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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
The Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Timipre Sylva, yesterday dismissed as misplaced, claims by some politicians in the state that his administration had plotted to deceive President Goodlcuk Jonathan through the listing of already commissioned projects for commissioning during the proposed Presidential visit to the state.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
Tertiary education may collapse at anytime from now in Lagos State as the academic and non-academic unions in all the institutions of higher learning have declared trade dispute over non-implementation of negotiated agreements reached with government.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
FORMER Military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida said yesterday that the release of Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi in far away Saudi Arabia will further help cement and sustain the existing relationship between the government of Nigeria and that of Saudi Arabia.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
BARELY 24 hours after a group in began the mobilisation of Nigerians in Europe to support President Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerians-Americans in Chicago have resolved to support the President,s bid to contest the 2011 elections.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
THE rigging of elections is a more complex operation than meets the ordinary, untutored eye. The objective of rigging election is to ensure the processes are artificially orchestrated to result in the emergence of a particular, premeditated individual as the winner.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
On Monday September 6, 2010, the striking lecturers of state-owned universities in the South East geopolitical zone donned full academic regalia and staged a protest march in Enugu, the political capital of the defunct Eastern Region, over the failure of governments in the zone to implement the Federal Government/Academic Staff Union of Universities (FG/ASUU) pact reached last year after a prolonged national strike.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
Africa_focused fund Injaro Investments is raising money to invest in West African businesses too big for microfinance but which are unable to get bank loans, especially in the agricultural sector, its Managing Principal Jerry Parkes said on Tuesday.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
Most Nigerians who spoke with LEADERSHIP last night expressed shock at the sudden removal of the service chiefs, the Inspector-General of Police, Ogbona Onovo as well as the director-general of the State Security Service (SSS), Alhaji Afakriya Gazama by President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
The Nigerian Flamingoes have defeated the counterpart the Trinidad-Tobago team at the Fifa U17 Women World Cup Football League ongoing in Trinidad-Tobago
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
A politician from Delta North senatorial district, Mr Dom Okonma, has advised the President Goodluck Jonathan, to make his political ambition known urgently. Okonma disclosed this in a chat with journalists at the Murtala Muhammad Airport, Lagos on his way to Abuja for a political engagement.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
Cross River State Deputy governor, Mr. Efiok Cobham has called for re-branding of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) in an effort to reposition football in Nigeria.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has approved sweeping changes in the nation's Armed Forces, with the sacking of all service chiefs, Inspector General of Police, IGP, and Director-General of the State Security Service, SSS.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
The Comptroller General of the Nigeria Prisons Service, Mr. Olusola Ogundipe, has revealed that 721 out of the 759 inmates at the Bauchi Prisons escaped, following an attack by the Boko Haram sect.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday approved sweeping changes in the nation's Armed Forces, with the sacking of all service chiefs, Inspector General of Police, IGP, and Director-General of the State Security Service, SSS.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed new military, intelligence and police chiefs, his office said on Wednesday, ahead of January elections in the oil-rich country.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
The Banjul Magistrate court presided over by Hilary Abeke on September 6, 2010 suspended indefinitely, a human rights NGO, Africa in Democracy and Good Governance (ADG) from operating in the country and sentenced its Nigerian Director of Programmes, Edwin Nebolisa Kwakaeme, to a mandatory six-month prison term with hard labour for giving false information to the office of President Yahya Jammeh.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
Commenting on a new World Bank report published today in which the Bank backs the practice of nations selling vast agricultural lands to foreign investors, Mariann Bassey, African food and agriculture coordinator for Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria said:
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
Suspected members of an Islamist sect have raided a prison in northern Nigeria, freeing 732 inmates, including members of the extremist group.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
The Economic and Financial Crimes yesterday arraigned four former board members of the Nigerian Football Federation(NFF), over a N1.5billion fraud.
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AllAfrica News: Nigeria
The maiden Draughts, Ayo-Olopon, Cards and Ram Charging Championship organised by Mainland Movers Organisation and Lagos State Traditional Sports Association in conjunction with the Office of the Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Sports Development to Governor Raji Fashola came to an end on Sunday.