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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
The suspect was recruited to target hotels and offices frequented by Americans and Israelis Iranian extremists trained and equipped a Nigerian accomplice to go after American and Israeli interests in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, in a broad-based plot that would have killed many, the State Security Service said on Wednesday. The proposed attacker, Abdullahi Mustapha […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
Federal Government has arraigned 15 Russians for unlawful importation of arms and ammunition. The Nigerian Navy on October 18, 2012, arrested the accused foreigners and arraigned them before Justice Okechukwu Okeke of a Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday. The accused, who pleaded not guilty to the four counts in the charge are Zhelyazkov Andrey […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
President Francois Hollande confirmed that seven French tourists from one family, including four children, were kidnapped Tuesday in northern Cameroon and said he suspected a Nigeria group was responsible. “What is most probable is they were taken to Nigeria,” Hollande said, adding that they were seized by a Nigeria-based “terrorist group that we know well”. […]
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First Ladies, Latest Politics, Patience Jonathan
Monday, February 18th, 2013
BY EMMANUEL AZIKEN, DAPO AKINREFON, CHARLES KUMOLU & GBENGA OKE The disclosure by First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan of the critical nature of her health, Monday, aroused scathing criticisms from opposition political parties and some of the country’s leading civic society groups. The opposition parties and civil society advocates slammed Federal Government for projecting a […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, February 18th, 2013
BY SONI DANIEL & KINGSLEY OMONOBI ABUJA— There were indications, Sunday, that the embattled Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Chairman, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, had fled the country to escape arrest by the police and other security agents on his trail. Maina is reported to have moved to one of the Middle East nations, following the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, February 18th, 2013
President Jonathan, Monday, has ordered security agencies in th country to rescue the kidnapped foreign workers. According to Reuben Abati, presidential spokesman, in a tweet, “Pres. Jonathan orders security agencies to rescue kidnapped foreign workers…” Meanwhile, Police in Bauchi said four Lebanese, one Briton, a Greek citizen and an Italian were among those taken hostage […]
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First Ladies, Latest Politics, Patience Jonathan, Raw Politics
Monday, February 18th, 2013
First lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, Sunday, said she died and woke up during the period of her ailment which necessitated her absence from the country for almost three months. In a thanksgiving service at the state House chapel in Abuja, the first lady said prayers offered by Nigerians sustained her while some people who had […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, February 18th, 2013
KANO (AFP) – Islamist group Ansaru on Monday claimed the kidnapping of seven foreigners in a deadly weekend raid on a construction site in restive northern Nigeria. The attack in Bauchi state late Saturday was the one of the worst incidents targeting foreigners in northern Nigeria, a region that has seen waves of violence by […]
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Aviation, Latest Politics
Saturday, February 16th, 2013
The Federal Government through the Accident Investigation Bureau on Saturday, released reports of the air crashes involving Bellview Airlines, Aviation Development Company, and six other aircraft operators. The report came over six years after the Bellview and ADC crashes led to the death of 213 people in 2005 and 2006 respectively. The six other minor […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, February 16th, 2013
By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI & ben agande, Abuja Embattled Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, who was accused of complicity in the illegal diversion of funds meant for pensioners in the country, yesterday, lost his bid to vacate the warrant of arrest that was issued against him by the Senate just as President […]
