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Nigerian Militants Target MTN to Hurt South African Government Interest

15Mar

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Politics

Nigerian Militants Target MTN to Hurt South African Government Interest

IF the threats coming from persons claiming to be militants belonging to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Nigeria Delta group are anything to go by, the South African telecom firm in Nigeria, MTN, will (more…)

Nigeria Tested by Rapid Population Growth

15Mar

By Felix ShammahNo Comments

World News

Nigeria Tested by Rapid Population Growth

By Elizabeth Rosenthal for the New York Times In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people — a population about as big as that of the present-day United States — will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico. (more…)

Obama Latin America Visit: Security Detail Indiscretion Undermine Goal

15Mar

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Obama Latin America Visit: Security Detail Indiscretion Undermine Goal

A prostitution scandal involving U.S. security personnel in Colombia and an unprecedented regional push to end the isolation of Cuba threatened on Saturday to eclipse President Barack Obama's charm offensive to Latin America. (more…)

Capital Market Public Hearing: Time for a Result-Oriented Approach

15Mar

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Looking Ahead with Bayo Oluwasanmi

Capital Market Public Hearing: Time for a Result-Oriented Approach

By Innocent Badmus It may no longer be news that Nigeria’s capital market capitalization went down from a high of N13.5tr to N4.6tr within ten months in 2008. (more…)

15Mar

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Looking Ahead with Bayo Oluwasanmi

Nigeria Tested by Rapid Population Growth

By Elizabeth Rosenthal for the New York Times In a quarter-century, at the rate Nigeria is growing, 300 million people — a population about as big as that of the present-day United States — will live in a country the size of Arizona and New Mexico. (more…)

Total Nigeria Fails to Notify Public of Possible Gas Leak in Delta

15Mar

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Politics

Total Nigeria Fails to Notify Public of Possible Gas Leak in Delta

French oil firm Total SA said on Saturday that a natural gas leak at one of its plants in Nigeria's crude-rich southern delta may have been going on for weeks. (more…)

S.West PDP Warns Members against Intra-Party Litigation, Media Wars

15Mar

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Politics

S.West PDP Warns Members against Intra-Party Litigation, Media Wars

NATIONAL Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Segun Oni has warned that; "henceforth, no member of the party in the zone must speak evil of the party and its members in (more…)

‘Save South-West from Aregbesola’s Religious Extremism’ – PDP

15Mar

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Politics

‘Save South-West from Aregbesola’s Religious Extremism’ – PDP

The Southwest Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on security agencies to ask Osun State governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola his mission to a North African country a few days ago even as it warns against (more…)

15Mar

By Felix ShammahNo Comments

World News

Capital Market Public Hearing: Time for a Result-Oriented Approach

By Innocent Badmus It may no longer be news that Nigeria’s capital market capitalization went down from a high of N13.5tr to N4.6tr within ten months in 2008. (more…)

15Mar

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Fashion Personality

News Talk on Petroleum Subsidy

By Mohammed Shehu Abubakar If there is anything the recent House of Representatives public hearing on the petroleum products subsidy established firmly, it is the fact that (more…)

British Court Sentences Rogue Governor James Ibori to 13-Year Jailtime

15Mar

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British Court Sentences Rogue Governor James Ibori to 13-Year Jailtime

AFTER years of intrigues that dogged attempts at prosecuting him both at home in Nigeria and abroad, James Onanaefe Ibori, former two-term governor of the oil-rich state of Delta, was on (more…)

EXPOSED: Foreign Cartels Behind Nigeria’s Dirty Drug Business

15Mar

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Politics

EXPOSED: Foreign Cartels Behind Nigeria’s Dirty Drug Business

- Why Nigeria is Veritable Transit Route for Illicit Drug Trade The war against drug trafficking is no doubt yielding positive results in the country these days, as fresh findings reveal that foreign cartels are behind Nigeria's dirty drug business. (more…)

Bollywood Horror: Actress, 26, Kidnapped, Strangled and Decapitated

15Mar

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Politics

Bollywood Horror: Actress, 26, Kidnapped, Strangled and Decapitated

A young Bollywood actress, Meenakshi Thapar, was allegedly kidnapped and later beheaded by two actors in an attempt to extort 1,500,000 Rupees. Thapar, 26, appeared in the Indian horror film “404″ where (more…)

Boko Haram Sponsors Entrenched Powers – Agoro, Former Presidential Aspirant

15Mar

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Politics

Boko Haram Sponsors Entrenched Powers – Agoro, Former Presidential Aspirant

In this interview with Sharpedgenews.com, the presidential aspirant under the platform of National Action Council, Dr. Olapade Agoro spoke on the menace of Boko Haram and also dwelt extensively (more…)

Petrol Subsidy: Tackling A Historical Problem

15Mar

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Politics

Petrol Subsidy: Tackling A Historical Problem

By Adewale Roberts, Ph.D Making effective use of his experience as a former member of the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and as former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s Communication Adviser, OlusegunAdeniyi, chairman of (more…)

US Citizen Accuses American Agents in UAE of Torture and Abuse

15Mar

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Politics

US Citizen Accuses American Agents in UAE of Torture and Abuse

His interrogators usually came in the morning. Peeking under a blindfold in a cold concrete cell, Yonas Fikre says he caught only glimpses of their shoes. They beat the soles of his feet with hoses (more…)

Nigerian-American, Nnemkadi Ogwumike, is No.1 Pick of WNBA Draft

15Mar

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Politics

Nigerian-American, Nnemkadi Ogwumike, is No.1 Pick of WNBA Draft

Nnemkadi Ogwumike is excited to be staying in California. The Stanford senior was picked No. 1 in the WNBA draft by the Los Angeles Sparks on Monday. (more…)

India in Successful Test-Launch of Long-Range Nuclear Missile

15Mar

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Politics

India in Successful Test-Launch of Long-Range Nuclear Missile

India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai for the first time, a significant step (more…)

Seeking Western Aid to Combat Terror, Jonathan Says Nigeria is Safe

15Mar

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Politics

Seeking Western Aid to Combat Terror, Jonathan Says Nigeria is Safe

President Goodluck Jonathan insisted on that Thursday Nigeria was safe for foreign investors, while calling for Western logistical help to combat the radical Islamist group Boko Haram. (more…)

Mimiko’s Tricycle Ambulances: A New Dawn for Pregnant Women in Ondo

15Mar

By Felix ShammahNo Comments

Politics

Mimiko’s Tricycle Ambulances: A New Dawn for Pregnant Women in Ondo

BORN Olusegun Rahman Mimiko, he took up a caring profession as a medical doctor. Over time, the Ondo State governor acquired a name for his administration, inspired by his desire to help the common man with (more…)