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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 – […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, December 9th, 2013
It’s unfortunate that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is persisting in his outrageous and totally illogical campaign of falsehood against the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. His statement that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is responsible for the delay of the African Development Bank water project is a […]
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Headlines, Oil Politics
Monday, December 9th, 2013
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE News Release. December 6, 2013. CLARIFYING INACCURACIES IN REUTERS STORY ON SUBSIDY PAYMENTS IN NIGERIA In its recent story on subsidy payments to oil marketers in Nigeria, Reuters confuses the facts and obfuscates the issues. It is well known that the Federal Ministry of Finance […]
