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Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Femi Kehinde The annual traditional Durbar to commemorate the Eid-el-Kabir celebration was cancelled in Kano due to the health condition of Alhaji Ado Bayero, the Emir of Kano. The District Head of Dala, Alhaji Aminu Bayero of Kano Emirate Council, while briefing journalists announced the cancellation of all traditional activities planned for the Eid-el-Kabir celebration […]
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Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
The African Examiner, ..As Yakubu Assures of Nigeria’s Readiness to Tackle Shale Oil Threat The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has dismissed insinuations in some quarters that the recent spate of divestments from certain onshore oil blocks by some international oil companies (IOC) may lead to crisis in the nation’s oil and gas industry. Speaking […]
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Ayo Balogun, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji has written off the proposed National Conference by President Goodluck Jonathan, saying nothing good will come out of it. Ikuforiji, who spoke in Epe, Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday said the timing of the conference was wrong. “Already, the fear is there. Why […]
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Ayo Balogun, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Activist, Bamidele Aturu has warned the Federal Government over its threat to clamp down on internet journalism in Nigeria. Aturu, in a statement said the threat by the Federal Government to clampdown on internet journalism must be a source of concern for all who meant well for the nation’s democracy. “I have […]
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Ayo Balogun, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as the height of insensitivity the decision by the First Lady of Nigeria, Patience Jonathan to receive an Honorary Doctorate award in far away South Korea, while Nigeria’s public universities remained shut for many months under the watch of her husband. In a statement issued […]
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Enugu, Featured, Ignatius Okpara, Latest Headlines, News
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Victims of the deportation exercise carried out by the Governor Babatunde Fashola led administration in Lagos State few months ago, have instituted a 1 billion naira civil suit against the government before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. The Court 4 presided over by Justice Anumogobia is expected to begin hearing […]
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Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Ruth Bamidele, Lagos As Muslims in Nigeria join other Muslims in the world to celebrate Ed–al-Kabir this year, there have been reflections on the festival by Muslim faithful in Lagos. The Chief Imam, Nawair-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Ikotun Branch, Alhaji Nurudeen Abdulrasaq, said that Ed–al-Kabir reminds Muslims of how the Almighty intervened to turn a […]
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Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Nigeria’s military said on Tuesday it had killed 40 Islamist militants while repelling a coordinated attack in three parts of northeastern Borno state, in the heartland of their insurgency. Militant group Boko Haram has been fighting for more than four years to try to carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria, and remains the […]
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Ayo Balogun, Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, News
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Ayo Balogun, Lagos “We call on the Presidency to respond to the germane message that truly, the national conference is a Greek Gift, diversionary and deceptive.” The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) stated this in a statement issued to back the position of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress Asiwaju Bola Tinubu […]
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Ayo Balogun, Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, National Conference 2014, News
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Ayo Balogun Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sasgay, fiery preacher, Pastor Tunde Bakare , a university don, Prof. Pius Adesanmi and others have thrown their weight behind the President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposed National Conference, saying it will help to salvage the nation. They spoke at the Maiden Edition of the Centre for Change lecture at the […]
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
By Eric Ojo Czech Republic has pledged to collaborate and support Nigeria in addressing her present challenges in the education and security sectors of the economy. This is coming at the heels of the plethora of problems bedevilling both sectors. The education sector has been plagued with serious and devastating labour unrest due to poor […]
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Ayo Balogun, Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines, News
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Ayo Balogun, Lagos A truck carrying waste metals crashed into the green zone at the Festac link bridge, Amuwo Odofin Local Government on Monday. This is coming after a Container piloted by men of the Area E Command forcefully drove into the Local Government destroying barriers in the process. The container was said to have […]
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Ayo Balogun, Featured, Lagos, Latest Headlines
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Ayo Balogun, Lagos The Executive Chairman of Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos, Nigeria, Comrade Ayodele Adewale on Monday leads a protest against police harassment of council officials. The protesters carried placards and decried the arrest of some officials of the council by the police, calling for their immediate release of some Man O’ […]
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Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
The Northern Emancipation Network, a northern youth group has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to reinforce his administration’s war against corruption by making Major Hamza Al-mustapha head of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. At a press conference addressed by its Coordinator, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, the group described Al-mustapha as a brave, fearless and honest intelligence officer […]
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Abuja, Featured, Latest Headlines, News
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan Monday in Abuja urged the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to do more to support efforts by the Federal Government to stop the exportation of stolen crude oil from Nigeria. Speaking at an audience with the Chairperson of EITI, Ms. Clare Short, President Jonathan called on EITI to join the Federal Government […]
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Monday, October 14th, 2013
Family’s Press Release: The family of a Nigerian student, Mr. Gabriel Soriwei, who was killed in the North Cyprus city of Nicosia, has cried out to the Federal Government, relevant authorities and indeed all well meaning Nigerians for intervention. Gabriel Soriwei, (20), was a first year student of Electrical/Electronic/Engineering at the Cyprus International University, Nicosia, […]
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Enugu, Featured, Ignatius Okpara, Latest Headlines
Monday, October 14th, 2013
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu The campaign train of the gubernatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming Anambra state Governorship election, Senator Chris Ngige, on Monday stormed Enugu, promising to be prudent in managing the resources of the state if given the mandate. Ngige, who governed Anambra state for about three years before being […]
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Agabus Pwanagba, Featured, Latest Headlines
Monday, October 14th, 2013
Agabus Pwanagba In its efforts to ensure a hitch free Sallah celebration, the Special Task Force (STF) responsible for the maintenance of Peace in Plateau State, has reminded Muslim faithful that the ban on the four contentious praying grounds in the State is to be maintained on Sallah. This was stated in a press statement […]
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Monday, October 14th, 2013
A Malaysian court has ruled that non-Muslims cannot use the word Allah to refer to God, overturning a 2009 lower court ruling, BBC reports. The appeals court said that allowing non-Muslims to use the word would “cause confusion in the community.” Christians argue that they have used the word in Malay for decades and that […]
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Monday, October 14th, 2013
The African Examiner The Nigeria embassy in Washington DC on Sunday held of a service of songs in celebration of the life of the first executive governor of Plateau state Late Solomon Lar who died recently at a Fairfax Virgina hospital in United States. In his tribute to the late elder statesman, Nigeria’s ambassador to […]
