CONTROVERSIES are spicy alternatives to the daily tedium of reports of deaths, scandals, government inactions and the pictures of a future tarred with bleakness. When the news broke that Dame Patience Jonathan was promoted permanent secretary in the Bayelsa Civil Service, many were shocked.
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President Goodluck Jonathan Tueasdy absolved the religious sect, Boko Haram of the recent spate of violence in Riyom and Barkin Ladi Local Government Areas in Plateau State, which resulted in the death of Senator Gyang Dantong, Hon. Gyang Fulani and more than 100 other people.
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A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the police and prison authorities to arrest and remand the factional leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State who were sentenced to six months imprisonment for contempt.
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Against the assertion that no life was lost in last Saturday’s flooding in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, three corpses were recovered at Dandaru Dam, near the Cultural Centre on Tuesday.
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The House of Representatives committee that investigated the “near collapse” of the capital market yesterday presented its report in which it called for the prosecution of suspended director general of the Securities and Exchange Commission Arunma Oteh over alleged misconduct and fraud.
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ABUJA—SENATORS, yesterday, expressed indignation that Nigeria was now importing petroleum products from its northern neighbour, Niger.
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The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee, which investigated the "near collapse of the Nigerian capital market", Tuesday recommended that Mrs. Cecilia Ibru and Erastus Akingbola, former Managing Directors of the defunct Oceanic Bank International Plc and Intercontinental Bank Plc, respectively, be stripped of their national honours.
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British lawmakers tore into the chief executive of the security contractor that will be unable to deliver enough guards for the Olympic Games, forcing Nick Buckles to agree Tuesday that the fiasco is "a humiliating shambles.
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The African Union has elected Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to lead the 54-nation bloc after a hotly contested election. The 63-year-old South African home affairs minister is the first woman to hold the post and is the ex-wife of South African President Jacob Zuma.
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A 10-year-old boy has died after a rocket was fired at a school in the Nigerian city of Jos but missed and hit a nearby building, officials say
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