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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Latest Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
CENTRAL Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has given reasons why Nigeria has continually failed to achieve meaningful economic growth. Sanusi gave the reasons while delivering the First Professor William Okefie Uzoaga Memorial Lecture organised by the Department of Banking and Finance, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. Speaking on the topic “Growing Nigeria’s Real Sector […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Reacting, the JTF described the claim by the Borno elders as baseless and uncalled for at a moment the state was facing security challenges. Meanwhile, the Federal Government is worried over the decision of some citizens to take up arms against the state, even as it disclosed that insecurities in the country was its greatest […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
For the second time within 48 hours, daring Boko Haram members yesterday bombed a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol van, killing four people and injuring two soldiers in Maiduguri, Borno State. As the security situation keeps worsening, thousands of residents are fleeing the city to other parts of the country. Most private and public schools […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, July 11th, 2011
Former Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff, was yesterday quizzed by the State Security Services (SSS) operatives in Abuja over the Boko Haram menace. He has since been released. Besides, the Islamic fundamentalists lived up to its threat as it bombed a popular joint in Kaduna on Sunday night. Scores were injured but no life […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
THE Federal Government may have reduced overhead expenditure in the Executive and Legislative arms by 30 per cent in the face of rising personnel cost, which increased from N850 billion to N1.3 trillion between 2009 and 2010. The government has also removed 43,000 “ghost workers” from its payroll in the last one year, as […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
As reactions continue to trail the declaration of the state of South Sudan, President Goodluck Jonathan has assured the young country of Nigeria’s preparedness to assist her in the challenges ahead. President Jonathan who joined other world leaders to witness the swearing-in of President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the official hoisting of the nation’s […]
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Elections 2011, Latest Politics
Sunday, July 10th, 2011
THE post-presidential election violence which took place in most part of the North and which resulted in the death of many innocent Nigerians, including 10 youth corps members has been said to be premeditated. This was disclosed to journalists by the Ndigbo community leader in Kano, Chief Tobias Michael Idika, during the conferment of distinguished […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Saturday, July 9th, 2011
With the high rate of insecurity of lives and property in the country, the agency empowered with the maintenance of law and order in the country, the Nigeria Police is said to be broke and lacks adequate fund to operate. The fund for the day- to-day running of the force and fuelling of patrol vehicles […]
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Latest Politics, Ministries, Top Stories
Friday, July 8th, 2011
DURING the year that Odein Ajumogobia, SAN, was Foreign Minister, many Nigerians and foreigners sang his praises and told me that they regarded him as the best Foreign Minister this country has ever had. And I would bask in the reflected glory whenever I heard the compliments that frequently were lavished on him because he […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Friday, July 8th, 2011
There is a dangerous signal for the lead security agency in the country (Nigeria Police Force) which only a few weeks ago suffered a devastating Bomb attack from Boko Haram as a shocking revelation emerged that the Nigeria Police, charged with enforcement of law and order is ‘broke’. Saturday Vanguard gathered that as at May […]
