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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 […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
Sepp Blatter says he will resign as president of football’s governing body Fifa amid a corruption scandal. In announcing his exit, the 79-year-old Swiss has called an extraordinary Fifa congress “as soon as possible” to elect a new president. Blatter was re-elected last week, despite seven top Fifa officials being arrested two days before the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015
J-Lo performed on stage in front of 160,000 fans in Rabat A concert by the pop star Jennifer Lopez in Morocco has led to calls for the country’s communication minister to resign, according to local media. Prominent members of the ruling Justice and Development Party said the singer’s performance at the Mawazine Festival in Rabat […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Monday, June 1st, 2015
Flying Eagles coach Manu Garba Nigeria coach Manu Garba believes the Flying Eagles were on the verge of beating Brazil for the first time at the U-20 level but for the costly mistakes from goalkeeper Joshua Enaholo that gave the South Americans two goals in the second half in Monday’s World Cup tie […]
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Bayelsa, EFCC Politics, General Politics, Governors, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News
Monday, June 1st, 2015
Timipre Sylva The Director of Public Prosecutions of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Mr. M.S. Diri, on Monday withdrew the N2.45bn fraud charges instituted against a former governor of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timipre Sylva. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had on May 18, 2015 re-arraigned Sylva on six counts of fraud before Justice […]
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Adamawa, EFCC Politics, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News
Monday, June 1st, 2015
Murtala Nyako The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday questioned a former governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako (retd.), for over six hours in Abuja. Nyako, who returned to the country from his sojourn overseas on Saturday, was said to have reported at the headquarters of the EFCC as early as 10 […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Monday, June 1st, 2015
Ben Bruce and Niyi Akinnaso These are very heady times. As Nigerians waited on May 29 as regards whether an authentic change was in the offing, an implicit debate of sorts occurred between two seemingly different individuals. These two individuals were Professor Niyi Akinnaso on the one hand and Ben Bruce on the other. […]
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Ekiti, Governors, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News
Monday, June 1st, 2015
Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose Tension rose again in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Monday as supporters of the state Governor, Ayodele Fayose, and some Peoples Democratic Party members laid siege to the state House of Assembly in Ado Ekiti . Their action was to prevent the 19 All Progressives Congress lawmakers from […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Oyo, State News
Monday, June 1st, 2015
Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Muhammed Katsina (right) and some officers of the state command at the fake currency factory. | credits: NAN ADVERTISEMENT The Oyo State Police Command has discovered a place in a remote village of Ibadan, where thousands of fake pounds, euros, dollars and other foreign currencies were being […]
