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RIVERS JET: ATEKE WANTS AMAECHI OUT May 08, 2013 ORMER Niger Delta freedom fighter, Chief Ateke Tom, has called on Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State in Southern Nigeria, to quit his office. NNEWS Correspondent
Nigeria exports religion, India exports cars by AZUKA ONWUKA November 05, 2012 The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonised is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonised in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh. NNEWS iReports   NNEWS Around the Nation - Explosion in Suleja, injures one -- CP February 20, 2012 The police on Sunday said a blast at Morocco road in Suleja town in Niger on Sunday injured one person and destroyed five vehicles Morocco road is at the heart of the commercial area in Suleja. NNEWS Correspondent   NNEWS Around the Nation - 25 yr old man rapes 80yr old grand Mother February 16, 2012 A 25-year-old farmer, Thank God James, has appeared before an Akure Senior Magistrate's Court charged with trespass, rape and attempted armed robbery. NNEWS Correspondent   NNEWS Around the Nation - Jonathan seeks Senate’s permission to borrow $7.9 billion for pipeline projects February 15, 2012 President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in Abuja wrote a letter to the Senate President requesting approval to borrow about $7.9 billion for pipeline projects. NNEWS Correspondent   Saturday Correspondent Report February 11, 2012 A nineteen year-old single mother, Nsidible Effiong, from Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom, has allegedly strangled her three week old baby to death. NNEWS Correspondent   Sultan preaches peace as Islamic group calls for special prayers against same-sex marriage February 10, 2012 The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar III has pledged that the sultanate will go the extra mile to ensure that Nigerians co-exist peaceful, irrespective of their religious or ethnic backgrounds as an Islamic group, Jama’atul Nasril Islam (JNI) calls for special prayers against same-sex marriage in the country. NNEWS Correspondent   1. Nigerian NGO moves to celebrate virgins 2.Minister denies PHCN is responsible for power outage at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport February 10, 2012 1 A Non Governmental Organozation (NGO) `Attitude Productions’, based in Umuahia in the Eastern state of Nigeria, says it will encourage young girls to maintain their virginity as a way of raising moral standards in the society. Mr. Prosper Ekekwe, head of the NGO, told newsmen on Thursday in Umuahia that the group would institutionalise the celebration of a World Purity Day, to be marked every Feb. 10. NNEWS Correspondent   Leadership Failure: Nigerians Are Walking Prisoners In Austria Report by Uzoma Ahamefule February 06, 2012 Mr President Sir, members of the honourable national Assembly and House of Reps, the foreign Affairs Minister and fellow Nigerians, when one extends hands of friendship it is natural that one has exposed oneself to danger. Today not only that I have extended those hands of friendship but I have equally once more exposed my emotions and love to public ridicule and attack because of my affection for Nigeria. NNEWS Correspondent   Committee shifts Ojukwu's burial January 23, 2012 The burial of the late Ikemba of Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has been shifted from February  3 to March 2, the National burial committee, has announced. NNEWS Correspondent   Nigerian Govt. queries nation’s Police Boss over escape of Boko Haram suspect January 20, 2012 The Nigerian government has threatened to sanction the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Hafiz Ringim over his role in the escape of a Boko Haram suspect, Kabiru Sokoto. NNEWS Correspondent   World Bank official advises Nigerian govt, on grassroot development January 20, 2012 A World Bank senior official, Mr. Abubakar Musa has advised the Nigerian government to commit more resources to the development of the rural areas and bring about improvement of the people.Mr. Musa, who works at the World Bank- assisted Community and Social Development Project (CSDP) in Nigeria, gave the advice in Abuja, the nation’s capital city. NNEWS Correspondent   Nigerian Gov. Oshiomhole abolishes fees others, as palliative measure over fuel January 20, 2012 Palliatives Former labour leader and Edo state Governor Adams Oshiomhole has become one of the first Governors in the country to announce palliative policy measures to cushion the effect of the the recent increases in petrol price on the people of the state NNEWS Correspondent   ANEEJ, National Assembly, others attack Petroleum Minister over planned probe of ministry’s activities January 19, 2012 An NGO, `Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) has said rather than EFCC, ``the federal government should institute an independent body to investigate into the books of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). NNEWS Correspondent   Federation Accounts: FG, states, LGs share N559.101bn for December 2011 January 18, 2012 The Minister of State for Finance, Dr Yerima Ngama on Monday announced that the federal, state and local governments shared N559.101 billion from the Federation Account for December 2011. NNEWS Correspondent   Activists advise President Jonathan on PIB January 17, 2012 Two environment activists Rev. David Ogolor of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) and Arc.Nimmo Bassey of Environmental Rights Agenda (ERA have differently offered their pieces of advice to President Goodluck Jonathan on his planned efforts to reform the petroleum sector. NNEWS Correspondent   The Truth About The Oil Minister’s 20 Million Euro Mansion In Vienna, Austria Back and front edition of the newspaper with the unsubstantiated allegation Report by Uzoma Ahamefule uzomaahamefule@yahoo.com. Dear President Goodluck Jonathan and honorable minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke, I am personally very happy about the urgency which this millions of euro mansion allegation in Vienna, Austria has been refuted and taken. Consequently I would want to inform you all, and fellow Nigerians that I went into action immediately after recovering from the shock of hearing that such amount of money had been invested in a foreign land in this manner in search of the truth.   NNEWS Special Report   Exposed: EFCC, Oil Minister Allison Madueke Buys 20 Million Euro Mansion In Vienna, Austria The original text by "Heute" newspaper Report by Uzoma Ahamefule uzomaahamefule@yahoo.com. Mr. President Sir and Fellow Nigerians, it is yet another shame of insult in far away Vienna, Austria, Europe. According to a shocking bomb revelation by a free daily newspaper in Vienna, Austria called “Heute”, there is a secret mansion villa worth 20 million euro bought by the current oil minister Mrs Allison Madueke. The headline reads “ Ministerin aus Hungerland Kauft sich 20-Millonen-Villa in Wien” (Female Minister From Hungerland Buys Herself 20 Million Euro Villa In Vienna). As provoking and insulting as this headline yet I have been forced to swallow my pride to say that I am very grateful to “Heute” for the exposure of this unpatriotic display of the oil minister because her behavior is more provoking and insulting than the headline.   NNEWS Special Report   Buhari On Inconclusive Talks With ACN: Not Time For Blame Still! by Yinka Odumakin. Spokesman for General Buhari. The Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari  has described the  allegation making the rounds that he was responsible for the inability of his party and the ACN to forge an alliance ahead of Saturday polls as baseless and unfounded. NNEWS Special Report   EKITI ACN MEMBERS PROTEST OVER IMPOSITION OF CANDIDATES by Lere Olayinka Hundreds of aggrieved members of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Ekiti State today trooped to the streets in protest against the State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi over alleged imposition of persons,who did not win the recently conducted primaries election. NNEWS Special Report   JONATHAN FLOORS ATIKU, CLINCHES PDP PRESIDENTIAL TICKET by Lere Olayinka January 14, 2011 President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan of Nigeria, this morning emerged the presidential candidate of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), polling 2,736 votes to defeat former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who polled 805 votes. The third contestant, Dr Sarah Jibril scored one vote.  NNEWS Special Report   Speech by President G E JONATHAN at the PDP Convention by Lere Olayinka January 14, 2011 I am here with Arc. Nnamadi Sambo, the Vice_President of this country. Certain things changed the equation. I came into Abuja to work with late President Yar`Adua (but) along the line Allah…you know the rest. NNEWS Special Report   Ekiti Former SSG, Speaker, Others Emerge Pick PDP Reps Ticket by Lere Olayinka January 014, 2011 Immediate past Secretary to the Ekiti State Government, Ambassador Dare Bejide, former Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Olufemi Bamisile and a former lecturer at the State owned University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD), Mr. T.K.O. Aluko were among the six candidates elected as candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2011 House of Representatives election today. NNEWS Special Report   THREE WOMEN, OTHERS EMERGE EKITI PDP HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY CANDIDATES by Lere Olayinka January 04, 2011 Three women and three serving members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, today, picked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) tickets to fly the party’s flag in the 2011 House of Assembly election. NNEWS Special Report   TANKER EXPLOSION KILLS FOUR IN EKITI, RAZES JONATHAN CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR’S HOUSE by Lere Olayinka January 04, 201 No fewer than four people lost their lives in an explosion arising from a fuel tanker accident in Ido-Ekiti, Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State, this morning, while a residential house belonging to the State Coordinator of the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Akinyemi was also razed down. NNEWS Special Report   Celebration galore at All Saints Anglican Church, Hyattsville, MD, USA for Late Clement Layinka (CL) Omidiran of Okemesi by Paul Olatoye November 20, 2010 It was celebration galore at All Saints Anglican Church, Hyattsville, MD, USA; a Church of Nigeria’s Mission in the USA for Late Pa. Clement Layinka Omidiran of Okemesi-Ekiti who died July 18, 2010. NNEWS Investigative Report   Controversies as PDP sweeps Imo LG polls *Presidency faults conduct * Ohakim hails polls, swear in winners     Eze Adiuku reports from Owerri, Imo August 12, 2010 Controversies have continued to trail the last August 7th 2010 local government election in Imo State as citizens, observers, journalists and opposition condemns the whole exercise as a charade.  NNews Investigative Report   N e w s f l a s h ! ! ! Can this happen in Nigeria? German Minister of Transport booked at Traffic checkpoint! Written by Frisky Larr February 07, 2009 As the white sheets rolled out of the fax machine at the newsroom of several media houses in Germany on Thursday, it was no routine process. This specific sheet amongst thousands of fax sheets rolling out each day was a special one. It was addressed from the Ministry of Transport of the Federal State of North Rhine Westphalia - the equivalent of any State in Nigeria.  NNews Investigative Report   Edo State: Lady suspect nabbed by Police in dead Commissioner’s case!!! Written by Frisky Larr April 12, 2008 A lady suspected of spending the last night with the deceased Commissioner of Information of Edo State Calus Enoma has been caught by police following several days of investigations into the sudden death of the Commissioner two weeks ago.  NNews Investigative Report