Eighteen Civil Society Organisations, led by the African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice and End Impunity Now Campaign on Thursday in Abuja protested against the continued detention of the Executive Director of ANEEJ, Mr. David Ugolor, by the Police.
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Eighteen Civil Society Organisations, led by the African Network for Environmental and Economic Justice and End Impunity Now Campaign on Thursday in Abuja protested against the continued detention of the Executive Director of ANEEJ, Mr. David Ugolor, by the Police.
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communities of Plateau State rose from a meeting with President Jonathan late Wednesday calling on government to disregard the reports of state inquiry commissions and instead implement reports of Federal panels on the crises in the state.
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The competence of the pilot of the crashed Dana Air plane was a subject of controversy on Thursday during the proceedings of a Coroner’s inquest into the deaths that resulted from the incident in Iju-Ishaga, Lagos State on June 3.
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Okonjo-Iweala, accompanied by the Minister of State, Finance, Yerima Ngama, and Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, said at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that the cabinet discussed a memorandum on the 2013-2015 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper.
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Okonjo-Iweala, accompanied by the Minister of State, Finance, Yerima Ngama, and Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, said at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting that the cabinet discussed a memorandum on the 2013-2015 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper.
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Former military president Ibrahim Babangida has responded to the statement credited to Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark that he (Babangida) is partly responsible for the Boko Haram menace in the country, saying the statement is not only in bad taste but also misguided.
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Perhaps more than at any other time in our history, Nigerians studying medicine in our universities are passing through harrowing times. Everywhere you look in the media there are tales of woe, and the major sticking point is the increasing cases of withdrawal of accreditation to universities by the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council (NMDC).
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A Nigerian player, Henry Chinonso Ihelewere, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during a friendly match between Romanian second division teams CS Delta Tulcea and FC Balotesti on Sunday. Delta’s Ihelewere, 21, collapsed with no-one around him only 15 minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute. The game was played in the town of Baltoesti, north of Bucharest.
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Detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, Lagos, are currently investigating a teacher, Patience Orunma, for allegedly defiling a three-year-old pupil at a private school in Berger, Ojodu in Lagos State. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victim’s mother spotted blood in the pupil’s private part on June 21 when bathing her.
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