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Korea donates $200,000 rice mills to flood victims

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Bayelsa, Benue, Headlines, Kogi, State News Sunday, January 13th, 2013

To build capacity in disaster management The Republic of Korea has donated 20 rice mills worth $200,000 to three flood affected states-Benue,Kogi and Bayelsa- to cushion the effect of the disaster. Ten of the mills are for Benue while five each go to Kogi and Bayelsa States. Each of the mills is capable of processing […]

SSS arrests Boko Haram member in ex-Rep’s house

Posted by admin Boko Haram, House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Raw Politics Sunday, January 13th, 2013

The State Security Service (SSS) has arrested a Boko Haram member, Hassan Pagi Bukar, at the residence of a former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tijani Umara Kumalia. Bukar is suspected of visiting Abuja to wreak some havoc. The ex-lawmaker was interrogated by the SSS on Friday. He denied having any link with […]

30 pipeline vandals feared dead in Lagos explosion

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, January 13th, 2013

About 30 persons believed to be pipeline vandals were burnt to death yesterday at Arepo off the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway in the latest attack by vandals on NNPC pipelines. The fire which started at about 2am behind the community raged for much of yesterday. The police said it was sparked by an argument among the vandals […]

Another online publisher detained in Nigeria by SSS

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, January 13th, 2013

BY SHARPEDGE NEWS EDITORIAL DESPITE the refrain of tolerance by the Goodluck Jonathan government, a citizen’s Monday evening experience at the hands of security agents stationed at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos is the latest proof that the legacy of autocratic harassment of citizens, no thanks to the military era, remains with Nigeria. […]

FG orders return of toxic ship to UK

Posted by admin Latest Politics Saturday, January 12th, 2013

BY GODFREY BIVBERE & LAIDE AKINBOADE with agency report ABUJA — The Federal Government, yesterday, vowed to place heavy sanctions on the e-waste ship that was arrested on Wednesday. It also ordered that the toxic wastes laden containers on board the ship, MV Marivia Monrovia, be shipped back to the port of origin in the […]

North does not believe in Nigeria’s unity – Omo Omoruyi

Posted by admin Latest Politics Saturday, January 12th, 2013

BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE …Says Jonathan’s political agenda is cloudy Professor Omo Omoruyi, a political scientist, former Director – General of the defunct Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS) and former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin in this interview with Vanguard Politics in Benin, spoke on a host of national issues including why fears that […]

Policeman shoots tout at Lagos airport •Gunmen kill one in Onitsha

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Saturday, January 12th, 2013

A police corporal shot a suspected tout on Thursday night for refusing to give him N500 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The policeman, whose identity is yet to be released by the Airport Command of the Nigerian Police Force, was said to have been shot in the stomach at the public car […]

2014: Fayemi donates vehicles to ACN leaders

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Ekiti, Party Politics, State News Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State on Friday donated some buses to the youth and women’s wings of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the state, in a move that suggests that he might be strategising ahead of the 2014 governorship election. The governor made the donation at the ACN secretariat on Ajilosun Street in […]

Fraud in Rivers Urban Development Ministry ACN Calls For Investigation

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Saturday, January 12th, 2013

The Rivers State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, says the continued flagrant abuse of government offices and positions by government officials and political office holders in the state is an indication that the Peoples Democratic Part, PDP, ruling State government has lost control and should surrender before the entire state is grounded. […]

Two Katsina senators, eight Reps may lose seats

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Katsina, Legislature, Senate, State News Saturday, January 12th, 2013

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday said the Independent National Electoral Commission lacked the power to withdraw the certificate of return issued to any candidate declared the winner of an election by its returning officer. Justice Gladys Olotu gave the judgment in a suit filed by some candidates of the Congress for Progressive […]