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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Fed Govt demands review of Yellow Fever certificate policy NIGERIA hit back at South Africa last night. Twenty-eight South Africans were denied entry into Lagos – a tit for tat that has deepened the row between the two countries. South Africa last Friday deported 125 Nigerians from the Oliver Tambo International Airport in […]
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Biafra, National Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
The remains of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu were yesterday interred in the marble mausoleum at his ancestral Umudim Nnewi home, in Anambra State at exactly 2:18 p.m, which overwhelmed his widow, Bianca and she broke down in tears. The burial ceremony witnessed an unprecedented turn- out of people from all walks of life, with many […]
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Bayelsa, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa – Four policemen and three military personnel among them a Lieutenant Colonel were yesterday, killed by unidentified gunmen along the waterways of Nembe and Brass local government council areas of Bayelsa State. While four policemen were reportedly killed at the Marine Police Checkpoint in the Nembe Creek at about 7am, the […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
A former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has urged members of the Boko Haram to embrace the opportunity offered for dialogue with the Federal Government in the interest of unity, stability and economic development of the country. Abubakar made the call against the backdrop of renewed attacks by members of the sect in Jos and Gombe, […]
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Akwa Ibom, Borno, National Politics, Oil Politics, Ondo, Rivers, State News, Top Stories, Yobe
Saturday, February 25th, 2012
Anger dripped from the reply of governors and stakeholders in the oil-producing states on Saturday to the 19 Northern governors’ demand for a review of the revenue formula to give more funds to them. The South-South governors said such a call smacked of insensitivity to the plight of the zone, evident in its over 50 […]
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Biafra, Lagos, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The Lagos State Government and prominent citizens of the state gathered at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday to pay their last respect to the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. Major markets where Nigerians of Igbo extraction plied their trade in Ladipo, Ojuelegba, Ikeja and Ojo areas of the city were shut to […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics, Niger, State News, Top Stories
Monday, February 20th, 2012
Minna -A blast at Morocco road in Suleja town in Niger on Sunday injured one person and destroyed five vehicles. Morocco road is at the heart of the commercial area in Suleja. The people in the area became suspicious of a parked vehicle without number plate and immediately took measures to keep away from it […]
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Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
The alleged mastermind of the Christmas Day bombing, Kabiru Abubakar Dikko (a.k.a Kabiru Sokoto), who was rearrested by a combined team of the State Security Service and the military on Friday, has been moved out of the headquarters of the SSS and handed over to the military. According to an online news portal, Premium Times, […]
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Boko Haram, National Politics, Religion, Top Stories
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
By Sam Eyoboka and Olayinka Latona IN a rare display of anger, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, on Friday night, adopted a spiritual way out of Nigeria’s current security challenges, urging the mammoth crowd of worshipers, who attended the February Holy Ghost Service, to pray to […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, January 30th, 2012
A Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere, on Monday, sentenced Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer to Nigeria’s late dictator, Sani Abacha, to death by hanging. For over twelve years, Al-Mustapha and one Lateef Shofolahan have been standing trial for the murder of Kudirat Abiola, the wife of the winner of the […]
