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Speaking for the first time since the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stopped Mr. Timipre Sylva from seeking re-election, President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the former governor was barred ... | Read Story

NEWS ON THE HOUR

Committee submits report on Boko Haram attack in Kano
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Local: 02:00am GMT:01:00am
A 15-member Consultative Committee, set up by Kano State Government in the wake of the January 20, 2012 bomb blasts in the state, has submitted its reports, lamenting the uncontrolled influx of foreigners into the state. The committee, which submitted its report to the Kano State governor, Engineer Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, yesterday acknowledged the springing up of unplanned settlements all over the place, harbouring strangers without any proactive system of monitoring their activities. | Read more

Flamingos go for broke against Kenya
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Local: 02:00am GMT:01:00am
Nigeria’s Under 17 Women’s team, otherwise known as the Flamingos, looks almost certain to progress to the final round of the qualifying race for one of the tickets to represent Africa at this year’s FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup holding in Azerbaijan later in the year. The Peter Dedevbo-tutored side keeps a date with its Kenyan counterpart in the reverse fixture of the qualifying contest. Both sides met two weeks ago in Nairobi in the first leg encounter with the Nigerian girls better by 2-0 after 90minutes.| Read more

NEWS OF THE DAY

Robbers bomb banks, police station in Kogi
Hell was let loose yesterday as dare-devil robbers attacked a police station and banks with explosives. This is coming five months after similar attacks. According to eyewitness account, the robbers stormed the city at about 1am yesterday and attacked Geregu Camp, where they carted arms and ammunition from the divisional police post before bombing it.
It was gathered that after bombing the police station, the robbers attacked a new generation bank, but did not succeed in breaking the vault.| Read Story

Enough of Igbo blood for Nigeria– Ngige, Nwankwo
The senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, Dr. Chris Ngige, has described the killings of Igbo as a looming genocide in Nigeria, insisting that enough blood of the race has been shed for the unity of Nigeria.
Ngige’s stand came just as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate in the February 15, 2012 re-run election for Anaocha, Njikoka and Dunkofia Federal Constituency, Mr. Ferdinand Dozie Nwankwo, said the killing of Igbo...
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COVER

No section of the country has monopoly of violence —Uwazurike
Nigerians may be looking the wrong way in the manner and ways they react to every act of violence by militants in some parts of the North. The questions that needed to be answered are: ... | Read Story

POLITICS

Labour failed woefully on fuel price war – Comrade Irabor
Immediate past Deputy President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Irabor Onikolaese, has taken a critical look at the recent nationwide strike embarked upon by organised labour,... | Read Story

Living

And the barren has triplets
A union between husband and wife without children in most Nigerian cultures, is sure to end badly for both. In some cases, the man is urged to take another wife – if divorce is not possible. | Read Story

Sports

Dolphins, Gombe Utd rumble in Garden City
Defending champion, Dolphins of Port Harcourt, has full hands this weekend as it hosts in-form Gombe United in the star match of Week 7 fixtures of the current Nigeria Premier League (NPL) season. | Read Story

OTHER SECTIONS...

SaturdayInterview
‘Solution to Boko Haram lies with northern police chiefs’
Monday Anthony Ebowemen was Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) and trainer at the Nigerian Police College, Ikeja, Lagos. A legal practitioner, Ebowemen had his law degree at the University of Lagos and attended Nigerian Law School, Enugu in 2006. He is also the Executive Chairman of a private security company in Lagos. Ebowemen retired from the police force last year, after the mandatory 35 years of service. He told Saturday Sun that Police Chiefs from the North should be drafted to the area to solve the problem of Boko Haram, | Read more

Thoughts
Hafiz Ringim: When sack is not enough?
With the removal of IGP Hafiz Ringim recently, it means the lobby of his men for his continued stay, as we heard never cut ice. The water of his tenure after past lapses got ultimately muddied over the escape of the Boko Haram major suspect from his custody. As the chief cop that had headed the Nigeria Police since September 2010, Ringim made a full circle in incompetence and poor policing with that last act. The former number one police officer acquired in his career days the reputation most police officers might be too reluctant to emulate.
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Kiss & Tell
DO YOU PICK YOUR SPOUSE’S CALL?
Marriage is not a bed of roses. While some couples endure, others enjoy. However, whether you enjoy or endure, depends on how you plan yours. To some, they have do’s and don’t’s while some simply avoid whatever they know would cause them pains or bring disunity between them as couples. Most people pick their spouses’ calls to monitor if they are cheating on them. Some others don’t because they have been warned not to.| Read more

SATURDAY SPECIAL...

Saturday People
Uzodinma Nwala: How we packaged and sold NYSC to Gowon
Professor Tim Uzodinma Nwala prides himself as the father of African Philosophy. That is a claim no one has disputed, yet. But beyond philosophy as a discipline, he devoted all his academic life to so many other things and he excelled in all. To him, life has not been just reading, teaching and researching. He has had a fair share of activism with his pioneering role in the birth of the powerful Academic Staff Union of Universities | Read Story

FAMILY TONIC
Forgive us our trespasses
When I entered a store at Oshodi on January 5 to buy some nails, I met a little boy, perhaps, 10 years judging from his stature. He knew his onions and was weighing the nails when his mum arrived. Confident in what he was doing, she did not interfere. ‘Do I write in the invoice the correct amount you are paying?’ he asked me| Read Story

PRESSCLIPS
For whom the bell tolls!

Your letters
Last Saturday, I wrote a piece ‘For whom the bell tolls’ which was a tribute to Enenche Akogwu, the Channels television journalist killed in Kano carnage, while covering the Boko Haram bombings that killed so many other Nigerians. Here are some of your letters:
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COVER...

LASU graduate wins photo journalism prize
A photojournalism and cinematography graduate of the Lagos State University, Adebola Adegunwa School of Communication (LASU-AASOC), Mr. Yinka Adeparusi has clinched a coveted prize for excellence in photojournalism. | Read Story

On the trail of smugglers
A few kilometres away from Mile 2 Bridge is a Military Barracks on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. Just by the barracks is a hurried, improvised market where items such as rice, vegetable oil, apple and the likes are sold. However, along that stretch, down to Badagry, are such other markets. | Read Story