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Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Sunday, July 5th, 2015
The bureaucrats While Nigeria currently does not have substantive ministers assisting President Muhammadu Buhari to run the government, state affairs must continue. Our correspondents examine the people who perform these tasks pending the appointment of substantive ministers For no fewer than 38 days, the country’s Federal Executive Council which was dissolved by former President […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, July 5th, 2015
Abdulrahman Mani President Muhammadu Buhari has fired his Chief Security Officer, Mr. Abdulrahman Mani, for engaging in a supremacy battle with the Aide-de-Camp to the President, Lt.-Col. Lawal Abubakar. Our correspondent learnt on Saturday that his redeployment was one of the sweeping changes being carried out by the acting Director-General of the Department […]
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Anambra, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Sunday, July 5th, 2015
Following the relocation of Boko Haram detainees to the Ekwulobia Prisons in Anambra State, the military have taken over the security of the facility. SUNDAY PUNCH investigations showed that security operations in the Federal Government facility are no longer the exclusive preserve of the officials of the Nigeria Prison Service. The development, sources told our […]
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Headlines, State News, Yobe
Sunday, July 5th, 2015
Potiskum (Yobe)- The Police in Yobe on Sunday confirmed the killing of six persons in a suicide bomb attack on a church in Potiskum. Mr Toyin Gbadegesin, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the state command, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Damaturu that the death included the suicide bomber. The spokesman […]
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Headlines
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
By Benjamin Njoku 21-year-old Sandra Okon Bassey forth night ago wrote her name in gold as she emerged Most Beautiful Model Nigeria International. Sandra who was former Miss Niger Delta and the face of Independence Nigeria 2014, won the crown at this year’s edition of the Most Beautiful Model In Nigeria and African Designers concert which […]
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Headlines, Legislature, Senate
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu | credits: File copy A group, Democracy in Action, has warned the All Progressives Congress against removing the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The group, in a statement by its Chairman, Dr. Donald Abraham, on Thursday, insisted that Ekweremadu’s election followed due process and vowed to resist any […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
The Police command in Borno State on Friday confirmed the killing of at least 10 persons after Thursday’s two highway suicide bombings in some parts of the state. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Aderemi Opadokun, confirmed this to newsmen in Maiduguri. Opadokun said a suicide attack occurred at Malari village along the Bama/Konduga […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Nigerian Police, Ogun, Rivers, State News
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase | credits: http://www.thescoopng.com Following a rise in the crime wave, the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has redeployed the Commissioners of Police in Lagos, Ogun and Rivers states and replaced them with new hands. Lagos had last week recorded a violent bank robbery during which millions of naira […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
A hospital and police are investigating what might have caused a veteran nurse to drop a newborn baby, fracturing his skull. Jacqueline Hunt, the baby’s mother, told WPXI-TV that a pediatrician said the nurse was feeding and burping her 1-day-old son, Eli, at Uniontown Hospital when the nurse became “drowsy and fell asleep and dropped […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Friday, July 3rd, 2015
Labour unions in Osun State have warned Governor Rauf Aregbesola to stop the plan to cut workers’ salaries by 50 per cent. The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress in the state, Mr. Jacob Adekomi, who led other labour leaders to address journalists on the issue said on Friday that the decision would lead to an […]
