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Headlines, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

Governor Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi early this evening miraculously escaped unhurt as a suspicious vehicle rammed into his convoy along Igwuruta road on the Governor’s way to the Port Harcourt International Airport. According to eyewitness account, the accident was caused by the intrusion of a Toyota Avensis with registration number AAA 767 AQ that rammed […]
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Headlines, Rivers, Soccer, Sports, State News, Top Stories
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

RIVERS State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has named a street and a N4.3bn football college after Super Eagles captain and Fenerbahce defender, Joseph Yobo. Amaechi named the street leading to Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium in Ikwerre Local Government Area of the state after Yobo to honour the Eagles star for leading the national team to victorious outing […]
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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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Delta, State News, Top Stories
Monday, July 1st, 2013

From PAUL OSUYI, Asaba Delta State Chairman of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Tony Ezeagwu yesterday described the death of Senator Pius Ewherido representing Delta Central at the National Assembly as a great loss. Ezeagwu while battling hard to speak on phone with Daily Sun in Asaba said the late senator was an energetic young […]
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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 […]
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General Politics, Top Stories
Friday, June 28th, 2013

The Senate on Thursday began an inquest into the alleged mismanagement of over $27m proceeds from the sale of Federal Government properties by officials of the Nigerian Embassy in the United States of America. This follows a petition to the President of the Senate, David Mark, by a non-governmental organisation, Transform Nigeria Movement, praying the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013

Indications emerged yesterday that Nigeria would impose a £20,000 visa bond on UK visitors if a planned £3000 bond on Nigeria pushes through. Minister of Foreign Affairs Olugbenga Ashiru said yesterday that the Federal Government will defend the interest of Nigerians on consular related issues with foreign countries. Ashiru spoke in Abuja following a proposal […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Niger Delta, Top Stories
Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

These are not the best of times for Godsday Orubebe, the Niger Delta Affairs minister. Still battling to wriggle himself out of the allegations of stealing and acquisitions of mansions in Abuja, made by the Dino Melaye, led network against corruption, Orubebe is again riding in another gathering storm of scandals. Indeed, playing the script […]
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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, June 21st, 2013

By INNOCENT ANABA A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, issued criminal summons against eight Russians charged with unlawful importation of arms to Nigeria. The accused: Chichkanov Vasily, Varlygin Igor, Komilov Alexander, Mishin Pavel, Korotchenko Andrey, Vorobev Mikhail, Stepan Oleksiuk and their vessel, “MV Myre Seadiver” are standing trial on a four-count charge bordering […]
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General Politics, Raw Politics, Top Stories, Wole Soyinka
Friday, June 21st, 2013

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has berated critics, who attributed the cause of late Chinua Achebe’s accident that eventually confined him to a wheel chair until he recently breathed his last, to the “spotless ram” he presented to him as a gift for his sixtieth birthday. Soyinka, in a release entitled “The Village Mourners Association,” […]