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Powerful Forces Behind Oduah’s Travails, Says S/East CAN

By  Christopher Isiguzo The South-East chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Tuesday came in defence of embattled Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah over the controversy...

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UN Adopts Strategy To Combat Insecurity In Nigeria, Sudan, Others

Abiodun Oluwarotimi The United Nations has adopted fresh strategies to combat insecurity and killings of innocent people in Nigeria, Sudan, Mali and the Central African Republic (CAR). The United...

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Jonathan defends Conference

Members of the Council of State challenged President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday on the plan to pick delegates to the proposed National Conference. Who are the stakeholders who will nominate 282 of the...

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Nigerian military clarifies April deadline for terrorism

Mr. Badeh had given an April deadline to end insurgency in the nation The Defence Headquarters on Tuesday said that the April deadline declared by the Chief of Defence Staff,  Alex Badeh, to end...

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Herbalists seek land to build hospitals

NIGERIA Union of Medical Herbal Practitioners, Lagos State Chapter, yesterday, called on the Lagos State government to allocate land to the union to build general hospitals and maternity centres across...

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Nigeria to issue N100bn bonds to complete Lagos-Ibadan highway

Nigeria’s Federal Government said it was ready to issue N100billion road and infrastructure bond for the completion of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen, disclosed...

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Bayelsa APC Writes Tinubu and Akande Over Interim State Exco, Party Structure

Osa Okhomina The interim committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State yesterday wrote a Save-Our-Soul (SOS) letter to the national leader of the Pp arty and former Lagos State...

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APC Reps stall 2014 budget debate •As budget scales 2nd reading in Senate

MEMBERS of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the House of Representatives, on Tuesday, tactically stalled the debates on the general principles of the 2014 budget of N4.6 trillion, saying that the...

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The Coward Called Asari Dokubo And His Empty Threats By Joe Igbokwe

By Joe Igbokwe We live in interesting times in Nigeria today. Cowards and Villains nobody knew when it mattered most in Nigeria between 1985 and 1998 are the ones terrorizing Nigeria today....

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We will not sleep until peace is attained in North-East – Jonathan

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday that he, as Commander-in-Chief along with the new service chiefs, would work assiduously to ensure peace in the North-East region. Jonathan, who...

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Tinubu Says Bafarawa, Shekarau Have Right To Defect

A chieftain of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday said that those who defected from the APC or joined it had rights to do so. Tinubu made the statement while speaking with political...

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N45m Fraud: How David Mark’s Signature Was Forged – EFCC

Bode Gbadebo The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told an Abuja High Court presided over by Justice S. E. Aladedoyinbo how the trio of Emeka Ukor, Anthony Uzonwanne and Babayemi...

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Obasanjo, Jega, Tambuwal, Others For AANI Public Policy Lecture

Mojeed Alabi The Lagos chapter of the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS),  Kuru, (AANI) is set to hold an inaugural lecture  in March. The event will...

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Nigeria To Sustain Relationship With Saudi Arabia – Presidency

Alhaji Tahir Umar, the Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Islamic Affairs, said on Wednesday that Nigeria would sustain its existing ties with Saudi Arabia. Umar, who made the...

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CONFAB: Ndigbo warns against sending politicians to represent them

BY ANAYO OKOLI. UMUAHIA- AS PREPARATIONS for the National Conference intensify, Ndigbo have been warned not allow politicians to represent them at the Confab so that their interest would not be traded...

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Update: Joseph Mbu Removed As Rivers Commissioner of Police to Abuja

The Police Service Commission has approved the recommendations of the Inspector-General of Police for the redeployment of Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu. The Police Service Commission...

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Pastor tells all the single women to wear wedding dresses to church if they...

Looking for a life partner to some people is now like a rush hour thing, we do know that God give husbands but at the same time, some are the cause of their problem. The pastor of a branch of Winners...

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War planes intensify raid on Boko Haram

From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) said yesterday that it has intensified counter-insurgency offensive against Boko Haram around the border areas, destroying some camps in...

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Asari Dokubo released by DSS

After six hours of interrogation, the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Muhajid Dokubo-Asari, was on Thursday released by the Department of State Security. Dokubo-Asari, who...

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Jonathan Charges Ambassadors to Help Correct Misconceptions About Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday charged  foreign ambassadors serving in Nigeria to do all they could is showing to the world, the positive realities of Nigeria. The president spoke when he had an...

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