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Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
By Henry Umoru …Fundamentalism, corruption threaten democracy — Shonekan ABUJA — FORMER President of Ghana, Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings, Monday said if Nigeria and other parts of Africa must get it right and strengthen democracy, corrupt politicians must not be allowed to go scot-free. This came as former Interim Head of State, Chief Ernest Shonekan, […]
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Sunday, June 16th, 2013
By CHUKS EZE (fazec1@yahoo.com) For Nigerians resident in Kenya, these are the worst of times. Their plight could be compared to the era of slave trade when able-bodied Africans could not tell what the next minute held for them because human traffickers could pick them up the next minute. Checks revealed that in recent times, […]
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General Politics, Niger Delta, Top Stories
Saturday, June 15th, 2013
On May 29, some students from the Niger Delta held a rally in Abuja to mark President Goodluck Jonathan’s two years in office. The rally ended up in the picketing of Niger Delta Minister Elder Godsday Orubebe’s office because of his alleged refusal to see them. EMMANUEL AHANONU reports. IT was May 29, a day […]
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
* Date embodies unity, equity, justice, says Nobel laureate * ‘Those who signed away victory’ LIKE a festering wound that defies treatment and sticks out implacably, June 12 re-awakens sore memories of the nation’s political failure, injustice and inequity. Twenty years ago, on June 12, 1993, the nation’s political march being led by the late […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, June 9th, 2013
Long stretches of public roads in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, have been blocked due to a wedding involving the daughter of a former state governor whose mother happens to be a Justice of the country’s Supreme Court. Both Madera Road and a stretch of Aguiyi Ironsi Road were blocked and manned by armed and fierce-looking […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, Top Stories
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has called on security agencies to arrest a former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 general elections, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) saying he constitutes a security risk. The call, he said, followed comments by Buhari condemning […]
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Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja Indications that Boko Haram insurgents who say they are against Western education and anything to do with the west, have been deceitful, emerged yesterday after troops found packs of condoms, used and unused, in their camps. Also found were syringes and narcotic drugs believed to have been used by the insurgents […]
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Saturday, June 1st, 2013
BY ABDULSALAM MUHAMMAD KANO—Director of Department of State Services, DSS, in Kano, Mr. Bassey Etang, has said the weapons of mass destruction discovered in a bunker at a Lebanese residence in Kano, Tuesday, belong to international terrorist organisation, Hezbollah. Etang spoke to newsmen in Kano, during a joint conference with the Commandant of the 3 […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI …as suspected terrorist found dead Two weeks after troops were deployed to flush out terrorists from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states following declaration of state of emergency in the three states, Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, in a video published, Tuesday, called on Islamists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to join the […]
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National Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Monday, May 27th, 2013
By Our Reporters LAGOS —Hours after he was suspended from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, solicited prayers from citizens of the state against desperate persons who he claimed were after his life. The suspension of Amaechi from the party was agreed during an unscheduled and unusually early morning […]
