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Latest Politics
Sunday, June 30th, 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has begun consultations for an inclusive stakeholder committee that will thoroughly interrogate issues that fuel communal conflicts across the country, with a mandate to proffering lasting solutions to age-long disagreements that have claimed lives and property. With particular focus on the Tiv/Jukun relationship in Benue and Taraba States, the President is […]
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Delta, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Sunday, June 30th, 2019
Ondo State elders on Friday looked at the Niger Development Commission (NDDC) Establishment Act 2000, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Delta State indigenes as the next Chairman and Managing Director of the Commission. ‘’It is the turn of Delta State to produce the chairman of the board and also the managing director’’ the […]
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Headlines, Wole Soyinka
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019
The Internet was abuzz, yesterday, after Tonye Cole, billionaire politician, shared his flight experience on how Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, was asked to vacate a seat by a passenger onboard a flight. Cole, the co-founder and former group executive director of Sahara Group and Energy, had taken to his Instagram page on Sunday to narrate […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | June 22, 2019 – Early on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, by 4.40 am and four days after the presidential election held in Nigeria on Saturday, February 23, the Chairman of the ‘Independent’ National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, announced that Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Uncategorized
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, collapsed in court during a trial and died Monday, state TV and his family said. The 67-year-old Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
Suspected thugs have beaten up Seidu Oshiomhole, the younger brother of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress and lawmaker-elect (Etsako West 11) of the Edo State House of Assembly, Tribune Online is reporting. The attack on Oshiomhole and 14 other lawmakers of the Edo State House of Assembly is the latest in the […]
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Headlines, Sex and Relationship
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
An Ibadan-based tyre dealer, Moruf Gbolagade, on Tuesday, told a Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan that he consented to part ways with his estranged wife, Sekinat, because “she is a street fighter.” Countering his wife’s earlier allegation of incessant battering and irresponsibility, Moruf told the court that he was provoked to stop loving his wife […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
The travel ban announcement by the US came as State House defended President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Sunday outburst, saying he had reached his elastic limit on petty politics at the expense of his development agenda and the war on corruption. The United States of America has agreed to help Kenya in its fight against corruption by […]
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National Politics, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019
By Davies Iheamnachor PORT HARCOURT-A socio-cultural group, Ikwerre Youth Movement, IYM, has urged the vice presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, to apologise to the former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, if he (Obi) could not condemn Rochas Okorocha’s statement. Amaechi had said that for Igbo to be successful in their […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
Eniola Aluko, 19, was on Friday shot dead at Plumstead, London. According to UK’s Metropolitan Police, Aluko, who is from Thamesmead, died after sustaining gunshot wounds to the neck and chest. Metropolitan Police said they were called to the scene, a car park on Hartville Road, just before 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Aluko was found with critical […]
