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Edo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Monday, August 29th, 2011
BENIN CITY — TRAGEDY struck in Benin City, yesterday, when armed men, suspected to be kidnappers, abducted the Chairman/Managing Director of Tomline Industrial Company Limited and a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Elder Tes Sorae, after his driver and orderly were shot dead. His wife, who was also shot, is in critical situation […]
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Latest Politics, United Nations
Monday, August 29th, 2011
ABUJA- (AFP) – Investigators probed a Nigerian Islamist sect on Monday over the suicide bombing of UN headquarters here that killed at least 21 people in one of the bloodiest attacks targeting the world body globally. Fresh violence hit Sunday when gunmen stormed the home of a local government chairman in the northeast and shot him […]
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Niger Delta
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
A Niger Delta activist, Mr. Frank Akiefa, weekend, said the Niger Delta Ministry has not lived up to expectation in terms of developing the long-neglected region despite the huge budget geared towards the development of the area. Akiefa, who stated this in Warri, Delta State, said the Ministry was created following the outcry by the […]
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Oyo, State News
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
FIVE days to the anniversary of the day rain wreaked havoc on Ibadan 31 years ago, residents of the Oyo State capital were, again, left mourning, following disaster brought upon them by a downpour that lasted about six hours on Friday. Ibadan had been ravaged on Sunday, August 31, 1980, with many lives and property […]
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Articles, Columnists, Judiciary, NNP Columnists, Philips Akpoviri.
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
By Philips AKPOVIRI, NNP – August 28, 2011 – The free-for-all battle between Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and Justice Isa Ayo Salami, the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA) has reached its final albeit weirdly illogical conclusion: the honourable Justice Salami has been suspended by his contemporaries in the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Prince Charles Dickson
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
The old woman is asked to carry a child on her back, and she says but they know she has no teeth; was she asked to eat the child. When a nation with enormous wealth has a vast majority of its populace living under the poverty belt, it means that government is either not doing […]
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Adewale T. Akande, Articles, Columnists, House, Legislature, NNP Columnists, Senate
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
By Adewale T. Akande, Barcelona, Spain – August 28, 2011 – Your excellency lawmakers, I am using this forum to congratulate you all for having opportunity to be among those political trustees elected to represent our opinions, perspectives and interests in leading us to a nation of our dreams. We have lived in the worst […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories, United Nations
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Available details on Saturday showed that the bomb blast inflicted on the UN office in Abuja on Friday by the Boko Haram sect was part of the global activity of the dreaded Al Queada group to mark the 10 anniversary of the bombing of the American twin towers on September 11, 2001. Sources confirmed at the weekend […]
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Kano, State News
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
The Kano State government has approved about N900 million for payment of Ramadan bonus to civil servants. Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso disclosed this during Ramadan breakfast with lecturers of universities and other institutions of higher learning in Kano State . The governor, who was responding to a request to that effect by one of the […]
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Judiciary, Latest Politics
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
As the tenure in office of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu ends this midnight when he clocks 70 years, it has been gathered that President Goodluck Jonathan will swear-in Justice Dahiru Musdpaher as acting CJN tomorrow (Monday). Musdpaher had been recommended to Jonathan by the National Judicial Council (NJC) as Katsina-Alu’s successor, but […]
