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Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, July 26th, 2013
By Kingsley Omonobi, Gabriel Ewepu-Abuja Two Army Majors and thirteen soldiers killed by Boko Haram Terrorists in the North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe, as well as UNAMID operations in Darfur, Sudan, were yesterday given national burial at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja with President Goodluck Jonathan insisting that the nation will win the […]
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Legislature, National Politics, Senate, Top Stories
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
By SAM EYOBOKA, SOLA OGUNDIPE, HENRY UMORU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA— SENATE President, David Mark, yesterday, said proponents of Section 29 (4)(b) in the constitution hid under religious guise to get the section sail through during last week’s clause-by-clause voting in the on-going constitution amendment process. He said it was time Nigerians shunned religion when […]
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Governors, National Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
Mixed reactions have continued to trail the visits of some Northern states’ governors to three former Nigerian leaders – Generals Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdusalami Abubakar and Ibrahim Babangida. Four of the governors – Murtala Nyako (Adamawa); Sule Lamido(Jigawa); Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto); and Rabiu Kwakwanso (Kano) – had last Saturday visited Obasanjo in Abeokuta where they discussed […]
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Africa & World Politics, Armed Forces, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, July 19th, 2013
Nigeria is planning to withdraw some of its 1,200 soldiers from the UN peacekeeping force in Mali, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has said. Mr Ouattara, head of the regional group Ecowas, said the troops were needed at home to tackle militant Islamists. It is not yet clear how many Nigerian troops will stay in […]
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National Politics, Presidency, Sani Abacha (1993-98), Top Stories
Friday, July 12th, 2013
A close aide to former Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha has been acquitted of killing the wife of politician Moshood Abiola, after spending 14 years in prison. Major Hamza al-Mustapha was sentenced last year to hang for ordering the killing of Kudirat Abiola. She was shot dead in 1996, three years after the elections her […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
A Boko Haram commander accused of masterminding the December 25, 2011 bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Madalla, Niger State, Kabiru Sokoto, on Monday informed an Abuja Federal High Court that he was tortured while being interrogated by security agents. Testifying in his own defence at the continuation of his trial, Sokoto insisted that […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics, State News, Top Stories, Yobe
Saturday, July 6th, 2013
At least 29 pupils and a teacher have been killed in a pre-dawn attack by suspected Islamists on a school in northeastern Nigeria, reports say. Eyewitnesses said some of the victims were burned alive in the attack, in Mamudo town, Yobe state. Dozens of schools have been burned in attacks by Islamists since 2010. Yobe […]
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Education, Legislature, National Politics, Senate, Top Stories
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
By DAYO ADESULU, LAJU ARENYEKA & EKEMINI EYOH THE Senate has waded into the 67-day-old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics ASUP, raising hope of imminent resolution. President of ASUP, Dr. Chibuzor Asomugha, said yesterday that the Senate Committee on Education has intervened to end the protracted industrial action. According to him:”The Senate […]
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House, Legislature, National Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has said a revolution is due in Nigeria because of endemic corruption in the country, coupled with the general disaffection of the people with the ruling elite. He said the kind of conditions that must subsist in order for any talk of revolution to be taken seriously […]
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Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, July 1st, 2013
By SAM EYOBOKA …Says Jonathan should drop his 2015 ambition PRIMATE Theophilus Olabayo, 67, founder of Evangelical Church of Yahweh with headquarters in Mende, Maryland, Lagos, had remained one of Nigeria’s respected prophets whose prophesies had shaken the high and mighty in the country. In this interview, the cleric says there would be a spiritual […]
