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Delta, Headlines, State News
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
The Supreme Court on Friday sacked a member of the Delta State House of Assembly representing Ugelli North Constituency II, Mr. Edoja Akpodiete. The apex court ordered him to refund to the state coffers all the salaries and allowances he had collected since he had been occupying the seat since 2011. It was the first […]
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Headlines, State News, United Nations, Zamfara
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
The United Nations International Children Fund, Kaduna field office, has commended the efforts of Zamfara Government in its fight against poliomyelitis. UNICEF Communications Officer, Alhaji Rabiu Musa, at an occasion to mark this year’s World Polio Day in the state, described the measures put in place by the state government as “remarkable and worthy of […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
-Punch Hundreds of supporters of the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, on Friday trooped to the streets, protesting alleged plan by members of the state House of Assembly to impeach the governor. The protesters, under the aegis of Positive Minds Club for Teachers, converged on Fajuyi Park in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, with placards […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
-Punch President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday directed the Minister of State II, for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed, to take over as the Supervising Minister of Information pending the time a substantive minister would be named. The position became vacant following the exit of Mr. Labaran Maku, who resigned from the cabinet to enable […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
-Punch South African President Jacob Zuma The South African Ambassador to Nigeria, Lulu Mnguni, said in a news conference on Friday that the $15m earlier seized from some Nigerians by the South African Government had been released to Nigeria. The South African Government had, on September 5, 2014, seized $9.3m cash belonging to Nigeria […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, October 25th, 2014
Iran executed Saturday a 26-year-old woman who had spent five years on death row for the murder of a former intelligence official, defying international pressure to spare her life. Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn, the official IRNA news agency quoted the Tehran prosecutor’s office as saying. A message posted on the homepage of a […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Friday, October 24th, 2014
AKWA Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has heeded to the clarion calls by the people of Akwa Ibom North-West senatorial district to contest for the senatorial seat in 2015, under Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Akpabio, who stated this on Wednesday at Ukana in Essien Udim Local Government Area of the state, when the youth […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS)
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
A total of 7,836 Nigerians were prevented from travelling out of the country by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) within the first six months of 2014. In addition, another set of 4,896 were deported from various countries of the world within the same period, the NIS Public Relations Officer, Chukwuemeka Obua, said on Wednesday, […]
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Anambra, Biafra, General Politics, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Monday, October 20th, 2014

By CHIDI NNADI, ENUGU on October 20, 2014 · COVER • Says he betrayed Ojukwu, APGA, Ndigbo After weeks of shock over the defection of Chief Peter Obi to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s widow, Bianca, has lambasted the former governor of Anambra State for his actions. Bianca, who is Nigeria’s Ambassador […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News
Monday, October 20th, 2014

By Odimegwu Onwumere | Rivers, Nigeria | October 20, 2014 – Governor Chibuike Amaechis Rivers State is with about 90 percent of its residents living beneath poverty line. Doubtlessly, this could have necessitated the reason the state has been witnessing expansion in street hawking by its residents upon the ban to that effect some four […]