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Headlines
Monday, January 18th, 2016
The Group Managing Director of Energy Group, Jimoh Ibrahim, did the unthinkable Monday when he sacked Bolu Afolayan, the Managing Director of one of his companies, Newswatch Media Ltd. during a live TV broadcast in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. This followed a prostest by some members of Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, a the 5th […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Monday, January 18th, 2016
advertisement TOP HEADLINES By Luka Ibinnyat & Mayen Etim KADUNA-A mentally-deranged woman, simply known as Hassana, gave birth in broad daylight to baby boy at Kaduna Central Market, yesterday. Hassana delivered the baby in front of a bank adjacent the Kaduna State Media Corporation, KSMC, while hundreds of citizens watched […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News
Saturday, January 16th, 2016

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | January 16, 2016 – No doubt, the 2015 election in Nigeria will remain one of the most discussed political events in many years to come. This is because a lot of surprises sprang up in its wake and thereafter. Nobody would forget in a hurry the telephone conversation […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
AP In this grab taken from video by Associate Press Television, the scene of an attack on a hotel, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. OUAGADOUGOU, Jan 16 (Reuters) – At least 20 people died and others were taken hostage when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the capital city of Burkina Faso […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, EFCC Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Navy, Top Stories
Saturday, January 16th, 2016

Some of the Generals Viewed – 79796 Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Eighteen military chiefs that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe will start appearing before the commission on Monday. Saturday PUNCH learnt that the commission had sent invitations to some of the Generals and the companies, whose names featured in […]
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General Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Saturday, January 16th, 2016

The Presidency on Friday said there was no truth in the news making the rounds that President Muhammadu Buhari stormed out of the meeting he had with parents of the abducted Chibok girls, representatives of the Chibok community and members of the Bring Back Our Girls movement at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday. The […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
EDO State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, yesterday broke his silence over his position on the choice of his successor as he told members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) drawn from the three senatorial districts of the state that while he would ensure there are primaries, he, however, would not be indifferent to the choice of […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Saturday, January 16th, 2016

Wife of former Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, Kate Keshi, was buried in Benin, Edo State, on Friday, amid eulogies. Mrs Keshi, who died on December 9 in the United States during a protracted battle with cancer, was interred at the family residence in Ugiokhuen Quartres, Ugbor Road, Benin. Before she was committed […]
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Headlines
Saturday, January 16th, 2016
Friday, January 15, 2016 Dad assured Fani-Kayode’s wife, hubby ‘ll be fine, moments later, he was killed -Amb Akintola TOP HDLINES From Seye Ojo and Taiwo Oluwadamilare For 50 years, he has carried the memory and the ache in his heart, a fact confirmed by his vivid […]
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Headlines, Oil Politics
Friday, January 15th, 2016

Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday revealed that the Federal Government will beam its searchlight on the oil sector after the ongoing arms deal probe. He disclosed this during a round-table discussion organised by the Business Eye in Lagos. According to Amaechi, the Federal Government would probe the missing $49bn oil revenue, that erstwhile […]