The absence of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in court yesterday delayed hearing in the suit filed against the possible candidacy of President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 election
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Lagosians recount woes following hours of rainfall that brought hardship to commuters, families WHEN he closed from work at about 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday, Kehinde Jacob hoped he would get to his Ailegun Street, Ejigbo home, barely 12 kilometres from his office in the Isolo area of the Lagos mainland, early enough.
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The House of Representatives yesterday justified its decision to summon President Goodluck Jonathan and service chiefs in the wake of renewed terror attacks in Yobe and Kaduna States.
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CITING constraints posed to sustainable development on the continent by the global financial crisis, migration, rapid urbanisation, energy and food crises, low resistance to natural disasters, desertification and the loss of the eco-system caused by climate change, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday charged the developed countries of the World to increase their aid overtures to African nations.
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DESPITE a round-the-clock curfew imposed by the state government, pockets of violence lingered yesterday in Kaduna as some armed youths attacked residents holed up in their homes. The attacks occurred in Malali, Barnawa, Ungwar Doza, Mararaba Rido, Sabo and Narayi areas of the state capital.
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MASS arrest and parade of suspects, who confessed to one role or the other in the current insurgency in the North, were among the feats recorded by security forces yesterday.
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The Federal Government has sent the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency, NOA, Mr. Mike Omeri, to religious leaders in Plateau and other Middle Belt states with the aim of dousing the religious crises occasioned by suicide bomb attacks on churches as well as the reprisal attacks by Christians.
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THE Senate, yesterday, ordered that the Chairman, Pension Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Abdullahi Maina, John Yusuf, B.G. Kaigama and all the members of the team be sacked, and that the Inspector-General of Police Abubakar Mohammed must immediately arrest and prosecute them.
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Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, expressed the willingness of the commission to de-register more moribund political parties.
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Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Emmanuel Ayeni, has said the threat of further bombings in the state by the Boko Haram sect was real, urging citizens to be vigilant and security-conscious.
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