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Headlines, Kano, State News
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
THE Kano State governor, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said that his administration may probe his predecessor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, provided the ongoing agitation for such a probe demanded for it. This is just as the governor stated that the government revoked the Kofa Naisa plot of land because some of the beneficiaries had up […]
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Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The chairman of the gubernatorial election tribunal in Zamfara State, Justice Kashim Kaigama, has promised to grant journalists access to court proceedings and records, in the spirit of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act. He made this known during the inaugural sitting of the tribunal in Gusau, on Monday. The chairman, who was leading two […]
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EFCC Politics, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
A policeman, Chris Attah, on Tuesday, said before a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, that an officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Davis Ibrahim, allegedly defrauded a woman, Mrs Augusta Eleshin, of N55,000. Attah made this assertion while testifying at the resumed trial of Ibrahim and an alleged accomplice, Somorin Olusegun, […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
A 25-year-old Nigerian, Sadiq Adebiyi, has been shot dead outside the Stockwell Gardens Estate, London. Adebiyi was reportedly shot as he stood on the pavement in Clapham Road, near Stockwell Tube Station, on May 31. According to the British Broadcasting Corpora-tion (BBC) report, the police had charged a 19-year-old man, Tadzingwa Gambiza, to court for […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The National President, Nigerian Medical Students Association, Mr. Auwal Shanono, was one of those killed in the National Union of Road Transport Workers violence that engulfed Ibadan, Oyo State capital on Sunday. Shanono was until his death a 500-level medical student of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State. He was said to have been […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday hinted that it might revisit its power sharing arrangement. The party, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, expressed concern about Monday’s election of Aminu Tambuwal as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in defiance of the preference of the PDP and the […]
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Legislature, Senate
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The National Assembly has finally sold the 109 Toyota Camry V6 Model cars to members of the Sixth Senate for a paltry some of N1.5m. They also paid an additional N100,000 for other items such as computers, TV sets and other disposables which they had used in their offices during the last four years. Our […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Unknown gunmen yesterday kidnapped the Edo State Deputy Governor’s father-in-law, Chief Felix Okungbowa, in Benin City. The gunmen were said to have stormed his residence located on Ewasede Street, off First East Circular Road in the state capital where they abducted him. As at press time yesterday, the kidnappers were yet to make contacts with […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The beneficiaries of the 10,000 jobs offered by the immediate past governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim yesterday staged a peaceful protest on the major roads of Owerri, against the suspension of the programme by Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. Okorocha in state-wide radio and television broadcast to the people of the state on Monday […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
It was a day of rage in Maiduguri as bomb blasts believed to have been planted by the Boko Haram men at a Catholic Cathedral killed five while another five including three of the members of the sect, were also killed in a bloody shoot out yesterday afternoon. Daily Sun gathered that the Boko Haram […]