Nigerian Stowaway Dies, Frozen To Death As South African Plane Lands In US Airport

A Nigerian man, Chris Dikeh was found in the wheel well of a South African Airways plane that departed Dakar, Senegal and arrived the Dulles Airport in Washington D.C on Saturday.The man is believed to have frozen to death in temperatures reaching -60°C.Per Second News gathered from the Police that it was a South African Airways jet that was parked now in a remote part of the airport. Grounds crews found the body on Saturday afternoon." Airport...

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REVEALED: Why Senate President’s Daughter Was Rejected By Groom On Wedding Day.

When churches compel ladies who have been fully active for years to just abstain from the act over night it should be made clear that most of these ladies may just be pretending to be abstaining because of the man they want to get married to in church but they are busy getting "enough servicing" from other men. This was the big mess that played out at a Redeemed Church branch last Saturday, 22nd February, 2014. The Senate President's...

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Atiku Condemns Centenary Anniversary Celebration

Former VP Abubakar Atiku Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned in strong terms President Goodluck Jonathan’s jamboree celebrating the Centenary of Nigeria’s 100th anniversary regarding the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates in 1914. Atiku, who frowned on the event being televised...

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Court fixes March 21 for hearing of Sanusi’s suit

Sanusi filed for restraining order against police, SSS. A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday fixed March 21 to hear a motion filed by the suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Lamido Sanusi, seeking enforcement of his fundamental right. Mr. Lamido had filed the suit through his counsel, Yemi Osibanjo, seeking an order restraining the police and officers of the State Security Service, SSS, from...

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Abiola’s Family Rejects Nigeria’s Centenary Award

The family of the late M.K.O Abiola has rejected the posthumous Centenary award to the winner of the 1993 Nigeria’s presidential election. Kola Abiola, the eldest son of the late politician and businessman, told PREMIUM TIMES on Friday that the award was “not appropriate.” “For us, what...

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Presidency under fire for cooking up document linking Sanusi to Boko Haram insurgency

Mr. Omokri has the reputation of being government’s online marksman Reno Omokiri, a close aide of Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, is wound up in a massive scandal after the digital footprint of a slanderous write-up against the recently suspended governor of the Central Bank, Sanusi Lamido, was traced to his computer. Mr. Omokri, Special Assistant to the President on New Media, is believed...

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Why Court rejects exparte motion to reinstate Sanusi

CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido An Abuja High Court on Wednesday rejected an ex-parte motion brought by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Lamido Sanusi. Mr. Sanusi asked the court to set aside his suspension from office. Mr. Sanusi was suspended by President Goodluck Jonathan last Thursday over alleged financial recklessness and official misconduct. He filed the suit on Monday to challenge his...

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Yobe killings: Senate ‘directs’ Nigeria’s Army chief to relocate to Maiduguri

Senate in session The Army chief complained of inadequate funding. The Senate Committee on Defence and Army on Wednesday in Abuja directed the Chief of Army Staff to relocate temporarily to Maiduguri. The Thompson Sekibo-led Committee made the call at the 2014 budget defence of the committee. Mr. Sekibo said the committee condemned what it described as the atrocity being unleashed by the Boko Haram sect on innocent citizens...

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INVESTIGATION: Nigeria’s Accountant-General, NAICOM in alleged record-breaking N3.54 billion scandal

Minister of Finance, Okonjo-Iweala (left), Accountant General of the Federation, Jonas Otunla (middle) It appears a new kind of fraud in Nigeria. A contract was duly awarded by government to some private firms. But when it was time to make payment for job done, the N3.538billion contract sum was diverted to an entirely different set of companies. The companies which received payment did not bid for the jobs, were not awarded the contract...

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Full Text of President Jonathan's Centenary Anniversary Broadcast

This is the full text of national broadcast by Pres. Jonathan on the occasion of Nigeria’s Centenary Celebrations yesterday in Abuja Dear Compatriots, 1.  I extend warm greetings and felicitations to all Nigerians as we celebrate our nation’s centenary; a significant milestone in our journey to Nationhood.  2. One hundred years ago, on the 1st of January 1914, the British Colonial authorities amalgamated the Southern and...

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Nigeria Governors attack Jonathan over Sanusi’s suspension, demand accountability on missing $20 billion

Presiding Officer, Asishana Okauru, announcing the result of the controversial NGF election The Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, on Tuesday lambasted President Goodluck Jonathan for suspending Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido, weeks after he blew the whistle on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, for allegedly diverting not less than $20billion of the country’s oil revenues. The apparently angry governors said...

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We are ready for 2015, APC tells Nigerians

The APC governors urge Nigerians to brace up to throw out the non-performing Peoples Democratic Party Nigeria’s main opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has told Nigerians that the party is poised to give the country purposeful leadership come 2015. This was the summary of the first Progressives Governance Lecture organised by the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF). The lecture tagged “Unemployment...

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Sanusi Still Governor of CBN-- Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan during the Presidential Media chat  Deposed Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is still Governor of the bank and was only stepped aside, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday evening. Responding to questions during his sixth presidential media chat — one...

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Ondo State House Speaker Samuel Adesina Dies

The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Samuel Adesina Ajayi, has died according to sources in the Ondo State house of Assembly.  The speaker whose absence from the state parliament has been a source of worry for over three months reportedly died last night at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos.  The...

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Boko Haram attacks Federal Govt College Yobe, kills 29 students

Men suspected to be members of the Islamic Sect, Boko Haram, in the early hours of today Tuesday Feb 25th launched an attack on students of the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi Yobe state, killing 29 students (or more), Hausa Service BBC reports. Some buildings in the school were also reportedly razed. Sources at the school said the men invaded the school in the early hours of this morning while the students were still sleeping...

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Sanusi Suspension Is A Distraction - APC Says

APC spokesman, Lai Mohammed The All Progressives Congress (APC) accused President Jonathan today of using the Sanusi suspension as a distraction in the investigation over the missing $20 billion in oil funds. In a statement, APC said instead of discrediting the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Jonathan administration...

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Jonathan Witch-hunting Sanusi For Exposing Rot In Nigeria's Oil Sector- Kano Emirate Says

President Goodluck Jonathan and the Emir of Kano The Kano Emirate Council under its Emir, Alhaji Ado Bayero has officially reacted to Thursday sacking of Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi saying it is an abuse of the rule of law and that Federal Government should as a matter sincerity study...

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