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Presidency Lashes Out at Buhari over ‘Sad and Unfortunate’ Comment

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan’s office reacted with strong words on Tuesday to comments attributed to former military head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, now retired, over comments which (more…)

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Lagos Court Annuls Regulation that Forbade Policewomen to Marry

POLICEWOMEN in Nigeria no longer need to abide by a statuary rule of the Nigeria Police that previously forbade them from marrying spouses of their choice without the approval of the police commissioner (more…)

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Former Gov. Oni’s Aide tells Gov. Fayemi to Stop ‘Show of Ignorance’

-Oni Dares Governor Fayemi to Effect Alleged Threat of Arrest MEDIA aide to former Governor Segun Oni of Ekiti State, Mr. Lere Olayinka, said on Tuesday that the current Ekiti state governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, should face the task (more…)

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President Jonathan Receives New Envoys to Nigeria

FOUR new ambassadors to Nigeria presented their letters of credence to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, at State House, Thursday. The new ambassadors are Mr. Saeed Koozechi, (more…)

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Nigeria’s Arunmah Oteh Wins 2 Term as Head of Regional Regulatory Body

EMBATTLED Chair of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission, Mrs. Arunmah Oteh has been unanimously returned as the regional chairperson of the Africa/Middle-East Committee of the International (more…)

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Bloomberg: Nigerian Naira Appreciates for the First Time in Two Weeks

The naira strengthened for the first time in two weeks after Nigeria’s central bank sold the most dollars in almost two months to support the country’s currency. The currency of Africa’s largest (more…)

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Peoples Decmocratic Party Counsels Traditional Rulers on Partisan Politics

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Southwest has warned politicians not to involve the region’s traditional leaders in partisan politics. The party also advised traditional rulers (more…)

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Panic in Port Harcourt as Large Explosion Rocks Busy District

AN EXPLOSION reportedly caused by dynamite carried in a passenger minibus killed the driver and wounded two others in Port Harcourt on Thursday on morning. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) (more…)

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Ondo Labor Party Receives Large Contingent of Defectors from PDP, ACN

GOVERNOR Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State received almost 4,000 defecting members of opposition parties to his Labor Party on Saturday. Mainly from the Peoples Democratic Party and the (more…)

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Security Situation Prompts Governor’s Relocation from Official Quarters

PLATEAU State Governor Jonah Jang has relocated from the Governor’s Lodge at Jishe to the Government House, Rayfield, Jos. Sources close to the governor said (more…)

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Heavy Security in Senate President’s Hometown over Threat of Attack

FEARS of attack from the murderous group popularly known as Boko Haram is growing in the Idoma town of Otukpo, hometown of Senate President David Mark, prompting security agencies (more…)

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Cancer-Stricken Lockerbie Bomber Dead at 60

ABDEL Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, has died, the Libyan government said on Sunday. He was 60. (more…)

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Forces Arrest Widow of Alleged ThisDay Suicide Bomber in Jos

Security personnel on Saturday arrested six women, including the widow of the alleged ThisDay newspaper suicide bomber, in a raid on a hideout of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in the central city of Jos. (more…)

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Man with Explosives, Ammunition, Arrested at Abuja Government Function

A POSSIBLE deadly attack was avoided on Monday at the Radio House building in Abuja when a man with explosive devises and a cache of ammunition in his possession was accosted by alert (more…)

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Mexico Authorities Apprehend Cartel Leader ‘El Loco’ for 49 Beheadings

Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed "El Loco," AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico. (more…)

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Niger State Assembly Speaker Impeached after a Week in Office

After last Tuesday’s impeachment of his predecessor, Mohammed T. Gammunu, the Niger State House of Assembly again impeached its new Speaker, Mr. Isah Kawo. The motion for impeachment was moved by (more…)

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One Year Later, Obama Delivers High School Graduation Speech at Community Ravaged by Tornado

One year after a deadly tornado devastated their city, President Barack Obama praised the residents of Joplin for a spirit of perseverance and resilience that he said could serve as a model for a nation (more…)

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Policemen to Enjoy New Wage Structure – IGP Abubakar

ACTING Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, has unveiled a special package for men and officers of the Nigeria Police. Except there is a change in the plan, the minimum wage for (more…)

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Sovereign Fund: Governors want Supreme Court to Stop FG

FROM the governors of Nigeria’s 36 states came Monday’s request that the nation’s Supreme Court should bar the federal government from going ahead with a planned withdrawal of $2 billion from (more…)

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Another Indigenous Southerner Apprehended for Terrorist Attacks

TWENTY-FIVE year old Akwa-Ibom indigene, Augustine Effiong, came forward on Monday to own-up to being a part of the terror groups responsible for the April 29 violent deaths of innocent students at (more…)

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