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Gov. Suntai sacks all commissioners in surprise cabinet dissolution

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Taraba Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

The ailing Gov. Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, north east Nigeria has dissolved the executive cabinet of the state even as controversy continues to trail his state of health. The sack affected all commissioners and Special Advisers, while only Senior Special Assistants retain their jobs. Gov. Suntai’s Media aide Sylvanus Giwa made the announcement today […]

Mr. Kidnapper(s), Ozekhome is the last Person you want to Abduct, here is why

Posted by admin Columnists, Headlines, John Egbeazien Oshodi Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

As you may know our brother, Mike Ozekhome, in the last two decades, at least by international standards is one of the most prominent and loudest human rights voice in West Africa, Nigeria in particular. The reason for this is clear. With his legal voice he has engaged in targeted attacks against poverty, inequality, joblessness […]

Opinion: Don’t blame ASUU, urge the Federal Government

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

The negative reaction of the General Olusegun Obasanjo administration to the university students’ nationwide protests in April 1978 against the sudden hike in tuition by his administration marked a turning point in the decline in university education in Nigeria. University campuses were quickly occupied by the riot police as students kept chanting Alli Must Go, […]

Anambra poll: PDP rejects Uba, picks Nwoye

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

ANDY UBA The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has accepted the verdict of the party’s Gubernatorial Congress Committee which returned Chief Tony Nwoye as the elected candidate for the Anambra State governorship poll. National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, said that Nwoye was the party’s candidate as he emerged in […]

Rivers PDP expels SSG, 14 commissioners, others

Posted by admin Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

BARELY six days to its national convention, the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State has expelled 18 members loyal to the state Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. The state PDP announced the expulsion of the members shortly after receiving the report of the Performance Evaluation Committee on Monday at the party secretariat in Port Harcourt on […]

Police bullet kills 60-year-old deejay, wife demands justice

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Slain Adamson and wife, Modinatu Wife of a 60-year-old deejay, Adamson Bello, who was killed last Sunday by a stray bullet fired by a policeman attached to the Okokomaiko Police Division, Lagos State, has called for justice. Modinatu, 50, said the police did not only shoot her husband, they also frustrated efforts to […]

Suntai writes assembly, seeks to resume duty

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Taraba Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

(1) Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai being assisted out of an aircraft by his aides at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja … on Sunday; (2) An SUV that conveyed him to the VIP lounge of the airport; (3) Security personnel and aides welcoming him at the Jalingo airport. | credits: Sam Adeko. RECUPERATING […]

SSS grills teenage stowaway’s mum (Leave the mom alone, address the bigger problem)

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

The mother of the 13-year-old stowaway, Ricky Daniel Ohikhena, who on Friday hid in the tyre compartment of an Arik plane on a flight from Benin to Lagos, was on Monday quizzed for hours by a combined team of security operatives from the Department of State Security Service and aviation security. The mother, Evelyn, […]

Spiritualist, car dealer defraud FCT minister

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Monday, August 26th, 2013

The State Security Service has arrested a car dealer, Ibrahim Takat, for allegedly conspiring with a spiritualist, Nakasi Ahmadu, “to defraud the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, of N3m.” The duo were said to have cloned the minister’s telephone number which they used to send a text message to Mohammed’s Chief of Staff […]

Gov. Suntai arrives Abuja, helped off the plane

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines, State News, Taraba Monday, August 26th, 2013

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State on Sunday afternoon arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja after spending about 10 months abroad for treatment for injuries sustained when a small aircraft he piloted crashed. The governor, who left Nigeria for Germany in October, was supported on his right and left arms by aides while disembarking […]