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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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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 […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, South-South, Top Stories
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan • Conference is deception strategy, says APC national leader Bola Tinubu Our Correspondents As President Goodluck Jonathan prepares to inaugurate the advisory committee on national dialogue tomorrow, opinion leaders in the South-south have called on him to ensure that there are predetermined subjects that must not be discussed at the conference. Prominent […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
General Overseer, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye No fewer than 40 armed hoodlums (a.k.a. Omo Onile) today invaded Agufoye village, site of the proposed new 3-kilometre Church auditorium of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), and chased away workers on the site of the proposed new church building. Witness account stated that trouble started when some […]
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Tuesday, October 1st, 2013
Presidential Villa, Abuja …on Tuesday. NAN. | credits: NAN. President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday led other top government officials, former heads of government and friends of the nation, to mark the nation’s 53rd Independence anniversary inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The anniversary was marked with the commemorative Presidential Change of Guards Parade at the […]
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Africa & World Politics, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories, Wole Soyinka
Sunday, September 29th, 2013
Saturday, September 28, 2013 How I escaped death in Kenya mall attack -Soyinka advertisement *Nobel laureate, JP Clark, others condemn incident By HENRY AKUBUIRO But for a stroke of luck, Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, would have been among the dead in the terror attack that […]
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Friday, September 20th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan will fly to New York on Saturday to participate in the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which is expected to focus on identifying parameters for the post-2015 global development agenda. President Jonathan, who is also scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama of the United States in New York, will […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Ondo, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, September 14th, 2013
The former governor of Ondo state, south west Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Agagun is dead. Report reaching African Examiner says Chief Agagu who just returned to the country from United States died Friday evening in his Ibadan residence after a brief illness. Chief Agagu was born 16 February 1948. He was Governor of Ondo State from […]
