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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade | credits: twitter.com [UPDATED] The Nigerian Army on Friday temporarily relaxed the curfew imposed on Maiduguri, the capital of troubled Borno State. It is believed that this is done in order to allow the Muslim faithful in the town to attend the Friday Islamic congregational prayer. Though the […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Wole Soyinka
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Tinubu, Soyinka The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on Thursday in Lagos said the 2013 Nigeria Governors’ Forum crisis paved the way for the end of the 16-year rule of the Peoples Democratic Party. They made the observation during the public presentation of ‘Dynamics […]
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Biafra, Latest Politics, Presidency, Yakubu Gowon (1966-75)
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Former military head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon A former military head of state, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, says the leader of the defunct Biafra, the late Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, underestimated him by thinking that he (Gowon) would never go to war. Gowon, who led Nigerian forces to defeat Ojukwu’s army during the Nigerian civil war from […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
RECENT successes recorded by the Nigerian Army in the fight against Boko Haram insurgency are not unconnected with the clandestine strides of a group of South African bush warfare experts, hired in secrecy by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government, it has been revealed. The group, known as Specialised Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection (STTEP), led […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Monday, May 11th, 2015
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Latest Politics
Monday, May 11th, 2015
From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja Professor of Virology, Tam David-West, has said he would not reject an offer of a ministerial appointment as Minister of Petroleum from the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari. David-West, who was recently mentioned as the man the president-elect is interested in handling the petroleum portfolio, told Daily Sun in a telephone interview […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, May 10th, 2015
The incoming government of President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon to address the issue of poor power supply in the country. At the recently held Lagos Business School’s Centre for Infrastructure, Policy, Regulation and Advancement and the Heinrich Boll Foundation’s forum on Nigeria’s energy future, various experts said much needed to be done […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, May 9th, 2015
Top left: Osamor; top bottom: Onwurah; middle: Cameron; top right: Grant; top bottom: Umunna. In one of the most keenly contested general elections in British history, four Nigerians won seats to the revered parliament, making it the first time such feat would be recorded Against all odds, David Cameron has won his re-election bid in […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
This handout picture released by the Nigerian army on April 30, 2015 and taken this week in an undisclosed location in the Sambisa Forest, Borno state, purportedly shows a member of the Nigerian Army standing next to a group of girls rescued in an operation against the Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram hostages were […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
By Madu Onuorah, Abuja Bureau Chief on April 29, 2015 68429 • Identities yet to be confirmed NIGERIAN troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast have rescued no fewer than 200 girls and 93 women from Sambisa forest in Borno State. Defence Headquarters, in a tweet yesterday, described the operation as ‘daring and precise,’ […]
