There Is Hope For Nigeria – Nuhu Ribadu

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Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, the former Chairman of Financial and Economic Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday in Ilorin assured Nigerians that there was hope for the country to overcome its multiple problems.
The former ACN presidential candidate gave the assurance when he paid a condolence visit to Senator Bukola Saraki on the death of his father, Dr. Olusola Saraki.“I must say that there is hope for Nigeria to overcome its multiple challenges. Everybody is working tirelessly to revamp the country’s political, socio-economic and security problems,” he said.

President Goodluck Jonathan's Younger Brother Dies Inside Aso Rock

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The younger brother of Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan is dead. Sahareporters, an online news agency that broke the story said Meni Jonathan is the president’s half brother and he died at the Aso Rock clinic.
The incident happened just as President Jonathan was receiving congratulatory messages today from all over the world as he celebrates yet another birthday.

Botswana Sends 300 Nigerians Backhome

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In a most shameful development, no fewer than 300 Nigerians living in the Republic of Botswana have been reportedly deported in the past few months, after the authorities refused to renew their permits. Of course, Botswana is one of the most peaceful countries on the continent and the country also ranks 132 on Transparency International’s (TI) 2011 Corruption Perception Index, making it one of the most corruption-free countries on the continent as well. Meanwhile, the angry deportees want President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Assembly to quickly look into the relations between Botswana and Nigeria in order to ascertain the true conditions of Nigerians living in that country. 

The returnees, most of whom had lived and worked in the Southern African country, said since the assumption of the current president, General Khama, whose mother was of British origin, Nigerians in that country had been subjected to dehumanising conditions and racial abuse, even when, they claimed, they had been law-abiding and of good behavior. They believe that that the target of the Khama government had been how to get rid of innocent Nigerians pursuing a just course or doing genuine businesses in the country, claiming that all their efforts to make the Bostwana authorities understand that they were peace-loving and not interested in criminal activities fell on deaf ears as they were only interested in sending them out without any reason.

388,864 Nigerians Infected With HIV In 2011 Alone

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The Lagos State government has revealed that at least, 388,864 Nigerians were infected with the HIV disease in 2011.

Quoting the National AIDS Control Agency statistics at a one-day HIV Prevention and HTC Workshop organised by his office in conjunction with Lagos State AIDS Control Agency, LSACA, in Surulere, Lagos on Thursday, Special Adviser to the Governor on Youth and Social Development, Dr. Dolapo Badru said there were 388,864 fresh cases of HIV reported as at the end of 2011.

“For the 26 years period dated 1986 to December 2011, that AIDS was first reported in Nigeria, 3,459,363 people now live with HIV. An estimated 1,449,166 people require Anti-Rectroviral; 388,864 new infections occurred in the year ended 2011.

Joseph Benjamin, Dare Art Alade, Present Relief Materials To Flood Victims InKogi

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Stirred by the recent Kogi flood disaster, Joseph Benjamin pioneered a team to deliver relief materials to the state. The “Help Kogi” project was initiated to provide material support to the victims of the flood in Kogi. Last week, the team - made up of Joseph, Darey, Jaywon, Malik, Cordelia Okpei, and MoEazy - was at Kogi State to present the relief materials. They were welcomed by Governor Idris Wada and his deputy, Yomi Awoniyi.

Bola Tinubu and wife installed as Ago-Are and Erelu of Egbaland

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Ex-Lagos State governor and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was traditionally installed yesterday Monday November 19 as the Aare Ago of Egbaland by the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedokun Gbadebo. His wife, Remi Tinubu, was made the Erelu Aare Ago of Egbaland. Congrats to them.

Happy Birthday To The President Of Nigeria

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Happy 55th birthday to Nigeria's president

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON is the 14th Head of State and current President of Nigeria. He was born 20 November 1957. Happy birthday to him!

The Lagos Premium Expo

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Baby Kidnapped From Labour room By Gunmen.

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This sounds like a fairy tale but it is true.

Gunmen have invaded the labour room of a maternity home in Nkwoegwu, Ohuhu, in Umuahia North LGA of Abia State and took away a baby delivered a few minutes back, while nurses were battling to save the mother from bleeding to death. The baby, a boy, was still dripping with blood when the evil men seized and folded him with the bed sheet in which he was lying.

Seun Anikulapo-Kuti Rejects The Existence Of God And Jesus Christ

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Oluseun Anikulapo-Kuti is the youngest son of the legendary Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuit. Seun leads his father’s band, the ‘Egypt 80’ to date. In this interview with Bayo Adeoye, he speaks on his music and lifestyle, amongst other issues.

Why we introduced Chinese language in Lagos schools - Fashola •Marks 2,000 days in office

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Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday, explained the introduction of Chinese language as a subject in schools while thumbing-up, with statistics, the all-inclusive security policy being implemented in the state. He spoke at a gathering on the Lagos Television premises in Ikeja, in commemoration of his 2,000 days in office.

Lagos Politician Killed In Ogun State ( Toyin Hamzat)

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A former Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola, Toyin Hamzat, has been shot dead by yet-to-be-identified gunmen in Ogun State. Hamzat, a former Chairman of Ikeja Local Government Area and a former Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Ministry of Health, was shot in the head on Sunday in Sagamu, Ogun State on Sunday evening. Hamzat was reportedly shot around 9pm on the expressway around Sagamu. He was said to be returning from his country home in the area when he was attacked

30-Year-Old Man Assaults 14-Month-Old Niece

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It was another shocking sight at a residence in Jikwoyi, an Abuja suburb, where a man who simply gave his name as Mr. Peters, disclosed at the weekend, that his 30 year old younger brother molestd his 14 months old daughter.According to sources, the mother of the child normally leaves the baby, name (withheld) with her husband’s younger brother, Steve (not real name) who currently stays with them any time she goes to the market.

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Nigeria Holds Record Of African Country With Highest Private Jet Ownership

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The recent media report that Nigeria is now holding the enviable record of a country with the highest private jet ownership in Africa is unarguably rankling.This untoward development has brought into sharper focus the paradox of a nation that is endowed with huge oil resources but where only a few privileged individuals are wealthy.

Senior Special Adviser To Governor Sullivan Chime Feared Dead

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Mrs. Jane Ugwu, a Senior Special Adviser to Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, died of food poisoning, family sources said on Sunday. According to reports, Ugwu passed on in the wee hours of Thursday [Nov. 15] moments after a meal she allegedly took at a public function in Nsukka area of the state.

Video Shows Nigerian Troops Shooting Captives

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KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters)
November 18, 2012

Avideo obtained by Reuters shows Nigerian troops shooting unarmed captives in broad daylight by the roadside in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the bastion of an Islamist insurgency.

Odi Massacre: How FG Killed Old Men, Women –Jonathan

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 Says no militant died in the military action

By RAZAQ BAMIDELE, NDUBUISI ORJI, CHINELO OBOGO, SAM OTTI (Lagos) and JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE (Abuja)

Several years after the bombardment of Odi Community in Bayelsa State by the military, President Goodluck Jonathan said it did not succeed in curbing militancy in Niger Delta.

Jonathan said rather, it worsened militancy in the region and attracted international outcry against the Federal Government.

Jonathan, who disclosed this yesterday during a presidential media chat in Abuja, also said it was too early for him to declare whether or not he will contest the 2015 election. He said if the military action in Odi had stopped militancy, there would have not been any need for the amnesty programme for militants in the Niger Delta initiated by the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.

Two Drug Traffickers To Spend 14 Years In Prison

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Abuja

Vanguard

By Daniel Eteghe

Two drug traffickers arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) Abuja, will spend the next 14 years in prison.

The convicts, Mbechi Obiageli Susan, 38, and Obiora Boniface Okechukwu, 36, according to Justice Chukwu Evoh of the Federal High Court, Abuja, will spend seven years each in prison over unlawful importation of narcotics. Justice Evoh, in his ruling, said both convicts will serve the prison term for pleading guilty to unlawful importation of narcotics without wasting the time of the court.

He held that the convicts had shown sufficient remorse and that the court expected them to turn a new leaf and contribute to the development of the country after completing their jail terms.

Susan,with Nigerian international passport number A00288396, had claimed she was three months pregnant when stopped for routine search on her way from Sao-Paulo, Brazil. She warned that scanning machine could harm her unborn baby. However, when placed under observation, she excreted 51 pellets of cocaine weighing 900 grammes.

She hails from Oduma village in Enugu State. Okechukwu arrived from Brazil and was arrested for ingesting 91 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.6kg.

Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Giade, asked others to learn from the convicts experience.

“Drug trafficking kills dreams. It is expected that others outside that are contemplating drug trafficking will learn from this sentence and shun the criminal act”, he stated.

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Video: A Lad Uses Trash Materials To Invent Power-Generator, Radio Transmitter, Others

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15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the nickname, DJ Focus.