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Friday, January 2nd, 2015
99 The Nigerian Navy has acquired a warship as part of efforts to tackle insecurity in the country. After five weeks and three stops in Trinidad and Tobago, Senegal and Ghana, the warship named NNS Okpabana – an Igala word for thunder – finally berthed in Lagos. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman […]
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Saturday, December 20th, 2014
One of the 54 soldiers sentenced to death by a Nigerian Army court martial for mutiny and conspiracy to commit mutiny has taken to the social media to express his frustration. The soldier, who bears the name Fahat Fahat, posted on his Facebook page on Friday that all the soldiers asked for were better weapons. […]
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Saturday, December 13th, 2014
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh The face-off between Nigeria and the United States over the commitment and sincerity of the US military in assisting Nigeria to fight the Boko Haram insurgency worsened within the week. This followed an allegation by a top Nigerian intelligence source that US trainers incited Nigerian soldiers […]
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Friday, December 12th, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan has promised not to let Nigerians down as he begins the campaign for the 2015 general elections. The President said this in his acceptance speech after he was ratified as the presidential candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party at the party’s special convention, which ended in the early hours of Thursday […]
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
A Federal Capital Territory High Court judge, Justice Valentine Ashi, on Wednesday ordered security agents, including the police and operatives of the Department of State Service, to confiscate the latest book of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, My Watch. The judge of the FCT Wuse Zone II court said the publication of the book, which […]
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Monday, December 8th, 2014
By Our Reporter on December 9, 2014 Business FROM ISAAC ANUMIHE, ABUJA Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, disclosed that Nigeria’s total banking assets have grown to over N24 trillion (about $150 billion). This, according to her, would not have been possible without the 2005 banking sector reforms. […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan The United States has announced the cancellation of the training of a battalion of the Nigeria Army, at the request of the Federal Government. It said that the first two phases of the training were conducted between April and August, 2014, noting that it had provided untrained civilian personnel with basic […]
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
The United States has defended its refusal to sell cobra helicopters to Nigeria, saying the Federal Government is free to buy fighter jets from any other country. “Nigeria has purchased helicopters that originated in countries other than the US and nothing in our decision prevents Nigeria from obtaining weapons and equipment from other sources,” its […]
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Saturday, November 1st, 2014
Former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he was aware that Ibrahim Babangida was planning to overthrow him in 1985. Buhari, a retired major general and presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), told TheCable: “It is true that I learnt he was planning a coup against me. And I […]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2014
Another United States (US) school has banned a Nigerian student from attending classes because of an apparent ignorance on the country’s status on the Ebola virus, in violation of the United Nations (UN) advisory, Empowered Newswire reports. Local media reports in Milford, Connecticut State, stated that a Nigerian-American girl, who just returned from a visit […]
