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General Politics, Lagos, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
A Dana Airline passenger plane, carrying 147 passengers, has crashed into a residential suburb of Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos. The plane coming from Abuja, crashed into three buildings, one of them a newly built storey building. It burst into flames. The crash happened at about 3 p.m Nigerian time. There are no survivors as […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012
By: GABRIEL DIKE and SAM OTTI Date: Thu, 05/31/2012 – 23:44 The remains of Prof. Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe, vice chancellor, University of Lagos (UNILAG) were yesterday committed to mother earth at Ikoyi Vaults and Garden, Lagos amidst wailing, eulogies and tributes from family members, staff, students and politicians. The earthly journey of former vice chancellor […]
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Armed Forces, General Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
LAGOS — History will be made tomorrow when President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan commissions the first locally made warship, NNS ANDONI, constructed by Nigerian Navy engineers. The commissioning ceremony will take place at the Nigerian Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos. The 31m Nigerian Navy Seaward Defence Boat (SDB) was conceived as a research and development project […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Governors, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Prominent Ijaw leader and First Republic Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has called on the governors of the 19 northern states to identify the leaders of the Boko Haram sect for negotiation. Clark said it was the responsibility of the governors of the North to also identify the grievances of the members of the […]
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General Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday morning paid tribute to the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the late Chief MKO Abiola, and other heroes and martyrs of democracy for serving as catalysts for the emergence of civilian government in 1999. In a speech to the nation, Jonathan said they made huge sacrifices […]
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Armed Forces, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, May 28th, 2012
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, denied his alleged complicity in a N155 billion oil block scandal allegedly involving Shell, ENI subsidiaries in Nigeria, a Nigerian oil firm and a former Petroleum Minister, Mr Dan Etete. The President who had kept mum since an online news medium, Premium Times, last week, disclosed […]
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General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Presidency, Top Stories
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan’s loyalists have begun moves to neutralise the plot by northern governors to stop the President’s alleged 2015 ambition. The Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, had in an interview with journalists at the Northern Governors’ Forum’s meeting in Kaduna on May 17 vowed that the North would ensure that it got the […]
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Delta, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
NEWS agencies on Wednesday reported that Scotland Yard had arrested three of the investigators that handled the fraud case involving former governor of Delta State, James Ibori. The arrested men were accused of receiving thousands of dollars in payments for providing information to Ibori’s lawyers. Ibori was sentenced on April 17 by Southwark Crown Court […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, May 21st, 2012
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI & Favour Nnabugwu ABUJA — Separate attempts to bomb Police Headquarters in Abuja and Radio House, which houses Federal Government Radio stations, the Federal Ministry of Information and Communication among others were foiled, yesterday, as the two suspects who were armed with explosives were disarmed before they could wreak any havoc. The […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has absolved himself of any complicity in causing the woes of the nation, saying its problems were as old as the country itself. The president, who said emphatically that he should not be blamed for its socio-economic and political problems, noted that the crises predated his mounting the saddle of leadership two […]
