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Shock over terror killing by Nigerian in UK
ABOUT 24 hours after, the government and people of the United Kingdom were yesterday shell-shocked about why a British-Nigerian, Michael Adebolajo, and a yet-to-be identified person would callously butcher a fellow human being, and in broad daylight.The killing drew strong condemnation from President Goodluck Jonathan last night.Also yesterday, a group...
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Amaechi, Jonathan spar as gov’s forum holds election today
WHO will emerge as the next Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF)?This question will be answered today as Governors of the 36 States of the federation gather in Abuja, the nation’s capital, to elect a new Chairman who will pilot the affairs of the Forum.The Governor of Rivers State,...
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Jonathan, Ghanian President lead tributes as Achebe gets hero burial
IT began as a drop, but turned into a flood of tributes for literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe yesterday. President Goodluck Jonathan and his Ghanaian counterpart John Mahama led a horde of admirers who gathered to honour the renowned writer at a burial service in his hometown, Ogidi, Anambra State....
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Warri popular Bishop named in kidnap saga
Two persons, one of them said to be the popular Bishop of a pentecostal church in Warri, Delta State and an accomplice, have been arrested over a failed kidnap deal.Police officers from the Warri Area command were said to have handcuffed the two men over an alleged attempt to kidnap...
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Reps to sanction illegal medical labs
Worried by the spate of quackery in the medical laboratory industry, the House of Representatives yesterday vowed to sanction medical laboratories owned by quacks and non-licenced medical laboratory practitioners. ...
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Jonathan to flag off Zungeru Hydro Dam project
AS the Federal Government intensifies plans to increase electricity capacity in the country, the President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will next week officially flag off the construction of the multi billion naira Zungeru Hydro electric dam project in Wushishi, Niger state. The Niger state Commissioner for Information, Professor Mohammed Kuta...
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Killer cop recalls how boy was shot dead in Bayelsa
A killer cop dismissed by the Bayelsa State Police Command, Lucky Oberemelu, yesterday caused a stir at the State High Court as he gave a graphic account of how a 20-year-old boy, Emmanuel Victor, was shot dead last year at a checkpoint in Yenagoa. Oberemelu, who was one of...
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Ahead of the second anniversary of Governor Ibikunle Amosun, the Ogun state chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday launched a spiritual warfare against the Action Congress of Nigeria ...
More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq yesterday, police and ...
Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as ...
The people of Aba Ngwa and the leaders of the Aba North/ Aba South Federal Constituency held a civic reception in honour of Hon. Uzo ...
Although the 2015 general elections is still nearly two years away, clandestine moves are already on in Nassarawa by those who want to seat ...
In just one week local council polls will hold in Kogi State. From Lokoja, OYEWALE ADEBAYO highlights factors threatening the conduct of ...
Franck Ribery says the time for talking is over as Bayern Munich owe it to their fans to make up for their two recent failed attempts by ...
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Super Eagles chief coach, Stephen Keshi, has declared that he would be the last person to beg any player to play for Nigeria.
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Globacom yesterday took over as the title sponsor of the Nigeria Professional Football League after signing a three-year contract worth One ...
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The Federal government has expressed concern over the funding mechanism adopted to finance power projects as the Minister of Power, Prof. ...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is set to build the largest Africa’s gas city in Ogidigben, Delta.
The President has challenged banks in the country to fund infrastructural development in Africa.
The management of the 37 Emergency Communications Centres(ECC) established by the Federal Government across the country to tackle ...
Huawei, A leading global information and communications technology [ICT] solution provider, has unveiled its first windows phone 8 ...
The increasing growth of data mobility and how it affects human activities have resulted to the development of an ICT solution by Cisco a ...
Mr. Debo Adejana is the Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, realtypoint Nig. Ltd., a property development company. In this ...
Buying real estate is about more than just finding a place to call home. Investing in real estate has become increasingly popular over the ...
Engineer Abideen Oyediran is into property consultancy, financing, development and project management. He is also the Managing Director, ...
With dire warnings likely to match or exceed the worst fears about the effects of global warming, environment and development experts ...
As part of strategies to strengthen distribution in Africa, French oil company Total SA has announced the acquisition of rival Anglo-Dutch ...
European authorities have raided offices of oil majors Shell, BP and Statoil in an investigation of suspected manipulation of oil prices.
As some portions in the revised Nigerian Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) recently made public by the Aviation Ministry continues to generate ...
The ongoing remodeling exercise at the Port Harcourt International Airport, PHIA, Port Harcourt is almost 60 per cent completed.
Incheon International Airport clinched the World's Best Airport at the SKYTRAX World Airport Awards held at Passenger Terminal EXPO in ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has said it has commenced the tracking of activities of unquoted securities in the stock ...
The Abuja Securities and Commodities Exhange (ASCE), is set to divest up to 70 per cent of its ownership of the of the entity, as it has ...
The Debt Management Office (DMO), said it is floating N100 billion sinking funds to guarantee the redemption of its bonds issues as well as ...
The Nigeria maritime administration and safety agency (NIMASA) has cleared the air about the controversial golden handshake surrounding the ...
Effective from tomorrow Tuesday 21st May, 2013, only genuine port users with electronic port pass or means of identification issued by ...
The President of the Maritime Reporters’ Association of Nigeria, Bolaji Akinola has called on the Federal Government to institute a probe ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), re-restructured its Administrative Proceedings Committee (APC) for effective operation of the ...
institution, Diamond Bank Plc, has secured shareholders approval for it to raise $750 million additional capital to enhance its ...
Major Milk manufacturing company, Friesland Campina WAMCO Nigeria Plc has announced a profit before tax increase of 46 per cent from ...
Insect pests that attack stored rice are causing financial losses to farmers in Benin, researchers report in the first such study of the ...
The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency, Dr. Mrisho Jakaya Kikwete, on May 13, inaugurated the new science ...
Strong growth is expected for global rice, wheat and coarse grains production in 2013, an early forecast published in the May issue of Food ...
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Akparawa Michael Bush is a renowned broadcaster who runs the popular Bush House Nigeria broadcast outfit based in Abuja. He was a one-time ...
Dr Antiabong Ekong, former Commissioner of Education in Akwa Ibom State and currently an Associate Professor of Agricultural Education Unit ...
I was intrigued by a recent outreach by the Sultan of Sokoto to Boko Haram, urging its guerrilla fighters to embrace the Federal ...
THE ancient Oyo town in Oyo State was recently painted red when His Imperial Majesty, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, ...
Engineer Adedeji Doherty, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and former Lagos governorship aspirant, has a high taste when it comes ...
ALL through history, the artist’s role in uplifting mankind has been phenomenal. One Nigerian artist of the contempary time who is ...
tell you their own stories, the innocence and purity touches your own heart. I believe that this time of our history, it is good for the ...
LATEST television show, The Island which will be aired on Saturday June 1, 2013, tells an interesting story of what is tagged “the ...
AMERICAN pop stars Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift clinched the big prizes at the Billboard Music Awards at the weekend. Legendary ...
Despite the marginalization, intimidation and brutality meted on the Tiv ethnic group in Nasaarawa State in recent times, the Tiv people ...
As Karl Marx would say “it is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines ...
The youths of society are the driving force of change and development. They are the energetic workers of factories that churn-out goods for ...
As Kunle Babawaye, a level four medical student at the College of Medicine University of Lagos wobbled into the cafeteria to have lunch ...
A 39-year-old photographer, Mrs Bilikisu Yusuf, has pleaded with spirited Nigerians to assist her with money, to enable her daughter, ...
When Desmond Umoh got news that his 93-year-old mother had died in his home town, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, his first decision was that ...
She became a Senior Advocate of Nigeria on September 10, 2001, twenty years after the first female, Chief Folake Solanke donned the silk ...
The Lagos state government has said all landed property owners in the state without proper executed Deeds of Assignment have up till July ...
She remains the first and only female ever elected in Nigeria's Bar history to lead the lawyers' umbrella group, the Nigerian Bar ...
Engineering is the profession in which knowledge of mathematics and natural science is applied with judgment and responsibility to invent, ...
• What does riding an EnjoyCare Electric Scooter feel like?
One of the leading firms - Enjoycare Funrides Limited, recently made a technological marvel on wheels – the manufacture of electric ...
IBRAHIM Yekini, famously known as Itele in Yoruba genre of movie is a guy of virtue and understanding. Professionally he’s an actor, ...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS company, Etisalat once again lived up to its reputation as a youth-friendly brand in the country, as it stormed Ekiti ...
IF you are still one of those believing that outside Lagos, nothing good can come out of other states in terms of hip-hop music, it’s high ...
"Logic and reason would certainly suggest that if we have a Father in Heaven, we have a Mother in Heaven. That doctrine rests well with ...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has made hundreds of new saints at his first canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s Square. Here is a look at the ...
As evangelist Billy Graham prepares for his final major outreach event, which is set to occur later this year, a recent survey has offered ...
Engr (Prof) David Ehigie Esezobor, FNSE, is the National Chairman, Nigerian Society of Engineers Metallurgical, Mining and Materials ...
For Nigerian Universities to attain world class standard and be appropriately ranked all universities must develop a research policy with ...
Nigerian students are leaving the country in droves to school abroad, in those days, people went abroad on scholarship to the United ...
The police in Nigeria may not have the capacity to rehabilitate and refurbish all the 116 police barracks across the federation. But, this ...
As the sun sets, their hearts throb. Fear sets in and the residents getset for the worst. Soon, it will be nightfall in Bariga, a suburb in ...
Citizen Mark Okilla, 26, is in agony. Reason? He has lost the use of his crucial limb – the right hand - to an ‘unprotected machine’ while ...
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