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By Isaiah Benjamin, Former head of state and 2011 presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) General Muhammadu Buhari has said that the opposition parties would not disappoint Nigerians if given the mandate to rule in 2015. He … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party, Congress for Progressive Change, Kaduna, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Nigerian, People Democratic Party
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The Federal Government today said it has decided to concession the Abuja and Lagos National stadias to private companies that can manage it. This was disclosed by the Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi while briefing journalists after the weekly Federal … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, Pan African News, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Enugu, Enugu State, IndepthAfrica, Kaduna, Lagos, Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, State Government
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Addis Fortune Nigerian domestic flyer, Chanchangi Airlines, has failed to make payments to Ethiopian Airlines for maintenance services The charge by Ethiopian Airlines against a Nigerian domestic flyer, Chanchangi Airlines, which failed to pay 14 million Br for maintenance services … read more »
By Odimegwu Onwumere When a former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu offered on November 12, 2012, to negotiate the end of insurgency in the northern part of the country on Federal Government’s (FG) behalf, many Nigerians took … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, Igbo, IndepthAfrica, Kaduna, Kano, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Orji Uzor Kalu
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Joseph Wayas Second Republic Senate President, Chief Joseph Wayas, has said that since. The Nigerian does not provide for any president to rule for more than eight years, President Goodluck Jonathan is automatically disqualified from the 2015 presidential race. Senator … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Wayas, Kaduna, Liberty Radio, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Peruvian Democratic Party, Senate President, Vice President of the United States
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On Sunday, February 10, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nigeria’s national football (soccer) team, the Super Eagles, beat the Burkina Faso Stallions 1-0 to win the prestigious African Cup of Nations title. Back home in Nigeria, the Super Eagles’ victory came … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Africa Nations Cup, Boko Haram, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Johannesburg, Kaduna, miss world, Moses, Nigeria, Nigeria national football team, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Super Eagle, Victor Moses
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By Zainab Sandah Ethnicity and religion are not predetermined; we are not born, do not possess an innate sense of ethnic or religious affiliation, we become Yoruba, Christian, Hausa or Kataf largely as a factor of geographical, ancestral, and societal … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Hausa, IndepthAfrica, Kaduna, Kano, Kano State, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Northern Nigeria, Sharia
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18 year old Ibrahim Mohammed Alilullah of Ilobu village in Ilobu LGA of Osun state and 50 year old yam hawker from Jalingo in Taraba state, Mohammed Ibrahim Idris, were on Friday paraded by the Department of State Security Service, … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja Nigeria, Armed Forces Command and Staff College, bokoharam, Catholic Church, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Sports, Jaji, Jaji Kaduna State, Jalingo, Kaduna, Nigeria State Security Service, State Security Service, Suicide attack, Taraba State, Yobe State
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Chelsea winger Victor Moses, who fled to England after his parents were killed in sectarian riots, hopes to crown his debut at the Africa Cup of Nations by helping Nigeria win the trophy. Moses has come a long way since … read more »
Posted in 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Nigeria, Soccer, Sports, West Africa
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Tagged 2013 africa cup of nations 2010, 2013 africa cup of nations bids shortlist, 2013 africa cup of nations draw, 2013 africa cup of nations final round draw, 2013 africa cup of nations history, 2013 africa cup of nations qualification, 2013 africa cup of nations wiki, 2013 Nations Cup, africa cup of nations 2012 fixtures, africa cup of nations 2012 live, africa cup of nations 2012 schedule, africa cup of nations 2013, africa cup of nations fixtures, africa cup of nations qualifiers, africa cup of nations website, africa cup of nations winners, Africa Nations Cup, african cup of nations 2013 fixtures, Chelsea FC, Kaduna, Moses, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Premier League, Victor Moses
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The recent “carrot and stick” approach recommended by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the solution of the Boko Haram insurgency should be taken seriously by President Goodluck Jonathan. Till date, among all our past leaders, Obasanjo has continuously shown concern, … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, GoodluckJonathan, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica ghana news, Jonathan, Kaduna, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Obasanjo, Olusegun Obasanjo
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KANO, Nigeria — Nigeria’s military on Sunday claimed to have arrested a key member of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram after a reward of some $160,000 had recently been offered for his capture. A military task force in the country’s … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, bokoharam, GoodluckJonathan, Kaduna, Kano, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nigeria claims arrest of key Boko Haram, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Potiskum
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One of the sad characteristics of the leaders and governments in Nigeria is that they never learn from tragedies. This is why preventable tragedies such as the recent Augusta 109 Helicopter crash reoccur frequently, often with greater intensity and costs. … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Aviation accidents and incidents, Bayelsa State, IndepthAfrica, Kaduna, List of Governors of Kaduna State, National Security Advisor (United States, Nigeria, Nigerian news, official, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa
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President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday assured Nigerians of better days ahead saying his administration will ensure that 2013 becomes better for the nation than the outgoing 2012. Speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of the Living Faith Foundation … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged God, Goodluck Jonathan, GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, Job (biblical figure), Jonathan, Kaduna, new year, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian, Nigerian news, Nigerian President
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Remarks By His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR On The Occasion Of The Launch Of The 2013 Armed Forces Remembrance Day Emblem And Appeal Fund For The 2013 Celebration, Abuja, December 18, 2012 Protocol 1.I welcome you to the … read more »
Former Military Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar has again warned that the current insecurity in the country is affecting the economy of the nation especially in the northern part. Abdulsalami Abubabakar who spoke in Minna Niger state on today … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abdulsalami Abubakar, Head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, IndepthAfrica, Kaduna, Niger, Niger State, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa
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Kaduna — Alhaji Mukhtar Yero was on Sunday sworn-in as the new Governor of Kaduna State by the state Chief Judge, Justice Rahila Cudjo. The ceremony conducted at Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, Kaduna was witnessed by members of the … read more »
The governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state has been killed in a helicopter crash in the southern delta region along with other senior officials, his party says. Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa and former national security adviser Gen Owoye Azazi were on … read more »
MILITARY authorities on Friday in Kaduna said they had discovered a two-bedroom bungalow in Zaria where Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) were manufactured, insisting that they would continue to demolish such buildings used as bomb factories. They also disclosed that following … read more »
Former Head of State and national leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammad Buhari (rtd) has lost his first daughter. Zulai Buhari passed on Thursday evening at Nasara Hospital, Marafa Estate, Kaduna two days after giving birth … read more »
At least one explosion ripped through a church in a military barracks in northern Nigeria on Sunday, the army said, with reports that a number of people had been wounded. “There was a blast today in a church inside the … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Agence France-Presse, Barracks, Boko Haram, Christian, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria, Nigerian news
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A local official says at least four people have died in riots that erupted in central Nigeria after a Muslim was killed at an illegal checkpoint. Local government chairman Isiaku Adamu said rioters burned houses and shops Sunday in Ibi, … read more »
By Kabir Mato,Daily Trust opinion There is a growing theory emerging amongst several elites of Northern extraction. They allege that the violence that seems unabated in several parts of the region is merely precipitated by the powers that be in … read more »
Two suicide bombers drove vehicles packed with explosives into a Catholic church in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing and wounding several, witnesses said. The bombers both managed to get inside the packed St Monica’s church, in volatile ethnically and religiously … read more »
Gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshipers on Sunday as they were leaving a mosque in northern Nigeria, killing at least 20 people, a local official said. The attack happened in a remote village called Dogo Dawa, in Kaduna state, said … read more »
Witnesses say a powerful explosion has shaken a city in northeast Nigeria that’s the spiritual home of a radical Islamist sect. The blast Monday morning struck Maiduguri at a military post near the local headquarters of the Nigeria Union of … read more »
(AP) — Officials say a bomb detonated in northern Nigeria near an Islamic boarding school, causing unknown casualties. Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency, said the bomb blew up Sunday morning in Zaria, a city in … read more »
NIGERIAN soldiers have shot dead a suspected media spokesman for Islamist militant group Boko Haram and another high-ranking member, a military official and a security source say. Troops involved in the operation on the outskirts of the city of Kano … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged 0, Abuja, Abul Qaqa, bokoharam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica African news, Islamism, Kaduna, Kano, Nigeria
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Abba Mahmood,Leadership opinion During the Ramadan fast, precisely in the first week of August 2012, I read in the papers that the Zamfara State government had spent a whopping N2.7bn for the fasting period! I began to wonder if that … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Bayelsa State, Indepth Africa Magazine, Kaduna, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ramadan, Zamfara State
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A bomb explosion has occurred in Kaduna metropolis, killing at least four people. The explosion occurred along Ali Akilu road between Abakpa Total/Shagalinku within the metropolis. The explosive device, a security source said, exploded accidentally in the hands of two … read more »
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By Nasiru Suleiman On Sunday July 22, 2012, I was at the ECWA Church, Angwar Rimi Hausa section in Kaduna. It was the rounding-off of the Children’s Week of prayers and to celebrate the day, the children lined up some … read more »
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