Nigeria: Why People Still Prefer Holding Their Newspaper Than Reading It Online
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-11 23:38:13 -0700 | technology-news
Unlike in the U.S where Pew's biennial study of news consumption habits says more Americans get news online than from newspapers, in this clime, more Nigerians still stick to the newspaper press and would want to hold on to it...
Nigeria: Jonathan's Transformation Agenda Has Destroyed Nigeria - Buhari
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-12 00:46:08 -0700 | political-news
Mr. Buhari also warned that Nigerians would no longer tolerate malpractices and general impunity on the part of the country's leadership during future elections. He spoke at the mid-term national convention of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, at Eagles...
Africa: Nigeria to Host 2014 World Economic Forum On Africa
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-11 08:52:01 -0700 | political-news
Cape Town (south Africa) Nigeria is to host the 24th edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Abuja next year. The Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, made the announcement at...
Nigeria: Jonathan Orders Probe of Bama, Nasarawa Killings
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-11 08:52:00 -0700 | political-news
He gave the instruction after hosting an emergency meeting of the National Security Council in the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja where he received further briefings from security chiefs on the killings. Also yesterday, the federal government officially reacted to the...
Court "bombed"Nigerian lawmaker over Farouk Lawal allege $620,000 subsidy bribe
Posted by: eeudomyahoocom
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-10 09:36:04 -0700 | education-news
By EMMANUEL UDOM The moves by a lawmaker in Nigeria to dismiss bribery charges against Farouk Lawan and Boniface Emenalo, has grumbled like a pack of badly arranged cards. Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi of an Abuja high court on Friday dismissed...
Nigeria: Ex-Militants Vow to Storm National Assembly Over Order to Probe Kuku, Dokubo
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-10 09:12:20 -0700 | political-news
They accused the legislature of harassment the duo over their comments that there could be crisis in President Goodluck Jonathan did not get a second term in 2015. According to them, the House order is unjustified given the fact that...
Dozens of policemen killed in Nigerian cult ambush
Posted by: aymaan30
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-13 01:11:24 -0700 | disasters-news
A local Nigerian "cult" militia massacred dozens of police officers in an ambush in the central Nasarawa state, according to reports. Gunmen owing allegiance to the outlawed Ombatse cult attacked the officers while they were on their war to arrest...
THREAT TO DIVIDE NIGERIA IN 2015
Posted by: ADEPOJU OLUWASEUN
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-12 03:23:39 -0700 | political-news
In the past few days, the country has witnessed threat of division from southern and northern power drunk politicians, who has keen interest in political power than to improvise strategies that would lead to the betterment of over 150 million...
Nigeria military helicopter crashes in oil delta
Source: Boston.com
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-09 06:35:44 -0700 | travel-news
Nigeria (AP) A Nigerian military helicopter has crashed in the country's oil-rich southern delta, just days after one of its jets crashed. A statement from Nigeria's Air Force said the crash happened Thursday morning at its base in Port Harcourt...
Sectarian extremists killed 23 policemen in Nigeria
Posted by: rsa76
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-11 08:52:01 -0700 | disasters-news
"The members of the sect" Ombatsi "(Ombatse) attacked a unit of 60 police officers in an ambush. They opened fire and killed 23 of them, and their bodies burned," - said the head of the state police Nasarawa Akeremale Abayomi...
Nigeria: Many Killed in Benue Herdsmen Attack, 20 Policemen Killed in Nasarawa
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-09 03:29:26 -0700 | disasters-news
Suswan disclosed this to State House correspondents in Abuja after a closed-door meeting with Vice President Namadi Sambo at the Presidential Villa. He said he was in Abuja to brief the vice president on the security situation in his state...
Nigeria: Corruption Body Arrests Ex-Governor Timipre Sylva in Abuja
Source: Africa Headlines
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-08 23:02:19 -0700 | political-news
The anti-graft agency has, in a statement, warned that it would no longer tolerate the antics of suspects who treat its invitation with levity. Mr Wilson Uwujaren, said the commission's operatives on arrival at Sylva's house at about 10am were...
Ferguson's Retirement Shocks Manchester United's Global Fans
Source: International Herald Tribune
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-08 09:09:17 -0700 | sports-news
Nigeria, they say, has almost as many Manchester United fans as there are Canadians on the planet - 33 million. Such a figure is hard to verify, but a big contingent of the English soccer team's huge global following undoubtedly...
Killing at least 55 people in Nigeria in attacks by Boko Haram
Posted by: Fury60
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-11 09:21:54 -0700 | political-news
Army spokesman in Nigeria said that 55 people died in the attack carried out by the organization of radical Islamic Boko Haram, to the east of the country. The attack targeted a prison in the state of Borno, where 105...
Full sovereignty to Argentina, Mauritius and Comoros
Source: Scoop
Abuja :: Nigeria | updated 2013-05-07 20:02:03 -0700 | political-news
South America (ASA) that recognizes the legitimate rights of Argentina in the dispute on the sovereignty of the Falkland /Malvinas islands and reaffirms that the Chagos Archipelago forms an integral part of the territory of Mauritius and that Mayotte island...
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