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Igbo and the governance of Lagos
By Kayode Samuel Three fashionable fallacies lie at the root of prevailing Igbo outlook to Lagos, the former federal capital. The first is that Lagos is a no-man’s land with no indigenous population....
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Amnesty C’ttee members weep openly in Kano
By Jide Ajani This is the report of the visit of the Victims Support Sub-Committee of the Presidential Committee on the Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts in Northern Nigeria, otherwise...
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Amaechi, Jang clash again as NGF faction summons meeting
By SONI DANIEL Factional Chairman of Nigeria’s Governors Forum (NGF), Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State, and Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, leading a group of 19 governors, appeared back...
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Why We Met IBB, Jonathan, Others – Governor Aliyu
Niger State governor Babangida Aliyu yesterday gave an insight into the reasons for five northern governors’ wide consultations with former Nigerian leaders and President Goodluck Jonathan. He said the...
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El-Rufai, a serial liar -Presidency •Says Jonathan above ethnic, religious...
CITING the provision of Section 137 (1) of the constitution, the presidency, on Sunday, said President Goodluck Jonathan is qualified to contest the 2015 presidential election, contrary to claims by...
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GOVERNANCE: Respect your age, Jonathan blasts Akande
BY BEN AGANDE ABUJA— PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, admonished Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, to stop being ill-mannered and hypocritical. He said...
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Lamido blasts presidency over comments on Northern govs
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has berated presidential aides, Doyin Okupe and Ahmed Gulak on their recent outbursts against him and four other governors just as he has dismissed the recently...
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Oil firms lie over crude production – Tompolo, Ex-militant Leader
EX-MILITANT leader and founder of the non-operational Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta, MEND, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, has accused oil multinationals of telling lies...
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2015: We’re unaware of Jonathan’s offer to Al-Mustapha to join party – PDP
By SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, NORTH &, HENRY UMORU Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it is unaware of any offer by President Goodluck Jonathan, to erstwhile Chief Security Officer, CSO, to...
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THE LAGOS DEPORTATION AND THE LAW: Deportation of dissidents By FEMI FALANA
By FEMI FALANA IN 1885 the British colonial regime deported King Jaja of Opobo to a remote island in West Indies where he died in 1889. His offence was that he had challenged the imperialist control of...
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Cultists kill man in place of brother
Suspected cult members have killed a 22-year-old man, Michael Agbo, after destroying his parents’ home in Itaoluwo, a suburb of Ikorodu, Lagos State. The incident, which took place on August 6, 2013,...
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Abandoned police barracks turns rapists, hemp smokers’ den
Barely seven months after its occupants were ejected, the Atitebi Police Barracks in Ebute Meta, Lagos State, has turned into a spot where hoodlums smoke hemp and rape young girls. People living...
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‘Nigeria lacks ability to manage disasters’
An emeritus professor of Medicine, Oladipupo Akinkugbe, has called for adequate preparations to cater for emergencies in the country. He spoke in Ibadan on Saturday at the Annual General Meeting of the...
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Lagos Assembly urges more police presence in Ikorodu
Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday urged the state police command to reinforce police presence in Ikorodu, especially Oke Ogbodo village, where there are reports of crisis between some land...
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S-African women married to Nigerians threaten protest
JOHANNESBURG — South African women married to Nigerians, yesterday, threatened to stage mass protest in Johannesburg to stop discrimination against them, their husbands and children. Mrs Lindelwa...
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Man docked over attempt to murder sister
Esther Erazele after the act BY ONOZURE DANIA Lagos— A 43-year-old security man, Matthew Erazele, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate Court, over attempted murder, of his sister, Esther...
View ArticleTwo arraigned over unsettled N330,000 birthday bash bill
LAGOS — Two men, who allegedly defrauded an eatery of N330,000 under the pretext of celebrating a birthday, were, yesterday charged before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. The accused, Tayo...
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Respect evicted residents, rights groups tell LASG
Global rights group, Amnesty International, and a Nigerian non-governmental organisation, on Monday, urged the Lagos State Government to respect the rights of over 9,000 residents that were evicted...
View ArticleAPC seeks replacement for Oyo Senator
There were indications on Monday that the newly formed All Progressives Congress in Oyo State had started to look for a replacement for the representative of Oyo South Senatorial District in the...
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‘Ango Abdullahi not speaking for North’
A former Minister of State for Agriculture, Dr. Jonah Madugu, has faulted the position of a northern elder, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, on the question of who emerges Nigeria’s President in 2015. He...
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