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Nasarawa - Slain Policemens Relatives Fight Widows Over N1 Million Donation
Respite is yet to come the way of the wives of police officers killed on May 7 at Alakyo. Nasarawa State governor Tanko Al-Makura donated N1million to each of the widows, but the money is now causing a rift between some slain officers' wives and their husbands' relatives. LEADERSHIP findings reveal that some relations have been on the women's necks. They are closely monitored. ...
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Nigeria Escaping the Cycle of Violence
Having cut short a trip to South Africa and annulled a planned state visit to Namibia, President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria declared a "state of emergency" in three northeast states on May 14. In a speech to the nation, Jonathan acknowledged that there is an "insurrection" and that the government has lost control of certain areas to Boko Haram, a diffuse Islamist ...
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Critical Issues in Emergency Rule
Inevitable as it is, emergency rule should not lead to violation of human rights In a bid to tackle the security challenge posed by Boko Haram insurgency which has led to the death of hundreds of Nigerians in recent weeks, President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. It was the second time in 16 months he would invoke such powers even ...
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Nigeria Spends U.S.$45m On Mali Peace Security
In the ongoing efforts to restore peace and stability to Mali, the federal government of Nigeria has spent forty five million dollars as its own contribution apart from other forms of humanitarian assistance given by National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, disclosed this at an interactive session with journalists in Abuja yesterday on ...
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Nigeria Exclusive - Two Years On Jonathan PDP Rule Nigeria With Three-Page Clueless Manifesto
Apparently, the PDP is not interested in solving the key challenges Nigeria and Nigerians are facing. In 2011, before casting his vote in the presidential elections, Bayo Babalola, a Nigerian investment manager, did a critical review of the top three candidates. On the eve of the elections, he published his review entitled "On Your Marks" in which he announced he would "pless ...
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Nigeria UK U.S. to Assist FG Over Crude Oil Theft - Alison-Madueke
The United Kingdom and the United States have indicated interest to assist Nigeria curb the menace of crude oil theft which President Goodluck Jonathan has described as "blood oil". The minister of petroleum resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, made the announcement at a lecture entitled "The Future of African Energy in a Changing World" delivered on Sunday at St. ...
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Nigeria Interception of Phone Calls
In February, this year, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) enunciated a policy which empowers government security agencies to tap citizens' phone calls, short message services (SMS) and chat messages.The NCC, in the draft regulation, said that it would allow unhindered access to communications. "These regulations shall provide the legal and regulatory framework for the lawful ...
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Police easily cracks down Cameroon protests
Cameroon's nation-wide anti-government protests started modestly today, with calls for President Paul Biya to step down. But protesters in Douala and ...
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Lekoil announces placing and admission to AIM
Lekoil Limited is a holding company that intends to use its access to potential oil and gas licence interests and its experienced management team to build a multi-asset exploration, development and production business in Africa. Its founders consist of a group of leading professionals with extensive experience in the upstream international oil and gas sector and in the global fund ...
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Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde Nigerian Artist Dies of Stomach Cancer at 45
By Ademola Bello Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde, award winning Nigerian writer, visual artist, performance poet, public speaker, filmmaker and actress is dead. She passed away in her home in Houston, Texas on Saturday May 18 around 1:30 am after a courageous and protracted battle with stomach cancer. She was 45 years old. She received treatment for stomach cancer at the University of Texas MD Anderson ...
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Nigeria says switching to foreign debt to lower costs
Nigeria will increase the amount it borrows overseas to around 40 percent of all debt over the next three to five years, from 12 percent currently, to lower its cost of funds, the head of the debt office said on Monday. DMO Director ...
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African film enjoys rare Cannes outing
ABIDJAN -(AFP) – African film is enjoying a rare invitation to cinema’s top table with a film by French-Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun competing for the coveted Palme d’Or, as the continent strives to satisfy an appetite for films made by Africans for Africans. Haroun, who left Chad during the civil war, won plaudits for his autobiographical 1999 film ';Bye Bye ...
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Anambra ready for Achebe’s burial – Gov. Obi
Ogidi (Anambra) – Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra, on Sunday said that the state was ready to accord Prof. Chinua Achebe a befitting burial. Obi stated this while inspecting the St. Philip’s Anglican Church, Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area, where the burial service will take place on May 23. The governor had inspected his country home and the author’s final resting ...
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Nigeria and the cross of reform
FORMER Chief Justice of Nigeria, the Honourable Justice Alfa Belgore, once reminded us of how the German government in 1962, came and set up our Defence Industries Corporation, DIC; and how in the same 1962, the same German government planted the same seed in Brazil, the Brazilian Defence Industries. While the Brazilians have since blossomed their own seed, such that Brazil now produces a wide ...
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Ban Ki-Moon Asks Boko Haram to Cease Attacks
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has called on members of the Boko Haram sect and other extremist groups in Nigeria to cease their attacks amid deteriorating security in the northern part of the country. His plea came three days after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. "The secretary-general has been and ...
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Borno Under 24-Hour Curfew As Fighting Rages
The crossfire between soldiers and suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, which escalated on Friday, continued until yesterday morning in parts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Troops, which had earlier captured 17 towns and villages in the state, reportedly took over more areas yesterday. Residents, who had been holed up in their homes, especially in the Maiduguri metropolis, claimed ...
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Gambia Hosts PILA Conference
The Professional Insurance Ladies Association of Nigeria (PILA) 2013 Annual Conference is currently underway at the Sheraton Resort & Spa in Brufut. The purpose of the four-day conference is to further the interest of women in insurance within the sub-region and encourage insurance dealers in The Gambia to come together to provide effective insurance leadership in The country. Declaring the ...
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Nigeria Nigeria Targets 700000 Young Farmers in New Job Initiative
A new government plan, "Youth in Agriculture", is expected to create jobs for youth. The Federal government is currently developing a presidential initiative aimed at creating 700,000 young commercial farmers in the agricultural sector of the country, the minister of agriculture said. Adewumi Adesina, disclosed this in Akure, Ondo State when he delivered a Foundation Day Lecture of ...
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Nigeria Anti-Terror War Gulped N372 Billion in 2012 - Report
The latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), based in Sweden, shows that in 2012, Nigeria ranked as the 6th highest spender on the military in Africa, and this is because of the increase in insurgency across the country. The war against terror in Nigeria raised military expenditure to a staggering $2.327 billion (N372.3 billion) in 2012 alone, ranking ...
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Cameroon limits social media services
The government of Cameroon has ordered mobile operator MTN to suspend an SMS service that had proven a powerful tool for protest movements in North ...
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Cameroon plans Egypt-like protests
Opposition groups, trade unions and Diaspora groups are preparing "Egypt-like" protests in Cameroon tomorrow, 23 February, to call for President Paul Biya to step down. The US Embassy warns of possible ...
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Cameroon new gorillas need protection
A Cameroonian environmentalist group is lobbying for the establishment of a new national park at Cross River on the Nigerian border to protect a little known sub-species of gorillas only living ...
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Nigeria’s Poverty Should Be Lower Given Growth IMF Says
figures published by the World Bank show. The economy of Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, expanded an average 7.2 percent a year during the same period, according to IMF estimates. The country is forecast to grow 7.2 percent this year, compared with a global growth rate of 3.3 percent, according to the IMF. "It's a bit of a conundrum," W. Scott Rogers, the ...
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Boko Haram militants in disarray
The Nigerian military say Boko Haram militants in the north-east of the country are "in disarray" and leaving the country in large numbers as a result of its offensive against them. In a statement, it said 14 enemy fighters had been killed and 20 apprehended since Saturday. Three of its soldiers had died in the fighting, it added. The BBC's Will Ross in the capital Abuja says ...
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Killings in Nigeria - One Too Many
Nigeria today has been described as a war zone, no thanks to the many killings in the country. In fact, the killings have gone from bad to worse, thrown the entire country into a state of anarchy, making the only viable solution the declaration of State of Emergency, a move vehemently kicked against by governors of the affected states. But sooner than later, President Jonathan was eventually ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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