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American Politics, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
US Senator, Ted Cruz, is asking for a peace meeting with Nigerian-Americans who have demanded that he retracts his controversial joke last week which many of them considered insulting, Empowered Newswire reports. According to a letter from the senator released over the weekend to leaders of the Nigerian community in Houston, Texas, where the controversial […]
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Biafra, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Thursday, October 24th, 2013
BY LUKMAN OLABIYI Some family members of the late Biafran leaders and Ikemba Nnewi, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has challenged the Nigerian Ambassador to Spain, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu to show proof that she was legally married to the deceased. This was the fresh twist introduced into current legal battle rocking the family of the late Ikemba […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Niger Delta, Oil Politics, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Monday, October 21st, 2013
FROM CHRIS ANUCHA The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has said that it was responsible for the damage of Shell facilities, which caused further pollution of the environment in Ogoniland and other communities in the Niger Delta region. The pollution was said to have been due to crude oil spills and […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, General Politics, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Monday, October 21st, 2013
Members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect may have killed 19 people in Borno State on Sunday. AFP reported that the insurgents who were dressed in military uniforms and wielding AK 47 assault rifles killed the 19 motorists by blocking the highway near Logumani which is 19 kilometres from the nation’s border with Cameroun. It […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), First Ladies, General Politics, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Patience Jonathan, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Mrs. Patience Jonathan | credits: news.naij.com The All Progressives Congress has said the decision of the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, to receive a honorary doctorate degree from a South Korean university while Nigerian universities have been shut for months was the height of insensitivity. This was contained in a statement signed by […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Plateau, State News
Saturday, October 12th, 2013
Arthur Eze promised to buy the house for Mr. Lar’s family. The members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, led by Bamanga Tukur, paid a condolence visit to the Abuja home of the pioneer chairman of the ruling party, Solomon Lar, only to be shocked that the late politician […]
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Africa & World Politics, Education, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Saturday, October 12th, 2013
The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mr. Muhajid Asari-Dokubo has joined the swelling rank of private university proprietors with his establishment of a university in the neighbouring Republic of Benin, PREMIUM TIMES reported on Friday. Asari-Dokubo, who already owns a soccer academy in the West African country and another one […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Plateau, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Chief Solomon Lar | credits: File copy First civilian governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, is dead. Lar passed on in a US hospital of what family sources described as old-age related ailment on Wednesday. He was aged 80. Commissioner for Information, Mr. Abraham Yiljap, who confirmed his death, told our correspondent that […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Monday, October 7th, 2013
BY DAPO AKINREFON CHIEF Olabode George, former deputy national chairman, of the Peoples Democratic, PDP, in this interview in Lagos, opens up on the intrigues he claims that led to his imprisonment and on his relationship with former President Olusegun Obasanjo among other issues. Excerpts: How did your trial and imprisonment affect you? Looking back, […]
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Articles, Columnists, General Politics, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
By John Egbeazien Oshodi, Ph.D. | NNP | October, 6, 2013 – Mr. President, as you and your administration face a Nigeria submerged in the Boko Haram uproar in the North, kidnapping upheaval in the South, militancy hullabaloo in the Niger Delta, and rampant violence, vicious schemes, and institutional exploitation all over the country, the […]
