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Sunday, September 28, 2014
Expert: Obama Most Militaristic President US Has Ever Seen
We’ll recover Ekiti from PDP, says Fayemi
Its Chairman in the state, Chief Jide Awe, said during the state Congress in Ado-Ekiti on Sunday, that the party had “men and women of honour who are going to be at the vanguard of this struggle” to upturn the emergence of Mr. Ayodele Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party as the state governor-elect.
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PDP can’t win Rivers, APC replies Jonathan
The Chairman of the Rivers State Chapter of the APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, explained that the President’s optimism was not in line with the realities on the ground in Rivers.
THE All Progressives Congress has described as ridiculous President Goodluck Jonathan’s statement that the Peoples Democratic Party will recover Rivers and Edo States from the hands of the APC in the 2015 and 2016 governorship elections.
War on Terror: 1,200 Nigerian security personnel leave for Russia
About 1,200 Nigerian security personnel including members of the Armed Forces, the police and members of the Department of State Services, DSS, have so far left Abuja for anti-insurgent training in Russia.
Their departure for training as Special Forces, security sources said, followed alleged snub or nonchalant attitude of both the United Kingdom and United States towards Nigeria in her fight against Boko Harm terrorists.
Saturday Vanguard gathered that 400 security personnel left the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport in a chattered aircraft at about 5pm weekend, accompanied by top security officers as well as Russian instructors who had been in the country to part of the initial selection process for the officers and men that would take part in the training.Army-Jonathan
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The miasma of corruption & nefariousness in Government !
Each of the pair is as bad and big a rogue as the other. It is now clear to all and sundry that no matter what part of the country produces a leader, the leader is part of the rotten system. A bad tree will always produce rotten fruits, no matter what part of the tree you care to pick your fruits from.
Nigeria has always been found wanting in radical disciplined visionary leadership, and no society can produce effective leadership when both citizenry and politicians/business men/religious leaders are rotten to the core. Any leadership is as good or as a bad as its people. A leadership will always reflect the predisposition of the people.
Liberian Health Minister Quarantines Self after her Office Assistant Died of Ebola
"She has placed herself under self observation due to the fact that her special assistant contracted the virus," Isaac Jackson, Liberia's deputy information minister, told Reuters. Jackson said that the government praised Dahn's decision to come forward to be monitored after potentially coming into contact with the disease. "Continue..
Thumbs Up For The Armed Forces
NEWS of the chains of victories recorded by the Nigerian armed forces against the Boko Haram Islamist insurgents in the North East is not only a thing of delight, it is also a source of great relief. These victories, achieved in theatres of operation in Adamawa and Borno states, climaxed with the elimination of the man who paraded himself as Abubakar Shekau in the battle for the reclamation of Konduga town in Borno.
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Man beheads woman, claims men from deceased’s village r@ped his wife
According to Sunday Sun, the horrible incident happened on September 6th in Umuzeoka village in Ezza North LGA of Ebonyi State. Recounting the bizarre tale, Nweke, a farmer, said men from the village had raped his wife severally, alleging that the repeated vicious act led to a miscarriage.Continue..
Insurance tycoon & IGI CEO Remi Olowude passes away
Sun re o, Ase !
Nigerian troops capture deadly armored tank from Boko Haram
According to reports, the sect members approached Konduga with the tank after seeing that they were losing the gun battle with the troops. Over 100 militants were killed and a few soldiers also lost their lives in the battle that lasted several hours.
US, Allied Military Forces Launch New Series of IS Attacks in Syria: US Central Command
Forces are using fighter and remotely piloted aircraft to carry out the attacks. An IS vehicle was destroyed south of Al-Hasakah in Syria in addition to several buildings in the area part of an IS garrison, the release confirmed. An IS command and control facility near Manbij has also been damaged. Additional buildings and vehicles along with a garrison, airfield and training camp used by the IS jihadists were also hit by the attacks.
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Three students shot & in criticial condition after gunmen storm ESUT
The affected students are currently undergoing intensive surgery at the hospital where they were rushed to in the early hours of Saturday. One of the students was shot in the stomach and it was suspected that some pellets of the bullet were lodged in his abdomen for which doctors are battling to remove.
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Tanks Patrolling Streets of Kharkiv After Court Bans Peace March
"To augment measures to guard public order, the chief administration of Ukraine's Interior Office in Kharkiv has made a decision to put tanks belonging to the vehicle fleet of the police to the patrolling of the city streets," reads the statement.
Syria Unsure About US Hidden Agenda, Despite US Notices Damascus About Its Airstrikes
“Anyway, if their aim is to strike against ISIS, it's OK. But we still have our doubts about their hidden agenda,” Muallem said
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Activist: Ukrainian Police, Security Service Violently Disperse Peace March in Zaporizhia
"The police, SSU and the Right Sector are violently dispersing the march," Sysoenko said. "We have asked for permission, but they turned us down; we keep on applying."
According to Sysoenko, they arrested him in Zaporizhia and threatened "to break his arms and legs". They also took away his car.
Lavrov: US Openly Declares Right for Unilateral Use of Military Force
"Washington has openly declared its right to use military force unilaterally and wherever it sees fit in order to protect its own interests. Military involvement has become normal, even though all military operations launched by the United States in recent years have been unfortunate," Lavrov said.
Peace March in Ukraine: ‘They Did Not Let Us Speak Against War’
A "March of Peace" was held in the largest cities in Ukraine, which called for an end of the "blind war", conducted by Kiev southeast the country. Hundreds of activists came onto the streets of Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and others.
In some cities, however, the march had hardly begun when it was already over. The police dispersed and arrested the activists, while the representatives of the Right Sector made it clear that they would not let the peace protest happen.
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Kiev swapping detained civilians for Ukrainian servicemen
Lacking enough prisoners of war among self-defense militias to be exchanged for Ukrainian servicemen, Kiev is releasing mixed groups of civilians who have been taken hostage for various reasons, The New York Times has reported.
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The US and its Coalition Created, Trained and Funded IS: Political Analyst
“Essentially it was the US and the so-called coalition that is fighting the IS right now that created, funded and trained IS in the first place,” he told OOB's source. “So how can you be for and against an organization at the same time? Saudi Arabia and Qatar particularly were involved in training, finding and providing weapons to this organization. How can we believe that they are all of a sudden interested in ending this organization?”
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