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Gunmen kill Yobe Assembly’s Deputy Leader

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Yobe Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Potiskum (Yobe) – Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday killed the Deputy Leader of the Yobe State House of Assembly, Alhaji Adamu Degubi. The Public Relations Officer of the Yobe State Police Command, Mr Adamu Salihu, confirmed the killing of the legislator. “We have not ascertained those behind the killing and their motive. “Investigation is going on […]

Court jails mother, 3 kids for assault

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Asaba – An Asaba Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 44-year-old woman, Mrs Helen Nwokobia and her three children to six months imprisonment each for assaulting their landlord. The children are Chukwudi Nwokobia, 20, Emeka Nwokobia, 17 and Ify Nwokobia, 23. The court, however, gave the convicts an option of N2, 000 as fine each. […]

Gunmen kill 6 in Kano

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Kano – Gunmen have shot dead six persons at Rimin Kebe in Tudun Murtala, Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano. An eye witness in Kano on Tuesday said that the incident, which happened at about 10:00 p.m on Monday, left many others seriously injured. The eye witness said the suspected gunmen stormed the area with […]

Voters who change addresses’ll vote – INEC

Posted by admin INEC Politics, Latest Politics Monday, June 11th, 2012

INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega | credits: File copy Registered voters who change their residential addresses before 2015 have been assured they will vote. According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, Section 13 of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended) has made provisions to enable such voters to exercise their franchise in their new location. […]

UNILAG alumni join N’Assembly in suit against FG

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Monday, June 11th, 2012

The University of Lagos Alumni Association has joined the National Assembly in the suit filed against the Federal Government for renaming the university the Moshood Abiola University. The decision was taken after its extra-ordinary general meeting penultimate Sunday. The association had filed a suit seeking to restrain the Federal Government from renaming UNILAG at the […]

Dana didn’t heed my warning – Akpabio

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Monday, June 11th, 2012

AKWA Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio on Sunday said he had earlier lodged a complaint with the management of Dana Air before the unfortunate plane crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos on June 3. The governor regretted that his warning was not heeded. Akpabio told reporters at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, that he intimated the […]

Oyo sacks 3,000 workers for forgery

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Monday, June 11th, 2012

June 11, 2012 by Akinwale Aboluwade, Ibadan Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi | credits: Oyo State Government said on Sunday that it had sacked 3,000 workers over certificate forgery and age falsification among other offences. In a statement, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, said the workers were sacked to […]

Bomber, gunmen kill 12 in Jos, Biu churches

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Plateau, State News Monday, June 11th, 2012

June 11, 2012 by Jude Owuamanam and Adelani Adepegba large crowd gathered at the rubble of Lord’s Chosen Church in Jos on Sunday. | credits: No fewer than 12 persons were killed in separate attacks on churches in Jos, Plateau State and in Biu, Borno State, on Sunday. The Christ’s Chosen Church of God building […]

Crash: Victims’ families reject ‘joint burial’

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, June 11th, 2012

Families of victims of last Sunday’s Dana flight 992 crash have rejected a Lagos State proposal to give the victims a joint burial. The state had reportedly said that if the families agreed to a joint burial in a dedicated cemetery, the families would be allowed to exhume the corpses if they wished to identify […]

Fresh threat of violence as ex-militants demand N3bn

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, June 11th, 2012

Fresh violence may erupt in the crisis-prone Niger Delta following threats from ex-militants to return to the creeks and resume hostilities in about two weeks. The ex-militants are demanding a total of N3bn compensation from the Federal Government for the killing one of their leaders, John Togo, and allegedly destroying two coastal communities in Delta […]