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Nigerian billionaire Mike Adenuga offers $600m for Ivorian mobile phone company

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

Nigerian billionaire Mike Adenuga has made a bid to buy Ivorian mobile telecoms operator Comium Cote d’Ivoire. According to Telegeography, Globacom, a Nigerian mobile telecoms operator owned by Adenuga, is lodging a $600 million takeover bid for Comium Cote d’Ivoire, a company that has been grappling with debt and cash flow problems. If the deal […]

Tales of Horror by Survivors: Boko Haram stones captives to death

Posted by admin Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

This handout picture released by the Nigerian army on April 30, 2015 and taken this week in an undisclosed location in the Sambisa Forest, Borno state, purportedly shows a member of the Nigerian Army standing next to a group of girls rescued in an operation against the Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram hostages were […]

Xenophobia: Who Will Rescue Africa from Itself? – By Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat

Posted by admin Abdulrazaq O. hazmat, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists Thursday, April 30th, 2015

By Abdulrazaq O. Hamzat | NNP | April 30, 2015 – A friend narrated what he saw in a one of the videos of xenophobic attacks currently going on in South Africa. Here him, ‘’I saw a crowd charging at a white vehicle. In the crowd were youths,men and women and some with babies on […]

Troops rescue 293 girls, women from Sambisa forest

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Thursday, April 30th, 2015

By Madu Onuorah, Abuja Bureau Chief on April 29, 2015 68429 • Identities yet to be confirmed NIGERIAN troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast have rescued no fewer than 200 girls and 93 women from Sambisa forest in Borno State. Defence Headquarters, in a tweet yesterday, described the operation as ‘daring and precise,’ […]

‘I sold my niece for N10,000 to sex workers in Libya

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 30th, 2015

By Odita Sunday on April 29, 2015 The suspects, Kelvin and Ogbonna A 27 YEAR-OLD man yesterday confessed selling his sister’s daughter to commercial sex workers operating in Libya for a paltry sum of N10, 000. The suspect, Kelvin Okorie, was among five members of the syndicate arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad […]

Husband wants wife to refund N1.4m marriage expenses (Husband, would you refund the sex?)

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 30th, 2015

A middle-aged-man, Collins Nduka, on Thursday pleaded with an Ojo Customary Court in Lagos State to order his wife, Sefinat Nduka, to refund N1.4 million he spent in marrying her. Collins told the court that his wife, whom he married three years ago, had decided to abandon her matrimonial home for more than a year. […]

Dabiri-Erewa advises FG on execution of Nigerians

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics Thursday, April 30th, 2015

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Wednesday, said four Nigerians executed in Indonesia for drug-related offences might have been denied their right to Nigerian lawyers. Martin Anderson, (50); Silvester Nwolise, (47); Okwudili Oyatanze, (41), and Jamiu Abashin, (50), along with four others, were shot dead by […]

Jonathan sacks NPA MD

Posted by admin Latest Politics Thursday, April 30th, 2015

[print] Sacked Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Abdullahi Habib Sacked Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Abdullahi Habib President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sacked Mallam Habib Abdullahi as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority. He has also named Alhaji Sanusi Bayero as his replacement. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and […]

Russia moves to force out Nigerians, others

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, April 30th, 2015

Aspiring Nigerian footballers and indeed basketballers may soon find the Russian League a very tough one to join as the Russians move to restrict the inflow of foreigners and indeed force out those already there. The aim, they have explained is to strengthen their national team and their football system ahead of the 2018 World […]

‘Islamist attack’ thwarted in Germany, official says; 2 arrested

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, April 30th, 2015

(CNN)German authorities think they “have thwarted an Islamist attack,” and a married couple have been arrested in a town near Frankfurt in connection with the case, the interior minister for the German state of Hesse told reporters Thursday. The official didn’t provide details about the alleged plot, but German media are reporting that a man […]