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Governors’ Forum set to check oil theft, says Uduaghan

Delta State governor, Dr.Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said that the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, was determined to check the challenge of oil theft in the country. Fielding questions from journalists at...

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Wanted Boko Haram leader Shekau dares Obama in video

Despite being declared a global terrorist and a $7million reward placed on him by the United States (US), Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau is still talking tough. Shekau, in a video yesterday, dared...

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MUST READ: WHY I WILL NEVER MOVE TO NIGERIA

Chronicle: Feb. 26, 2013. A 17-year-old African-American and Miami native, Trayvon Martin, 17, unarmed; shot dead by George Zimmerman, a white American. Jun 16, 2013 – Cab driver, Orji Ama Uro was...

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Ondo is broke, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State has said the state is broke. It said this was responsible for the “sack” of over 10,000 council workers. PDP faulted the government’s “so-called staff...

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Ezekwesili Calls On Government To Arrest Fani-Kayode

Ezekwesili, Fani-Kayode clash over anti-Igbo articles. A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has called on the government to arrest her ex-colleague, Femi Fani-Kayode, over opinion articles...

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300 Nigerian girls languish in Libyan prisons – YAMIDR

By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN CITY — THE Initiative for Youth Awareness on Migration, Immigration, Development and Re-integration, IYAMIDR, yesterday, raised alarm that over 300 Nigerian girls are...

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Don’t Yield To Pressure, PDP Tells CP Mbu, Wants Speaker Arrested

The Peoples Democratic Party, Rivers State Chapter has accused the state government of stalling the investigations of some top officials involved in the political crisis rocking the state, especially...

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I Learnt Yoruba In American School-Kelvin Barry aka Kayode Oyinbo

He’s popularly referred Kayode Oyinbo, the American born actor has disclosed that Yoruba is one language he loves passionately. One of the lead characters in Saheed Balogun’s movie, YOU & I has...

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JTF claims killing of Boko Haram ‘number two’

MAIDUGURI  (AFP) – Nigeria’s military said Wednesday it had killed the second-in-command of Islamist group Boko Haram while repelling an insurgent attack earlier this month. A military statement said...

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‘ APC ‘ll produce an Igbo president come 2015′

BY JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU &GABRIEL EWEPU ABUJA- AS the All Progressives Congress, APC, continues to bask in the euphoria of registration as a political party by the Independent National Electoral...

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Morsi supporters torch three churches in Egypt -Reports

Supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi torched three churches in central Egypt on Wednesday in reprisal attacks as police dispersed demonstrations in Cairo, reports said. The assailants...

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Nigeria ratifies arms trade treaty

Abuja -  Nigeria has joined other UN member states to sign the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) adopted in April. This is contained in a statement issued by Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Olugbenga...

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Patience Jonathan’s mother to be buried on Oct. 31

Abuja – The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has disclosed that the burial of her late foster mother, Mrs Charity Oba, would take place on Oct. 31. Jonathan made the announcement on Tuesday in Abuja...

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Abuja gridlock: Aturu, Ogunye condemn President’s wife

Human rights activists have condemned the wife of President Gooluck Jonathan, Patience, for causing gridlock that inhibited movement at the nation’s capital, Abuja, on Thursday. The first lady had...

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Cameroon President, Biya orders Pentecostal churches closed — PFN, others ask...

Christian leaders in Nigeria have joined their Cameroonian counterparts to condemn the recent clampdown on Pentecostal churches in. Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has ordered the closure of nearly 100...

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UK Probes Winners’ Chapel over Alleged Diversion of Charity Funds

By Paul Obi These are really tough times for Pentecostal Churches. Few days after the Camerounian President Paul Biya ordered the closure of all Pentecostal churches in the country, United Kingdom...

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We’ve been vindicated over Daniel’s defection – Ogun PDP

The Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party said on Friday that it had been vindicated by the confirmation that former Governor Gbenga Daniel had joined the Labour Party and had been...

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Northern Govs salute IBB at 72

Minna – The Northern States’ Governors Forum has felicitated with former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida as he turns 72 years on Saturday, Aug.17. This is contained in a statement on Friday...

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Fani-Kayode apologises to Bianca Ojukwu, two ex-girlfriends named in...

The former minister has denied that his reference to “intimate relationship” implied “sexual relations”. Controversial ex-minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, whose series of opinion articles on the Igbo ethnic...

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The untold love story between Bianca Ojukwu and Femi Fani-Kayode

Not many are aware that former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-kayode and former beauty queen, Mrs Bianca Onoh were heading for the altar in the late 80’s, but the wheels of their love life was...

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