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Abducted Mobil Workers in Nigeria Regain Freedom

Two oil workers abducted by unidentified gunmen at the Qua Iboe oil fields operated by Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited have regained their freedom, security sources said on Wednesday. (more…)

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Samu’ila Makama Ends Tenure at National Population Commission

The Chairman of National Population Commission (NPC), Chief Samu’ila Makama, has announced that he and 20 other NPC workers have completed their tenure in accordance with the laws that set up NPC. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Danjuma Ocholi Enters Plea Bargain with EFCC over N16.2bn Theft at Finbank

A former director of Finbank Plc, Danjuma Ocholi, standing trial alongside the bank’s former Managing Director, Okey Nwosu, for alleged stealing, has entered into a plea bargain with the EFCC. (more…)

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FEC approves $370m dollars for Onne Port

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday in Abuja approved $370 million dollars for the development of the fourth phase of the Onne Port in Rivers. Addressing the State House (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Crossfire: Aregbesola Shuns Presidential Function in Oshogbo

* Sambo Counsels Options of Court Redress Over Arrest of ACN Members Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State began a trip down a familiar road into national crisis and frictional relationship between the government at the center and the artificial federating states on Thursday, as he took (more…)

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Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Edo, Oyo, Ogun Broke

Nigerian lawmakers launched a rescue mission, mandating the committees on Finance, Appropriation, National Planning and State and Local Government to probe what they described as the looming bankruptcy in states. (more…)

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Ekiti ejects 30 physically challenged Deltans

Ekiti State Government has ejected over 30 physically challenged Deltans in their various special educational institutions, it was learnt yesterday in Asaba, Delta State capital. The government, it was said, took the (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Jonathan, Gillard Announce Establishment of Nigeria-Australia Trade and Investment Council

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the Australian Prime Minister, Ms. Julia Gillard Thursday in Perth, formally announced the establishment  of a new Nigeria-Australia Trade and Investment Council to identify and (more…)

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Jonathan Endorses African Infrastructural Fund

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Thursday in Perth, Western Australia gave Nigeria’s support to calls for the urgent establishment of an Africa Infrastructure Fund. Speaking at a roundtable with (more…)

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Daredevil Gang Stages Rambo-Style Rescue of Accused Associate in Kogi Court

* Kill Prison Guard Like a scripted act in a Nollywood movie, a dare-devil gang on Wednesday stormed a Kogi State High Court in Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area, and rescued one of their associates who had been ordered to (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Supreme Court Rules on Buhari Vs. Jonathan on Monday

The Nigeria Supreme Court has said that it would give its verdict on Monday over an appeal filed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, challenging the refusal of former Appear Court President, (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Abuja Court Dismisses Umar Ado Case Against PDP Exco

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday struck out a suit filed by Dr Umar Ardo against the Adamawa PDP Executive Committee. The committee conducted the party’s primary in which (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Achebe, Dangote, Alele-Williams, Tambuwal, Aki and Pawpaw, Others Win National Honors

World-renowned anthropological and African renaissance author, Professor Chinua Achebe, has emerged a winner of Nigeria’s second highest national honor, Commander of the Federal Republic, CFR. It is the second (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Two Nigerian Airmen Survive Plane Crash

The two occupants of a Nigerian Airforce training aircraft, an L-39 jet which crasjed near Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, are said to be under close observation at the intensive care unit of an undisclosed hospital. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Nigeria Fights Airfare War with British Carriers

Ms Stella Oduah, the Minister of Aviation, on Friday decried the hike in the fare charged by some airlines on Lagos-Abuja-London route. A statement signed by Mr Jeo Obi, the minister’s Special Adviser on Media, quoted her (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Bayelsa Police Command Tries 3 for October 16 Extra-Judicial Killing

The Bayelsa Police Commissioner, Mr Hilary Opara has confirmed that three police officers (names withheld) are facing orderly room trial over the alleged killing of a youth in the state. Opara, who gave the confirmation in (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Former Ondo Commissioner, Ronke Okunsanya, Arrested as Accomplice in NTA General Manager’s Child Abuse Saga

A former Commissioner in Ondo State, Mrs. Ronke Okunsanya, has been arrested by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and Other Related Offenses (NAPTIP) in Nigeria, in connection with the child (more…)

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Nigerian Elected Chair of ACHPR

Catherine Dupe Atoki of Nigeria has been elected chairperson of African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR), replacing the outgoing Madam Reine Alapini-Gansou of Togo. (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Ecological Fund Releases N21bn for Remediation of Dams in Sokoto and Taraba

The Ecological Fund Office (EFO) has released N2.5 billion to the Federal Ministry of Water Resources for remediation works on Goronyo Dam in Sokoto State. Mr Jude Mekwunye, the Director, (more…)

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15Mar By Felix ShammahNo Comments

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Yakowa: Multilateral Cooperation is needed for Global Development

By Haruuna Salami Kaduna State Governor, Sir Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, who is on the entourage of President Goodluck Jonathan at the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in, Perth, Australia has stated that multilateral (more…)

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