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  • Nigeria plans roadshow ahead of $1 bln Eurobond, timetable shows
    LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigeria is planning a one-week roadshow to Britain, Germany and the United States from June 19 with the book-runners for its $1 billion Eurobond, with a view to issuing it this year, a timetable for the trip showed on Tuesday. The timetable, forwarded to Reuters in an email by a banking source close to the deal, showed that the meetings will be led by Nigeria's finance minister ...
  • Nigeria Islamists kill 9 students in school attack: medical worker
    MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants opened fire on a school in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, killing nine students, witnesses and a medical worker said, the second deadly attack on schools in three days. Witness Ibrahim Mohammed said he was taking exams in a classroom at Ansarudeen School when gunmen stormed the building, opening fire at random. "I saw five ...
  • Nigeria militants kill school pupils
    Suspected Boko Haram militants in Nigeria kill at least nine school children, in what survivors suggest is a response to growing vigilante groups.
  • Fighters in Nigeria attack school, kill 9 pupils
    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants have opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the country's troubled northeast, killing at least nine pupils in the latest violence to wrack the volatile region, witnesses said Tuesday.
  • Islamists drive 19,000 farmers from north Nigeria
    MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants have driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria while a military crackdown is preventing thousands more from working their fields, raising fears of imminent food shortages, officials warned Tuesday.
  • Behind Nigeria's piracy
    How corruption in Nigeria's oil sector has fuelled sea attacks
  • Tahiti thumped 6-1 by Nigeria but deliver a goal
    By Mike Collett BELO HORIZONTE (Reuters) - Tahiti suffered a 6-1 thrashing by Nigeria in the Confederations Cup on Monday although the amateurs did find the net as Jonathan Tehau scored at both ends when they made their debut in a major tournament. Tehau, a delivery driver back home, became the first player to score for both teams in a Confederations Cup match having headed in for the Oceania ...
  • Nigeria says 11 killed in Islamist sect school attack
    By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Seven students, two teachers and two insurgents were killed when suspected members of Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a school in the northeastern town of Damaturu, the military said. Groups like Boko Haram and the al Qaeda-linked Ansaru have become the biggest risk to stability in Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer and second-largest ...
  • Tahiti score against Nigeria, celebrate achieving their ultimate goal
    Tahiti lost 6-1 to Nigeria in their first Confederations Cup group-stage match. It was a result everyone expected and one that would've been absolutely devastating to most any team on the losing end of a scoreline that lopsided, but for … Continue reading →
  • Nigeria bonus row not resolved, says skipper
    Nigeria captain Vincent Enyeama said that the row over bonuses that delayed the squad's arrival at the Confederations Cup had not been resolved, but the players were putting it to the back of their minds.

Articles

  • NIGERIAN YOUTHS WITH THE NIGERIAN POLITICS

    The popular saying: ‘children (or youths) are the leaders of tomorrow’, is nothing new in the diverse ears of the Nigerian youths. Personally, I was familiar with it right from when I was a primary school pupil....

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    Pope’s resignation and future of the Church

    News of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph Ratzinger) has been everywhere. He is the second non-Italian pope...

  • PDP: A history of crises

    AS the 2015 general election inches ever closer, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has found itself in the throes of crises shaking its very foundation. Yet...

  • We've got a long way to go!

    I had an experience last weekend that troubled my mind and got me really...

  • Is Nigeria a failed state?

    The recent declaration by Nigeria’s foremost constitutional law theorist, Prof Ben Nwabueze, that the...

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    Toothless laws: Fashola leave Okada Alone

    The recent ban on motorcyclists popularly known as Okada by the Lagos State Government on 475 roads in the metropolis indicated another infamous creation of armed robbers in the state.

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  • 22 Killed As Boko Haram Launches Reprisal On Youths in Maiduguri
    [Daily Trust]Maiduguri -At least 22 people including students and fishermen have been killed in Maiduguri yesterday, a few hours after Boko Haram insurgents declared war against youths in Borno and Yobe states who have captured many insurgents and handed them over to the Joint Task Force (JTF).
  • Gunmen Kill 48 in Zamfara
    [Daily Trust]Gusau -Gunmen yesterday raided a village in Zamfara State and killed at least 48 people including the district head, chief imam and the local vigilante leader.
  • Kurfi Charges Eagles to Beat Uruguay
    [Daily Trust]Foremost football financier and member of the current board of the Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF), Alhaji Aminu Kurfi yesterday charged the Super Eagles to beat Uruguay in their second Group B match at the ongoing FIFA Confederation Cup to book their passage to the semi-final of the prestigious soccer fiesta.
  • Protecting Religious Rights At Rivers State University
    [Daily Trust]This paper last week featured an in-depth report of it said was the denial of a place of worship for Muslim students of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology. According to the report, while the university's authorities paid for the construction of churches for the different Christian sects on campus, they frequently demolished any structures that the Muslim students put down their own money to erect.
  • Fresh Alert Over Severe Weather
    [Daily Trust]Lagos -United Nations Strategy for Disaster Reduction has again alerted the nation over Severe Weather Forecast over Africa for the next 72 hours In a statement by the Deputy Regional Coordinator, United Nations Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Regional Office for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya yesterday through the office of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the agency forecast that there would be moderate to heavy rains in the next 72 hours in Nigeria and other sub Africa countries.
  • If Mandela Were a Nigerian
    [Premium Times]If Nelson Mandela were a Nigerian, he would never be treated in a hospital within his country. God forbid! At the slightest sign of ill health, he would be airlifted to a hospital in Germany, the UK, the US, France, or Saudi Arabia. Any Nigerian doctor who comes close to him - much less touches him - would immediately be arrested and charged with treason. An SSS interrogator would ask the hapless doctor, "You dey craze? So you wan kill de man?"
  • Confederations Cup - Eagles Prepare for Uruguay
    [Premium Times]The Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, and his players will not be celebrating the big win over Tahiti for too long as the attention has now shifted to their next opponents Uruguay.
  • Nigeria in Space By 2015, Says Ewa
    [Vanguard]Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Ita Okon Ewa, has said that plans have been perfected to send the first Nigerian into space by 2015.
  • Nigeria Drops Arms Importation Charges Against Eight Russians, Prosecutes Seven Others
    [Premium Times]The Federal Government on Tuesday dropped the charges against eight out of the 15 Russian sailors charged with unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria.

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Politics

  • Jonathan, Buhari, others grace Tinubu mother’s Fidau
    President Goodluck Jonathan, represented by Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, and former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammed Buhari (retd.), were among eminent Nigerians that graced the third day Fidau prayer for Alhaja Abibat Mogaji. Others were Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Almakura,  National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki and Convener of the Save Nigeria Group,... [Read More...]
  • Traffic law difficult to enforce —LASTMA
    Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has said it is very difficult to enforce the state’s traffic law because most of motorists are heady. The Director, Legal Services, Mrs. Margeret Adewale, said in the course of trying to enforce the law, both motorists and enforcement agents had sustained varying degrees of injuries. Adewale stated this while... [Read More...]
  • AD, Belgore console Tinubu on mother’s death
    The Alliance for Democracy has condoled with the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on his mother’s death. In a statement on Tuesday, the AD condoled with the families of the late Senator Wahab Dosunmu, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mogaji. Dosunmu, a former Minister of Housing... [Read More...]
  • Immigration officer arrested for burning girl with iron
    An official of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Kwara State Command, Mr. Yemi Afolayan, has been arrested for allegedly inflicting injuries  on a 12-year-old girl, Favour Emmanuel. Afolayan was also said to have allegedly tied and beaten up Emmanuel before inflicting the injuries on her neck and foot. Our correspondent learnt on Tuesday that Favour was... [Read More...]
  • Cultists kill NURTW secretary in Lagos
    Some suspected cult members, belonging to Black Axe have killed the Financial Secretary of the National Union of Road Transports Workers in Mushin. PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased, Taiye Monsuru, aka Sempe, was killed shortly after leaving his base at the old tollgate, Mushin on Friday. A close friend of the deceased, who craved... [Read More...]
  • ‘I traffic drug because I was duped’
    The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, has arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Nweke Nwobodo, for allegedly ingesting 126 wraps of heroin. According to a statement by the agency, the drug, which weighed 2.225kg, is the highest single ingestion since January 2013. NDLEA Commander at the Lagos Airport, Mr.... [Read More...]
  • Navy nabs suspected pipeline vandal
    The patrol team of the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Victory, has arrested Orok Okon, member of a gang that specialised in oil pipeline vandalism. Okon, 35, was arrested on Tuesday along the Calabar waterways in a wooden boat containing over 150 (200 litres) drums of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol. The petrol was believed... [Read More...]
  • School gets electricity, water
    As part of efforts to give back to its host community, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lagos Province 23, renovated and donated items to Oke Ifako Nursery and Primary School. The pastor in charge of the province, Brown Oyitso, said apart from the donations, the church had adopted the school and would continue to... [Read More...]
  • I formed my gang in prison –Suspect
    An ex-convict, Bashiru Majiyagbe, who was arrested by the Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, said he met members of his gang in Ikoyi Prison, Lagos. Majiyagbe was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for pipeline vandalism. The ex-convict, who was released a few weeks ago, was arrested at Odi Ifediwo area of... [Read More...]
  • NWC members beg Jonathan for appointments
    Out-of-favour members of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday night begged President Goodluck Jonathan to reward them with political appointments. The eight members, expected to leave office on Thursday, appealed to the President for appointments since they had not completed their tenure as NWC members of the party. They were... [Read More...]

Business

  • Jonathan, Buhari, others grace Tinubu mother’s Fidau
    President Goodluck Jonathan, represented by Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga, and former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammed Buhari (retd.), were among eminent Nigerians that graced the third day Fidau prayer for Alhaja Abibat Mogaji. Others were Nasarawa State Governor, Tanko Almakura,  National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki and Convener of the Save Nigeria Group,... [Read More...]
  • Traffic law difficult to enforce —LASTMA
    Lagos State Traffic Management Authority has said it is very difficult to enforce the state’s traffic law because most of motorists are heady. The Director, Legal Services, Mrs. Margeret Adewale, said in the course of trying to enforce the law, both motorists and enforcement agents had sustained varying degrees of injuries. Adewale stated this while... [Read More...]
  • AD, Belgore console Tinubu on mother’s death
    The Alliance for Democracy has condoled with the National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on his mother’s death. In a statement on Tuesday, the AD condoled with the families of the late Senator Wahab Dosunmu, a stalwart of the Peoples Democratic Party and Mogaji. Dosunmu, a former Minister of Housing... [Read More...]
  • Immigration officer arrested for burning girl with iron
    An official of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Kwara State Command, Mr. Yemi Afolayan, has been arrested for allegedly inflicting injuries  on a 12-year-old girl, Favour Emmanuel. Afolayan was also said to have allegedly tied and beaten up Emmanuel before inflicting the injuries on her neck and foot. Our correspondent learnt on Tuesday that Favour was... [Read More...]
  • Cultists kill NURTW secretary in Lagos
    Some suspected cult members, belonging to Black Axe have killed the Financial Secretary of the National Union of Road Transports Workers in Mushin. PUNCH Metro learnt that the deceased, Taiye Monsuru, aka Sempe, was killed shortly after leaving his base at the old tollgate, Mushin on Friday. A close friend of the deceased, who craved... [Read More...]
  • ‘I traffic drug because I was duped’
    The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, has arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Nweke Nwobodo, for allegedly ingesting 126 wraps of heroin. According to a statement by the agency, the drug, which weighed 2.225kg, is the highest single ingestion since January 2013. NDLEA Commander at the Lagos Airport, Mr.... [Read More...]
  • Navy nabs suspected pipeline vandal
    The patrol team of the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Victory, has arrested Orok Okon, member of a gang that specialised in oil pipeline vandalism. Okon, 35, was arrested on Tuesday along the Calabar waterways in a wooden boat containing over 150 (200 litres) drums of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol. The petrol was believed... [Read More...]
  • School gets electricity, water
    As part of efforts to give back to its host community, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lagos Province 23, renovated and donated items to Oke Ifako Nursery and Primary School. The pastor in charge of the province, Brown Oyitso, said apart from the donations, the church had adopted the school and would continue to... [Read More...]
  • I formed my gang in prison –Suspect
    An ex-convict, Bashiru Majiyagbe, who was arrested by the Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, said he met members of his gang in Ikoyi Prison, Lagos. Majiyagbe was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for pipeline vandalism. The ex-convict, who was released a few weeks ago, was arrested at Odi Ifediwo area of... [Read More...]
  • NWC members beg Jonathan for appointments
    Out-of-favour members of the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday night begged President Goodluck Jonathan to reward them with political appointments. The eight members, expected to leave office on Thursday, appealed to the President for appointments since they had not completed their tenure as NWC members of the party. They were... [Read More...]

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