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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Top Boko Haram Suspect Captured as US adds 3 Members to Terror List

HABIBU Bama, the suspected brains behind some of the deadliest attacks by the killer terrorist group in Nigeria, Boko Haram was captured Thursday in the restive city of Damaturu, Yobe State. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Life with Oladimeji Abitogun

‘King James’ Finally Wears a Crown: Heat Beats Thunder to Clinch NBA Title

All of the vilification and vitriol heaped upon this basketball team and its most prominent star for two years didn’t so much disappear as simply cease to matter Thursday night. In its place: Validation. Vindication. And victory (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Our World with Susan M. Ajibuwa

Tribute to Mrs. Iyadunni Sarah Oluwalami (Nee Abitogun) 1961 – 2012

The remains of big sister, Iyadunni Sarah Oluwalami, were interred at her husband’s hometown of Owo in Ondo State, Nigeria, on Saturday. Auntie Iyadun, as we all in the Abitogun family used to fondly call her, eventually lost the battle to a strange form of cancer which the most formidable medical team at the oncological department of the University College Hospital in Ibadan could not curtail. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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President Jonathan Fires National Security Adviser, Defense Minister

Rrt. Col. Sambo Dasuki Appointed to Replace NSA Azazi CATCHING most observers unawares after his return from his trip to Brazil on Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan announced the replacement of his government’s (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Life and Style

‘King James’ Finally Wears a Crown: Heat Beats Thunder to Clinch NBA Title

All of the vilification and vitriol heaped upon this basketball team and its most prominent star for two years didn’t so much disappear as simply cease to matter Thursday night. In its place: Validation. Vindication. And victory (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Looking Ahead with Bayo Oluwasanmi

The NYSC and its Clarion Call

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi The 14th of June may have been just like every other day of the year and may have passed us by without any inkling about its importance, but for the (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Politics

Akpabio and his Uncommon Achievement

By Anietie Ekong In 2006, a certain young man, Godswill Obot Akpabio had indicated his intention to serve Akwa Ibom people as the Governor. Apart from having served as a Commissioner (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Politics

On Sunday ‘Media Chat’, President Jonathan Assures on Nigeria’s Security

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday rekindled the hopes of Nigerians that the terror group Boko Haram would be wrestled to the ground in the near future, promising that the blood-spilling acts of the group (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Jonathan Orders EFCC to Investigate Embassy Accounts

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan said on Sunday that he has issued marching orders to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to begin a probe into the alleged disturbing activities at the country’s embassy accounts in the United States. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Looking Ahead with Bayo Oluwasanmi

Boko Haram has Gotten it All Wrong

THE recent spate of bombings in the North and the unfortunate one which rocked the heart of Kaduna few sundays ago has given credence to the fact that Boko-Haram has gotten it all wrong this time around (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Politics

Ondo Workers Troop Out to Endorse Gov Mimiko for 2nd Term

CIVIL Servants in Ondo state and the Nigerian Labour Congress’s national body have endorsed the Ondo state Governor Dr Olusegun Mimko for a second term in office even as a mass rally was staged  in support of (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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House Committee Petitions ECOWAS Parliament on Ghanaian Deadline for Nigerian Businesses

AN order issued by the Ghanaian authorities for Nigerian-owned small businesses based in Ghana to remit the sum of $300, 000 as fees or face eviction from the country has caught the attention of the (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Tinubu Pursues Peace with Robbed Ondo Gubernitorial Aspirants

THE leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria party, ACN, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu has begun consultations aimed at pacifying guber gladiators of his party in Ondo State who were shut out through the (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Mimiko’s Mega School Is World Class Achievement, Says FG

The Caring Heart Mega School initiated by Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has been described by the Federal Government as a World-class achievement. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike announced (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Politics

‘Challenge of Terror and Insecurity Should Unite Us’ – President Jonathan

-Text of an address by President Goodluck Jonathan at the occasion of the 2012 Senate Retreat on Monday, June 25 2012 in the Akwa-Ibom capital city of Uyo. Let me express my appreciation to the leadership of the Senate for inviting me to declare open the 2012 Retreat of the 7th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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PDP Urges Intervention in ‘Frivolous’ Court Injunctions

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher and the National Judicial Council (NJC) to save democracy in the country from (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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NNPC Boss Austen Oniwon Takes a Bow

FOLLOWING Tuesday’s announcement by the Goodluck Jonathan government of its approval of the newly constituted leadership structure at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation headquarters in (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Looking Ahead with Bayo Oluwasanmi

Azazi, National Security and the Road Ahead

By Uche Igwe I used to think that security is the responsibility of either the state or someone else. All that changed in 2009, when I woke up and peeped through the window and noticed that my car had been removed by thieves. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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REJOINDER: Analysis of Huhuonline/Emeka Asiwe’s Failed Embassy Damage Control…And Financial SAGA

Our attention has been drawn to a series of reports published by Republic Report of June 26, 2012 concerning the ongoing allegations of financial impropriety involving the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Southwest PDP Raises Finance Committee

Desirous of getting adequate funding for its activities, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest has raised a Finance and Funding Committee. (more…)

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