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Benin opposition denounces election fraud
Following a chaotic election process, Benin's government claims incumbent President Thomas Boni Yayi won the first round outright. Opposition leader Adrien Houngbedji cries ...
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Issoufou wins Niger model vote
The elections in Niger, gained by long-time opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou, are described as a "model" for Africa. Also the democratic transition process is ...
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Benin protesters won demanded vote delay
Benin last month saw mass protests, demanding a delay of the elections planned for 27 February as 1.4 million voters were missing in the electoral roll. Now, the Constitutional Court has given them ...
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Ondo female legislator suspended over fetish objects possession
By DAYO JOHNSON AKURE -- A female member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Fola Olasehinde was, yesterday, suspended indefinitely for being in possession of fetish objects including miniature coffins. The suspended member is representing Ose council area of the state constituency. Her indefinite suspension was announced on the floor of the House by the Deputy Speaker, Dare Emiola after a ...
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OAU female student caught allegedly flushing baby down toilet
BY GBENGA OLARINOYE Ile-Ife -- Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, yesterday, reportedly apprehended a female student of the institution (names withheld) who allegedly attempted to flush her new born baby down a toilet. Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred at the popular Moremi Hall of residence on the campus. The incident, which shocked the university ...
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Armed gang kills 48 in Zamfara raid JTF
KANO(AFP) – An armed gang has raided a northern Nigerian village and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a state official said Wednesday. The attack saw gunmen move house to house as well as take positions atop a hill and open fire, the official said. Houses were also burnt, but it was not clear how many. ';There was an attack by armed ...
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How EFCC uses mobile phones to get evidence
By Soni Daniel ABUJA--A forensic analyst with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Muktar Bello, yesterday, explained how the agency was using mobile phones to track oil theft, a booming business in the country. Bello is also a witness in the ongoing trial of Joseph Amaechi and 13 others, in a case of illicit oil bunkering before an Abuja high court. He used the data extracted ...
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Appeal Court upholds death sentence for bus driver
By CHRIS OCHAYI ABUJA -- The Appeal Court in Port Harcourt has upheld the ruling of Rivers State High Court which sentenced a bus driver, Emeka Mbachu, to death for killing Clifford Azubuike, a special marshal of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC. Azubuike was killed while on patrol on November 3, 1995, at the 1st Artillery Junction, along Aba-Port Harcourt highway in Rivers State. The driver, ...
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VC students trade blames on UNIUYO closure
By TONY NYONG UYO -- Authorities of University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and students of the institution, have continued to trade blames over lastweek'sstudents protest that leftsome students dead, with scores of others sustaining injuries, whileproperty worth millions of naira were destroyed. Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Comfort Ekpo, has insisted that the school management ...
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Lekki Port Plugging capacity gap in Nigerian ports revolutionalising the economy
NKIRUKA NNOROM writes that the Lekki Port, expected to be operational in 2016, will change the face of maritime business in Nigeria and improve economic fortune of the nation Aregulator visitor or even a first time visitor to Apapa Port, the most functional port in Nigeria will attest to the congestion within the Port premises. As a result of this, the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and ...
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Right abuse Court awards N15m damages against Army
BY INNOCENT ANABA A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, has awarded N15 million damages to Joseph Agu against the Nigerian Army for torture, inhuman and cruel treatment by a soldier Sgt Francis Oga of 82 Division Enugu, leading to his permanent loss of sight. The incident occurred on January 15, 2009. Agu had sued the Nigerian Army on December 10, 2010, for the enforcement of his fundamental ...
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Ex-Dep Gov declared wanted over alleged N130m fraud
BY EVELYN USMAN LAGOS -- The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, in Lagos, has declared a former deputy governor of Lagos State (names withheld) wanted for allegedly jumping bail over a case of obtaining N130 million by false representation. Commissioner of Police in-charge of the unit, Mr Tunde Ogunsakin, who made the disclosure, yesterday, explained that the unit received a petition from the ...
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Amaechi to CP Mbu You’ re a security risk
By JIMITOTA ONOYUMELU PORT HARCOURT -- GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, accused the state Police Commissioner, Mr Joseph Mbu of being a security risk, noting that Mbu was in the habit of exposing decisions reached at the state security council meetings. Speaking when former Petroleum Minister, Professor Tam David-West, led a delegation on solidarity visit to him in ...
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Amaechi is victim of injustice says David-West
By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT-- FORMER Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West, has expressed worries over the action of some members of Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, who he said tried to make 16 votes look higher than 19. David-West, who spoke Tuesday night when he led a delegation on a courtesy visit to Governor Chibuike Amaechi at Government House, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, ...
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ACourt sacks Ondo monarch
By DAYO JOHNSON AKURE -- THE Court of Appeal, Akure Division, yesterday, dethroned the Zaki of Arigidi-Akoko in Akoko North West area of Ondo State, Oba Yisa Olanipekun. It ordered the monarch to vacate the throne and stop parading himself as the traditional ruler of the ancient town. The court also set aside the approval of the state government to the appointment of Olanipekun. Ruling on an ...
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Onazi unlikely to make Brazil trip – Keshi
SALVADOR – (AFP) – Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi hinted on Wednesday that injured midfielder Ogenyi Onazi has lost in his bid to link up with the squad at the Confederations Cup in Brazil. The 20-year-old midfielder missed Nigeria’s opening game, a 6-1 thrashing of Tahiti, due to a knee injury, but Keshi had expressed optimism he would be fit in time for Thursday’s crucial ...
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FEC approves N706m for overhaul of Jebba plant
By Ben Agande Abuja -- The Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday, approved N706 million for the overhaul of one of the units of Jebba Power Plant. Minister of Information, Labaran Maku told newsmen after the meeting that the N706 million is the counterpart funding from Nigeria on the venture with Japanese government that had given a grant of N3.9 billion. According to him, Nigeria had ...
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Gunmen kill four teachers students farmers in Borno
By NDAHI MARAMA MAIDUGURI -- Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram Islamic sect, yesterday, struck again at the Innovative Secondary School in the Customs area of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, killing four teachers and two students. This came as another set of suspected terrorists laid ambush to a farm along Maiduguri-Mafa-Dikwa Road and killed two farmers, including the owner of ...
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Nigerians support anti same-sex Bill – Poll
A new weekly poll has revealed that 92 per cent of Nigerians are in support of the proposed Anti Same-Sex Bill. The weekly poll conducted by NOI Polls Limited from June 4 – 6 in Nigeria also revealed that the reason behind their support revolve around morality and religion. According to results of the poll, most Nigerians are of the opinion that the proposed bill is not an infringement on ...
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Pirates attack oil vessel abduct 4 Indians Polish crew members
BY EMEKA MAMAH, with agency report. LAGOS-- Pirates in speedboats attacked an oil supply vessel and kidnapped four Indians and Polish crew members in the Niger Delta, last week, two security sources said, yesterday. This was even as a French sailor was freed, Tuesday, after being captured by pirates on June 13 from an oil products tanker, Adour on June 13, about 30 nautical miles off the coast ...
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Labour NGOs strategise for dividends of democracy
By Funmi Komolafe FOR over a decade, the office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung has been a rallying point for non-governmental organizations. FESassignment in Nigeria hasbeen essentially about promoting and sustaining democracy and this it has done by working with non-governmental organizations, the media, trade unions, women and other civil society groups. It was therefore not surprising when a ...
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Nigeria Uruguay set for decisive showdown
By Tatiana Ramil FORTALEZA, Brazil (Reuters) - Neymar, inspired by the protest movement which has swept Brazil in the last few days, gave possibly his best performance for his country in a 2-0 win over Mexico in the Confederations Cup on Wednesday. The Barcelona-bound 21-year-old, who has often struggled at international level despite his billing as the next great Brazilian player, set the hosts ...
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Keshi wants Nigeria to step up
Nigeria head coach Stephen Keshi has challenged his team to go to 'another level' in their FIFA Confederations Cup clash with Uruguay. Keshi was left underwhelmed by his team's finishing ability in their tournament opener against Tahiti, which Nigeria won 6-1, the 51-year-old coach feeling his forwards should have converted more goal-scoring opportunities. Although Nigeria ...
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Ex-Lagos Deputy Governor Wanted For N130m Fraud - PM News Lagos
By PM News, Lagos Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, former deputy governor of Lagos state has been declared wanted by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), in Lagos, over an alleged fraud of N130 million. Mrs. Ngozi Isintume-Agu, DSP, spokesperson of the unit said in a statement that Sinatu was wanted along with her son, Samson Ojikutu, who is now in the United States of America. "We are ...
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Fear of post-election violence in Benin
Benin's Constitutional Court today started examining the opposition's claims of vote rigging after the elections had given a surprise outright win to the incumbent. Observers fear "Ivorian conditions" in ...
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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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