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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
A member of the Borno state house of assembly, Hon Modu Bintube has been shot dead by a gun man in the presence of his aides and supporters. Reports say the lawmaker was shot when he was about to enter his vehicle at about 7:30 pm on Sunday after greeting his supporters. The deceased is […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is conniving with the major crude oil lifters to defraud the nation to the tune of $50 billion, the House of Representatives committee on Finance has said. The Chairman House Committee on Finance, Abdulmumuni Jibrin stated this at the opening of the two-day investigative public hearing on the alleged […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
The Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram said that they were responsible for the killing of Zakariyya Isa, a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority’s (NTA) Maiduguri Network Centre. The group has also claimed responsibility for Saturday night’s multiple attacks on a police station and banks in Saminaka, Kaduna State […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
The Nigerian Army said it has employed war dogs to detect narcotics and explosives as well as locate dead and decomposing human tissues. Speaking while declaring open the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police training week in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, also disclosed that the dogs would be trained […]
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Latest Politics, State News
Monday, October 24th, 2011
SOME states of the federation, opposed to the newly launched Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), have sued the Federal Government. Their action followed the failure of the states and the central government to resolve the legality and propriety of the SWF through dialogue. The suit came three years after the Federal Government opted for an out-of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, October 24th, 2011
By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—Trial resumed, Monday, behind closed doors in the case against an Iranian, Azim Aghajani, and a Nigerian, Alli Abass Jega, accused of importing arms illegally into Nigeria from Republic of Iran. Trial judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke, who ordered journalists, lawyers and litigants out of the court room as the case was called, […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, October 24th, 2011
ABUJA— Commander of a military task-force in Borno State, Colonel Benjamin Ahanotu, who arrested the former leader of the Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Yusuf, in 2009 and handed him over to the police, Monday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that he was murdered by the police. Col. Ahanotu testified before the trial […]
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Governors, Latest Politics
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
So far, 17 ex-governors have passed through the furnace of the EFCC. And 13 of them are 52 cases listed by the EFCC on its website as “high profile cases.” They include: Ayo Fayose The former Ekiti State governor was arraigned at Federal High Court, Lagos, on 51-count charge of embezzling N1.2 billion. The matter […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Journalists and human rights activists have called for the re-opening of investigation into the death of editor-in-chief and co-founder of Newswatch magazine, Mr Dele Giwa, who was killed by a parcel bomb in 1986. The journalists, under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Nigerian Guild of Editors and National Association of Women […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
THE Federal Executive Council (FEC), on Wednesday, approved the award of contracts for the construction of a bridge across the River Benue at Oju/Loko-Oweto and purchase of anti-smuggling boats for the Nigerian Customs at a total cost of N36,388,910,405.94. The council also resolved to ban the award of contracts which did not have complete designs as […]