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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, December 26th, 2011
High cost of air ticket on Nigeria- South Africa route has scuttled the plans of many Nigerians resident in the country to travel home for the Christmas. Some of them, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Johannesburg, said they were disappointed at the high cost of fare, which in some cases […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Following the raging rumour of a plan by some people to disrupt the Christmas and New Year celebrations in Jos, Plateau State, an exodus of people has gripped the city with people fleeing the state capital to avoid being caught in the alleged planned attack. In the past one week, some yet to be identified people have […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Two weeks after a popular Ife-based petrol dealer, Alhaji Popoola Ogundoyin was kidnapped, detectives from the Osun State Police Command have freed the victim and recovered N3.5m from the suspected kidnappers. Addressing a news conference in Osogbo on Friday, Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Solomon Olusegun, said the family of the victim had given […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Commissioner of Police Lagos State Police Command, Yakubu Alkali File copy The police in Lagos said on Friday that they were intensifying surveillance of identified flashpoints in the state during Christmas and New Year festivities. The spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, said this in an interview with […]
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Headlines
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Saturday December 24, 2011 •Ojukwu Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on this Section Those who have read the book, Blood on the Niger, will certain remember Mr. Emma Okocha, renowned historian and scholar on conflict. He’s also a researcher, who covered events in Burundi, Congo, Somalia, Western Sudan and Dafur. In this interview, Okocha […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Efforts by Akure North local government council area of Ondo State to ameliorate the suffering of some indigenes of the area through its empowerment scheme have suffered a major set back as night marauders burgled the council secretariat and carted away empowerment items running to several millions of naira The items, which were to be […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja is turning into a shadow of itself as most residents are leaving the city in droves for the Christmas and New Year celebrations in their respective villages and states. Checks by our correspondent indicate that, despite complains of harsh economic situation in the country, residents have continued to jam […]
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Headlines
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Presiding pastor of I am That I am Church, Minna, Niger State, Evangelist Okechukwu Ifedi, his wife, Juliet and an accomplice, Victor Ibegbu have been arrested by the Niger State command of the State Security Service (SSS) over alleged kidnap, extortion and murder. The three were arrested over allegations of kidnapping and murder of one, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Nigerians incarcerated in prisons in Togo, a neighbouring West African country, have called on the Federal Government to come to their aid. According to these Nigerians, majority of whom are in Prison Civile, Lome, Togo, some of them were arrested on trumped-up charges and clamped into jail, where they are subjected to inhuman treatment. The […]
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Headlines
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Umar AbdulMutallab Nigerian-born terror suspect, Umar AbdulMutallab, has asked for a new lawyer. The student, who is awaiting sentencing by a United States federal court in Michigan for allegedly trying to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day in 2009, said his current lawyer, Anthony Chambers, deceived him, Detroit Free Press […]