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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – Senate has approved N59.7 billion diaspora bond to be borrowed from the International Capital Market for the construction of key capital projects in priority sectors of the economy, including: the Second Niger Bridge, the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the Infrastructure for the Abuja Mega City. This is Just as the Senate has […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
Barely two weeks to the rescheduled general elections, President Goodluck Jonathan, the country’s service Chiefs and Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, are in a crucial meeting in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. At the meeting being presided over by President Jontahan and attended by his Vice, Namadi Sambo, INEC boss, […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin City – The Edo state chapter of the peoples Democratic party, PDP has suffered a set back as ward chairman and eleven members of the executive council of the party defected to the All Progressives Congress APC. African Examiner reports that the decampees were leaders of the party in Ukpato Ward, […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen – About 48 hours after dropping his resignation letter, former House Speaker, Rt. Hon. Umaru Ghali Na’Abba visited All Progressives Congress (APC) head office, in Abuja and declared for the opposition party. Speculations are rife since Sunday that the former Speaker might opt for the APC most especially that his supporters in […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – Residents of Enugu were Monday night thrown into fear following the news of a heavy explosion, at Amokwe, in Udi council Area of the State. Initially, it was difficult to establish the possible cause of the explosion and the exact location, a development that threw residents of Enugu and their […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun – Lagos – The monthly environmental sanitation exercise in Lagos, Monday suffered a setback as a Federal High Court in the State, ruled that the restriction of movement that goes with the exercise is an infringement on the right of the residents. While delivering his judgment, Justice Mohammed Idris, held that the […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has condemned in strong terms the barbaric, crude and uncivilized assault on the fundamental and democratic rights of Lagosians by a group named Coalition of Concerned Nigerians (CCN) on Monday in Lagos. The protest was embarked upon by members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and […]
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2015
A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Chief Ibrahim Babatunde Olorogun –Etti has called on the people of South- West to reject the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general election. “President Goodluck Jonathan is the best man for the job. He knows the needs of the people and he […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State has told members of St. Thomas Anglican Church, Diobu District, Port Harcourt that no man or woman with cult affiliation will govern Rivers State. He said that Rivers is a state under God’s banner, adding that it will be absolutely impossible […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The High Court of Lagos State presided over by Honourable Justice Akinkugbe I.O. has granted an injunction restraining DAAR COMMUNICATIONS (The owner of AIT) from broadcasting, transmitting or airing a documentary titled “The Lion of Bourdillon” pending the determination of “The Motion on Notice” The application was moved by Chief Wole […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – The South east zonal office of the Civil Liberties Organisation CLO, has raised an alarm over what it described as alleged selected justice by the President Goodluck Jonathan’s led federal government, as it concerns the advancement of Biafra activism in the Nigeria. The group noted that while some members of […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – As the clock for the Nigeria’s rescheduled general polls ticks, a non governmental organization,NGO Women Aid Collective, (WACOL), has stressed the need for a peaceful, credible and non violence election across the country, especially in the South east zone. To this end, the NGO weekend, staged a one-day voter Education […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
*To Boycott Activities Of Political Parties Professional journalists who have taken to online publishing in Nigeria have resolved to boycott the activities of political parties in Nigeria with immediate effect. The online publishers who met in Lagos State on Saturday to review the activities of political parties in relation to advert patronage rose to a […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
A major socio-political group in Delta State, the Delta Integrity Group, has warned against campaign of calumny, which is beginning to surface in the media, on the state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan. The group, which did not mention any specific story, said in a statement on Monday that it was aware that some persons within […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
Women and children are among dozens of people killed in a dawn raid on a village in central Nigeria. Police say 45 people died in the attack by unidentified gunman on Egba village in in Benue state. But local politician Audu Sule told the BBC 81 villagers had been killed by the attackers, who were […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
Dr Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State has described mothers as God’s special gift to humanity. He said mothers, by their nature and responsibilities, guide society’s direction either for good or otherwise. He stated this in Port Harcourt as the Anglican World marked Mothering Sunday. Peterside who spoke […]
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the presidential candidates of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), President Goodluck Jonathan and All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari to publicly endorse the global initiative for an International Anticorruption Court (IACC) to demonstrate their expressed commitment to satisfactorily address corruption and impunity of perpetrators if […]
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Sunday, March 15th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Three persons were on saturday killed in a fatal motor accident that occurred along the Enugu Abakaliki road, just as five assorted vehicles,a restaurant, and other valuables worth several millions of naira, were also consumed in an inferno that gutted the Nsukka merchanic village in Enugu state same day. The […]
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Sunday, March 15th, 2015
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The last may not have been heard about plots to disqualify General Mohammadu Buhari, the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressive Congress from the poll slated for March 28, 2015 as the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA has again dragged him before a federal High Court, Akwa, Anambra state. The case […]
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Sunday, March 15th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – A mysterious fire which gutted about 68 rooms in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, has sent a 20- year old girl, identified as Mercy Elom, to her untimely grave, hours after she sat for this year’s JAMB examination. The fire also destroyed properties valued at several millions. The deceased, our Correspondent gathered […]
