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Headlines, Ministries, United Nations, Women Politics
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
FG lobbies for ICC judge’s slot EDUCATION Minister, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, at the weekend disclosed to her colleagues at the E9 ministerial meeting in Paris, France that bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja by the Boko Haram sect had slowed down efforts to revitalise Nigeria’s adult and youth literacy programme. Meanwhile, Nigeria has […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Reactions have continued to trail the non-clearance of Mr Ndutimi Alaibe by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest the governorship primaries slated for November 19, 2011, with a pro-Democracy group Internal Democracy Advocacy Network (IDAN) commending the Brig-General Idi Adamu screening committee for sticking by the constitution of the party. Out of the 11 […]
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Akwa Ibom, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
The authorities, yesterday, shed more light on the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane that crash landed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, saying the aircraft landed 1,100 meters from the runway. They insisted that the two pilots of the plane, one of six involved in the 2011 Staff Continuity Training Exercise and Sports Week […]
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Headlines
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Like Judas goat, he led the unsuspecting lambs to the slaughter. He swore that he never meant to swindle anybody but four years after his victims took that tragic turn in the road, all most of them have to show for their ‘labour’ is tears and debts the size of a small Latin-American country. And […]
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Akwa Ibom, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane has crashed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The L-39 trainer jet was on a routine training exercise from the 303 Training School in Kano when it crashed about 50 metres away from Uyo airport. However, no life was lost in the incident, which happened at 7:15 p.m. on Friday. […]
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Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, On The Lighter Side
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Over a decade ago, Rita Dominic was a wannabe star. At a meeting over a decade ago, she told this reporter that she wanted to be all she could be. Shortly after, Rita emerged from the lot to become a bona fide star. A star whose stardom transcends the shores of this country; and ever […]
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Headlines
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
ENUGU—South East zone of National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has raised fresh alarm over the high incidence of counterfeit drugs in the country. It also announced the discovery and seizure of fake drugs worth over N2.5 million from Ogbete main market in Enugu during the week. The seized drugs, which were […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has described the failure of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to respond to the killing of 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor by a policeman at a check-point in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, last week, as an embarrassment to Nigerians and the international community. In a statement by Comrade Joseph Evah, the Ijaw group […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State appears as one with patriotic zeal and love for the fatherland. It is also expected that these ascribed qualities would rub-off on his ethnic group-the Igbo. But political developments in Abia, God’s Own State, in recent times, especially on the vexed issue of non-indigenes in 21st Century Nigeria and […]
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Headlines
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Hell was let loose yesterday in Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State when dare devil robbers stormed a High Court, killed a prison official and set free a robbery suspect, Abdulrazak Nasiru who was standing trial in the court. An eyewitness told Daily Sun that the gunmen had hid in a nearby primary […]
