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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The Cross River State Police Command has arrested a fake medical doctor, who worked with the name, Dr. Collins Okafor, at the General Hospital in Calabar, the state capital. The suspect, whose real name is Mr. Simeon Kejohu (34), was said to have used the certificate of a medical practitioner to secure employment with […]
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Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
More Stories on This Section Agony, anger, sorrow yesterday characterized the mass burial of victims of Christmas Day 2011 bomb blast, which Boko Haram claimed responsibility. They were laid to rest at the church’s premises. The Islamist sect sent 43 worshippers of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, to their early graves last December […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Asomba ABUJA— Students of public-owned universities across the country were yesterday bubbling with enthusiasm for resumption following the decision of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to call off its 59-day strike. The strike was called off following what sources close to the negotiations between the union and government told Vanguard was the government’s […]
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Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Shaibu ABUJA—Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has discovered that contracts for the construction of Abuja-Airport and Kubwa-Zuba roads were inflated to the tune of N38 billion. The revelation came during the budget defence of FCT, when the Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, told the committee that the two road projects had been reversed by […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
, Maiduguri Thursday, February 02, 2012 More Stories on This Section Security agencies have arrested a man believed to be a spokesman for Islamist sect, Boko Haram, which has claimed responsibility for scores of deadly attacks, security sources said Wednesday. The attacks claimed hundreds of lives and property with billions of Naira since its leaders, […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
What would have made a woman so heartless as to mete out the kind of punishment that would lead to the death of her child? How stubborn or disobedient can a child be to warrant death as punishment? These were the questions on the lips of nurses and doctors of St. Mary Hospital Gwagwalada, and […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
PASSIONATE football lovers in Nigeria, who already look forward to the proposed Arsenal pre-season playing tour of the country in June, may have their hopes dashed if feelers emanating from the English Premier League club are anything to go by. Stakeholders in the English Premier League side are beginning to query the rationale behind taking […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Abuja — IN Continuation of its plan to Islamize Northern Nigeria, the Boko Haram Islamic Sect on Monday night invaded the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, barracks as well as a police station in Maiduguri, Borno State, killing five persons including a soldier, two policemen and two civilians. Also, two other civilians were reportedly injured, as […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Abuja — What could have been another Boko Haram tragic incident this year, was averted over the weekend, by staff of a private security firm, Encouragers Security company Limited, thwarted attempt by a female suicide bomber, suspected member of the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram from gaining entrance into the complex of the Federal Capital […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Immediate past governor of Kano State and presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the April 2011 general elections, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau was on Tuesday quizzed for several hours by the State Security Services, SSS, operatives over alleged sponsorship of the Boko Haram sect. The sect which had killed at least 1,000 […]