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Buhari advises FG on how to end Boko Haram insurgency

Former military Head of state, Gen, Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), says there must be end to the bickering between the federal and state governments over security issues if insecurity in the country must be...

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Osama’s Al-Qaeda backing Boko Haram — France president

(AFP) – French President Francois Hollande said Saturday that Nigeria’s Boko Haram had “established links” to Al-Qaeda and urged countries in the region to devise a common strategy to combat its...

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Release our girls unconditionally – NGO tells Boko Haram

Children of Farmers Club, a non-governmental organization has joined the call for the release of the abducted Chibok school girls unconditionally. The group also rejected the demand for a swap deal by...

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President Jonathan asks Nigerian journalists to be factual in news reporting

Badagry – President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, urged Nigerian journalists to be factual in their news reporting and not to be sentimental in their judgment. The President made this call at the...

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UPDATE: Boko Haram plans to abduct boys to marry abducted girls

Makurdi – The Principal of Government College, Makurdi, Mr Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said the school had received letter from Boko Haram sect threatening to attack the school. Ugudu, who announced...

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Chibok: Boko Haram, northern elders and Americans

By Femi Fani-Kayode On  May 4,  2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader Boko Haram, proclaimed: “I am going to marry out any woman who is twelve years old, and if she is younger, I will marry her out at the...

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Eyewitness Account: What I saw About Jonathan At The WEF – By Feyi Fawehinmi

Observing President Jonathan at very close quarters for 2 days in Abuja was quite revealing. It is one thing to listen to him or read his words, it is quite another to hear him in the flesh. What is...

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Boko Haram: Youths go on rampage in Maiduguri over killing of civilian

The relative peace in Maiduguri was on Sunday shattered as youths took to the streets to protest the alleged killing of a civilian at the West-End area of the metropolis by a police officer. The angry...

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Stop calling Boko Haram Islamic group, cleric urges media

Ibadan – The Chief  Imam  of  Lead City University, Ibadan, Abdulrahman Muhammed-Liawal, on Sunday urged the media to stop referring to the Boko Haram sect as an Islamic group. Muhammed-Liawal made the...

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Boko Haram attacks: Borno sends 50 to India for training

Borno State Government has dispatched fifty of its citizens to India for a course of Irrigation Agriculture, a move Governor Kashim Shettima said is part of his administration’s 3-approaches to...

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Legal practitioner accuses Northern politicians of conspiring against...

A Port Harcourt based lawyer, Osi Olisah has accused politicians in the Northern Nigeria of conspiracy against President Goodluck Jonathan. Olisah in an interview with DailyPost said the Boko Haram is...

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Thousands of Arsenal fans lined the streets to celebrate end of the trophy...

Thousands of Arsenal fans flooded the streets of north London to celebrate their side’s dramatic FA Cup victory, that ended a nine-year wait for silverware. Match winner Aaron Ramsey was pinching...

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Abiola deserves to be honoured – Obasanjo

BY DAUD OLATUNJI,ABEOKUTA Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said the  late business mogul and undeclared winner of the June 12,  1993  presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, deserves to...

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N5m cheque saga: Amaechi didn’t pay us a dime; Reno Omokri behind scandal –...

The build up to the 2015 general election has no doubt witnessed a number of propaganda and counter-propaganda by both the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC....

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Cooking gas explosion wipes out family of six

By Emmanuel Okolie, Agbor An explosion from a cooking gas has killed a family of six in Agbor in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The victims were identified as Mr. Favour Akpevweta, his...

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Senator Bemoans Rhetorics On Chibok Girls Fate

James Sowole The Senator Representing Ondo North Senatorial District, Robert Ajayi Boroffice at the weekend said safe return of over 200 girls abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok,...

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2015: Igbo Group Asks Court to Compel PDP to Endorse Jonathan

Tobi Soniyi An Igbo group, Igboezue Socio-Cultural Association,  has dragged President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to a Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order to...

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BREAKING: Scores feared dead as Boko Haram bomb beer palour in Adamawa

Report reaching DailyPost indicates that an explosion just off at a popular beer palour in Mubi area of Adamawa State. However, we are yet to confirm if there are casualties in the incident that...

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Boko Haram not northern response to a southern presidency – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the killing of the Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Idrissa Timta, by suspected Boko Haram gunmen, saying it confirms the terror group as the enemy of the whole...

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MANAGE YOUR DEFICIENCES: LETTER TO DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN

Calvary greetings to your family as we approach the end to the first half of the year and with my necessary ceremonial homage certainly acknowledged and presumably accepted, I want to belief, you...

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