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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu For his total loyalty and support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration since inception, there are indications that the outgoing governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, may likely be appointed as minister of Aviation. In a similar vein, African Examiner gathered that former governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Thirteen people have drowned and five others rescued as a passenger boat capsized at FESTAC area of Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday night. The tragedy occurred at about 10.00pm as the boat conveying about 18 passengers from 6th Avenue to 4th Avenue capsized with 13 people drowned. Spokesman, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Fire has razed 17 shops at the Iponri Shopping Complex on Tuesday as properties valued at millions of naira were destroyed. The Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe said the fire broke out at about 11.18 pm as 17 shops were razed, saying that things could have gotten […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu About a whopping N50 Billion naira Tertiary Education Fund TETFUND is still lying fallow in various commercial banks in Nigeria un-accessed, Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike has hinted. He said “Every year, these banks declare huge profits with the funds meant for tertiary institution’s education funding in the country simply because […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
By Uche Igwe As I perused the final delegates’ list released by the Federal government, it evoked several feelings within me about the entity called Nigeria. First, I was torn between surprise, laughter and surprisingly, commendation. We are an unserious nation, otherwise how can we endure the torture of the pretension of these so- called […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
By Obinna Akukwe Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the suspended and victimized Nigeria’s apex bank chief is already my man of the year for 2013- he has oscillated from my enemy to my friend, my whistle-blower and my hero. In Nigeria where religious and tribal sentiments have beclouded our reasoning that we do not see anything good […]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
Traffic gridlock is imminent on Lagos-Abeokuta Road, Dopemu and Iyana-Ipaja areas of Lagos, Nigeria as the Lagos State Government has announced the closure of the Dopemu and Iyana-Ipaja bridges for repair. The two bridges are critical to traffic situation in the area and when shut, there will be total paralysis in Egbeda, Dopemu, Agege, Iyana-Ipaja […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Ignatius Okppara, Enugu Delta state Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has called on the Federal Government to rename the second Niger bridge Asaba/Onitsha Bridge. The Governor, who made the call in Onitsha Monday during the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the second bridge across the river Niger, said that the second bridge was significant and […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
(BBC) Two men travelling on stolen passports on board a missing Malaysian airliner were Iranians with no apparent links to terror groups, officials say. Malaysian police named one as Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad, 18, and said he was probably migrating to Germany. Interpol identified the other as Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza, 29. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
Serious Crisis is now brewing at the Abia state owned College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu(ASCETA)as its two staff unions; the Academic (COEASU) and non Academic Staff (NASU) have declare a war on the provost, Dr. Christian Nwamuo over alleged mismanagement of the school funds. In a petition jointly signed by Comrade J.K. Ugbuta, Chairman, COEASU […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri Academic activities were completely paralysed on monday at Urban secondary school, New Owerri, Imo state, as gun-wielding young boys suspected to be cultists invaded the school, forcing teachers and students scampering for safety. Some of the fleeing teachers and students were said to have sustained various degrees of injuries while running for […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2014
A Benin High Court, presided over by Justice Esther Edigin has ordered that the immediate past Secretary to Edo State government Dr Simon Imuekemhe, and three others be remanded in prison custody over alleged financial fraud. The accused persons,Imuekemhe, Joseph Emoabino, Aghator Efe and Davidi Igbinoba, are facing trial on eight count charges of diversion […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
Kayode Adelowokan, Lagos Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has agains defended the timetable released by the commission for the forth coming 2015 general elections. Disgruntled political parties in the country had faulted the sequence of the time table, insisting on having the governorship elections before the presidential election. Meanwhile, […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has again called on President Goodluck Jonathan to take time off his premature electioneering campaign to visit Yobe State to commiserate with the bereaved families of the innocent school children who were brutally murdered by terrorists last month. In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim National […]
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education, Latest Headlines
Monday, March 10th, 2014
100 million young girls and women are unable to read a single sentence, concludes the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO) report. UNESCO views this as a serious gender imbalance in global education to have left over 100 million young women in low and lower middle income countries unable to read a single sentence, […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan on Monday unveiled the 2nd Niger Bridge in Onitsha, Anambra State whose construction is to gulp N117 billion. Speaking at the Ground Breaking Ceremony of the project, Jonathan said the Federal Government is executing the project under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement for a concession period of […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Enugu state police command on Monday hinted that the hoodlums that attacked the Enugu Government House in the early hours of Saturday are members of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign state of Biafra MASSOB. Abubakar Adamu Mohammed, the state commissioner of police (CP) who disclosed this to newsmen in Enugu, […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
Ignatius Okapara, Enugu There are strong indications that senator Andy Uba, representing Anambra south senatorial district of Anambra state in the National Assembly NASS, may likely dump the ruling peoples Democratic party PDP for opposition crisis ridden All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA. Our correspondent gathered exclusively that the lawmaker began the secret move with the […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos As the proposed national conference draws near, a coalition of Civil Societies Organizations has described the conference as “a jamboree of fraudulent and selfish government agents.” even as it disowned the list of civil societies delegates representing the Northeastern region of the country. Alhaji Baba Shehu, who is the Secretary of the […]
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Monday, March 10th, 2014
Muric Press Release: Reports from the three states under emergency rule as a result of Boko Haram onslaughts indicate that the morale of soldiers in the areas is very low courtesy of poor welfare package and lack of motivation. This logically explains the recent allegation that soldiers flee on sighting Boko Haram fighters who are […]
