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Archive for January, 2012
Archive for January, 2012
Jan. 31 | Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (M), National President Joint National Association of persons with disabilities (JONAPWD) Barrister Danlami Bashir, SEC-Gen JONAPWD Mr. Dandison Nwankpa Hart, and Media Consultant for JONAPWD Mr. Chike Okgwu...
Jan. 31 |
AP - A Nigerian court has dimissed fraud charges against a top Nigerian politician and his deputy, both accused of diverting more than $244 million in bank loans.
Justice Suleiman Belgore cleared former House Speaker Dimeji Bankole and his former...
Jan. 31 | Nigeria's Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (L), International Monetary Fund’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde (C) and Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at a joint press conference on December 20, 2011 in Lagos, Nigeria....
Jan. 31 | Girl, Masi, Arusha, Tanzania (c) M. Hallahan/Sumitomo Chemical-Olyset Net. Photo credit: RCS
PRESS RELEASE: 30 January 2012 – Five African teenagers have been awarded top prizes in the ‘Me and My Net’ Competition, organised by the Royal Commonwealth...
Jan. 30 | AP - A federal judge in Nigeria on Monday sentenced to death the feared right-hand man to Nigeria’s former military dictator over the 1996 killing of an opposition candidate’s wife.
Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha sat without expression, slowly...
Jan. 28 | The newly commissioned Chinese-funded African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo Credit: African Union
BY NAL newswire
As China welcomes the Year of the Dragon to celebrate its traditional new year, far from its shore, the world’s...
Jan. 28 |
Former Nigeria's military president General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida
By Femi Fani-Kayode
”I can go back to fight a war to keep this country together even at 71….Some people are saying that should anything happen to President Jonathan,...
Jan. 27 | Liyel Imoke, Governor Cross River State.
Reuters - Nigeria’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday to remove five powerful state governors from office because their tenures should have expired last year, replacing them with the speakers of the house...
Jan. 26 | By NAL staff writer
In September 2002, the Justice Niki Tobi Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the civil disturbance in Jos, Plateu State recommended the dismissal of M.D. Abubakar from the Nigerian Police Force for grave negligence of duty, but the...
Jan. 26 | Ousted Inspector General of Police Hafiz Ringim
Reuters - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked the chief of police and his six deputies, the presidency said on Wednesday, a week after the main suspect in a Christmas Day bomb attack escaped...
