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State of Emergency A bold move by the president
The declaration of Emergency Rule in three northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday to contain the rising tide of insurgency and terrorism in the country is perhaps one bold move the President has made since he assumed office in May, 2011. Saturday Vanguard's LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU in this special piece analyzes the development vis--vis the flurry ...
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Gov.ObiUbah and Falomo wedding
By Omife Omife It was reported recently that there has been tension in Anambra State over the attendance of a prominent Anambra personality, Dr. Ifeanyi Uba's sister's wedding at the Catholic Church of the Assumption, Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Saturday, April 20.Traditional rulers, Federal and State legislators and Presidents-General of various communities in Anambra State which the ...
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Efe Ambrose targets treble in Scotland
Super Eagles defender, Efe Ambrose is hoping to end his season with three trophies as his club Celtics, aim the win the Scottish FA Cup on Sunday. Ambrose won the Nations Cup with the Super Eagles February 10 in South Africa and he followed with the Scottish premier league title and a victory over Hibs on Sunday will make his season full. "It feels great to have won the league and I hope ...
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Athletes aim high at Port Harcourt Golden League
The second leg in the series of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria/Solid Works Golden League will run its course in Port Harcourt today, with participating athletes aiming to meet the standards set for them by the AFN technical committee. After the fiasco in Benin City where the athletes demanded a downward review of the standards, there seems to be a new focus by those eager to improve on ...
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Insecurity If we don’t desist it will consume us – Gowon
BY EBUN SESSOU Prominent Nigerians have continued to condemn the increasing rate of insecurity and killings in the country. They also frowned at loss of lives and properties in some parts of the country. Unless, we desist, it will consume us--Gowon Elder statesman, General Yakubu Gowon, former Head of State who spoke with Saturday Vanguard, lamented that the country is degenerating to a level ...
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Lagos rescues four children sold for N60 000 by parents
By OLASUNKANMI AKONI & MONSOR OLOWOOPEJO Lagos state government, yesterday said it rescued no fewer than four children in the last one year sold by their parents and guardians for a minimum of N60, 000, to aid their financial needs. The state government however said that 187 cases of child abuse and domestic violence were reported and treated by the state government in the year under ...
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Lagos corps members decry extortion
The affected corps members, belonging to Batch 'B' Ikeja Area 1 zone, said they were being mandated to pay N1,500 for laptops for officials and another N500 for NYSC ...
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Transmission station fire PHCN allays fear of blackout in Lagos
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria has said that there will be no blackout in Lagos as it is being speculated following a fire incidence at its Ikeja West transmission station located at Ayobo, Ipaja area of the ...
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Militants Turn Nigeria into Christian Killing Field
Last year more Christians were killed in Nigeria than any other country. The onslaught of bombings gave Nigeria the sad distinction of being the nation with the highest Christian death toll. More than 900 Christians reportedly were killed in Nigeria in 2012, all victims of the Boko Haram group and other Islamic militants. "They are so radical they don't even spare Muslims. If Muslims ...
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Nigeria Police Repel Hoodlums Attack In Daura Katsina State
By SaharaReporters, New York There are conflicting reports emanating from Daura, Katsina State, about the overnight confrontation there between security forces and Boko Haram sect members, with the latest saying that, following an "exceptional display of courage and gallantry," repelled the armed militants, killing five of them. In an earlier report today, SaharaReporters learned ...
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JAMB releases withheld results begins CBT
By Favour Nnabugwu The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has finally released the results of candidates whose results were initially withheld over non-biometric verification even as 91, 610 candidates will commence the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Computer based Test in the 7 various designated centres, CBT from Saturday. Registrar and Chief Executive of ...
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Nigeria bombs Islamists U.S. sounds alarm
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian warplanes struck militant camps in the northeast on Friday in a major push against an Islamist insurgency, drawing a sharp warning from the United States to respect human rights and not harm ...
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Yemen wants its detainees out of Guantanamo
Obama administration to repatriate its nationals from the Guantanamo detention camp, officials say. More than half of the 166 detainees are Yemeni, the Los Angeles Times reports. They include 88 Yemeni nationals and a few Saudi nationals whose families came from Yemen. Four years ago, a government task force found 86 prisoners it recommended for release from Guantanamo, 59 of them from Yemen. ...
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Wharf rats pirates hold Lagos ports in firm grip
The process of importing goods seems simple on paper but it is almost normal for goods or parts of imported goods to get missing from the ports in ...
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Nigeria states of emergency | Editorial
Nigeria , has made little secret of the fact that it regards itself not only at war with the Nigerian state, and its security forces, but its people too. It has bombed churches, mosques, carried out assassinations, kidnapping, and mass assaults. On a single day in January last year, it killed 185 people across Kano. As the years have gone by, the ferocity, ambition and scale of its attacks have ...
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Traders send SOS to Amaechi over N500000 fee for market stores
By JIMITOTA ONOYUME, Port Harcourt TRADERS at the New Layout market in Port Harcourt have appealed to Governor Chibuike Amaechi to reduce the five hundred thousand naira fee they were being asked to pay to secure their stores at the market. While thanking the governor for rebuilding the market after it was razed down by fire Mr Lucky Atukuba who spoke for the traders yesterday in Port Harcourt ...
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Official Nigeria military attacks suspected Islamic extremist camps in northeast killing 21
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Soldiers in Nigeria launched their first raid against suspected Islamic extremists in a campaign to take back control of the nation's northeast, killing at least 21 people, a security official said Friday. The fighting happened Thursday in the Sambisa Forest Reserve, just south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, which soldiers previously targeted hunting for ...
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Nigeria launches assault on Islamists
NIGERIA'S military has attacked Boko Haram Islamist strongholds across the northeast, launching air strikes on insurgent camps, with dozens of militants killed in the fighting, the military says. Several thousand soldiers have spread across three northeastern states where President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency after Boko Haram seized territory and declared war against the ...
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Nigeria Military Kills Extremists in New Offensive
Abuja, 17 May (Prensa Latina) Soldiers in northeast Nigeria shelled suspected camps of Islamic extremists in the first military action of a new offensive against the insurgents, killing several people, a security official said Friday. The fighting was happening in the Sambisa Forest Reserve, just south of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, which soldiers previously raided on the hunt for ...
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God will help you
By Johnson Omomadia God said in Gen 2:18, "it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him". Everything that is missing in your life, God will help to put in place for you. Because God knows all things, He knows what is best for you. Whatever is lacking that is relevant to your destiny fulfillment; He will help you with it. Adam was not the one that ...
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Nigeria Muslim leaders other to visit Auschwitz
WARSAW (AFP) – Fourteen Muslim clerics from across the globe will visit the former Nazi German Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland next week as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program, organisers said Friday. ';This is an opportunity for imams who are influential in their communities to look at the Holocaust first hand and to go to Auschwitz, to see what that kind ...
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Ohaneze Ndigbo moves to resolve APGA crisis
Onitsha(Anambra) - The Anambra chapter of OhanezeNdigbo, a socio-culturalgroup,on Friday initiated moves to resolve the crisis in All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA). A chieftain of the group, ChiefRommyEzeonwuka, told Journalists inOnitsha, Anambra that the move was to protect the political legacy of its late national leader, ChiefChukwuemekaOdumegwu-Ojukwu. Ezeonwuka, who condemned the ...
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We released bullets indiscriminately to escape – Robbery suspect
Suspect But the police who gave Crime Guard a different account of the incident explained that they had a gunfight with a gang of armed robbers who attempted to rob a branch of UBA on Osolo Way, Ajao- Estate from a nearby hotel and they succeeded in arresting a member of the gang identified as Kabiru Suleiman with an Ak47 rifle. The member of the gang who was arrested during the bloody ...
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Quest for achieving economic integration between the old Eastern and Midwest regions in the front burner
By Austin Ogwuda, Asaba ASIDE politics, the burning desire by the South-South governors and their South-East counterparts who met in Asaba, Delta State capital last Sunday towards achieving economic integration was obvious and so expressed during that meeting. Definitely, there is no doubt that such a collaborative effort would yield faster dividends unlike one zone pursuing their interest ...
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Nigerian security troubles United Nations
Goodluck Jonathan this week declared a state of emergency for three northern states in response to threats from Islamist militant group Boko Haram. Militants suspected to be from Boko Haram killed more than 40 people in attacks on a village in northern Nigeria last week. At least 200 people died and more than 2,000 homes were destroyed in a recent military raid seen as a response to a Boko ...
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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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