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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
FOLLOWING renewed tension and killings of black Libyans and foreign nationals in Libya, Nigeria has secured an understanding with the Transitional National Council (TNC) in Tripoli to protect the remaining Nigerians in the crisis-torn north African country. The accord, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, will subsist well beyond the lifespan […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
A magical Lionel Messi relished his new role as the Argentina captain as he set up two fine goals to help beat Nigeria 3–1 in a friendly encounter in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka yesterday and Nigeria’s Coach, Samson Siasia could not agree more that he is just the best. Siasia, speaking after the encounter admitted […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
THE Libyan dictator, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is rumoured to have fled Libya, as rebel forces finalised plan to peacefully take control of Bani Walid, where he is believed to be hiding. Bani Walid people had remained loyal to Gaddafi, after rebels took over control of government in Libya, while the rebel forces were to launch attack on […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
The foreign exchange reserves fell to $32.3 billion by September 2, the same level they were on June 24, and down from a six-month high in August, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The foreign reserves peaked at $35.9 billion on August 8, its highest in six months, but fell to $32.92 billion at […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
In view of the ongoing security threat across the country, the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Aviation, has commenced investigations into the use of foreign pilots to carry out aerial survey and mapping of state boundaries through the airspace by some state governments and organisations. This development has been attributed to what key players in […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Nigeria’s Ambassador to China, Aminu Wali, recently intimated the nation with the fate of 400 Nigerians wallowing in Chinese jails, mostly for hard-drug related offences. The diplomat, in a chat with a group of journalists in Beijing, China, said one of the inmates was executed last month by lethal injection. He lamented that the Nigerian […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert frontier into Niger in what may be a dramatic, secretly negotiated bid by Muammar Gaddafi to seek refuge in a friendly African state, military sources from France and Niger said yesterday. A spokesman for the rebels’ National Transition Council said that banknotes included in the convoy […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
A family of four was yesterday found dead, in Nkwelle-Ezunaka town, Oyi Local Council Area of Anambra State, in what seems to be suffocation, due to emissions from a generating set. Mr Peter Nwoye, 46, his wife Ebele and two children, Chisom and Rapuluchukwu, who hailed from Ezinkwelle village, were last seen on Sunday night […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
AS the security agencies are battling to restore normalcy to the city of Jos following the orgy of violence that gripped some parts of the state capital on Monday leading to the death of many people, secret killings still pervaded the nooks and crannies of the city while more corpses were being uncovered. In the […]
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
JOHN Mikel Obi on Monday visited Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan to express his gratitude to the government for the safe return of his father. Mikel’s father, Michael Obi, was kidnapped in Jos and held for nearly two weeks before he was rescued by security forces in Kano. President Jonathan is said to have kept a […]
