Insurgents belonging to the dreaded Islamist group, Boko Haram, have killed Captain Benjamin Sule, a Nigerian army officer who just wedded eight months ago. A close military friend of the late Captain Sule told SaharaReporters that Boko Haram gunmen killed the young, newly wed officer in an attack on a military contingent over the weekend. “Captain Sule was killed in …
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The Lebanese army sent reinforcements to Arsal, where Sunni Muslim support for the uprising across the border in Syria is strong France says that it is to speed up the delivery of weapons to the Lebanese army, in response to the rising violence in the country. In the latest clash, gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying soldiers in the …
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A 72-hour humanitarian truce is holding in Gaza, halting four weeks of conflict that has claimed more than 1,900 lives. Israel and Gaza militants maintained fire up until the truce started at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT). Israel says it has withdrawn all forces to positions outside Gaza, and some residents there are now returning to discover the fate of …
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In a nation (Nigeria) where most politicians see politics as an avenue to defraud the people who elected them and whom they swore to represent conscientiously, there are still few who try every day with the interests of the generality of the public in their hearts to deliver the great dividends of democracy. Alltimepost.com has created a column: Good Governance …
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Benin, Edo State, Nigeria – By Sonde Ojeikere. As the dust over the agitations for the removal of the Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Benin, Edo State Most Reverend Augustine Akubueze seems to be abating, another crisis is apparently brewing at the Iguobazuwa Catholic Deanery. Insider sources told Alltimepost.com in Benin City that the brewing crisis, if not urgently …
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Asaba, Delta State Nigeria – By Sonde Ojeikere. The Ibori/Uduaghan political dynasty may be heading on a collision course with President Goodluck Jonathan over the choice of who succeeds Dr. Uduaghan in 2015 as the Governor of Delta State. Insider’s source said it is a situation now threatening the once savoring relationship between Dr. Uduaghan and President Jonathan. It was …
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By Gbenga Olarinoye & Dapo Akinrefon. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted Nigerians to what it described as a plan involving an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwarts to rig Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Osun State. INEC immediately dismissed the allegation. The allegation came on a day the APC also said …
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Newly-appointed Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, today assumed office, promising to intensify the fight against crime in Nigeria. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan tipped Mr. Abba, a former Assistant Inspector General of Police, to succeed Mohammed Abubakar as the new head of the Nigerian police. Mr. Abba becomes the 17th Nigerian Inspector General of Police. Mr. Abubakar served as the head of the …
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Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria – By Sunny Ojeihomon. It was chaotic last weekend in Asaba, the Delta State capital, when the Special Adviser on Intergovernmental Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Mariam Ali, and the State Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Peter Nwaobosyi, engaged in a free-for-all fight at the secretariat of the party. The secretariat was …
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President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s General Managing Director, Andrew Yakubu and replaced him with Dr Joseph Thlama Dawha. According to a State House Press Release, President Jonathan approved the following appointments and changes in the management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC): 1. Dr Joseph Thlama Dawha …
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