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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Nigeria Sun.com http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/8db1f72cde37faf3/ en-us Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:23:47 -0500 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:23:47 -0500 30 Witnesses say two separate explosions rocked the central Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday, including one near a military base. http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203312751/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:15:11 -0500 VoA - News http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203312751/cs/1/ Bombs exploded at two major military bases on the outskirts of a central Nigerian city at the heart of ethnic and religious unrest in Africa's most populous nation, injuring an unknown number ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325740/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:58:30 -0500 Mail and Guardian http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325740/ ABU DHABI - Etihad Airways on Monday announced the launch of flights to Lagos, the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325736/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:55:27 -0500 Khaleej Times http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325736/ KANO, Nigeria, Feb 8, 2012 (IPS) - "I can no longer stay here in Kano as it rains bombs. The gun battles rattle us Kano is no longer safe," said pregnant Funke Nweke of her decision to ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203324469/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:51:41 -0500 IPS http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203324469/ Agip pipeline in southern Bayelsa state, but the military said the statement was a fraud. "People who were the leadership of MEND are now responsible members of the society, having accepted ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325737/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:13:12 -0500 General Sources http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325737/ suicide bomber disguised in military uniform was killed on Tuesday when his car bomb exploded under fire from soldiers outside a military base in ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325739/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:12:55 -0500 General Sources http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325739/ NAIROBI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economic indicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets on Wednesday. - - - - ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325743/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:01:33 -0500 Reuters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325743/ NEW DELHI Feb 8 (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel's stake in its Nigerian unit is "completely safe" and the world's fifth-biggest mobile phone carrier by subscribers has appealed ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325744/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:01:31 -0500 Reuters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325744/ BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE & DAPO AKINREFON LAGOS -- EMINENT Nigerians, yesterday, rose from their two-day dialogue in Lagos, insisting that there is no going back on national conference if the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325741/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:56:02 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325741/ By VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA-- THE Anambra State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka yesterday ruled that the police forensic expert brought by the former Minister of Information and ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325742/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:56:00 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203325742/ A blast rocked an area near a military barracks in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Tuesday but the cause of the explosion and number of casualties were not immediately clear, an official ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203316982/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:01:59 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203316982/ By SaharaReporters, New York The army authorities at the 1st Division Nigerian Army, Kaduna, says that the Boko Haram suicide bombers that attacked the Nigerian Army base today waged the attack with ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318460/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:20:34 -0500 Sahara Reporters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318460/ By CPJ Blog New York, February 7, 2012--Nigerian authorities have locked reporters based at the country's biggest airport out of their press center and withheld their equipment since Saturday, ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318459/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:20:34 -0500 Sahara Reporters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318459/ NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Brent oil rose slightly on Tuesday and U.S. crude jumped more than 1.5 percent, bolstered by an unplanned outage at a Canadian oil sands plant and optimism about an ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318457/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:42 -0500 Reuters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318457/ KAMPALA Feb 7 (Reuters) - A bill that would make the death sentence mandatory for gays who are "repeat offenders" was reintroduced in Uganda's parliament on Tuesday, a move likely ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318458/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:37 -0500 Reuters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318458/ EXPLOSIONS have rocked an army barracks, a bridge and an air base in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, a set of co-ordinated attacks claimed by the Islamist group Boko ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318456/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:51:30 -0500 News.com.au http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318456/ By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN--AGAINST the backdrop of continued call by some prominent Nigerians for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, to address the deluge of problems ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318441/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:36 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318441/ By CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI--The remains of 36-year-old Uche Alaribe, who was recently kidnapped and murdered by kidnappers who collected N3 million from the family, have been interred in his country ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318442/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:34 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318442/ By Evelyn Usman LAGOS -- The Police in Lagos, yesterday, said it was too early to say whether killers of a female banker on Sunday, in Ajao Estate, Lagos, were hired assassins, saying ongoing ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318443/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:32 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318443/ By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA--The Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, Gbenga Obadara has called for resignation of the Minister for Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318446/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:30 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318446/ By Adekunle Adekoya & Emmanuel Elebeke Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC. Dr. Eugene Juwah has said that broadband is the next phase of telecommunication ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318445/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:28 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318445/ By Rotimi Fasan IN the last two weeks or thereabout I have been compelled to address a matter that I'm sure columnists and others who frequently write have to face: the question of what ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318444/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:26 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318444/ By TONY EDIKE ENUGU--THE Federal Government is considering the request by some state governments to refund N350 billion spent on rehabilitating dilapidated federal roads in their areas. Minister ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318447/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:23 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318447/ By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate for this Saturday's governorship election in Bayelsa State Barrister Serikae Dickson was unveiled to the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318448/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:21 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318448/ By GBENGA ARIYIBI ADO EKITI--The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mr. Adewale Omirin, has assured that the House was not contemplating the suspension of the two Peoples Democratic ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318450/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:19 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318450/ By Johnbosco Agbakwuru CALABAR--Labour Party in Cross River State has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to introduce electronic voting system through the use of Direct ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318449/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:17 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318449/ By Mitaire Ikpen ABUJA--Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has bemoaned the prevalence of torture and unlawful detention beyond the stipulated 24 hours by the Nigeria Police ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318451/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:12 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318451/ By Emeka Aginam The Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS) has among other things advocated the passage of cyber security legislation to provide legal backing and confidence to fighting cyber crime. ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318452/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:11 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318452/ By TONY NYONG UYO--The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal of Akwa Ibom State, sitting in Uyo, yesterday, insisted on hearing the petition brought before it by Senator John James Akpan Udoedehe ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318453/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:07 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318453/ By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN--EDO State Governor, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has expressed dismay over the increasing cases of infant mortality in the state and promised to ensure that modern facilities ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318455/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:45:05 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203318455/ Some 400 children have been killed and many more are at risk after the world's worst lead poisoning epidemic in northern Nigeria. The Human Rights Watch has confirmed that despite warnings two ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203316956/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:31:02 -0500 BBC http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203316956/ ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203316989/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:41:17 -0500 Voice Of America http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203316989/ LAGOS, Nigeria -; Bomb blasts struck Tuesday near army and air force bases on the outskirts of the central Nigerian city at the heart of riots last year that killed hundreds, officials said. The ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308544/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:14:20 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308544/ UN leader Ban Ki-moon is "appalled" by the wave of bomb attacks in Nigeria and called for transparent investigations into the scores of deaths, his spokesman said.0 Ban "condemns in ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308755/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:05:29 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308755/ Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan is treating the country's corruption- infested and notoriously inefficient oil industry as a voodoo surgeon would a gangrened leg: sprinkling herbs instead ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203306865/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:05:24 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203306865/ LAGOS, Nigeria -- An international watchdog said Tuesday it will cost about $4 million to clean up toxic lead and secure mines in northern Nigeria, where activists say "the worst outbreak of ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308733/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:02:46 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308733/ Chika Odunze t is sad to see Nigeria going up in flames. Very disheartening to see how religion is destroying Nigeria. My question is, can one live a moral life with religion? If yes, why the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308778/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:22:27 -0500 Sahara Reporters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308778/ By By Shagari Sumner Sambo The 1 Division Army headquarters, Kaduna is the home of the former West Africa Frontier Force, WAFF set up by the British to help mobilize Nigerians and other West ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310288/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:22:26 -0500 Sahara Reporters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310288/ The explosion in the city of Kaduna overnight caused an unknown number of injuries, said Yushau Shuaib, a spokesman for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency.Mr Shuaib said officials ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310278/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:07:25 -0500 General Sources http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310278/ * Qua Iboe around dated plus $2.60-$2.70, steady * Nigerian market adjusting to reduced U.S. demand * India's IOC has buy tender running LONDON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Nigerian crude oil ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310286/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:53:31 -0500 Reuters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310286/ Nigerian police after Boko Haram violence. Abuja (dpa) – Three people have died in a fresh wave of bomb blasts and gun attacks that targeted two northern Nigerian cities, police said ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308776/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:24:22 -0500 bikyamasr http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308776/ Multiple explosions on Tuesday rocked Kaduna military formations. The first explosion occurred at the 1 division Army headquarters, when a suicide bomber in a Sienna car heading towards the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310265/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:22:35 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310265/ A few years ago, when things were not nearly as bad as they are now - a young man in the context of a conversation whose details have evaporated like the heat from a plate of food, said quite ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310266/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:22:32 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310266/ VISA processing and issuance procedures have become a major source of capital flight as Nigeria loses N3.6 billion through a web of criminal conspiracy between officials of government, embassy staff ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310268/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:22:29 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310268/ Maiduguri - To overcome Boko Haram insurgency and insecurity of lives and property in Borno State, Governor Kashim Shettima is to embark on a massive job creation through infrastructural development ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310270/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:22:20 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310270/ The troubled Nigeria Premier League (NPL) has said it will begin an inquest into an alleged N12 million (about $75 000) fraud. The NPL acting executive secretary, Tunji Babalolam said that, ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310273/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:22:15 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310273/ Professor Sam Aluko, one of Nigeria's foremost economists has died at the age of 83. Aluko passed away on Tuesday, in a hospital in the United Kingdom. He died from an undisclosed ailment. ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310272/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:22:13 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310272/ The National Automotive Council (NAC) is partnering with an automobile company to set up a recycling plant for "End of Life Vehicles (ELV)" in Nigeria. A statement by Mr John Gbassa, the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310271/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:22:11 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203310271/ Abuja - Presidency, yesterday, said there was no reason for Nigerians to embark on panic-buying of petrol as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had adequate stock to serve the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308742/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:21:06 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203308742/ French oil major Total reported Tuesday that the second phase of the Ofon field development, offshore Nigeria, has begun. Construction and installation contracts have been awarded for Ofon Phase 2, ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301492/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:01:18 -0500 Rigzone http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301492/ Nigeria 's Zamfara state, a local police chief said on Friday. "Gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers, attacked some local traders on their way back from a market in neighbouring Katsina ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301498/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:55:58 -0500 Daily Nation http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301498/ LAGOS, Nigeria -; Explosions struck Tuesday near army and air force bases on the outskirts of the central Nigerian city at the heart of riots last year that killed hundreds, officials said. The ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301500/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:36:30 -0500 CTV http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301500/ By Human Rights Watch (Lagos, February 7, 2012) – Thousands of children in northern Nigeria need immediate medical treatment and dozens of villages remain contaminated two years into the worst ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301535/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:19:13 -0500 Sahara Reporters http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301535/ French supermajor Total said it was moving ahead with plans to develop an oil field off the coast Nigeria in a sustainable manner by reducing gas flaring. Total announced the start of the second ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301526/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:18:30 -0500 UPI http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301526/ WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US immigration judge has ordered the deportation of a Liberian accused of presiding over atrocities during the West African country’s civil war in the 1990s. George ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302806/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:50:19 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302806/ WINDHOEK (AFP) – When Wendelinus Hamutenya told his father that he was gay, the then 18-year-old was packed off to the psychiatric ward of the Windhoek Central Hospital. Seven years later, ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302808/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:50:15 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302808/ THE average un infested Nigerian's main needs amongst others, is to see government at work, pursuing the provision of his basics that would make life worth living like good roads connecting the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302810/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:50:12 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302810/ WASHINGTON (AFP) – Men who smoke experience greater mental declines over time than men who never smoked, but the same link does not appear among women, said a British study published in the ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302811/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:50:10 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302811/ BY Evelyn Usman Ahead of the gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa, Sokoto and Cross Rivers states, Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, yesterday, said it had deployed 30,000 personnel to ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302812/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:50:08 -0500 Vanguard http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302812/ LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Soldiers guarding a city at the heart of ethnic and religious clashes in Nigeria detained and later threw out journalists working for a French television station trying ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203300641/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:49:23 -0500 Sun-Sentinel http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203300641/ Vanguard ) THE Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger-Delta has arrested eight ex-militants who allegedly bombed the Lawconfab Hotel, which served as their temporary home. Delta State Police ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302789/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:31:20 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302789/ It was back-slapping, smiles and shouts of pet names among players as the national team camp bubbled to life yesterday in Abuja . One noticeable trend in the manner the players arrived was that ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302791/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:31:11 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302791/ Super Eagles camp at Bolton White Apartment in Zone 7, Abuja came alive Monday afternoon with atleast 21 players in camp as at 5pm , all other nine players were expected before the close of the day, ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302794/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:31:09 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302794/ The family of Chief Matthew Tawo Mbu, Monday, announced the passing away of the elder statesman, diplomat and First Republic politician, at the age of 82. THISDAY gathered that he died at the Royal ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302793/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:31:07 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302793/ For several decades, the home address of Matthew Tawo Mbu was somewhere within or around Government House. He was a "Government Man", a man who served in various capacities and locations ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302795/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:31:04 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302795/ The Federal Government has approved the decentralisation of operations of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to promote its effectiveness in far-flung rural communities in the country. THISDAY ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302796/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:30:58 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302796/ After several weeks of planning, the stage is now set for the official launching of Adopt-a-Talent Sports Programme by Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola Tuesday at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa, ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302798/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:30:52 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302798/ The damage caused by the fire on KS Endeavour, a drilling rig operated by FODE Drilling Nigeria Limited for Chevron Nigeria Limited on Funiwa Field in Block 86 in Bayelsa State has hit the coastal ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302799/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:30:49 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203302799/ Last Tuesday I promised to "focus on the many varieties of capitalism, why it has failed globaly to ensure inclusion for the vast majority and why it remains a contested terrain". So, let ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301480/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:30:11 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203301480/ YAOUNDE, Feb 7, 2012 (IPS) - Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as "zoa-zoa", because of the Islamic extremist group ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203295752/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:41:33 -0500 IPS http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203295752/ Islamist militants on the country's second biggest urban centre. A Reuters reporter heard a powerful blast which shook windows and a sustained gun battle, which was still under way after more ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203297417/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:09:59 -0500 General Sources http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203297417/ ELDER STATESMAN, Dr. Matthew Tawo Mbu, CFR, is dead. He died, yesterday, in a London hospital at the age of 82. The family in a statement announcing the death of the erstwhile minister, diplomat and ... http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203297415/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:40:31 -0500 All Africa http://story.nigeriasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8db1f72cde37faf3/id/203297415/