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725Why More Commissions Are Not Needed
By ABBA MAHMOOD — The recent rejection by the House of Representatives of the bill seeking to establish a South-East Development Commission...
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June 12: South-west States on Holiday
The six states in south-west Nigeria including Lagos have declared a public holiday on Monday to mark the 24th anniversary of a...
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910The Biafra Declaration at Arewa House
When Umaru Musa Yar’Adua visited us at a newspaper, just before the 2007 general election, he stressed that good leadership would emanate...
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772Kidnapper ‘Evans’ Captured in Lagos
Security operatives have arrested a wanted high-profile kidnapper named “Evans” in Lagos. Considered the most notorious and richest kidnapper in Nigeria, 36-year-old...
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875Igbo Governors’ Response to ‘Threat’ by ‘Northern Youth’
The Nigerian media have been abuzz with all manner of propaganda since a group of young men issued a statement claiming to...
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1.0K19 Years After Abacha
By ABBA MAHMOOD – It’s exactly 19 years since Nigeria’s head of state General Sani Abacha died in office; he became the...
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622INEC Chief Arraigned for N185m Scam, as Ex-Gov Fintiri’s Trial over N2.9bn Fraud Continues
A former Rivers State resident electoral commissioner, Gesila Khan Okubama, was this Wednesday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,...
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Nigerian Publisher Shot, Journalist Badly Beaten
By CPJ — New York, June 7, 2017 — Nigerian authorities should swiftly bring to justice all those behind the beating of...
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London Bridge Terrorist Attack Latest
Counter-terrorism police have made two fresh raids on addresses in east London in connection with Saturday’s deadly terror attack in London. The...
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Former Health Minister Osotimehin Dead
Former health minister Babatunde Osotimehin, 68, has reportedly died in London. The Nigeria office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) made the...