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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Larmode A Federal High Court, Lagos, has found an American, Parker Damian George, guilty of money laundering. The court ordered a forfeiture of 40 per cent of the total sum found on him at the point of arrest. According to a statement by the Acting Head, Media […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The clinic. Eniola Akinkuotu The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four persons for their alleged role in the death of a married woman identified simply as Seyi. PUNCH METRO learnt that on December 12, 2011, the four suspects; Adebayo Oloko 29, Igbasan Tunde 36, Funmi Akinjomo and Kunle Owomi 36, were […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The Ogun State Judicial Commission of Inquiry on Land Matters yesterday issued a bench warrant on the former Managing Director of Gateway City Development Company (GCDC), Mr. Kayode Anibaba, an architect. Also to be arrested is the branch Manager of the First City Monument Bank (FCMB) in Ogba, Mrs. Abiodun as well as one Mr. […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Just as the residents of Kaduna State were getting over the explosion that rocked the metropolis Monday afternoon which injured three persons, unknown gunmen yesterday killed five persons in the state. The Monday explosion, however claimed the life of a two-yea-old girl, Lois Obajemu, yesterday after unsuccessful medical attention in an undisclosed hospital in Kaduna. […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday reiterated the need for the establishment of Electoral Offences Tribunal (EOT), saying it will help to fast-track prosecution of electoral offenders. Jega stated this when the German Ambassador to Nigeria, Dorothee Janetzke Wenzel, visited him. He said INEC would use the window of the expected amendment to the constitution and […]
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Education, Headlines
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has given conditions to be met by the Federal Government before its two-week-old strike is suspended. The union also stressed that the current strike had nothing to do with demand for new salary, but for government to invest funds to provide facilities to enhance learning and research in the […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
The Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, Hon. Yusuf Abdullahi Falgore has been impeached. In his place, a new Speaker, Alhaji Gambo Sallau (Kiru Constituency) replaced him Tuesday at about 2.00 pm. Indications of the plot to oust the Speaker became evident following a motion by Hon. Lawan Sufiyanu Gogori (Bagwai/Shanono Constituency) asking […]
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Femi Fani-Kayode, Headlines
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Blessing Liman, a 25-year old lady from Kaduna State, recently made history when she became Nigeria’s first female military pilot. She was commissioned by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) into the elite corps of fighter-pilots alongside 126 men with whom she completed the Direct Short Service Course 20/2011 Cadets of 325 Ground Training Group at […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday in Ewekoro, Ogun State, assured Nigerians that importation of cement into the country would not exceed the third quarter of 2012. He said going by the capacity build up within the local cement manufacturing circle, there was much hope that cement importation as a way of augmenting the shortfall in […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Chief Olu Falae File copy Former Minister of Finance and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has said the term ‘Islamic banking’, negates the secularity of Nigeria. Falae spoke during an inter-faith public dialogue on the controversial banking system in Lagos on Tuesday. He said, “Both the Bible […]