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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Odein Ajumogobia, represented by the Director North and Horn of Africa Division, Mr Timloh Nkem, disclosed yesterday that about 3,000 additional Nigerians have registered with the embassy officials in Libya indicating their desire to be evacuated. This was as two distressed Nigerians delivered babies at Tripoli International Airport while awaiting […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and a strong pillar of the rulling party in Lagos State, Chief Bode George, seems to have put his recent jail experience behind him. He has returned to the political turf and resumed the battle for the soul of Lagos. In this interview with Magazine Editor, SOLA OSHUNKEYE, he talks […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
LAGOS — TO win Lagos in next month’s election, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have mapped out strategies to corner the 6.1 million voters of the state. They are also raising a hefty war-chest for the political battle. Sources told Vanguard, weekend, that each of the parties was planning […]
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Headlines
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
ABUJA – The Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, has harvested a total of 331 Expressions of Interest, EOIs, in the privatisation of the successor companies created out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. One hundred and seventy four firms applied to March 6, 2011 acquire the four thermal stations and the two hydro stations. […]
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Headlines
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
A Nigerian living in the United State, Jessica Rene Tata, has been declared wanted by the U.S. Marshals over allegation of committing offences ranging from manslaughter, injury and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. The US authority has, therefore, placed a $25,000 reward for any information that could lead directly to Tata’s arrest. This made the […]
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Headlines
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
A man who allegedly bathed his girlfriend with acid, over the latter’s decision to call the six years relationship quit, weekend, pleaded to be forgiven, explaining that he did it out of frustration and fear of losing his girl friend. The victim, Onyinye Blessing Agwu, a youth corp member, is still receiving treatment at an […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Lagos – A former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande said in Lagos that his greatest regret in politics was the cancellation of the metroline project started by his administration in the 80s. The metroline project was conceived as a means of mass movement of goods and services by rail within a thickly populated city […]
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Ogun, State News
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
ABEOKUTA-SUPPORTERS of Governor Olugbenga Daniel of Ogun State, yesterday,finally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and joined the Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN, as exclusively reported by Vanguard several weeks ago. A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of PPN, Alhaji Raheem Ajayi,confirmed that Daniel’s faction had dumped the PDP for his party declaring that […]
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Headlines
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
LAGOS – THE Commonwealth Business Council, CBC, said, weekend, that Nigeria was losing $100 billion yearly due to lost output and high costs for local businesses. This came as the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, urged Labour leaders in the country to organise a day of national protest against continued power failure in the country. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, March 6th, 2011

INDICATIONS emerged, weekend, that no fewer than six Nigerians had been killed in the ongoing political crisis in Libya while more than 12,440 others were trapped in Tripoli and Benghazi. This came as 1,243 Nigerians who had been stranded in Tripoli were evacuated, yesterday, with the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, using three aircraft for […]