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Bauchi, Katsina, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Hundred of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Katsina State took to the streets protesting the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP presidential candidate during the just concluded party presidential primary. The protesting members of the party also burnt over 40, 0000 PDP membership cards, stating that they have dumped the party because […]
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Plateau, State News
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State has written to the state governor, Jonah Jang, to sack the deputy governor, Mrs. Palline Tallen for defecting to Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) where she is contesting for the office of the governor. As part of the crisis rocking the conduct of National Assembly primary election in […]
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Elections 2011, Kebbi, Legislature, Senate, State News
Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Former governor of Kebbi State and Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Adamu Aliero, will now be contesting for the Kebbi central senatorial district seat on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), just as the gubernatorial candidate of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Malam, yesterday appointed former Secretary to the State Government […]
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Headlines
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
ABUJA — The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, yesterday, expressed concern over the ability of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, to compile a credible voters register for the impending general elections, just as it equally expressed displeasure over the lapses so far identified with the operations of the Direct Data Capturing, DDC, machines employed for the […]
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Headlines
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
PetroChina’s first liquefied natural gas, LNG, cargo of the winter season, at about 70,000 tonnes, arrived in Shanghai from Peru on Tuesday, said a Chinese industry source. A second cargo is due to arrive at the Shanghai terminal early next week from Africa, possibly from Nigeria, said the source with direct knowledge of the shipments. […]
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Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate
Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Senator Ifeanyi Godwin Ararume fell victim of high wire politics in 2007 when he made an attempt to contest the governorship election of Imo State under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); having won the primaries of the party. But the party opted for Engr. Charles Ugwu in his place. He got a landmark ruling when […]
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Headlines
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
The first batch of five hundred personnel of the Nigeria Police trained on Counter Terrorism skills at the Nigerian Army Armour School, Bauchi, yesterday graduated with a call to live up to the challenges of the time. The trainees, among who were two female police were given an eight week- intensive training in martial arts, […]
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Education, Headlines
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
The Vice Chancellor of University of Lagos, Professor Babatunde Sofoluwe has said that 119 students out of 7,041 graduating students passed with First Class Division Degrees with Faculty of Engineering topping the list. He disclosed this at the graduation ceremony held recently at the university auditorium. According to him; “a total of 76 students received […]
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Nigerian Police, Raw Politics
Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Miffed by the attitude of some contractors handling contracts for the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, has ordered the arrest of defaulting police contractors, even as he has given them one month with effect from January 7, 2011 to fulfill their contractual agreements or face prosecutions by the […]
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Plateau, State News
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Residents of Jos have adopted various survival strategies as the warring parties resort to secret killings in the troubled city. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that one of the strategies, known as “chameleon tactics”, involved the use of clothes “acceptable to each of the warring territories. “I wear my jeans trousers and T-shirt […]