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Soyinka: Cool It, President Jonathan

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Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka today issued a press statement, advising President Goodluck Jonathan on the handling of state…

Obama petitioned over Guantanamo prisoners

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Free them or put them on trial. Thus urges a petition to President Barack Obama over the prisoners held at…

Nigeria: 18 killed in weekend of violence

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Gunmen killed 18 people in two separate attacks in Nigeria at the weekend. In Bayelsa state, eight former militants were…

8 Niger Delta ex-militants killed

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Eight young men suspected of being ex-militia members from two rival groups were killed early Sunday in a shootout in…

ACN, CPC, Jonathan’s aide in public spat

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Nigeria’s leading opposition party, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, latest salvo against President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of sliding…

Malaysia: Opposition alleges vote fraud

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Malaysia’s ruling coalition retained its 56-year hold on power, the country’s Election Commission said early Monday, but a bitter opposition…

Residents of Nigeria’s curfew town in distress call

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Residents of Wukari, a central Nigerian town where 39 people died in fierce fighting between Christian and Muslim mobs said…

Jonathan to discuss trade with Zuma

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma will discuss ways to boost trade between Africa’s two…

Obama tagged ‘grand chief of devils’

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Venezuelan disputed President Nicolas Maduro took a swipe at Barack Obama on Saturday, calling him the “grand chief of devils”…

N50 billion property goes up in smoke

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The Controller-General, Federal Fire Service, Mr Olusegun Okebiorun, says Nigeria looses property worth N50 billion annually to fires. Okebiorun announced…

British MP arrested over sodomy claims

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A deputy speaker of Britain’s lower house of parliament was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of raping one man and…

Slain politician buried in Ekiti

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A former member of the Action Congress of Nigeria in Ekiti state, Mr Ayo Jeje killed by suspected party thugs…

Family of abducted ex-oil minister begs for his release

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The Family of Dr Shettima Ali Monguno, the elder statesman kidnapped in Maiduguri on Friday, has appealed to his abductors…

12 bomb disposal experts abducted in Senegal

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Suspected separatist rebels have abducted 12 bomb disposal experts in southern Senegal, a security source said Saturday. The source said…

Governor Fayemi nominates new deputy

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Jamiu Yisa Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has forwarded the name of the Chairperson of the State’s Universal Basic…

Death toll rises in Nigeria’s latest religious fracas

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More deaths have been reported in the bloody clash between Christian and muslim mobs in Wukari, Taraba state, in the…

Onayekan, Kukah highlight Nigeria’s twin monsters

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Two of Nigeria’s leading and respected bishops have told the European Parliament and other politicians that their country is being…

Curfew in Taraba after 20 killed in religious violence

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At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria’s Taraba state on…

Woman In TheNEWS: Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar

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Nigeria’s Chief Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar is surely on a mission to cleanse Nigeria’s judiciary. She has already blown some…

Reports: No stable power supply in Nigeria until 2050

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Simon Ateba Despite Nigeria’s government’s posturing that Nigerians will enjoy steady electricity by 2015, experts say darkness may persist until…

Rivers Police boss plots emergency rule, says Speaker

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Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly, Otelemaba Amachree, has accused Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu,the Commissioner…

Regional Bank Manager Docked Over N43.7m Fraud

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13 years ago

PAUL IYOGHOJIE The regional manager of a new generation bank at Kaduna Road Kaduna, northwest Nigeria, Mr. Ige Adegboye, 43,…

Baga Massacre: UN Human Rights Office expresses concern

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The UN Human Rights Office on Friday expressed its concern about the large number of casualties, reportedly including many civilians,…

Fire destroys election materials eve of council poll

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Less than 12 hours to the beginning of voting in the council elections in the central Nigerian state of Kogi,…

8550 cops for Kogi council election

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The Nigerian police command in the central Nigerian state of Kogi said it was deploying no fewer than 8,550 officers…

Couple charged with operating illegal varsity

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Nigeria’s National Universities Commission (NUC) has dragged one Pius Nwachukwu, 47, and his wife, Chika, to a Karu Chief Magistrates’…

JAMB candidate arrested with pistol

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Nigeria’s drug czar, the NDLEA on Friday confirmed the arrest of a 26-year-old man in possession of a French-made pistol…

Mimiko: ACN, PDP to appeal tribunal verdict

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The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Ondo State Chapter, has rejected the judgment of the Justice Andovar Kaka’an led Election…

Microsoft phases out hotmail for outlook.com

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Microsoft’s Hotmail, the free webmail service used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, was phased out Friday,…

Abductors of Nigeria’s ex-oil minister demand ransom

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Nigeria’s former oil minister was kidnapped Friday by gunmen who stormed his vehicle outside a mosque in the restive city…

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