Nigeria college in Kontagora 'hit by Female suicide bomber

Two days after a suicide bomb attack killed about 50 secondary school students in Potiskum, Yobe State, another suicide bomber, a female, yesterday, attacked another school, the Federal College of Education, Kontagora, Niger State some 150 kilometres (90 miles) from the state capital, Minna. This is just as the Senate has summoned all Service Chiefs to explain why Boko Haram appears to be having the upper hand.

There were conflicting reports on casualty figures of yesterday’s attack in Kontagora. 

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Finance Officers at International Foundation for Electoral Systems

Career At International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)

Our Company, The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) supports citizens’ right to participate in free and fair elections. 

Our independent expertise strengthens electoral systems and builds local capacity to deliver sustainable solutions.

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Declining External Reserve: Naira Suffers Biggest Depreciation In 3 Years

►The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday allowed the Naira to suffer its biggest official depreciation since November 2011, as the currency depreciated by 54 kobo at the official foreign exchange market.

►This followed the continued decline in the nation’s external reserve, as the foreign exchange market defied all efforts of the apex bank to curtail foreign exchange demand and restore confidence in its ability to defend the Naira.

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You have no score card to show Nigerians, Oshiomhole tells Jonathan

Peoples Democratic Party,National Organising Secretary, Amb. Abubakar Mustapha (m) presenting expression of interest and nomination forms to President Goodluck Jonathan at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, yesterday. On the left is PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to show what his party, the Peoples Democratic Party has done in Edo State, saying the President only came to the state to commission an  existing Ofosu-Benin axis of an expressway which was constructed by a military regime.

The Governor said the President’s Sure-P programme is simply a Sure fraud where huge sums of

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Nigeria criticized U.S Support over failure to share enough intelligence in Boko Haram Battle

Nigeria criticized U.S Support over failure to share enough intelligence in Boko Haram Battle

'Nigeria's envoy to Washington criticized U.S. support in the battle against Boko Haram militants as insufficient, including failure to share enough intelligence and sell needed weaponry to fight the Islamist group.

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Late M.K.O Abiola's Wife Drags PDP To Court

Late M.K.O Abiola's Wife Drags PDP To Court

M.K.O Professor Akasoba Duke-Abiola , one of the wives of late politician, Chief M.K.O. Abiola, has dragged the People Democratic Party, PDP, before a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja for declaring President Goodluck Jonathan as its sole candidate in the 2015 elections.

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