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NATIONAL

We’re not animals – Navy
By PHILIP NWOSU
Thursday, November 20, 2008


The Nigerian Navy on Wednesday urged Nigerians to be patient with the hierarchy of the force as investigation continues on the widely condemned incident in which some naval ratings assaulted a lady, Miss Uzoma Okere on Victoria Island, Lagos recently.| Read Story
The NAVY CAME CALLING... Director of Naval Information,
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Shehu Musa, ex-SGF, dies in London
From AKIN ALOFETEKUN/Minna.
Thursday, November 20, 2008

One-time Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Alhaji Shehu Musa is dead. The late technocrat passed away in a London hospital on Wednesday. Arrangements are in top gear by the family and the Niger State government to convey his remains back to Nigeria for burial.| Read Story
 

Parents beware: Cultists rape virgin minors for protection
From: Henry Chukwurah, Port Harcourt
Thursday, November 20, 2008
This is danger alert for parents and guardians of under-aged girls particularly those resident in Port Harcourt and its environs. Power and protection-seeking cultists are on the prowl looking for little virgins to defile. | Read Story
 
You’re free to leave – ANPP tells Buhari
By BEIFOH OSEWELE
Thursday, November 20, 2008

There appears to be no let up in sight in the crisis of confidence afflicting the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) whose national leadership has again come down heavily on General Mohammadu Buhari, its standard bearer in the 2007 presidential election over what the party terms his over-bearing| Read Story
 
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