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BBOG Group Wants Strong Security For IDPs

6 weeks Countdown: BBOG Group Wants Strong Security For IDPs

6 weeks Countdown: BBOG Group Wants Strong Security For IDPs – The group #BringBackOurGirls(BBOG) has depicted call for for a strong security set up for Internally Displaced Persons heading back to their communities after their town was reclaimed by the military. [...]

March 7, 2015 Military
Jonathan Leads Physical Training Exercise In Abuja, Saturday

Jonathan Leads Physical Training Exercise In Abuja, Saturday

Jonathan Leads Physical Training Exercise In Abuja, Saturday – President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, March 7, will lead government officials, like sportsmen and females on an out-door physical training exercise in Abuja. Specific Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, [...]

March 6, 2015 General
Mali Children

Miracle Of Mali:1-Yr-Old Survives Bomb Attack As Mum Is Blown To Pieces

In his world of innocence, in an age that is supposed to be an age of gold turned an age of steel, an age that advertises the complete breakdown of human wisdom, he, possibly, may not be able to phantom [...]

March 6, 2015 General
APC DEP GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE DEFECTS TO PDP WITH 20,000 SUPPORTERS

APC DEP GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE DEFECTS TO PDP WITH 20,000 SUPPORTERS

APC DEP GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE DEFECTS TO PDP WITH 20,000 SUPPORTERS – The APC deputy governorship candidate in Abia State, Prince Fred Eke Idika, has defected to PDP. Prince Idika defected to PDP during the PDP women rally held at Umuahia township [...]

March 6, 2015 Government and politics
Jonathan Flags Off New Section Of Enugu-PH Road

Jonathan Flags Off New Section Of Enugu-PH Road

Jonathan Flags Off New Section Of Enugu-PH Road – The highway constructed over 70 years ago was begging for total rehabilitation. President Goodluck Jonathan has flagged off the second section of the Enugu-PortHarcourt Expressway. The 41.4 kilometer road was awarded to [...]

March 6, 2015 Government and politics
10 Additional Auto Plants To Start Operations in Nigeria

10 Additional Auto Plants To Start Operations in Nigeria

10 Additional Auto Plants To Start Operations in Nigeria – Ten additional auto plants have finalised plans to start operations in Nigeria before the end of this year. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, disclosed this during [...]

March 6, 2015 Business, Economy
Delta Govt Hails Marshals On Clean Environment

Delta Govt Hails Marshals On Clean Environment

Delta Govt Hails Marshals On Clean Environment – Delta State environmental marshals was praised for maintaining the state clean within the couple of months they were inaugurated. Chief Frank Omare, the commissioner for Environment, Delta State, made the commendation in Asaba, [...]

March 6, 2015 Environmental issues
Ogun State Political Parties Sign Peace Agreement

Ogun State Political Parties Sign Peace Agreement

Ogun State Political Parties Sign Peace Agreement – Political parties as well as their candidates to numerous political offices have signed a peace agreement hinged on the need for peace and order to rule supreme before, during and after the general [...]

March 6, 2015 General
Albino killers in Tanzania sentenced to death

Albino killers in Tanzania sentenced to death

Albino killers in Tanzania sentenced to death – Tanzania court has sentenced 4 people to death for the killing of an albino woman who had been killed so her hacked-off limbs may be used in magic, authorities said Friday. The sentencing [...]

March 6, 2015 Africa
Government Gives Licences to 9 New Private Universities

Government Gives Licences to 9 New Private Universities

Government Gives Licences to 9 New Private Universities – To be able to increase the number of universities in Nigeria from 129 up to 138 the Federal Government Thursday, offered 9 new private universities their licences. Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim [...]

March 6, 2015 Education
Environmentalist Forecasts Acid Rain in 2015

Environmentalist Forecasts Acid Rain in 2015

 Environmentalist Forecasts Acid Rain in 2015 –  Mr John Ekoko, the Chairman, Nigerian Environmental Society, Lagos Island Chapter (NESLIC), on Thursday declared that early rain experienced in Lagos and coastal locations might lead to acid rain in the future. He [...]

March 6, 2015 Economy
Harrison Ford survives plane crash

Harrison Ford survives plane crash

Harrison Ford survives plane crash – Harrison Ford is now in a stable condition in hospital after a small plane crash in Los Angeles. His son has defined him as “battered, but ok” and he’s expected to have a complete recovery. [...]

March 6, 2015 International
Many Men, Numerous Children Killed For Refusing To Join Boko Haram

Many Men, Numerous Children Killed For Refusing To Join Boko Haram

Many Men, Numerous Children Killed For Refusing To Join Boko Haram – Yesterday, the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, killed 74 men and 20 kids at Njaba Village in Damboa, Borno State for refusing to join the insurgents. There was, however, no [...]

March 6, 2015 Military

Prophet Brutally Battered His Son For Going To Another Church.

A cleric, Prophet Elikanah Ajibade, who was charged to court on Tuesday and was remanded in prison, was accused to have physically abused his son because he attended a church service against his instruction. According to the details obtained by [...]

March 6, 2015 Religion
President Jonathan Gives 164 Unemployed Youth Corps Automatic Employment, Scholarships

Chidoka At Chatham House, Proclaims Jonathan Is Dedicated To Democracy

Chidoka At Chatham House, Proclaims Jonathan Is Dedicated To Democracy – Osita Chidoka, Aviation minister, has described that President Goodluck Jonathan is dedicated to democracy, peace as well as safety throughout Nigeria, even as he stressed the Peoples Democratic Party’s solid [...]

March 6, 2015 Economy
South Africa

South Africa to Investigate Killing of Nigerian BY ONWUKA NZESHI,

The out-going South African High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Kingsley Mamabolo, Monday assured the Federal Government that the South African government would look into the recent killing of a Nigerian, Mr. Obinna Ugboaja, by security agents in South Africa. Mamabolo [...]

March 5, 2015 Africa
Buhari's Family Insists That He Must Finish His Treatment Before Coming Back

Buhari’s Family Insists That He Must Finish His Treatment Before Coming Back

Buhari’s Family Insists That He Must Finish His Treatment Before Coming Back – APC leaders restless, want Buhari to Come back and continue his treatment in Nigeria.  Buhari’s being away for two weeks is collapsing his election campaign and reducing his [...]

March 5, 2015 Government and politics
EXPOSING THE FALSE WIND OF CHANGE

EXPOSING THE FALSE WIND OF CHANGE

EXPOSING THE FALSE WIND OF CHANGE – Just like the Angel of the Morning Star (Lucifer) made a lovely appearance to the world, and was well received because of his deceptive message and beautiful name. The subsequent exposition of its deception [...]

March 5, 2015 Government and politics
Nigeria, British Military Taking Part To Stop Insurgency

Nigeria, British Military Taking Part To Stop Insurgency

Nigeria, British Military Taking Part To Stop Insurgency – The Nigerian army along with the British Military Advisory and Training Team was brainstorming on solutions to bring an end to the Boko Haram insurgency throughout the country. Even as the fuel [...]

March 5, 2015 Military
NFVCB confirms ban of ’50 Shades of Grey’ in Nigeria

NFVCB confirms ban of ’50 Shades of Grey’ in Nigeria

NFVCB confirms ban of ’50 Shades of Grey’ in Nigeria – The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) has confirmed the suspension on the film, 50 Shades of Grey, that have earlier began showing in theatres across Nigeria. In a [...]

March 5, 2015 General
Fidelity Bank disburses N80m to 3 MSME business owners

Fidelity Bank disburses N80m to 3 MSME business owners

Fidelity Bank disburses N80m to 3 MSME business owners – About three Nigerian small and micro enterprises operators Tuesday had become the first group of busi­nessmen to attract on the N220 billion Central Bank Nigeria (CBN) Micro Small and Me­dium Enterprises [...]

March 5, 2015 Economy
Governor Uduaghan Commissions 64 Road Projects In Delta

Governor Uduaghan Commissions 64 Road Projects In Delta

Governor Uduaghan Commissions 64 Road Projects In Delta – Emmanuel Uduaghan, Delta State Governor, on Wednesday requested 64 road projects in Asaba, the state capital, having an assurance that many more projects will be commissioned prior to the end of his [...]

March 5, 2015 Economy
IMF Proposes Naira Devaluation

IMF Proposes Naira Devaluation

IMF Directors Propose Naira Devaluation – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for the implementation of changes, such as the devaluation of the Nigerian Naira to shield the nation from risks shown by uncertainties characterizing the economic [...]

March 5, 2015 Business
107 year-old man marries 95 year-old bride

107 year-old man marries 95 year-old bride

107 year-old man marries 95 year-old bride – History was created in Plateau State, Nigeria lately as 107-year old Dikam Garba Dabo’ok as well as 95-year old Ka’a Nafung got married in a church ceremony that happened at the Church of [...]

March 5, 2015 General
Son Of Ex CJN Reportedly Joins ISIS

Son Of Ex CJN Reportedly Joins ISIS

Son Of Ex CJN Reportedly Joins ISIS – Mohammed Uwais, former Chief Justice of Nigeria, has refused to comment on the report by a US-based online news program, THEWILL, that his son became members of the terrorist group, Islamic State in [...]

March 5, 2015 General
FEC Approves N2.445 Billion for Auto Laboratories

FEC Approves N2.445 Billion for Auto Laboratories

FEC Approves N2.445 Billion for Auto Laboratories – The Federal Executive Council FEC wednesday okayed a N2.445billion (€11.574million) agreement for the procurement as well as supply of auto-testing products to be set up in 3 laboratories situated in Enugu, Zaria as [...]

March 5, 2015 Economy
Aso Rock

Centenary – Buhari, Obasanjo, Gowon, Abubakar, Shagari, Others Storm Aso Rock

BY GEORGE AGBA Former Heads of State and Presidents, Olusegun Obasanjo, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), Gen Yakubu Gowon (rtd), Alh Shehu Shagari and Abdulsalami Abubakar yesterday night stormed the presidential villa for the flag off dinner of centenary celebrations billed [...]

March 5, 2015 Government and politics
Card Readers Will Disenfranchise Qualified Voters, Tells 7 Parties

Card Readers Will Disenfranchise Qualified Voters, Tells 7 Parties

Card Readers Will Disenfranchise Qualified Voters, Tells 7 Parties – Worried leaders of 7 political parties as well as 5 presidential candidates have called on the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, never to use the suggested [...]

March 5, 2015 Government and politics
Rwanda Acquittals

Rwanda Shocked By ICTR Acquittals

The acquittal of former ministers in a government that oversaw the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi has been met with dismay, with officials describing it as revisionism and negating the Genocide. Justin Mugenzi was Minister of Trade during the 1994 [...]

March 4, 2015 Africa
Nollywood's Mercy Johnson, Daughter Avoid Lagos Traffic By Riding GEJ’s Train

Nollywood’s Mercy Johnson, Daughter Avoid Lagos Traffic By Riding GEJ’s Train

Nollywood’s Mercy Johnson, Daughter Avoid Lagos Traffic By Riding GEJ’s Train – Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson and her daughter Purity avoided the incessant traffic gridlock on Lagos roads, especially the Ikeja axis, on Monday, by taking a ride on one of [...]

March 4, 2015 Nollywood