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PHOTO: Body of granny found in son’s room, 10 years after
It was a shock find in Oguta, Imo State, yesterday. The embalmed body of a 78-year-old grandmother, who was declared missing 10 years ago, was discovered inside her son’s home. The sleepy Ejemekwuru...
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Tukur to Asari Dokubo: stop threatening war over 2015 poll
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has cautioned ex-Niger Delta militant, Asari Dokubo, and others threatening to go to war if President Goodluck...
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40 killed in Sunday morning attack in Benue
No fewer than 40 Idoma farmers in Ekwo-Okpanchenyi, Agatu Local Government Area in Benue State have been killed in an early Sunday morning attack. The victims’ relatives and survivors said they...
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Nasarawa Massacre: The True Story
Policemen who survived last Wednesday’s massacre in Alakyo Village, Nasarawa State yesterday alleged that the cultists had an upper hand over securitymen as a result of juju. Over 100 policemen and 10...
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Arms smuggling: Nigerian court jails Iranian 17 years
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced an Iranian, Azim Aghajani, and his Nigerian accomplice, Ali Jega, to 17 years imprisonment each for illegal importation of firearms into the country in...
View ArticleUS verdict on Nigeria’s anti-graft war
REGARDLESS of what the President Goodluck Jonathan government may say, the United States’ position on the thriving culture of corruption in Nigeria gives a fair representation of opinion about the...
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Should Asari-Dokubo be arrested?
The statement made last week by Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, that President Goodluck Jonathan must be allowed to do a second term in 2015 or there...
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Goodluck/Sambo Foundation: Victims demand compensation from Presidency
Some of the people who were defrauded by an organisation known as Goodluck/Sambo Foundation have urged the Presidency to compensate them for their loss. PUNCH Metro had reported on May 3, 2013 that the...
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Nasarawa Massacre: Angry girl asks IGP, Gov Al-Makura to produce her father
Lafia—Apparently angered by the poor handling of the operation which led to the massacre of about 60 policemen in Nasarawa State, the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Abubaker, weekend,...
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Obafaye, ‘My Oga at the Top’ resumes as NSCDC Oyo State boss
The former Lagos State Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Mr. Shem Obafaye, who postulated the ”My Oga at the top” mantra has finally resumed duty as Oyo State Commandant of...
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‘Why soldiers were excluded from Nasarawa operation’
The security operatives on Tuesday broke the silence on the puzzle surrounding the shocking massacre of an estimated 103 security operatives in the country. The Deputy Director, Media and Public...
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11 killed, others missing in Kaduna village attack
Again, gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, on Tuesday, stormed Zangang in Akakar, Kaura Local Government of Kaduna State, killing 11 persons and injuring many others. Many of the injured, our...
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2015: Northern Elders Draw Battle Line
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) yesterday said power must return to the North in 2015, warning governors in the zone to cue behind the power-for-North struggle or see themselves as anti-North. The...
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Reps demand list of private jets in Nigeria
House of Representatives on Tuesday demanded the details of all private jets operating in the country as it waded into the row between the Rivers State Government and aviation authorities following the...
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Confusion Trails Ownership Of Amaechi’s Jet
The controversy surrounding the grounding of Rivers State Governor RotimiAmaechi’s jet by the ministry of aviation heightened yesterday when the minister of aviation, Mrs Stella Oduah, disclosed that...
View ArticleCourt setences 8 to death by hanging in Imo
Imo State High Court presided over by Hon. Justice C.M.I. Egole, has sentenced eight persons to death by hanging for their alleged involvement in the brutal murder of an ex-police officer, Nze Dominic...
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Supporting Jonathan in 2011 was a blunder – Northern elders
Professor Ango Abdullahi said this on behalf of a Northern group. Voting for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 was a political mistake that Northern Nigeria must not repeat in 2015, a top northern...
View ArticleLagos urged to develop Lekki for tourism
A South-African business executive and president of the Diamond Holiday Travel, South-Africa, Mr. Billy Ruyobeza, has urged the Lagos State Government to explore Lekki beach to attract tourists into...
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Emergency rule, counterproductive – ACN
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the declaration of a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States by President Goodluck Jonathan as lacking in original thinking, and...
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Troops sweep into northern Nigerian cities
Deployment follows state of emergency declaration by president in three states where Boko Haram have stepped up attacks. Nigerian troops have moved into cities in the northeast where President Goodluck...
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