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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
A 28-year-old man, simply identified as Lise, was on Saturday arrested in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, with a human head. Lise, Sunday Tribune gathered, was arrested around Nembe Waterside, Old Town axis of the city, in the morning and was promptly taken to the nearby Borokiri Police station, where he was detained to be investigated. […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, State News
Sunday, September 18th, 2011

Less than three days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo left Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Alhaji Babakura Alhaji Fugu, the eldest son of in-law to the late Boko Haram leader, Mallam Mohammed Yussuf, was shot dead on Saturday. Obasanjo had gone to condole with the family of the late leader of Boko Haram sect, Yusuf, who […]
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Edo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Henry Omorogie Idahagbon, has decamped to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), with over 5, 000 PDP supporters in Edo State. In a chat with Daily Sun, the former senatorial aspirant said his decision to defect to the ACN was motivated by Oshiomhole’s progressive and developmental programmes. The official ceremony […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Muslims and Christians youths in Jos yesterday matched through major streets in the state capital urging residents to forget their differences and embrace peace, this was just as Catholic faithful in the state marked the feast of the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows to pray for peace in Plateau state. The Archbishop of Jos, […]
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Constitution, Legislature, Senate
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Senators yesterday protested the composition of Constitution Review Committee (CRC), 24 hours after its inauguration by Senate President David Mark. Their grouse: The composition may have been influenced by the Presidency while the Northern senators kicked against favouring their female colleagues even as the upper chamber held executive session to placate the senators. Also, yesterday, […]
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First Ladies, Latest Politics, Patience Jonathan
Friday, September 16th, 2011
First lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has denied the report that he was investigated for being in possession of $13.5 million in 2006 saying she had never seen such amount in her life. Mrs. Jonathan who was reacting to a report by online whistle blower that the said amount was confiscated from her said $13.5 million […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Friday, September 16th, 2011
Police in Anambra State yesterday raided a motherless babies home in Obosi, Idemili North Local Government Area where three babies were allegedly recovered. Daily Sun gathered that the Proprietress of the home, Mrs. Ifeoma Okolo, allegedly escaped arrest with eight babies and about 20 pregnant young girls when the police raided the home yesterday. However, […]
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Headlines
Friday, September 16th, 2011
The late Military vice president and former Chief of General Staff, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu on Wednesday commenced his journey to eternal rest with a Solemn farewell parade in his honour at the Benin Airport jointly mounted by a detachment of officers and men of the Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Air Force and Nigerian Army. The widow […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday waded into the Boko Haram crisis, pleading with the family of its leader, Yusuf Mohammed, who was killed by security agents in 2009, to forgive and forget the past. Obasanjo who arrived Maiduguri, Borno State yesterday morning met the Boko Haram leader’s relations at the family house in Bayan Quarters. […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, September 15th, 2011

The success story of Chinua Achebe’s classical novel, Things Fall Apart, has assumed another dimension as the celebrated author has turned down a $1m bid by hip hop star, 50 Cent, to use the title of the book for a new film he is producing. Online sources indicated on Monday that 50 Cent had […]