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People has reported that, four days after Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive in her Georgia home, doctors have recommended to her family that she be taken off life support. “Everyone is coming to the hospital to say goodbye,” a family member was quoted as saying. Her father Bobby Brown “has been crying all night since…
They came in the dead of night, their faces covered, riding on motorcycles and in pickup trucks, shouting “Allahu akbar” and firing their weapons. “They started with the shootings; then came the beheadings,” said Hussaini M. Bukar, 25, who fled after Boko Haram fighters stormed his town in northern Nigeria. “They said, ‘Where are the unbelievers…
The Lagos State Government Thursday declared Friday a work-free day for its workers just as state governor, Babatunde Fashola SAN, enjoined private sector employers to release their workers early to enable those of them who are yet to collect their Permanent Voter’s Card to do so in their various polling units. The Head of…
Presidential and legislative elections are scheduled for February 14, with governorship polls set for February 28. The ruling People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate is President Goodluck Jonathan, who is running for a second term. The opposition All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate is General Muhammadu Buhari. The presidential polls are expected to be the most competitive…
The National Council of States meeting called to discuss issues about the the nation’s security challenges and the forthcoming elections has ended. At the end of the eight-hour meeting, members insisted the general elections must proceed as scheduled, reporters were told. Members also agreed that elections could be postponed in troubled zones, areas ravaged…
The Federal Government said it had uncovered plans by some unscrupulous Nigerians to hijack and hand over Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to female suicide bombers to cause havoc in the February elections. Mike Omeri(pictured below), Coordinator, National Information Centre, who disclosed this on Thursday while giving update on the security situation in the country, therefore,…
Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, declared on Thursday that no one should vote for the continuation of President Goodluck Jonathan’s government, saying that there has been a total failure in leadership. He said he has sixty reasons not to vote for the Jonathan regime. “I will not vote and I will not encourage anyone to…