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Edo Guber Election: Early results favour Oshiomhole

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Airhiavbere, Oghiadomhe, Ogbemudia lose units By Simon Ebegbulem Amid initial hitches, enthusiastic voters yesterday trooped out to cast their votes in the Edo State governorship election. Early results from some polling units in Edo Central and Edo South Senatorial Districts appeared to favour Oshomhole of the ACN. For instance, the candidate reportedly won in seven […]

Commercial aircraft rams into airforce plane

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Saturday, July 14th, 2012

By KINGSLEY OMONOBI A commercial aircraft, en route Lagos from Jos, rammed its wings into an airforce C-130 aircraft on the tarmac of Jos airport as it was about to take off, yesterday. The C-130 aircraft was in Jos to airlift students of the Airforce Military School and Airforce Girls Military School both in the […]

Bayelsa defends appointment of Patience Jonathan

Posted by admin Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, State News Saturday, July 14th, 2012

The Bayelsa State Government has stated that the appointment of the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan, is in accordance with ongoing general reforms in the state’s public service. According to the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Seriake Dickson on Media and Public Affairs, Daniel Iworiso-Markson, the state government believes that the services […]

Is Patience Jonathan a ghost worker? – NNP Investigation

Posted by admin Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News Friday, July 13th, 2012

By New Nigerian Politics Staff Reporter Information reaching New Nigerian Politics from Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, has confirmed that the former First Lady of that state and current First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan, had been employed in the State civil service since her husband assumed the deputy governorship in 1999 and […]

Kanu Goes to War with Portsmouth

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, July 13th, 2012

Former Super Eagles skipper, Nwankwo Kanu Former Super Eagles skipper, Nwankwo Kanu Thursday accused Portsmouth FC of England of ‘utter contempt and disrespect’ and pledged to continue to boycott training . To drum support for his action against Portsmouth, Kanu has already filed claims running into millions of pounds against the Blues with the English […]

Mali: West African Leaders Call for War Crimes Probe in North

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, July 13th, 2012

The top Ecowas mediator, Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore, told the meeting of politicians, religious and trade union leaders that a new government must “confront the terrorist peril in the north”. Ecowas chairman Alassane Ouattara, the president of Cote d’Ivoire, told the meeting – also attended by leaders of Niger, Togo, Benin and Nigeria – […]

Over 20,000 doctors have emigrated from Nigeria -FG

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, July 13th, 2012

As Federal Government strives to improve healthcare delivery in the country, indications have emerged that Nigeria is now an exporter of doctors, nurses and other health workers to developed countries of the world. It is believed that 20,000 doctors who have migrated from Nigeria, with about 4,000 of that figure heading to the United States […]

Ghana: Stepmother sets boy’s penis on fire for urinating on blanket

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, July 13th, 2012

A woman in Abuakwa near Kumasi, Ghana, has done the unthinkable by gruesomely setting the penis of a six year-old boy on fire, severely injuring the young lad in the process. Cecilia Menaba, 23, allegedly set the penis of her stepson, Prince Yona Menaba on fire in their room, a week ago. Young Yona Menaba, […]

Tanker fire deaths in Rivers rises to 200

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Friday, July 13th, 2012

July 13, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike and Mike Odiegwu “Tanker exploded. The explosion sounded like an earthquake. Many of them could not come out alive,” a panic-stricken survivor of a petrol tanker fire that killed over 200 at the outskirts of Okogbe community, Rivers State, on Thursday narrated to The PUNCH. The survivor, whose car […]

Picture: TV presenter abducted in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, July 13th, 2012

July 13, 2012 by Eniola Akinkuotu A popular television presenter, Alhaji Razaq Gawat, has been abducted in Lagos, PUNCH Metro learnt on Thursday. Gawat, who is the anchorman of an Islamic TV programme during, E didè e ji sari, which is broadcast on Nigerian Television Authority Channel 10, was reportedly abducted around Apongbon end of […]