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Buhari, it’s not the best time to attack IBB

Posted by admin Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

Buhari, it’s not the best time to attack IBB — 8th August 2016 GIVE it to President Muhammadu Buhari, just about 15 months in the saddle, he has learnt so fast the art of politics or probably, all these years he was struggling to be the president, he had undergone political tutelage on how to […]

Security: Buhari, Udom in closed-door meeting

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, State News Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

— 10th August 2016 From Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari met behind closed-doors with the Akwa Ibom Governor, Udom Emmanuel at the Presidential Villa, to discuss the security situation in the region. There has been renewed militancy in the Niger Delta region, leading to the destruction of oil facilities, resulting in the drop in […]

Abia guber: Appeal Court keeps Ikpeazu, Ogah waiting

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

Abia guber: Appeal Court keeps Ikpeazu, Ogah waiting — 10th August 2016 •Reserves judgment •Sheriff, Makarfi factions clash in court From Godwin Tsa, Abuja The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal yesterday reserved judgments in the six appeals relating to the Abia State governorship tussle. There was, however, a mild drama as former Chairman […]

Soldiers comb Niger Delta creeks for militants

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Army, Headlines, Niger Delta Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

soldiers attack boko Soldiers comb Niger Delta creeks for militants — 10th August 2016 • New group vows to attack Warri, Port Harcourt refineries Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa and Paul Osuyi, Asaba Soldiers attached to Operation Delta Safe (OPDS) have seized the creeks of Bayelsa State in search of the militants that killed three soldiers and […]

Super Eagles new coach, Rohr, signs two-year contract

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

For the first time in almost six months, the Super Eagles of Nigeria now has a substantive coach, as German tactician Gernot Rohr has signed a two-year deal to become technical adviser of the team. The Nigeria Football federation (NFF) announced the deal on its Twitter account on Tuesday, two days after its technical and […]

Nigerian girl, 17, secures admission to 13 US and Canadian universities

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, August 9th, 2016

Tuesday, August 9, 2016 Folashade Adebayo A 17-year- old girl, Serena Omo-Lamai, has been granted admission to study in 13 universities in America and Canada. Omo-Lamai, who graduated from Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, last year, however, opted for Syracuse University, United States, to study Bio-Medical Engineering. Some of the universities where she was offered admission […]

Sea bandits kill 3 soldiers in Bayelsa as Tompolo, Bebenimbo deny link to Niger Delta Avengers

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Monday, August 8th, 2016

YENAGOA- SUSPECTED sea bandits on Monday attacked a military checkpoint at Tombi waterside in Nembe, a coastal community in Bayelsa East Senatorial district, Bayelsa State, allegedly killing three soldiers. Vanguard gathered that the pirates, who caught the soldiers unawares struck at about 10.00 am. They made away with a gunboat belonging to the military and […]

EFCC arrests controversial blogger Abubakar Sidiq Usman

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Monday, August 8th, 2016

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC today arrested Mr. Abubakar Sidiq Usman, a blogger, for offences bordering on cyber stalking. The suspect who is the publisher of Abusidiqu.com was picked up at his Kubwa, Abuja home in the early hours of Monday August 8, 2016 by operatives of the EFCC and is currently being […]

MASSOB denies betraying Biafra struggle

Posted by admin Biafra, Latest Politics Monday, August 8th, 2016

By Vincent Ujumadu Awka- THE Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Monday insisted that struggle for the actualization of the Biafra Republic was still very much on course and denied the allegation by two officials of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, that MASSOB had betrayed the struggle. Reacting to […]

Raymond Dokpesi refutes alleged sponsoring of Niger Delta Avengers

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Niger Delta Monday, August 8th, 2016

The National chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi, has denied sponsoring activities of the Niger Delta Avengers, saying that it is nothing but a blatant concoction of falsehood obviously laced with the political intention of throwing a spanner in the works of our nation wide campaign/consultation with PDP delegates […]