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Akwa Ibom, Governors, Headlines, State News
Monday, October 8th, 2012
Press Release Governor Akpabio bags Methodist Award The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio has bagged the Golden Impact Award of the Methodist Church in Nigeria. The award was bestowed on him by the Prelate of the Methodist Church, His Eminence, Dr Sunday Ola Makinde during the 170th anniversary of the Church […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Paul I. Adujie, Rivers, State News
Monday, October 8th, 2012

By Paul I. Adujie Esq., | New York, NY | Oct. 8, 2012 | As I wrote to complain and gripe about the traffic mayhem and gridlocks on Nigerian roads last week, and more particularly so, about the traffic standstill in Choba Port Harcourt, a bridge on a major road artery in Port Harcourt actually […]
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Headlines
Monday, October 8th, 2012
Yet another sad news with the reported massacre of over 20 innocent students at the Federal Polytechnic Mubi in Adamawa State. These are indeed troubling times for Nigeria. We have not trod this path before. There is a palpable sense of anxiety, if not fear over where the country is heading. Terrorism, kidnappings, armed robbery, […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, October 8th, 2012
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has said Nigeria will not apply for the review of the judgment of the International Court of Justice, ceding the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Adoke, in a statement on Monday, explained that the argument canvassed by the proponents of the review “is virtually bound […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, October 8th, 2012
New Chief of Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim | credits: nanngronline.com OPERATIVES of the Joint Task Force, made up of soldiers, on Monday went haywire in Maiduguri, Borno State, and killed 30 persons in reprisal for the attack on their patrol vehicle in the town. Most of the victims, The PUNCH learnt, were civilians. […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, October 8th, 2012
Nigerians outraged by the lynching of four University of Port Harcourt undergraduates in Aluu, Rivers State, have launched an online campaign to have the killers identified and punished. Although it was learnt that the community has been deserted following the arrest of the village head, Alhaji Hassan Walewa, and 13 others by the police, users […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency), State News
Monday, October 8th, 2012
The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, Akwa Ibom State Command, has arrested 33 persons for allegedly possessing illicit drugs. The suspects comprise 29 men and four women. It was learnt that the suspects were arrested at different times in September by the agency’s operatives. The state commander of the NDLEA, Mrs. Ruth Obi, who […]
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Abia, Enugu, Headlines, State News
Monday, October 8th, 2012
Some youths on Saturday in Enugu, Enugu State sacked a political meeting that was to be addressed by the former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Kalu. The PUNCH learnt that Kalu had planned to use the platform to address some Igbo youths and women leaders on his plans for 2015 general elections. Justifying the […]
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Legislature, Senate
Monday, October 8th, 2012
October 8, 2012 by Oluwole Josiah, Abuja 3 Comments NATIONAL Assembly is set to introduce a law to curtail the President’s discretion in the administration of the one per cent Ecological Fund. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Ahmed Lawan, told our correspondent in Abuja that a law would be put in […]
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Headlines, Kano, South-East, State News
Monday, October 8th, 2012
The World Igbo Youth Council on Sunday berated the Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, over his comment that the South-East zone does not deserve an extra state. The WIYC said Kwankwaso’s comment was against the principles of the 2005 National Confab where Nigerians agreed to the creation of an additional state for the South-East. The […]