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  • Nigeria’s growth rate fails to ease poverty

    Nigeria’s poverty rate should be falling faster given its economic growth this decade, a senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said ...

  • State of Emergency Northern Senators in marathon meeting

    By Henry Umoru ABUJA- AHEAD of debates on the declaration of State of Emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states by President Goodluck Jonathan today, senators from the north under the aegis, Northern Senators Forum were yesterday locked in a marathon meeting. Vanguard gathered that the meeting which started at 8.55pm yesterday took place at hearing room1,white House, Senate wing and ended at ...

  • Amodu cautions Eagles on WC qualifiers

    Newly appointed Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF Amodu Shaibu has warned the Super Eagles not to put all their strings to win the FIFA Confederations Cup and lose focus on the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers which is more important. Amodu who was at the glasshouse headquarters of the NFF with the duo of his assistants Kashimawo Laloko and James Peter on Monday told ...

  • Libya – Law By The Gun

    LIBYA has a more dangerous transition phase that is easily overlooked. Muammar Gaddafi's death 18 months ago has left a country in more turmoil than most opponents of Gaddafi expected. All efforts were invested in ending Gaddafi's 42 years in power. Little thought was spared about how to run a country where less than five per cent of the population knew King Idris, the man Gaddafi ...

  • Illegal Universities and Matters Arising

    The National Universities Commission (NUC) last week announced the existence of no fewer than forty-one illegal universities. These institutions that have existed for years and fleeced unsuspecting members of the public of their hard earned resources in the guise of providing them with higher education, signposts the parlous state of the nation's educational system. More worrisome is the ...

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Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love

The producers of Eat Pray Love, which stars Julia Roberts and is based on a best-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, are likely hoping that their film will be seen as an adult alternative to all the juvenile nonsense of the summer movie season. A continent-hopping drama about a ... ...

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  • 2015 Ochei’s Endorsement At Ubeku’s Lagos Residence Tears Isoko Leaders Apart

    By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learned of a cold war among political figures of Isoko ethnicity in Delta State over a purported endorsement of Victor Ochei, speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, for the post of governor come 2015. Our correspondent reported that the formal introduction and purported endorsement of the speaker took place at the Lagos residence of Abel ...

  • Nigerian troops claims success against insurgents

    Abuja, May 21 (PTI) Nigeria'a military said they have recorded successes in their fight against insurgents by arresting more than 100 members of the radical group Boko Haram and forced them to flee from some areas they had captured. In a sweeping offensive against Boko Haram, military arrested more than 100 members of the extremist group under an order from President Goodluck ...

  • The moral degeneration of Nigerian institutions

    IN theory, Nigerian institutions, like the Church and government agencies, are motivated by the loftiest ideals. Usually, they have mottoes: pithy and poetic expressions defining their guiding principles and objectives. But due to the moral and ethical collapse of the Nigerian society, occasioned by a series of irresponsible, amoral and conscienceless leaders, these institutions generally ...

  • 4 die10 injured as rival youths clash in Anambra

    BY OKONKWO EZE ONITSHA -- No fewer than four persons were feared dead, yesterday, while 10 others sustained various degrees of injury when two rival youth groups suspected to have come from Ogbaru Area Council of Anambra State engaged themselves in a bloody clash. The face-off, according to the source, was over the control and ownership of a motor park known as Aba Park located in the heart of ...

  • Ondo 2007 guber Security reports were forged – DG DSS

    By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State has praised a police report alleging forgery of security reports on the 2007 gubernatorial election as the reason for the judicial defeat of its candidate and former governor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu at the Court of Appeal. The party, in a statement made available to Vanguard alongside a report of the Police on the ...

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