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Overzealous Security Aides Shut Bishops Nigerian Governors Out of Achebes Burial Service
The security officials were there to protect President Jonathan. Overzealous security officers on Thursday shut invited bishops, ministers, as well as state governors out of the burial service of Chinua Achebe. This happened moments before the arrival of President Goodluck Jonathan, who was accompanied by his Ghanaian counterpart, John Dramani. At the end of a moving sermon in which he ...
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Nigeria to Set New Tariffs for Manufacturers Industrialists
The new tariff would help improve manufacturing in Nigeria. A new tariff regime aimed at increasing local manufacturers' capacity and boost investments in the industrial sector is underway, The Minister of Trade and Industry, Olusegun Aganga, said. The Special Assistance to the Minister on Corporate Communications, Yemi Kolapo, said in a statement that Mr. Aganga made the plan known on ...
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Dipo Fashina - Farewell to the Last Standing Man
What credits one's life is not how much wealth he has piled up for himself but how good he has done for the rest of humanity. Dr Oladipo Fashina was very careful to ensure that he autographed his deeds with ...
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Nigeria Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria
Abuja - Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds of ...
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Good Nigerian talents cost more than expatriates says Airtel’s CEO
Lagos – Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Segun Ogunsanya has called on the leadership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) to celebrate and promote local talents, saying African talents should be adequately empowered and supported to take up corporate leadership opportunities across the continent and that good Nigerian ...
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Niger government spokesman There were no hostages in Agadez
A soldier wounded in a car bombing attack on a military camp, lies in a hospital in Agadez, in northern Niger, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to ...
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Igbo Genocide Day of Remembrance
Wednesday 29 May 2013, a fortnight away, is the 47th anniversary of the beginning of the Igbo genocide. Starting from that fateful mid-morning of Sunday 29 May 1966 and through the course of 44 months of indescribable barbarity and carnage not seen in Africa for 60 years, the composite institutions of the Nigeria state, civilian and military, murdered 3.1 million Igbo people or one-quarter of ...
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Before Nigeria Loses the North ...
Northern Nigeria needs help. Decades of bad governance have continued to traumatize the region. In this period, successive administrative and political leaders have failed to educate the region's poor, pursuing instead conscious policies to lock the vast majority in poverty and illiteracy in order to keep them subservient and passive. In doing so, the north's political elite hope to ...
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Pope sends tweet prayer for Catholics
VATICAN CITY (AFP) – Pope Francis on Friday tweeted a prayer for Catholics in China on the feast day of the Virgin of Sheshan in Shanghai and celebrated mass before a group of Chinese Catholics in the ...
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Premier League Playoff winners to earn $182m
LONDON (AFP) – The winners of Monday’s Championship play-off final between Crystal Palace and Watford can expect to receive 120 million ($182 million) if they are relegated from the Premier League after just a season in England’s top flight. Often billed as the ‘richest match in football’, the play-off final has been given extra financial clout by the new improved ...
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Sapele Agog for Delta Govs Cup Losers Final
The city of Sapele will Friday have a taste of the Delta State's Governor's Cup when the third place match is decided at 2pm this afternoon. At stake will be a 30-seater bus worth N13m and cash prize of N500,000. And to fight for these prizes will be Dom Domingo Secondary School who lost to Alegbo Grammar School Ugheli in the semifinal at Oleh and Edjekota Secondary School who lost to ...
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The League As a Catalyst for Growth
This presentation, in my judgment, is coming at a most opportune time given the fact that this public hearing in respect of the NFF bill coincides with the reforms in the Nigeria Professional Football League which the League Management Company Ltd (LMC) is currently carrying out under the authority of NFF. As a necessary backdrop to this presentation, it is important to recapitulate some ...
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Amnesty Cttee to Nigerians - Link Us With Boko Haram Members
Kaduna - Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Conflicts in Northern Nigeria Barrister Kabiru Tanimu Turaki yesterday urged Nigerians who have contact with the Boko Haram sect members to link his committee with the committee for proper dialogue. Speaking when he led members of the committee on a courtesy call to Kaduna State governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero ...
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Frances Areva says one dead 14 wounded in Niger twin bombings
French nuclear reactor producer Areva said one was killed and 14 wounded after a car bombing struck its plant in northern Niger on early Thursday morning. "AREVA has learned with the deepest emotion of the death of one of the injured victims during the attack on the site of Somair" at Arlit, the French nuclear company said in the statement, while confirming that 14 people were ...
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Algerian jihadist claims Niger bombings
Accra - A twin suicide attack that killed at least 21 people in northern Niger was planned by Algerian Islamist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the Mauritanian news website Al-Akhbar reported on ...
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FG plans new tariff regime for industrial sector
Abuja – A new tariff regime aimed at increasing local manufacturers capacity and boost investments in the industrial sector is underway, The Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Olusegun Aganga, said. Mrs Yemi Kolapo, the Special Assistance to the Minister on Corporate Communications, said in a statement that Aganga made the plan known on Thursday when he inaugurated a committee on the ...
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Confirmed Jim Iyke Nadia Buari now dating
By Charles Mgbolu After weeks of denial, Nollywood bad boy, Jim Iyke and fair complexioned Ghollywood screen goddess, Nadia Buari have confirmed they are both dating. Helplessly love struck Nadia ...
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Group linked to Algeria gas plant attack claims Niger raids
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday's attacks in ...
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French president defends African military intervention after attacks in Niger
PARIS - France's president says his country must fight harder against terrorists in Africa, after two suicide bombings apparently staged by extremists angry over the French military intervention in Mali. Francois Hollande, in a sweeping speech Friday on this nuclear-armed country's military doctrine, said, "We will stay in Mali and around Mali because we haven't finished ...
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Ilorin South Wins Dr Olusola Saraki Memorial Cup
The memorial birthday of the former senate leader, great political titan and philanthropist was preceeded by a well organized football tournament tagged "Dr Abubakar Olusola Saraki Memorial Cup." This league which was organized by Emirate Youth Forum engaged under 17 football teams from the three geo-political zones in the state. On May 17th, the birthday of the late political titan, ...
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Ministry of Environment Position On 350 Million Flood Relief Disbursements to It
On Tuesday this week, the committee on environment and ecology specifically invited the Minister of Environment to come and brief the committee on what the ministry was doing as part of its preparation for the rainy season and the anticipated flooding that may occur this year. The minister intimated the committee that her ministry is handling advocacy; drawing up jingles for people to move out ...
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2014 - Osun Politicians Cautioned Against Do-or-Die - Politics
Osogbo - Politicians in Osun State have been cautioned against desperation while canvassing for votes in the 2014 governorship election in the state. Chairman of the Yoruba Alliance Group (YAG) Mr. Jackson Ojo advised politicians in the state to shun politics of do-or-die and strive to move the state forward. Ojo canvassed free and free election and also appealed to the people of the state to ...
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Six People 20 Cows Killed in Adamawa Auto Accident
Six people and 20 cows died in an auto crash on Wednesday on the Yola-Mayo-Belwa highway in Adamawa State. The accident occurred at about 5 p.m. when a vehicle with registration number XA 753 MUB conveying cattle from Adamawa to Abia State lost control and entered the bush. An eyewitness, Malam Haruna Hamma, told newsmen that the driver lost control when one of the tyres of the vehicle burst ...
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Accounting for Governments Special Funds
The Senate Public Accounts Committee reported recently that its investigation into some Special Accounts that the government maintains revealed that presidents since 2002, when they were established, have "grossly abused" them. The report noted that disbursements from such accounts, especially the granting of loans, had no bearing with the guidelines. The "Special Funds" ...
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Amike Kicks Against 2012 Olympics Probe
The Nigerian Olympians Association (NOA) yesterday described moves being made by the authorities to probe the cause of Team Nigeria's failure at the London Olympics as a sheer waste of time. Henry Amike, the NOA's President, made the remark in an interview in Lagos yesterday. It would be recalled that Gbenga Elegbeleye, the newly-appointed Director-General of the National Sports ...
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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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