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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Nigeria has signed an in-flight security agreement with the United States of America to fortify its borders in the wake of renewed terrorist attacks. The pact involves the deployment of in-flight security officers/Air Marshals, especially on the Lagos-U.S. route. Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Dr Harold Demuren, signed on behalf of Nigeria, […]
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House, Legislature
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
The on-going trial of the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dimeji Bankole, for corruption, is a good opportunity to address the problem of public corruption in Nigeria, specifically, the unilateral approval and payment of outrageous allowances to legislators. The former Speaker, who was arrested by operatives of Economic and Financial Crimes […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Party Politics
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
It has been said that godfatherism is the bane of Nigerian politics and good governance. Many elected public office holders’ failure to deliver on their electoral promises had often been attributed to their desperate proclivity to satisfy their godfathers, who breathe down their necks for financial and other patronage to the detriment of the masses. […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
For residents of Bauchi State, the fear of Boko Haram is now the beginning of wisdom. Indeed, people of the state are now gripped with anxiety following the bomb blasts at the police headquarters in Abuja and Damboa, Borno State, respectively, for which the group claimed responsibility. Bauchi, the Bauchi State capital, is no stranger […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Saturday, June 18th, 2011

FIFA had always said that women are the future of football and they have in deed taken that hope to a different level, as the German national women football team has introduced a new dimension to their World Cup preparations. Rather than give full concentration on the field of play, the German ladies have decided […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Nigerian Police
Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Getting survivors of Thursday’s bomb explosion at the Force Headquarters in Abuja to recount their gory experience has been difficult, but emerging facts indicated that the late Assistant Superintendent of Traffic (AST), Mangor Dangton, one of those killed in the blast, had expressed his desire to be redeployed from the Louis Edet House three weeks […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
It was a horrible sight at a tunnel at Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra state, as more than 20 corpses and carcasses suspected to have been murdered by ritualists and armed robbers were recovered by a government task force. Saturday Sun gathered that a joint team of soldiers and members […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
It was a pensive looking President Goodluck Jonathan, who visited the site of the bomb explosion that rocked the police headquarters, Abuja, 24 hours after urging Nigerians not to panic, as the situation will soon be a thing of the past. Jonathan, who was accompanied by retinue of aides, was however, overheard querying the number […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Facts emerged yesterday at the Louis Edet Police Headquarters in Abuja that the suicide bomber that drove the car bomb that killed many people and injured others wore a long beard just like that of the late Al Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. Police eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, told Saturday Sun that the suicide bomb […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, Top Stories
Saturday, June 18th, 2011

The Nigeria Police has resolved to go all out in its crackdown on Boko Haram. This is coming at a time a team of experts from the United States, United Kingdom and Israel have been approached by the Nigerian authorities for assistance in unravelling the power behind the group and spate of bombings in the […]