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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Pakistani police say a court has freed eight out of 10 people charged with organising the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl activist. Salim Khan, a senior police official, said on Friday that the eight men were freed because there was not enough evidence to connect them to the 2012 attack in Swat, northwest of […]
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Headlines, Judiciary, Oil Politics
Friday, June 5th, 2015
The Supreme Court on Friday finally decided a 32-year-old case against the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, ordering the company to pay N30,288,681 compensation for oil spillage in four communities of Delta State. The four communities – Obotobo, Sokebolo, Ofogbene (Ezon Burutu) and Ekeremor Zion (Ezon Asa) – had, through some of their […]
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Headlines
Friday, June 5th, 2015
The death toll from two blasts in northeast Nigeria rose to 35 on Friday, raising the total number killed in suspected Boko Haram attacks to 82 during President Muhammadu Buhari’s first week in office. Rescue officials in the Adamawa state’s capital Yola said 31 people had been confirmed dead in the explosion that ripped through […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the government and people of Ghana over the dual tragedy of flooding and fire outbreak which claimed scores of lives in that country. The president, in a condolence message on Friday, 5 June 2015 signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Friday, June 5th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | June 4, 2015 –Now that the campaigns and elections are over and the winners have been sworn in at both the federal and state levels, I think that the best next step for us now is to hurriedly put aside the convenient, barefaced lie that any political party […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Economy, Headlines, Naira (Currency)
Friday, June 5th, 2015
The Naira and dollar The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday made a slight adjustment to its naira-dollar exchange rate peg, data on its website showed. The bank adjusted the rate at which it sold the United States dollar from N197 to N196.95, Reuters reports. Prior to Thursday’s action, the rate had been oscillating […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Former President Goodluck Jonathan Former President Goodluck Jonathan; his deputy, Namadi Sambo; immediate past ministers and presidential aides as well as non-returning federal lawmakers will wait till next year before collecting their severance allowances, investigation by The PUNCH has shown. Their severance allowances as contained in the remuneration package put together by the Revenue […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, June 4th, 2015

Badeh; Ihejirika Amnesty International has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands to investigate some former and serving Nigerian service chiefs for war crimes. The crimes, according to the global civil rights organisation, were perpetrated during the fight against Boko Haram in the North-East between March 2011 and […]
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Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday assured Nigerians that he would do all within his powers to ensure that they would not regret entrusting national responsibility to him by electing him during the March 28 presidential election. He said his administration was capable of fixing the nation’s problems. Buhari made the submission in […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade Another bomb blast rocked the troubled Borno State capital of Maiduguri late on Tuesday morning , leaving many dead and others wounded. Prior to the explosion at the popular Kasuwan Shanu (meat market), residents were rudely woken up at 12:45am on Monday by gunshots that boomed in […]