigerians to believe in President’s Goodluck Jonathan’s plans and strategies in the war aginst the activities of the dreaded Islamic insurgent, Boko Haram. Speaking to journalists yesterday at a press parley organized to mark the conclusion of the […]