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The Imperatives of States Creation
There have been requests for the creation Okura out of Kogi; Aba from Abia; Njaba and Orashi out of Imo; Adada from Enugu State; Toru-Ebe from Delta, Edo and Ondo states; Hadejia out of Jigawa and Katagum from Bauchi State. Similarly, there have been requests for the creation of Tiga out of Kano State; Karadua and Kafur from Katsina State; Lagoon from Lagos State; Oke-Ogun and Ibadan out of Oyo ...
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Sultan CAN Sue for Peace As Northern Elders Oppose Emergency Rule
Tuesday's declaration of state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States yesterday created more rumpus in the polity as more groups and individuals reacted to the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to resort to a martial strategy in dealing with the insecurity in the north. While some, including the presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2011 ...
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Boko Haram Has Anti-Aircraft Anti-Tank Guns Nigerian Military Says After Destruction
The Nigerian military said on Friday that it destroyed weapons, including anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, owned by insurgents in Borno State. The military said in a statement that advancing troops of the Special Task Force have destroyed some terrorists' camps sited in the forests of Northern and Central Borno. The statement was issued in Abuja on Friday and signed by Brigadier General ...
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Police Confirm Attack On Katsina Police Station
Daura - Katsina State Police Command on Friday confirmed the death of five suspected gunmen who attacked two police stations and four banks on Thursday in Daura. The Nigerian Army had earlier announced the death of three soldiers during the shooting. Briefing newsmen in Daura, the Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abdullahi Magaji, said one of the suspects was killed on Thursday night while the ...
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Country Seeks Support On Guinea Worm Eradication
The agency boss promised N25,000 cash reward on genuine informants of guinea-worm. The Federal Ministry of Health on Friday called for support for its Guinea Worm Eradication Programme to aid the certification of Nigeria as a guinea worm-free country. Ifeoma Anagbogu, the National Coordinator of the Nigeria Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (NIGEP), made the appeal in Abeokuta at a ...
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Man 27 Jailed Seven Years for Drug Trafficking
Jos - The Federal High Court 1, Jos, on Friday sentenced a 27-year old man, Babale Mohammed, to seven years imprisonment for possessing Indian hemp and psychotropic substances. Mohammed was convicted for possessing 20 kilogrammes of Indian hemp and 30 grammes of intoxicating drugs, LSD and Diazepam. Delivering judgment on the case, the judge, Justice Ambrose Allagoa, said the prosecution had ...
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Abuja Guards Polo Club Stages Unity Tourney
The Abuja Guards Brigade Polo Club has concluded arrangements to stage the 2013 edition of the annual Unity Polo Tournament to celebrate Nigeria's Democracy Day on May, 29. The captain of the club, Mustapha Junaidu who briefed the press on Thursday said the week-long tournament which is going to attract at least 60 players from 15 teams will run from May 20 to May 26. He said renowned ...
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Football Tourney for Youths in Slums Debuts in Abuja
Nigerian youths residing in slums across the country will be provided with the opportunity to exhibit their talents in the game of football as the Nigerian National Youth Award football tournament tagged 'Play To Post football Tournament' holds next month in Abuja. The championship for the vulnerable youths is being put together by four notable organisations namely the Nigerian ...
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A President Gets His War
The only other person who has been sounding war drums almost as regularly as the You-tubey Imam Shekau of the Boko Haram sect, is the Nigerian president himself. President Jonathan has been calling the insurgency 'war' at different times, it has now become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Last year he said it was worse than the Nigerian civil war. Those who witnessed the civil war were ...
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APGA Moves to Reconcile Aggrieved Members
The All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) has set up a special committee to help make peace among the waring factions and to reposition its affairs ahead of future elections. The National Working Committee ( NWC) of APGA which met under the auspices of the Chief Victor Umeh-led leadership on Friday at the Party's Secretariat in Abuja also took a swipe at some of the state governors for not ...
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Nigeria South Africa Sign Nine MOUs
Nigeria and South Africa have signed nine memorandum of understandings (MoU) to strengthen the diplomatic relations between both countries and to also join efforts at promoting peace and security in their respective sub-regions. The MoUs range from agreements for waiver of visas for diplomatic and official passport holders, oil and gas, power sector, environment, information and communication ...
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ACN CPC ANPP Are Mushroom Parties - Gulak
I said if the National Assembly passes the single tenure law, the credit should go the president. That is just what I said. I said it was his idea that this second term that generates all sorts of crises will be done away with once and for all. Everybody who is going to be president or governor should know that he is going for single tenure and would be bound to work, because in Nigeria ...
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Rejection of Polio Vaccine Reaches South
Coverage for routine immunisation is expected to grow from about 60 per cent in the first quarter of this year to more than 90 per cent by year end, National Primary Health Care Development Agency boasted this week. "This is the year we interrupt transmission of polio virus," said the agency's executive director Muhammad Ado, acknowledging renewed commitment from state ...
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NDPHC Targets 4000 Megawatts By December
The board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company has announced a target of 4,000 megawatts as its contribution to the national grid by December this year. The board, chaired by Vice President Mohammed Nnamadi Sambo, yesterday which met at the Presidential Villa Abuja, said it was currently contributing 1,200 megawatts to the national grid representing 32.17 percentage of the total power ...
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Lamido and His Educational Transformation Agenda
Globalization is the order of the day. Developmental implementation is the yearnings of the citizenry not greediness or strategies of deprivation per se. I commend the effort and positive thinking of Jigawa state government of allocating State University to Kafin-Hausa town. I strongly believe it will work speedily in reducing unemployment rate, illiteracy which are among the transformation of ...
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Nigeria Spends U.S.$45 Million On Mali
The federal government of Nigeria has spent $45m as its own contribution to the ongoing efforts to restore peace and stability to Mali. This is 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 the outcome ...
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Nigeria Need to Halt the Tinted Glass Acts Amendment
The senate was upbeat recently when one of its members, Senator Ita Enang (Akwa Ibom North-east), stood before his colleagues to lead the debate on a Bill he sponsored that seeks to liberalise the process of granting permit to Nigerians to enable them use vehicles with tinted glass. Entitled "A Bill for an Act to Amend the Motor Vehicles (Prohibition of Tinted Glass) Act CAP M21, Laws of ...
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Nigeria Gulf of Guinea Comes Under Digital Surveillance
Calabar - Digital facilities that will help the Nigerian Navy in surveillance operations at the Gulf of Guinea have been installed at the Eastern Naval Command. The facilities will enhance intelligence gathering and checkmate the movement of pirates and other sea criminals. With this facility in place, officers and men of the command can conveniently monitor on-shore and off-shore activities ...
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Nigeria Active Telephone Lines Hit 116 Million
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Friday said active telephone lines in the country had increased from 450,000 to 116 million from 1960 to 2013. Tony Ojobo, Director, Public Affairs of the Commission, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the lines were mostly of the Global System Mobile Communication (GSM) stock. He said that the commission recorded 450,000 connected ...
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Nigeria Court Convicts My Pikin Killer Syrup Makers Winds-Up Company
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Friday convicted and setenced to seven years imprisonment, two employees of Barewa Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, Adeyemo Abiodun and Ebele Eromosele. The company and its employees were charged on an amended six-count charged of the production of a killer syrup, "my pikin." There was mild drama, midway into the judgment, as one of the convicts ...
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Nigeria Govt Directs NLNG to Pay Outstanding Levies to Nimasa
The dispute between the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Company (NLNG) over the payment of taxes and levies has been resolved in favour of NIMASA, THISDAY has learnt. An arbitration panel, which looked into the dispute was said to have aligned itself, on Friday, with the position that NLNG was not exempted from paying taxes and ...
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Nigeria ATCON to Hold International Workshop On IPv6
Lagos - The Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), in partnership with Africa Network Information Center (AfriNIC), is organising a four-day international workshop on IPv6 in Lagos from June 18 to June 21, 2013. A statement from the ATCON Executive Secretary, Ajibola Olude said participation at the workshop is targeted to Network Engineers in the African telecoms ...
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Osun to Reconstitute Electoral Commission
The Osun State Government said yesterday that it would re-constitute the state Independent Electoral Commission to democratise the local government administration in the state. The state's Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Mr Wale Afolabi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Osogbo that the list of nominees would be sent to the House of Assembly for approval. "The ...
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Board Tasks FMC Keffi On Service Delivery
Lafia - Members of the newly constituted board of the Federal Medical Centre, Keffi, Nasarawa State have tasked staff and management of the institution to rise up to the challenge of health care delivery and service to humanity. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Board and management staff of the medical centre, recently, the Board chairman, Prince Udom Ekpoudom , a retired DIG of Police, ...
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MURIC Tackles Lagos Govt Over Hijab Ban
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) yesterday has petitioned both international and local human rights organizations on the denial of the fundamental human rights of female Muslim students in Lagos State who are being obstructed from using Hijab. This is coming just as the Executive Chairman of the Muslim Public Affairs Centre (MPAC) Disu Kamor voiced his shock over the decision of the Lagos ...
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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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