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Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Amaechi and Mu’azu The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, has enjoined Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, to appeal to the five PDP governors who defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress to reconsider their action. Mu’azu said that Lamido should do so ahead of a visit to the five […]
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House, Legislature, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Members during plenary at the floor of the Nigeria House of Representatives The Peoples Democratic Party is insisting that its members in the National Assembly who defected to the All Progressives Congress must lose their seats. The PDP told an Abuja Federal High Court so in its preliminary objection to a suit filed by Senator […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
Traffic gridlock caused by the demonstrators in Port Harcourt, Rivers State … on Tuesday. THOUSANDS of youths from the four local government areas of Rivers State that make up Ikwerre Ethnic Nationality, on Tuesday, threatened to shut down the Port Harcourt International Airport, if the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, was redeployed to […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
The Police Special Fraud Unit on Tuesday re-arraigned two persons in a Federal High Court in Lagos, charged with N9.8 billion fraud. The accused, Fortune Etaba and Godwin Nwaiche, are standing trial alongside their bank, Establishment House Ltd., on an amended three-count charge. The accused were first arraigned in 2010 on a 300-count charge of […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
Some members of the Ogoni community in Rivers on Wednesday picketed the First Bank Area Office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that no fewer than 1,000 protesters converged on the bank thereby disrupting transactions by other customers. Chief Simeon Monokpo, the leader of the group, said, “our protest is […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
Pope Francis has used Twitter to back an annual anti-abortion rally, the March for Life, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of activists to Washington on Wednesday. “I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. “May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable,’’ he said on his […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
A Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday fixed February 6 to hear a suit filed by Oba Otudeko against Alhaji Aliko Dangote and the Nigerian Ports Authority over a land dispute. Justice Okon Abang adjourned the case at the instance of the counsel to Dangote, Mrs Fola Sowemimo, to enable her to file written statement […]
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Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
An exchange of hot words between Senators Ahmed Lawan and Alkali Jajere both from Yobe State and their colleague from Delta State, James Manager, caused a serious confusion on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday. The development, which almost led to a physical combat between Jajere and Manager, happened during a debate on the […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arraigned three suspects, Onoshride Usen, Babangida Bello and Nurah Mohammed at a Federal High Court in Benin, Edo State. The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said in a statement on Wednesday that the three suspects were arraigned before Justice A. M. Liman, […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014
BY DAYO JOHNSON AKURE — DETECTIVES in Ondo State have arrested a quark nurse over the death of an 18-year-old girl, Omolayo Afolabi, who she helped to terminate a two-month pregnancy in Iju/Itaogbolu area of the state. Also arrested by the police is Joseph Endurance, the deceased lover said to have been responsible for her […]
