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Monthly Archives: January 2012

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6 Children Killed As Fire Guts Granary

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:Health/News

Six children were killed in a fire on Friday in Dagoni village, Kaita local government area of Katsina State. A relation of one of the deceased, Malam Danjuma Mohammadu, said on Saturday in Dagoni that the inferno occurred at about 4.30 p.m. in a grana...

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‘Lost’ Actor Akinnuoye-Agbaje: Proudly Nigerian

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:Entertainment/Movies/News

British-born actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje came late to screen acting and made his movie debut in Congo (1995). He has since appeared in The Mummy Returns (2001) and The Bourne Identity (2002), but he is best known as Simon Adebisi in the edgy HBO-TV ...

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Boko Haram Attacks: Soldiers On Patrol Of Kano Streets

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:Crime/News

Soldiers have been deployed to major streets in Kano to enhance security following the multiple explosions in the city on Friday. The State Government on Friday imposed 24-hour curfew on the state as part of measures to forestall further attacks. Armed...

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JTF Confirms 2 Explosions In Bayelsa

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:Crime/News

The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in Bayelsa has confirmed that two explosions rocked parts of Yenagoa at about midnight on Friday. The JTF spokesman, Lt.-Col. Timothy Antigha, said on Saturday that there were dynamite explosions in certain parts of ...

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2012: Okagbare’s Great Expectations

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:News/Other Sports/Sports

Beijing long jump bronze medalist, Blessing Okagbare, has high expectations for the coming season, and not just because it’s an Olympic year. Last year was a difficult one with injury dampening the expectations of an athlete who until then had be...

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Enugu Traders Count Losses As Fire Wreaks Havoc

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:Features/News

Many traders at the Eke Obinagu market in Enugu East Local Government Area of Enugu state lose millions of naira at the beginning of each year to strange fire incidents, and this year is not an  exception.  The  only difference is that t...

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Armed Robbery Kingpin Dies Of Suspected Gun Shot Injuries

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:Crime/News

Police in Funtua local government area of Katsina State on Friday arrested a suspected armed robbery kingpin, Tasi’u Bommalli, who later died of gun shot injuries on their way to the hospital. It will be recalled that the police on Monday during ...

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PDP Panel Cancels Election In 3 Wards In Cross River

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

The PDP Electoral Panel for Delegates Election in Cross River has announced the  cancellation of elections in three wards due to irregularities. The Chairman,  Mr Mohammed Wakil, stated this in Calabar  while briefing the media on the pr...

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The Fury And Drama Of Nigeria’s Shameful Subsidy

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

Deputy Editor, SONI DANIEL, examines the drama, the fury and the intrigues that have been thrown up by the ongoing probe of key government agencies involved in the rape of the nation in the name of fuel subsidy.  He reports that the revelations em...

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Boko Haram Escapee : IG Gets Reprieve As NSA Sets Up Probe Panel

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

Reprieve came the way of the embattled inspector- general of police, Hafiz Ringim yesterday following the expiration of the 24-hour ultimatum he had to produce the escaped Boko Haram suspect, Kabiru Sokoto. Contrary to expectations that the police boss...

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Accept Postings Or Quit, Nnaji Warns PHCN Staff

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:News

Staff of the PHCN headquarters have been asked to either proceed on transfers or quit the job. Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji stated this yesterday at the opening of the power sector retreat in Abuja. He said the workers were being paid for doing...

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Fake Air Force Officer Nabbed Over NAF Recruitment

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:Crime/News

The Nigeria Air Force (NAF) yesterday paraded a 33-year-old Mohammed Musa in Kaduna for impersonating as an air force officer with the rank of a group captain, alongside one other fake lance corporal for selling fake air force recruitment forms to unsu...

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Boko Haram: Police Arrest 10 Foreigners

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:Crime/News

Ten foreigners suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect have been arrested by the Benue State police command. The suspects, who were arrested in various parts of Makurdi, were said to be staying in places that could not be easily identified. The ...

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Reps: Minority Whip Faults Deployment Of Soldiers To Lagos

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

The Minority Whip in the House of Representatives, Hon. Samson Osagie, has condemned the deployment of soldiers to some states in the South West, particularly Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States. The member stated this in a press statement made available to LEA...

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NDCC Threatens To Shut Down Oil Installations

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jan 21, 2012
  • Post category:News

Niger-Delta Coastal Communities (NDCC)  has threatened to shut down oil installations as more communities continue to be affected by the Bonga oil spill. Communities affected were as at Thursday reported to have risen to 84. This was made known by...

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