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2015: Northern Leaders Fine-tune Strategy to Capture Presidency
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) metThursday to consider the reports of special committees mandated to work on the northern region’s political agenda for the...
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Woman Delivers After 2 Years Pregnancy
When Mrs. Prisca Ashiegbu got pregnant after seven years of fervent prayers to God for the fruit of the womb, she never imagined that she would have to wait another two years to hold her baby in her...
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Jonathan, Others Mourn as Kontagora, Ex-works Minister, Dies
Tributes were instantaneous in pouring in yesterday for a former Minister of Works and Housing during the Ibrahim Babangida’s regime, Maj-Gen. Mamman Kontagora (rtd), who died on the same day....
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Impeaching Amaechi won’t guarantee Jonathan’s re-election – Esogban of Benin
President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Chibuike Amaechi BENIN — The Esogban of Benin Kingdom and chairman of Benin Forum, Chief David Edebiri, yesterday, said that impeaching Governor Rotimi Amaechi...
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The Timely Intervention Of Ondo Police Saved Ile Oluji Monarch’s Life – CP
The Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Patrick Dukumor, yesterday, said that timely intervention of the police saved the traditional ruler of the troubled Ile-Oluji, Oba Subulade Adedugbe, from...
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Bad Education Fuelling Boko Haram – Duke
Former Governor of Cross River State, Mr. Donald Duke, has said lack of quality education is at the root of the current Boko Haram menace in the country. He said, “67 per cent of school age children in...
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NGF: Amaechi, others will soon join us – Jang •16 govs open Abuja
PLATEAU State governor, Jonah Jang, who is leading a faction of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) opposed to the leadership of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, on Thursday, said other...
View ArticleACN to Jonathan: no need for marking scheme
The average Nigerian is worse off than he was when President Goodluck Jonathan came into office, the Action Congress of Nigeria (AC N) said yesterday. The party was reacting to the mid-term pass mark...
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CAN Decries Renewed Killing Of Christians
Christian Association Nigeria on Thursday alleged that Christians were still being killed in the North by Boko Haram members despite the emergency rule imposed by President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan...
View ArticleOgun Police arrest 8 robbery suspects
ABEOKUTA—The Ogun State Police Command, yesterday, said it arrested eight armed robbery suspects that specialised in car snatching and other criminal acts in Ifo communities of Ifo Local...
View ArticleJang leads NGF faction to Jonathan
Abuja – Gov. Jonah Jang of Plateau and factional Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), on Friday led 14 state governors to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa....
View ArticleBoko Haram still killing Christians – CAN
ABUJA – The Christian Association Nigeria (CAN), yesterday, raised alarm over the continuous killing of Christians and burning of churches by the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in spite of the...
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Herdsmen massacre 17, several hundreds flee homes in Benue
By Peter Duru; Makurdi, Kingsley Omonobi; Abuja, Ndahi Marama; Maiduguri, Chris Ochayi Boko Haram paid us N5,000 to set fire on schools released – freed members Despite efforts by security...
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Boko Haram paid us N5,000 each to burn schools – Kid suspects
Some kid suspects released by military authorities in Maiduguri on Friday said the Boko Haram sect paid them N5,000 each to burn primary schools and spy on soldiers. They were among 23 women and 35...
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Jonathan, his team have done very well – First Lady
Abuja - The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has attributed the outstanding performance of the Federal Government in various sectors of the economy to the input of women in the cabinet. Jonathan...
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Nigerian military releases 23 women, 35 juvenile Boko Haram suspects
Some women and young boys who allegedly carried assault rifles, planted bombs, and helped insurgents with information that endangered the lives of soldiers and civilians were on Friday received by the...
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Court restrains PDP from further action against Amaechi
A Rivers High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has restrained the Peoples Democratic Party from taking any further action against the state Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, pending the hearing of a...
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Security agents seal off Abuja’s Amigo Supermarket over owner’s alleged...
Nigeria security agencies on Friday evening sealed off the popular Amigo supermarket, owned by a Lebanese who is accused of being part of a major terrorist cell. The Joint Task Force in Kano on...
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US seizes Alamieyeseigha’s $700k home
The Maryland, United States home of former Bayelsa state governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha has been forfeited to the US government following the approval by a federal judge of the Justice Department’s...
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Gun battles, killings have forced us to flee our homes – Residents of Lagos...
Residents of Ilaje community, a Lagos suburb beside Ajah on the Lekki-Epe Expressway have enjoyed peace for many years. But all that changed recently when a communal conflict, which started in 2011...
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