31 killed as suicide bombers hit Potiskum, Kano

Thirty-one persons died yesterday in two separate suicide bomb attacks in Potiskum, Yobe State, and Kano with several others injured.

The Vokswagen Sharon bus that conveyed the two male suicide bombers to Kano line bus station

An eye witness account on the Potiskum attack said a female suicide bomber alighted from a tricycle, opposite Tashan Dan Borno motor park in the town,

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Fayose asks APC to produce Ibrahim Shekau

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has accused  the leadership of  All Progressives Congress(APC) of  knowing those behind the Boko Haram insurgency.‬

Rather than wiping out sentiment ,Fayose urged APC to produce Ibrahim Shekau, the original leader of Boko Haram

The APC’s  Presidential Campaign Organisation has said  the Federal Government was planning to use a fake Ibrahim Shekau to implicate the party’s presidential candidate, Major General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd)

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FG schedules payment of N264bn subsidy by March end

The Federal Government, Monday, scheduled to pay off about N264 billion between now and end of March, as subsidy reimbursement applications submitted to marketers as at end of January 2015.

The sum comprises 2014 outstanding debts of N164 billion in addition to N100 billion derived from foreign exchange and bank interest charges.

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President Jonathan missed the point on missing N30trn, by Charles Soludo

My attention has been drawn this morning to an article entitled: “Jonathan Replies Soludo over “missing N30 trillion” claim”— extracting from Mr. President’s interview as published by Thisday newspaper.

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Scarcity looms as marketers hoard fuel

Scarcity of petrol is looming as queues have returned to filling stations across Lagos, while some of them have stopped selling.

Black market thrives as fuel scarcity hits Lagos. Photo: Bunmi Azeez

This is an indication that the cold war between marketers and the management of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, has not been resolved.

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Why we dumped G-5 govs says Lamido, Aliyu

Governors Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, yesterday, took on their Kano counterpart, Mallam Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso over his accusation that the two governors betrayed five other governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party,

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