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Crisis: Speaker, Rivers House of Assembly write IGP

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers Friday, December 13th, 2013

Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly, Honourable Otelemaba Amachree | credits: www.nigeriainfo.fm The Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Amachree, and the House have sent a letter to the Inspector General of the Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, asking him to take judicial notice of an appeal challenging the ruling of an […]

Chinese firms sign $733m cement deal in Nigeria, Myanmar

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, December 13th, 2013

Two Chinese firms, Sinoma and CITIC Heavy Industries, have agreed deals totalling $733m to produce cement in Nigeria and Myanmar, respectively, as they expand in emerging markets overseas. Reuters reported that Sinoma International Engineering Company Limited, a unit of China National Materials Company Limited, signed a $536m contract with Nigeria’s Dangote Cement Plc, Sinoma […]

Boko Haram: Patience Jonathan changes name

Posted by admin Boko Haram, First Ladies, General Politics, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Top Stories Friday, December 13th, 2013

Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan The First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan on Friday inaugurated the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Maternal and Child Health otherwise known as MAMA Project with a declaration that henceforth she should no longer be called Patience but “Mama Peace.” According to her, the peace evangelism was […]

The baby factories of the South-East

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Thursday, December 12th, 2013

| credits: Bennett Omeke For the umpteenth time this year, police investigators raided another baby factory in Owerri, Imo State, freeing 16 pregnant teenagers whose babies were allegedly going to be sold. The Owerri bedlam, though shocking, is no longer news. There is a now familiar pattern that always ends the same way: the raid […]

On the purported slight of Nigeria at Madiba’s funeral

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, December 12th, 2013

Fellow Liberians: As I speak to you today, I am most gratified by the calibre of the delegations of our own African Governments, Foreign Governments, partners and local partners as well, who have come to join us to celebrate this triumph of democracy in our country. I am particularly touched by those you see – […]

Canadian PM announces new scholarships to honour Nelson Mandela

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, December 12th, 2013

December 11, 2013 Pretoria, South Africa In honour of Nelson Mandela, Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced support for several new scholarships that will allow gifted Canadian students as well as early career public sector professionals from Africa to pursue further studies in Canada. “Nelson Mandela believed that education, more than anything else, improved the […]

‘Boko Haram now engages in forceful conscription’ •Abducts 9 female traders, 27 others in Borno

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

Military authorities in Borno State has said that the Boko Haram sect has resorted to forcefully conscripting young and able bodied men into the group following the deadly attacks by troops in the last few days at the Sambisa forest and other camps where the sect lost hundreds of their fighters. Colonel Muhammadu Dole, […]

Court stops NASS from performing Rivers Assembly’s functions

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, stopped the National Assembly from performing the legislative functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly. 0 Ruling on a suit filed by two lawyers, Messrs Tamunotemi Asobari and John Kpakol, against the National Assembly, represented by its counsel, Ade Okeaya-Inneh, Justice A. R. Muhammed held […]

Nigeria in the history of Mandela, South Africa *Nigerians upset at lack of recognition at Mandela’s memorial service

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

Written by Sulaimon Olanrewaju Wednesday, December 11, 2013 President Jonathan advertisement <a href=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=12386&m=6&c=1″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=12386&m=6&tp=8&d=s&c=1&vcm_acv=1.3″ width=”300″ height=”250″ border=”1″></a> The din of the voices of world leaders drowned the thud of the rains on Tuesday as they defied the early morning showers to pay poignant tributes to the late global icon, Nelson Mandela, […]

Ex-Goldman Sachs banker jailed in UK over Ibori’s loot

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Delta, Headlines, State News Wednesday, December 11th, 2013

FORMER Goldman Sachs banker, Elias Preko, was yesterday, sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison by a London court for laundering $5 million on behalf of James Ibori, the former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori. Ibori is serving 13 years in a British jail after pleading guilty last year to 10 counts of fraud […]