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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Okonjo-Iweala, Others, Named ‘Global Thinkers’

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been named one of 100 Global Thinkers by a respected Washington-based journal, Foreign Policy magazine. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Former Nigerian Beauty Queen, Helen Anyamelune, Abandoned in Illness

She was once the most beautiful girl in Nigeria but one would hardly believe this on seeing her. Age and sickness have ravaged that beauty, leaving a shell of that stunning beauty. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Election Tribunal to Entertain Petition Against Remi Tinubu

Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the national leader of former Governor of Lagos State and now Senator representing Lagos in the National Assembly, still has some hurdles to cross as the new panel of the National Assembly (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Northern Nigeria in Search of Peace – By Haruna Salami

Efforts by Arewa Consultative Forum, (ACF), Northern Nigeria umbrella organization to find lasting solution to insecurity in the region, which has become a serious problem for the entire country, raises more questions than answers. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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‘Orders from Above’: In Adamawa, Police Seal Assembly Complex

A DAY after the Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly Sadiq Ibrahim Dasin and his Deputy, Mrs Wale Fwa, was impeached, stern-looking policemen arrived to deny the state’s lawmakers access (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Akure Daredevil Robbery: 3 Suspects, Erroneously Apprehended, Released

- 1 Robbery Gang Member in Police Custody THE three persons apprehended by the police in Akure after the robbery of a local branch of Diamond Bank two weeks ago had nothing to do with the robbery. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Ojukwu’s Widow, Bianca, Returns to Nigeria from London

WIDOW of the former leader of the defunct Biafran Republic, Bianca Ojukwu, arrived returned to Nigeria on Tuesday, about 10 days after the death of her husband, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Kano Resident, Miko Umaru, Sentenced to Death for 1991 Murder

20 YEARS after he was alleged to have decapitated a woman, Kano resident Miko Umaru was on Wednesday sentenced to death by hanging at a Kano High Court on Tuesday. Justice Nurudeen Sagir (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Agriculture Minister, Adewunmi Adesina, Trashes ‘Fertilizer Subsidy’

Fertilizer subsidy in Nigeria may be just as plagued by corruption and general lack of accountability as it is with petroleum subsidy, if the words of the country’s agriculture minister are anything to go by. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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State Police Not Desirable in Nigeria at This Time – President Jonathan

- Admonishes Politicians on Use of Political Power FOR those agitating for the establishment of individual state police apparatus in Nigeria, the prevailing political realities in the country may not augur well for the establishment of such. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Northern Leaders are Hypocritical – Bishop Hassan Kukah

OUTSPOKEN man of the cloth and Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah on Tuesday excoriated northern leaders for being hypocritical about the virtues of the late Sir (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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President Obama’s Campaign Theme: Protecting the Middle Class

Declaring the American middle class in jeopardy, President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined a populist economic vision that will drive his re-election bid, insisting the United States must reclaim its standing as a (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Former Abacha Aide, Al-Mustapha, Hospitalized

EMBATTLED former Chief Security Officer to the late military head of state General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, has been under admission at the military hospital at Kirikiri, Lagos, since last Thursday. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Security Personnel Foil Violent Attack in Bauchi

ATTEMPTS to stage another bomb attack by yet to be identified gunmen was foiled in Bauchi on Friday, a week after similar attacks on targeted local banks and police posts in the same state. Bauchi State Police (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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INEC Ready for House of Representatives Election in Ekiti

Ekiti State will play host to eagle-eyed security and electoral agents this Saturday as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) conducts election rerun for the federal House of Representatives seat (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Ifueko Omoigui Okauru of FIRS @ 46

By Wahab Gbadamosi It was a long day in Kano, the commercial heartbeat of Northern Nigeria. The top brass of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, was wrapping up the Regional Enlarged Management Meeting, REMM (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Labor Digs-In to Battle Government Over Fuel Subsidy

NIGERIA’S Organised Labour on Friday said it would be a fight to the finish if the Federal Government made good its plan to remove oil subsidy next year. According to NLC president, Comrade Abdulwaheed Omar, the (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Lagos House Speaker Adeyemi Ikuforiji

- Speaker Denies Receiving Summons A bench warrant was issued on Friday by a Federal High Court in Lagos for the arrest of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, purportedly for (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Abia Governor Adviser, Nnaji Asiegbu, Outed as Internet Fraudster

IMPROBABLE as it sounds, revelations are emerging about how Mr. Nnaji Obed Asiegbu, aide to T.A. Orji, governor of Abia State in South-Eastern Nigeria, works with a ring of fellow fraudsters for the governor and a “first son” of (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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2011 Christian Pilgrimage: CAN Boss Scores Akwa Ibom Airport Best

The first batch of Christian pilgrims of the 2011 journey to Israel  have been airlifted from the Akwa Ibom International Airport, even as the National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). (more…)

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