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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Views: 4573 Lagos State University students went on the rampage Thursday, disrupting the university’s second semester examination and destroying properties in the process. The protest which started Wednesday over the closure of the university’s registration portal, led to stoning of the University Vice Chancellor Prof. John Obafunwa, as he tried to evade the riotous students […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Views: 182 First lady of France accused of smashing up François Hollande’s office in £2.5m rampage Valerie Trierweiler insists she is still France’s first lady, despite lurid claims she caused £2.5 million of damage after hearing about François Hollande’s alleged affair, it emerged today. The Élysée Palace soap opera reached new depths with unverified claims […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Views: 96 Police in India’s West Bengal state have arrested 13 men in connection with a gang rape of a woman, allegedly on orders of village elders who objected to her relationship with a man. The 20-year-old woman has been admitted to a hospital in […]
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General Politics, Headlines
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Views: 195 Nigeria’s immediate past Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has expressed gratitude to Nigerians for their outpouring of love and concern following rumours about her alleged ill health. Writing on her Facebook wall, the former Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said: “Thank […]
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Headlines
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Views: 322 Yes, that’s right – if as a man you can convince the pretty girl in the photo accompanying this story, you’ll instantly become $120 million (about N19 billion) richer! Gigi – that’s her name – is a lesbian but her superrich tycoon dad Cecil Chao is desperate for her to do the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Chief Bode George The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Information and Publicity, Mr. Segun Olulade, has faulted Chief Bode George’s attack on members of the House. George, a former national Vice-Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West Zone, was said to have described the Lagos State House of Assembly as […]
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Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Amaechi and Mu’azu The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, has enjoined Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, to appeal to the five PDP governors who defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress to reconsider their action. Mu’azu said that Lamido should do so ahead of a visit to the five […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
Traffic gridlock caused by the demonstrators in Port Harcourt, Rivers State … on Tuesday. THOUSANDS of youths from the four local government areas of Rivers State that make up Ikwerre Ethnic Nationality, on Tuesday, threatened to shut down the Port Harcourt International Airport, if the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, was redeployed to […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
The Police Special Fraud Unit on Tuesday re-arraigned two persons in a Federal High Court in Lagos, charged with N9.8 billion fraud. The accused, Fortune Etaba and Godwin Nwaiche, are standing trial alongside their bank, Establishment House Ltd., on an amended three-count charge. The accused were first arraigned in 2010 on a 300-count charge of […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
Some members of the Ogoni community in Rivers on Wednesday picketed the First Bank Area Office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that no fewer than 1,000 protesters converged on the bank thereby disrupting transactions by other customers. Chief Simeon Monokpo, the leader of the group, said, “our protest is […]
