• 2015:We’ll unite for common mandate – Northern govs

    Support Buhari on fair elections The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF), rose from a crucial meeting in Kaduna yesterday and declared that they would unite for a common mandate in 2015. This was just as the NSGF threw its weight behind the call by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major-General [...]

  • Salami: I’m ready to vacate my seat – Ag. Appeal Court president

    The Acting President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Dalhatu Adamu, yesterday said that he is ready to vacate his office for the reinstated President of the Court, Justice Isa Ayo Salami. Adamu said that the crisis in the country’s judiciary is devoid of politics in all forms. Receiving the leadership of the National Association [...]

  • You are advocate of falsehood, PDP tells ACN

    Following the statement credited to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) that the 2011 general elections were rigged, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday described the party as a vendor of falsehood. The ruling party pointed out that the fact that ACN had waited over a year to voice a contrary opinion to its earlier [...]

  • Gas explosion: Chevron must pay $3bn fine – FG

    Director-General/Chief Executive of National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) Peter Idabor, has insisted that Chevron must pay an administrative fine of $3bn to the federal government for the environmental disaster that took place due to the gas explosion. Idabor, who made this known yesterday before the House Committee on Environment, said that there [...]

  • Disco Queen Donna Summer dies at 63

    Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as “Last Dance,” ‘’Love to Love You Baby” and “Bad Girls” became the soundtrack for a glittery age of sex, drugs, dance and flashy clothes, has died. She was 63. Her family released a statement saying Summer died yesterday morning and that they “are at peace celebrating [...]

House of Representatives

Reps order 25 govs to conduct LG polls

House of Representatives yesterday described as ‘illegal’ the constitution of caretaker committees for local councils by 25 governors. It therefore urged the affected governors to
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Chairman, National Hajj Commission (NAHCON), Alhaji Muhammad Bello

Nigeria gets 95,000 Hajj seats for 2012

At least 95, 000 Muslim pilgrims from Nigeria are to perform the 2012 Hajj, and the first flight would take off on September 18. Chairman,
May 18, 2012 | 2 comments | View Post
Aliyu,Chairman,Northern Governors Forum

NNN: Northern govs to settle liability next month

The Northern States Governors’ Forum has given all Northern states yet to redeem their pledges to New Nigerian Newspaper two weeks to do so just
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Col Austin Akobundu (rtd)

South-east PDP cautions Buhari against inciting violence

The South-east zone of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC),
May 18, 2012 | 2 comments | View Post

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  • Salami, NJC: He who craves it should stave it

    Last week, the National Judicial Council (NJC), recommended  the re-instatement of the president of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, nine months after the same body had suspended him. LAWAL SABO IBRAHIM and KUNLE OLASANMI review the controversial

    May 14, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Datti Ahmad

    Boko Haram: Politics of negotiation

    The general insecurity in Nigeria especially as it relates to the Boko Haram uprising is taking its toll on the country. LAWAL SABO IBRAHIM writes on the efforts made by diverse persons and groups at negotiating for peace. Plea for

    May 07, 2012 | 1 comment | View Post

  • A signpost erected to scare away tresspassers Photo: Abdulazeez Abdulazeez

    Kano community fights to save school land

    Members of the Panshekara community in Kano State fightfrom all fronts over an alleged encroachment into a piece of land belonging to a secondary school in the area by some people. ABDULAZIZ ABDULAZIZ writes on their grouse and the efforts

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  • Man remanded for causing grievous hurt

    A 42-year old man, Edward Saaro of Lungu village, Gwarimpa Estate, has been arraigned in an upper area court for causing grievous hurt contrary to section 241 of the Penal Code law. According to the First Information Report (FIR), the

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  • A display of fairly used cars on sale

    How Tokunbo car business thrives in Abuja

    Abuja has been tagged the fastest-growing city in the world. As such, owning a car in the federal capital territory is no longer a luxury but a necessity as many now believe. The reason is not far-fetched as transportation system

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  • Yakowa to appoint aides this month

    The long-awaited list of Governor Patrick Yakowa’s Special Advisers, Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants will soon be released, Blueprint has learnt. For close to one year since his election, Governor Yakowa has been operating with just a few aides

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  • Danjuma’s failed state theory and Yobe

    At a lecture to celebrate the 50th birthday of Leadership publisher, Sam-Nda Isaiah, General T.Y Danjuma was reported to have singled out Borno, Jigawa and Kano as states that have ‘failed’ in the North. His comment understandably drew a lot

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  • Islam and the understanding of love

    The Qur’an uses several words for the term “love” with different shades of meaning. If all these words — rafah, rahmah, wudda, hub, etc. — are translated as “love”, then this word is of very frequent occurrence in the Qur’an,

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  • Governor Al-Makura and the basin of alebo

    In the African culture men don’t carry pots or basins on their head. It is considered a woman’s duty. Even in his classic The Passport of Mallam Iliya, Cyprian Ekwensi reiterated this when he wrote of an era in Kano;

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  • Yuguda fights poverty with tricycles

    Bauchi state governor Isa Yuguda has distributed 210 tricycle on loan to members of tricycles/Achaba Riders Association,  Bauchi state chapter in twenty local government branches of the state through the state ministry for poverty alleviation. The aim according to the governor is to assist in alleviating poverty through transport adding that the state government had [...]

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  • African tourism ministers to meet in Calabar next month

    Despite the fact that the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) boldly wrote on its website under the calendar of events that the 53rd meeting of the Regional Commission for Africa billed to take place in Nigeria next month is still subject to confirmation, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke [...]

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  • Normalcy returns to Kaduna village 2 days after massacre

    Normalcy has returned to Kabari village, Kaibi district of Kumana Chiefdom, Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna state, two days after communal clash left six gruesomely murdered. Six persons were killed in the village on Wednesday following a communal clash and killing of the secretary of Kumana Chiefdom Mr. Barnabas Ali who was allegedly shot [...]

    May 18, 2012 | 1 comment | View Post

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