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  • Nigeria Police Rescue Four Kidnapped Oil Workers

    ABUJA Nigerian police say they have rescued four expatriate oil workers who were held hostage for a month. The men have been released in good health, but the kidnappers remain at large. The men, two Russians and two Ukrainians were kidnapped on April 22 off the coast of Bayelsa in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Police say they are still searching for the kidnappers. Security ...

  • Moses Mikel … deja vue

    By Paul Bassey We have passed this road before, countless times. The road where the players bus gets to a Carrefour and a player decides to jump the bus and take what he considers is his own way forward. We have had in this country, super stars who dictate to the coach and by extension this country, the matches they want to play. Barrister Green is not one to panic. When I got his call, he ...

  • DPO collects sand from court premises for suspected ritual

    BY CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI-- Eagle-eyed security officers at the Imo State Customary Court of Appeal, Owerri, yesterday apprehended a man, who came into the premises to collect sand for suspected ritual purposes. The man, who was still held at the security gate when Vanguard visited the scene at 3.30p.m, not only gave his name as Alphonsus Madu but claimed to be a Deputy Superintendent of ...

  • F-Eagles fly out to Toulon

    The Flying Eagles will depart for Toulon, France, Monday evening from Munich, Germany. The team of 30 players and 10 officials will leave Elfershausen, where they have been training for about two weeks, by 9am local time on Monday for the four-hour bus ride to Munich. The team will then fly to Marseille by 3.45pm local time and then go by road to Toulon in a trip expected to take them about ...

  • Six killed in Lagos communal clash

    By Evelyn Usman LAGOS -- Six persons were, weekend, killed and scores injured in a communal clash involving Ajah, Olumegbon and Ilaje boys along the Lekki-Epe-expressway, Lagos. This came as 20 persons have been arrested in connection with the murder of a mobile policeman, last week, in Ikorodu area. Although there were different accounts as to how the six persons whose identities were yet to ...

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Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Robert Greenwalds grassroots documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdochs War on Journalism, coproduced by MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress, is a scathing indictment of the right-wing partisanship of the Fox News Channel, which nevertheless proudly waves its fair and balanced banner, apparently convincing millions of people of its veracity. Much like Michael Moores Fahrenheit 9/1 ... ...

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  • NGF Election The inside story

    Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North A major crack has set into the once boisterous Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, following last weekend's re-election of Governor Chibuke Amaechi as chairman and the determination of his opponents within the forum not to recognize his election. The fissure is a firm fit into alleged plans of presidential minders to clip Amaechi's wings and give the ...

  • President Senate on collision course over NCAA boss

    By Kenneth Ehigiator President Goodluck Jonathan may be on collision course with the Senate over delayed confirmation of Director-General, DG-nominee for Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu. In the aftermath of the sacking of immediate past DG of the regulatory agency, Dr. Harold Demuren, on March 12, the President sent Akinkuotu’s name to the Senate two days ...

  • Akeredolu Boroffice clash over Ondo State ACN leadership

    By DAYO JOHNSON AKURE -- TWO chieftains of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Ondo State, Senator Ajayi Boroffice and the governorship candidate of the party in the last election, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, are at loggerheads over the leadership of the party in the state ahead of the 2014 elections. While Boroffice is insisting that as the highest political office holder in the party the ...

  • Lessons for Nigeria from Ram Charan’s “global tilt”

    AFEW months ago, news broke of a rather interesting development: A little-known Brazilian investment firm, 3G Capital was teaming up with legendary American investor, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway to buy H.J. Heinz, the iconic ketchup make for $28 billion. The deal was dubbed as the largest acquisition in the global food industry. Some analysts have noted that the deal, which follows ...

  • Uduaghan urges traditional rulers to monitor SURE-P projects

    By Austin Ogwuda Asaba -- DELTA State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, weekend, called on traditional rulers in the state to assist in monitoring projects on-going in their domains with the Federal Government's Subsidy, Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P funds, adding that he would personally ensure that people at the grassroots benefit immensely from the N1.6 billion already ...

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