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American Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late singing legend Whitney Houston, was fighting for her life Monday after she was pulled unconscious from a bathtub over the weekend, her family said. The 21-year-old’s husband and a friend found her non-responsive in the bathtub of her home near Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday in an incident with […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
’How Boko Haram can be defeated • Explains why he has not re-married In this interview, former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, clarifies his position on his statement suggesting that he is in support of the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan. Babangida also speaks on the murder of Dele Giwa in 1986, […]
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Armed Forces, Election 2015, Elections, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, adduced reasons armed military men should be allowed to mount sentry around polling centres during the forthcoming general elections. Speaking at a dialogue session the commission held with Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, accredited observers and political parties […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
By Daniel Gumm WARRI—THE National Association of Itsekiri Graduates, NAIG, has warned that it “will be more disastrous to postpone the February 2015 polls,” than to go ahead with same, calling on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to redouble its efforts in the distribution of permanent voter cards, PVCs, especially in the coastal communities. […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Amb. (Mrs) Rajis Okpara, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Singapore has advised Nigerian women to dress decently so that they can be addressed properly. Okpara, who gave the advice on Tuesday in Abuja in an interview with newsmen stressed the need for women to dress decently. She said that the adage `the way you dress will determine […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Top-ranked Serena Williams, coming off her 19th Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open, said Wednesday she will end a 14-year boycott of the Indian Wells WTA tournament. Williams, in a essay written for Time magazine, related happier times at the event, her feelings over racial insults she heard after a controversial 2001 appearance […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, INEC Politics, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, has directed the Special Protection and Counter Terrorism Units of the force to provide special security for INEC officials during and after the forthcoming elections. The directive is contained in a statement issued by Mr Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Police Public Relations Officer in Abuja on Tuesday. The statement […]
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Articles, Columnists, Election 2015, Elections, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Monday, February 2nd, 2015

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | Feb. 2, 2015 – I am deeply concerned that at this time of political campaign, as it usually happens, the word Christian is loosely used in reference to certain candidates for elective offices in Nigeria. The church stands the risk of being used for very indecent […]
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Election 2015, Elections, Headlines
Monday, February 2nd, 2015

Football stars Joseph Yobo and Nwankwo Kanu were among the sportmen that supported the campaign of President Goodluck Jonathan in Port Harcourt, Rivers state on Wednesday. The former captains of the Super Eagles urged Nigerians to re-elect Jonathan on February 14. It will be recalled that an assembly of top sports stars and personalities across […]
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Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, State News
Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Governor Serikae Dickson, famed as the countryman governor was steeped in leftist political inclination at the onset of the Fourth Republic and was chairman of the Bayelsa State chapter of the Alliance for Democracy, AD. He subsequently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and was commissioner for Justice in the Goodluck Jonathan administration in […]