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Nigeria: The Risks of a Coup or Civil War

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Exclusive Analysis Ltd The country risk score for Nigeria on Exclusive Analysis’s Foresight Country Risk Platform is now 4.3, which is in the Severe Risk Band. Only the country risk scores for Somalia and Sudan are higher in the sub-Saharan African region. President Jonathan’s April 2011 electoral victory and policy agenda has widened north-south divisions […]

Nigerian woman held captive and enslaved in Texas home for nine years

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Cindy (Credit: CBS DFW) (CBS) ARLINGTON, Texas – A woman was held captive inside an Arlington house for nine years after she was tricked and forced into modern day slavery. CBS DFW reports this woman, who requested to be called Cindy, said she thought she was coming to Texas from Nigeria to work as a […]

Robbers lay siege to Lagos-Ibadan expressway

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

In the last three days, commuters and other road users plying the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, were subjected to all sorts of agony through the activities of armed robbers. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the people plying the road had lost valuables worth millions of naira to men of the underworld, who had taken over the road. It […]

Lion on the rampage, kills 2 in Yobe (Lions and Boko Haram teaming up to wreck havoc)

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Yobe Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

A lion has killed two herdsmen and 30 livestock in a settlement in Yobe State, the state Commissioner for Environment, Ahmed Wakil Sarki, said on Tuesday. “We have a lion on the rampage, which has so far killed two people and around 30 livestock,” the commissioner said. He said the lion attacked the settlement on […]

Cost of oil business in Nigeria high — Shell

Posted by admin Headlines, Oil Politics Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Shell Petroleum has said that the reason for its divestment in some rig assets in Nigeria is partly due to the high cost of doing business and the degree of political risks in the country. Speaking at the Nigeria Oil and Gas (NOG) conference in Abuja on Tuesday, the Executive Vice President, Sub-Sahara Africa, Shell […]

INEC gives Wammako certificate of return

Posted by admin Headlines, INEC Politics, Sokoto, State News Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

According to him, “I must admit that what happened in Sokoto last Saturday was a step in the right direction. The conduct of the election was very peaceful as testified by many people. I want to repeat again that the duty of conducting an election is not that of INEC alone but for us all”.

Court stops scrapping of TASUED

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

A Federal High Court in Abeokuta has restrained the Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun and the state House of Assembly from scrapping the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ogun State. The students union government of the institution had approached the court seeking for an order restraining the state government from scrapping the […]

Madalla bomb blast: 7 parishioners go blind

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger, State News Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Barely eight weeks after the last Christmas Day bombing by the Boko Haram sect at St Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla in Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State, the Parish Priest, Most Reverend Father Isaac Achi, disclosed that seven out of the 83 injured parishioners have gone completely blind. He made the disclosure on Monday […]

Presidency approves 6 DIGs

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

INDICATIONS emerged in Abuja, on Tuesday, that the presidency may have approved the names of some senior police officers made up of Assistant Inspectors General of Police and Commissioners of Police for promotion as new Deputy Inspectors General of Police, that will constitute the new management team. Police sources disclosed to the Nigerian Tribune that […]

How Kabiru Sokoto escaped from police custody – Senate report •Says 58 policemen arrested him at night

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Senate Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

CHAIRMAN, Senate Committee on Poice Affairs, Senator Paulinus Nwagu, on Tuesday, presented the report of the investigative committee to the Senate, giving a blow by blow account of how Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru Sokoto, disappeared from police custody. Sokoto, initially arrested on January 14, had dramatically escaped from police custody within 24 hours of arrest, […]