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World leaders adopt ambitious UN goals to end extreme poverty in 15 years

Posted by admin Headlines, United Nations Saturday, September 26th, 2015

Teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks at a press conference during the UN General Assembly on September 25, 2015 in New York. She urged leaders to zero in on promoting education even as world leaders pledged to end extreme poverty within 15 years, adopting an ambitious set of UN goals to be backed up by […]

The Ogogoro We Need – By Arnold A. Alalibo

Posted by admin Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists Saturday, September 26th, 2015

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Sept. 26, 2015 – I was wrong about my view on the recent ban on ogogoro, the locally-brewed gin that caused the death of many in Rivers State recently. I had supported the action of the federal government in outlawing both its production and consumption, perhaps because of […]

Zambian president gives death row inmates life sentences

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 26th, 2015

LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu on Thursday reduced the sentence of 332 prisoners awaiting death by hanging to life imprisonment to ease maximum security prison congestion. Crimes that could be punishable by death include murder, treason and robbery with a deadly weapon, although Zambia has not executed any prisoners since 1997. During a […]

Germany-based businessman shot dead in Lagos

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 26th, 2015

■ Police hold two suspects BY CHIOMA IGBOKWE It happened in Iyana Ishashi, along the Lagos-Badagry expressway. Mr. Barry Ndulue, a middle-aged man was coming back from a business trip to Ghana on Sunday, September 20, 2015. Unknown to him, he was being trailed, according to police accounts. Once he got to that […]

Lady, 24 nabbed for child theft in Calabar

Posted by admin Cross River, Headlines, State News Saturday, September 26th, 2015

By Ike Uchechukwu Luck ran out, yesterday, on an alleged syndicate that specializes in buying children in the Calabar metropolis as one of their members a 24 -year old lady known as Nkechi was apprehended by neighbours of the “supposed “victim before she was arrested by the police. Saturday Vanguard learned that the incident,which […]

NNPC Appointments: Much Ado about a Conflict of Interest – By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Oil Politics Saturday, September 26th, 2015

By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | London, UK | Sept. 26, 2015 – I was as usual browsing the noted and respected Sahara Reporters website when I came across a Petition/Press Release by a group named Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) who claimed to be a “coalition of over hundred and fifty Anti-corruption organizations whose […]

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala offer two international jobs

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, September 26th, 2015

Former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has accepted two key international positions. The first is to serve as Chair of the 28-member Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, GAVI, (http://www.gavi.org/about/), an international public-private partnership committed to saving the lives of children and protecting people’s […]

Nigeria Might Still Break Up Under Buhari – By Lloyd Ukwu-

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Lloyd Ukwu, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency Saturday, September 26th, 2015

By Lloyd Ukwu | Washington DC, USA | Sept. 26, 2015 – American and Western European experts predicted that Nigeria will disintegrate in 2015. With the political desperation and frenzy that marked the political campaigns of the 2015 presidential election, many thought that Nigeria was at the point of the predicted 2015 disintegration. Surprisingly, the election took […]

Prophet stabs self, bleeds to death in C&S Church

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, September 26th, 2015

A man, simply identified as Prophet Wale, has killed himself in a Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ona Iwa Mimo, on Otunba Bamidele Street, in the Ikotun area of Lagos State, after he reportedly approached the owner of the church, a prophetess, to be part of her ministry. According to PUNCHMetro, the deceased claimed to be […]

Gunmen kidnap pastor in Ondo

Posted by admin Headlines, Ondo, State News Saturday, September 26th, 2015

FROM BAMIGBOLA GBOLAGUNTE, AKURE Barely 24 hours after the release of the N a t i o n a l Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae by his abductors, a renowned pastor in Ondo State, Japhet Obafemi has been kidnapped. Obafemi, who is the Pastor in charge of The Apostolic Faith, […]