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Daily Archives: Jul 16, 2011

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Jennifer Lopez And Marc Anthony Split!

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:Entertainment/Music/News

  Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have separated after seven years of marriage. According to Us Weekly, the couple’s rep told the magazine that J.Lo and Marc have decided to end their marriage. The couple released the following statement: &l...

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10 Rescued, 3 Trapped In Fresh Lagos Building Collapse

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News

Barely 11 days after the collapse of a four storey building that killed over 15 people in Lagos State, another building in the late hours of Friday collapsed in the state trapping three people, even as ten people were rescued from the rubbles. LEADERSH...

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Police Bar NASS Members From Swearing-in Ceremony

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

As a result the manhunt for the Boko Haram bombing yesterday, members of the National Assembly from Kaduna State, and some local government chairmen were barred from entering the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Hall where Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa swor...

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Gov Yari Reinstates Emir, Demotes Incumbent To District Head

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State yesterday approved the immediate reinstatement of the deposed Emir of Bakura, Alhaji Bello Sani. The governor also approved the reversion of the appointment of Alhaji Hassan Marafa the incumbent Emir of Bakura a...

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Uduaghan Evacuates Delta Students From Borno

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:Crime/News

Following the spate of bombings by Boko Haram which has claimed many lives and property in some parts of the country, Delta State government has evacuated 585 students who are indigenes of the state from the University Of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Borno Sta...

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Sheriff Knows Nothing On Boko Haram – ANPP

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

The All Nigeria Peoples Party ANPP yesterday reacted to allegations raised by the Board of Trustees (BOT) chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, Gen. Jeremiah Useni and a member of the Borno emirate council, Alhaji Zanna Bukar Umaru Mandara that the...

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Yakowa Swears-in Commissioners

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

At last, Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa yesterday swore-in commissioners and sole administrators of development areas. Charging them to be pivotal of peace and development, Yakowa said, “The main action you are expected to perform ...

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Tribunal Strikes Out Dino Melaye’s Petition

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State yesterday struck out the petition filed by Hon. Dino Melaye, challenging the election of Hon. Tajudeen Ayo Yusuf as member of the House of Representatives. In its ruling in a preliminary obj...

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ACN Slams PDP Over Call For Fashola’s Resignation

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has slammed the PDP for asking Gov. Babatunde Fashola to resign over the recent flooding in the state, describing the call as a failed attempt to make political capital out of an unfortunate situation. In a statemen...

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Pensioners Demand N16,000 Minimum Wage

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:Crime/News

The Nigeria Union of Pensioners has requested for a minimum monthly pension of N16,000 for its members, saying that they also deserve upward review of their monthly pension income. The union, in a communique issued at the end of their council meeting h...

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Tinubu Defends Aregbesola On Non-appointment Of Commissioners

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News

As the controversy of non-appointment of commissioners in Osun State almost 10 months since Rauf Argbesola became governor, former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu has argued that Aregbesola needed enough time to select his team. Speaking at the presi...

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Ogun Advised On Internal Revenue Generation

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:Business/Finance/News

Ogun state government has been advised to look inward in areas of boosting the internally generated revenue (IGR) of the state for it to be able to deliver on its electioneering promises. This advise was given by the state chairman of the Scrap Dealers...

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Boko Haram Wants An Egalitarian Society – Sen. Ida

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

Sen. Ibrahim Ida has called on the federal government and Nigerians to listen to the grievances of the Boko Haram sect. Speaking with journalists, the lawyer also stated that fighting them with arms will not solve the problem. Ruth Choji was there for ...

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We Are Not Aware Of Nigerian Girls Trafficked In Mali —ECOWAS

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

With over 40,000 Nigerian girls held as sex slaves in Mali and other West African countries, Nigerian officials complain of lack of support from these countries in their effeorts to rescuing these girls. In this interview with EZRA IJIOMA, the Economic...

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Boko Haram: Not Looking For Amnesty But Martyrdom

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Jul 16, 2011
  • Post category:News/Politics

Few will argue with the conclusion that most of the challenges being faced by the Nigeria Police are self-inflicted. The officers and men of the force equate the vested interests of the government in power to those of the state. This is why state gover...

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