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

15Mar

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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…)

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

15Mar

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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…)

Peoples Decmocratic Party Counsels Traditional Rulers on Partisan Politics

15Mar

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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…)

Panic in Port Harcourt as Large Explosion Rocks Busy District

15Mar

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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…)

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

15Mar

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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…)

Security Situation Prompts Governor’s Relocation from Official Quarters

15Mar

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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…)

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

15Mar

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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…)

Cancer-Stricken Lockerbie Bomber Dead at 60

15Mar

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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…)

Forces Arrest Widow of Alleged ThisDay Suicide Bomber in Jos

15Mar

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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…)

Man with Explosives, Ammunition, Arrested at Abuja Government Function

15Mar

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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…)

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

15Mar

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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…)

Niger State Assembly Speaker Impeached after a Week in Office

15Mar

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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…)

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

15Mar

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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…)

Policemen to Enjoy New Wage Structure – IGP Abubakar

15Mar

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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…)

Sovereign Fund: Governors want Supreme Court to Stop FG

15Mar

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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…)

Another Indigenous Southerner Apprehended for Terrorist Attacks

15Mar

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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…)

FG Spends About $1bn on 1000km of Gas Pipeline

15Mar

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FG Spends About $1bn on 1000km of Gas Pipeline

Alison-Madueke Says Nigeria Oil Reserve now 37 billion barrels As part of efforts to ambitiously transform the country into the industrial hub of Africa, the Federal Government has revealed that (more…)

Boko Haram: Churches in South west Spend Millions on Security Gargets

15Mar

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Boko Haram: Churches in South west Spend Millions on Security Gargets

- Winners Chapel Bar commercial photographers from vicinity In the wake of bombings by the dreaded Boko Haram, churches in the South western part of Nigeria are currently spending fortune to acquire security gargets to prevent being a victim of the Boko Haram menace. (more…)

Nobel Laureate, Professor Soyinka in Intellectual Property Stealing Scandal

15Mar

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Nobel Laureate, Professor Soyinka in Intellectual Property Stealing Scandal

In Contradiction to the general belief; that Professor Wole Soyinka invented the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Nigeria; the former presidential candidate of the National Action Council. (more…)

Car-Theft Ring That Ships to West Africa Smashed in New Jersey

15Mar

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Car-Theft Ring That Ships to West Africa Smashed in New Jersey

- Nigerians involved in the Criminal Enterprise A CRIMINAL theft ring that stole hundreds of cars from owners around the US state of New Jersey and shipped the same stolen cars to many West African nations has been (more…)