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Latest Politics, United Nations
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
BY Emma Elebeke A United Nations e-Government Survey for 2012, says Nigeria has dropped in e-government global development index. According to the report, Nigeria dropped from 0.2687 in 2010 to 0.2676 in 2012, which indicates a decrease in the level of the acceptance by both government and private individuals in the country. The report, which […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Latest Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

President Goodluck Jonathan has queried the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, over some items in the apex’s bank’s 2012 audit report. A confirmation of the query was made by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, when he was contacted by one of our […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission stormed Rivers State on Monday and started quizzing public office holders in the state over a yet-to-be mentioned financial impropriety. Already, the EFCC investigators had quizzed the embattled Majority Leader of the state House of Assembly, Chidi Lloyd, over the finances of the House, our correspondents learnt. […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, Top Stories
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

THE Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, on Monday visited Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, without visiting the state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi. Abubakar was in the state to inaugurate 100 Prado Sports Utility Vans donated to the nine Niger Delta state Police commands by the Niger Delta Development Commission. The IGP also did not address […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
– PUNCHThirty-five people, including two soldiers and a policeman, have been killed in two separate gunfights between security forces and members of the militant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, in Borno State. The killings took place on Sunday when the sect members launched attacks on a riot police base in Bama, a town close to the […]
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Boko Haram, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, August 4th, 2013
By Sam Eyoboka PRELATE, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Sunday Ola Makinde, yesterday, joined the league of eminent Nigerians who are displeased by the recent multiple bomb blasts in Kano, which killed 15 innocent civilians. Makinde, in a statement by the church’s Media and Public Relations Officer, Rev. Oladapo Daramola, said the sustained acts of […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, August 4th, 2013
As thousands throng Mowe for Lailatul-Qadr By Ishola Balogun As thousands of Muslims gathered at the Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society of Nigeria, NASFAT, Islamic centre, Mowe, Ogun State to observe the Lailatul Qadr otherwise known as Night of Majesty, yesterday, the National Missioner of the group, Sheikh Abdullah Akinbode has warned that no one should link Islam […]
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Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Sunday, August 4th, 2013
By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORTHARCOURT—A GROUP, Rivers Peoples Forum, RPF, yesterday, called for arrest and prosecution of the Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, over an alleged statement credited to him at a rally in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In a statement, president of the group, Mr Charles Bekwele, described the statement by Wike […]
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Anambra, Lagos, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, August 4th, 2013

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE AND OLASUNKANMI AKONI …No, Fashola should apologise to Obi — APGA LAGOS — All Progressives Congress, APC, Sunday, accused Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, of threatening the country’s unity and whipping up tribal sentiment by sensationalising the recent ‘deportation’ of some indigenes of the state from Lagos. The party in a […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
THE Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, Alhaji Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, has admitted that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) was under pressure by the international community to legalise gay marriage in the country and gave insight into how it was able to overcome the pressure. He admitted the pressure became so intense that cabinet […]