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Cross River, State News
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Calabar—Some members of Cross River State executive council, including commissioners, special advisers and special assistants, were, Saturday, barred from sitting at the state box at the U. J. Esuene Stadium Calabar, venue for the 51st independence anniversary celebration for coming to the event an hour late. The state box is always reserved for the governor, […]
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Headlines, On The Lighter Side
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011

Twenty-two years after emerging as the 1989 Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Omasan Buwa is still amazingly beautiful. Her fantastic dress sense of the tall lady with an oblong face leaves you in no doubt that she knows her onions when it comes to fashion. After sojourning abroad, she returned to the country with a […]
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Latest Politics, Ministries
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
• Ihenacho • Photo: The Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section The immediate past Minister of Interior, Captain Emmanuel Ihenacho is a household name in the country especially in the maritime industry. He is one of those that could succeed in areas where others would not even dare. But in his short stay […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Nigeria, yesterday, had a low-key 51st Independence anniversary following threats from the Boko Haram sect and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). Though the Federal Government had dismissed such claims, saying the decision was to save cost considering the mood of the nation, the consensus among prominent Nigerians is that the […]
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Bayelsa, Cross River, State News
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Barring last minute change of mind by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), two of its state governors currently enjoying tenure extension courtesy of an Appeal Court order may not seek re-election. The governors are Liyel Imoke of Cross River State and his Bayelsa counterpart, Timipre Sylva. The appellate court had extended the tenure of […]
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Headlines
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
A middle-aged man, Mr Ndubuisi Egeonu, yesterday in Enugu attempted to kill his pregnant wife and his two male children when he locked them up in his barbing shop and set the place on fire. The incident which happened at about 11: am at No. 61 Mount Street, Idaw River in the Awkunanaw area of […]
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Headlines, South-East
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM), a group that has remained consistent in championing the cause of Igbo people in Nigeria, was at the thick of the recent and controversial arrest and detention of the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of a Sovereign State of Biafra, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and scores of his followers. […]
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Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists, South-East
Saturday, October 1st, 2011

By Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP, October 1, 2011 – Without doubt the formation and commencement of South- East EconomicSummit (SEES) in Enugu is among the best economic effort and decision made so far by South East zone. This is a beginning and nothing substantial has been done but this shows a radical departure from incoherency overview […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Saturday, October 1st, 2011

By Kenneth Uwadi, Imo, Nigeria – October 1, 2011 – Since I started pointing out the autocratic behaviours and lack of arithmetic knowledge of governance of embattled Governor Rochas Okorocha, I have been branded so many unprintable names by a selected group of unproductive, uninformed, money hungry, favour seeking, paranoid supporters of the government and […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
Top Federal Government officials are now curious over how the Boko Haram suspect, Ali Tishau, who was released from police custody on bail, appeared on a local television station interview programme to castigate the government some days ago. Reliable sources told Saturday Tribune that the authorities have set up a powerful machinery to investigate how Tishau […]