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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
… No, she died ofconvulsion – Suspect By MATTHEW DIKE Police operatives have arrested a woman for allegedly torturing her female house-help to death at the Olodi-Apapa, Lagos. The suspect known as mama Christiana at Barrack Line, Suru Alaba, Olodi, Apapa, was alleged to have been beating the 16-year-old girl simply identified as Angel till […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, to conduct a thorough investigation into the shooting of a commercial motorcyclist, Olalekan Ajayi, by a policeman at the Ikorodu area of the state. The IG, who appealed for calm to enable the police authorities to probe the matter, […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

The committee set up by the Minister of Sports Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi to investigate the bonus disagreement in Windhoek, Namibia between the Super Eagles and the Nigeria Football Federation has blamed the players; their coach Stephen Keshi and the NFF officials. The panel headed by a former Presidential spokesman and Chairman of Thisday Editorial Board, […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
THE Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State has barred Governor Rotimi Amaechi, and the 27 pro-Amaechi members of the State House of Assembly from the performance appraisal that commenced on Thursday. The state PDP executive members, had, few weeks after being sworn in, set up a Committee on Performance Evaluation of its members holding political […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Lagos State Government has rescued 25 children from an alleged child trafficker in the Egbeda area of the state. It was learnt that the suspected trafficker, Mrs. Rosemary Nwachukwu, was also arrested and had been handed over to the Alausa Police Division, while the children were currently in government’s custody. The government accused Nwachukwu of […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
An Abuja High Court will today (Friday) hear a motion in which a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and a governorship aspirant of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Prof. Charles Soludo, asked it to set aside his disqualification from the Anambra State gubernatorial election by the party’s screening committee. Soludo and five […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
The Head of the African Union Team to the ECOWAS Commission, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, has called on African countries to address the security challenges facing the continent. He said the intervention of the international community on the security issues facing the continent was dependent on the role played by Africans themselves. Gambari, who spoke while […]
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Headlines, House, Legislature, Senate
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
The House of Representatives has said it welcomes the request for a public hearing on the controversial jumbo pay of its members and senators by a former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili. Ezekwesili had stated on Monday that the National Assembly consumed over N1.1tr. since 2005. She spoke at a dialogue on the “cost […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
Lagos State Government says members of the Auto Spare Parts and Machinery Dealers Association, operating within the Trade Fair Complex on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, are constituting a security threat to the state. The government explained that it adopted the view as a result of the refusal of the traders to comply with the law guiding […]
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Governors, Headlines, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Thursday, August 22nd, 2013
I am of the opinion that the press should stop disturbing the Nigerian public with the inability of the state governors to conduct a mere election of 35 persons. They all have shown that they are not true democrats-both the person that changed the rule to suit him by being the umpire in an election […]