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Sex worker gets six year jail for manslaughter

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By Henry Ojelu/Judiciary Correspondent A Nigerian commercial sex worker in the Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos State, Nkechi Okafor has…

Nigeria: When A Rose Fades

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By ANTHONY EGBE Mrs. Rose Uzoma retires as Comptroller-General of Nigerian Immigration Service amid controversy Last week’s announcement of the…

Nigeria: A Murder so cruel

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BY GBENRO ADESINA/Ibadan A 35-year-old Nigerian graduate, due to marry in less than two months from now, is felled by…

Nigeria Needs Cultural Rebirth To Develop

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Professor Tunde Babawale, Director-General, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation, CBAAC, explains to TOKUNBO OLAJIDE how indifference to…

Why Opposition Parties Can’t Work Together

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Nigerian Senator Chris Anyanwu, journalist, publisher and broadcast entrepreneur, represents Imo East Senatorial District in the National Assembly. In this…

The Injustice In Church-Owned Schools

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Cardinal John Olufemi Onaiyekan, Catholic Archbishop of Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, tells OLUOKUN AYORINDE and SOLA FOLORUNSO-ADEOLA about his…

Will Nigeria’s PDP Implode?

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BY AYORINDE OLUOKUN & DESMOND UTOMWEN/Abuja Internecine feuds currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party predispose it to an implosion …

The Fault Lines in Nigeria’s ruling party

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BY JAMIU YISA Crisis rocks PDP in Adamawa, Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti states Adamawa The power struggle within the ruling…

Heavy snow blankets Moscow

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Unusually heavy snowfall of almost 50 centimetres (20 inches) in Moscow caused traffic jams on Monday but did not affect…

An Agenda To Accelerate Development

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BY DESMOND UTOMWEN/Abuja The Office of the Senior Special Assistant to Nigeria’s President on Millennium Development Goals adopts an implementation…

Henry Okah convicted of terrorism charge

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A South African court on Monday convicted Nigerian Henry Okah of 13 terrorism charges, including bombings that killed 12 people…

11 killed over land dispute

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Eleven persons have been killed and no fewer than 2,000 people displaced in Adadama, Abi Local council of Nigeria’s south…

Nigerian governor offers cash for guns

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Governor of Nigeria’s central state of Nasarawa, Umaru Tanko Al-makura, on Sunday promised to pay ethnic militia groups which lay…

Obi offers reward for clues on floating bodies

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Governor of Nigeria’s eastern state of Anambra, Peter Obi, has offered a N5million reward for clues on the corpses found…

Ansaru terror group: ‘We bombed Nigerian troops’

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The radical Islamist group Ansaru on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack in Okene, Kogi state in central Nigeria that…

Robbers attack ex- deputy governor

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Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The former deputy governor of Nigeria’s western state of Ogun, Alhaji Abdul Rafiu Ogunleye was early this…

Mali: France plans total takeover from Islamists

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French troops on Sunday consolidated gains in Mali’s Islamist-held north as Paris said the aim was its “total reconquest” and…

Osaze Odemwingie now a father

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Nigerian striker, Osaze Odemwingie has revealed that his wife, Sarah put to bed a bouncing baby boy Sunday morning in…

Emir Bayero, wounded sons fly to Britain

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MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Impeccable sources from Kano’s Emirate Council have told P.M.NEWS that the Emir of northern Nigerian city of Kano,…

Malaysia-based student scam suspect faces trial

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Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has concluded arrangement to arraign a Malaysia- based Nigerian fraudster, Hope Olusegun Aroke and…

Jonathan Visits Switzerland, Ethiopia

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Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will embark on a working visit to Switzerland and Ethiopia tomorrow with engagements in Geneva and…

Governor Akpabio plays the Good Samaritan

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Governor Godswill Akpabio of Nigeria’s south eastern Akwa-Ibom state on Saturday joined officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)…

Row over ex-governor Orji Kalu’s return to PDP

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Former governor of Nigeria’s eastern state of Abia, Orji Uzor Kalu claimed he has returned to the PDP after an…

Pregnant woman raped over ‘offensive Islamic songs’

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Three men have been arrested by the Nigeria Police in Kebbi State after they raped a pregnant housewife for the…

NURTW deputy chairman killed

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GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Some unidentified gunmen have killed the Oyo state Deputy Chairman of Nigeria’s National Union of Road Transport Workers…

15 corpses float on Nigerian river

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No fewer than 15 unidentified and bloated corpses have been discovered floating on Ezu River in Amansea community, near Awka;…

The Obamas kick off inauguration with volunteering

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WASHINGTON(AFP) – Paintbrushes in hand, Barack and Michelle Obama kicked off inauguration weekend Saturday at a volunteer event at a…

Mali: West African leaders seek UN aid

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West African leaders Saturday sought urgent financial and logistical aid from the United Nations for a regional force in Mali…

Algeria’s hostage crisis ends in massacre

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IN AMENAS, Algeria (AFP) – A dramatic four-day hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant ended in a bloodbath Saturday…

NOUN graduates lament challenges

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13 years ago

Some graduands of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on Saturday expressed dissatisfaction at the delay in completing programmes…

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