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General Politics, Headlines, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, Top Stories
Friday, June 5th, 2015
There are strong indications that in fulfillment of his campaign promise to reduce the cost of governance, President Muhammadu Buhari may have concluded plans to slash his salary and reduce his personal emoluments. It was learnt that the President expected the Vice-President and other political appointees to take a similar decision. Saturday PUNCH gathered in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Pakistani police say a court has freed eight out of 10 people charged with organising the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl activist. Salim Khan, a senior police official, said on Friday that the eight men were freed because there was not enough evidence to connect them to the 2012 attack in Swat, northwest of […]
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Headlines, Judiciary, Oil Politics
Friday, June 5th, 2015
The Supreme Court on Friday finally decided a 32-year-old case against the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, ordering the company to pay N30,288,681 compensation for oil spillage in four communities of Delta State. The four communities – Obotobo, Sokebolo, Ofogbene (Ezon Burutu) and Ekeremor Zion (Ezon Asa) – had, through some of their […]
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Headlines
Friday, June 5th, 2015
The death toll from two blasts in northeast Nigeria rose to 35 on Friday, raising the total number killed in suspected Boko Haram attacks to 82 during President Muhammadu Buhari’s first week in office. Rescue officials in the Adamawa state’s capital Yola said 31 people had been confirmed dead in the explosion that ripped through […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, June 5th, 2015
Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the government and people of Ghana over the dual tragedy of flooding and fire outbreak which claimed scores of lives in that country. The president, in a condolence message on Friday, 5 June 2015 signed by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Economy, Headlines, Naira (Currency)
Friday, June 5th, 2015
The Naira and dollar The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday made a slight adjustment to its naira-dollar exchange rate peg, data on its website showed. The bank adjusted the rate at which it sold the United States dollar from N197 to N196.95, Reuters reports. Prior to Thursday’s action, the rate had been oscillating […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Badeh; Ihejirika Amnesty International has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands to investigate some former and serving Nigerian service chiefs for war crimes. The crimes, according to the global civil rights organisation, were perpetrated during the fight against Boko Haram in the North-East between March 2011 and […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
By Ujunwa Ochulo on June 2, 2015 Boko Haram rejected claims from Nigeria’s military that it has been routed by a four-nation offensive in a video released online on Tuesday, which does not show the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. The unidentified speaker calls Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, who have been battling the Islamists, […]
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American Politics, Aviation, Headlines
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
By AFP on June 2, 2015 7121 US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has announced new measures to improve security screenings at American airports after investigators were able to smuggle mock explosives and weapons through checkpoints dozens of times. In a statement late Monday, Johnson said the inspector general of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
A Nigerian vaccinologist, Dr Simon Agwale, has presented the report of an experimental vaccine for the dreaded Ebola virus disease to a scientific conference in France. A statement from Dr Yuri Nakamoto on behalf of the scientific committee of the conference organised by the Pasteur Institute, Paris, said the report was one of the items […]
