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EFCC Politics, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Friday, August 9th, 2013
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to quiz the Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Otelemaba Amachree, and other principal officers loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi. The commission has already interrogated the embattled Majority Leader, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, who has just been granted bail over an attempted murder charge, assault, intent to maim […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta
Friday, August 9th, 2013
The Office of the Special Adviser to the President on the Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has awarded scholarship to 36 youths of the Niger Delta for degree programmes in the United States. The Technical Assistant to the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Larry Pepple, who represented Kuku at a send-off for the youths at the Abuja […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Friday, August 9th, 2013
The South-South Youth Assembly has condemned what it described as media attacks on the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, by a group in Kaduna under the aegies of Northern Emancipation Network. In a statement by the group’s president, Mr. Ben Jaja, and Secretary, Mr. Joseph Tenelaibe, on Thursday, the group condemned the northern […]
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Headlines
Friday, August 9th, 2013
As breast cancer is common in women above 45 years of age, so is prostate cancer in men above the age of 60. Prostate cancer is a disease which affects only men and it affects the prostate — a gland in the male reproductive system. Statistics by the National Cancer Registry estimate that one out […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines, Oil Politics
Friday, August 9th, 2013
A legal practitioner, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, who is a counsel for a subsidy fraud suspect, Mr. Seun Ogunbambo, on Thursday, described the declaration by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Ogunbambo as a wanted person as unconstitutional. Oluyede said in a statement that there was no basis for declaring his client wanted because there […]
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Headlines, House, Legislature, Rivers, State News
Friday, August 9th, 2013
THE lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Mr. Ogbonna Nwuke, has condemned the arrest and detention of suppoters of Governor Rotimi Amaechi in the Peoples Democratic Party in his constituency. In a statement made available to journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday, Nwuke accused the police of bias in the political crisis […]
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Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Rivers, State News
Friday, August 9th, 2013
When in November 2012, Winifred Okey, received a call-up letter to begin her National Youth Service Corps programme in Rivers State, she was extremely happy. This was because she wanted to be posted there so that she would be close to her friends, who were staying there. The 23-year-old graduate’s happiness was however cut short […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
Some international flights have landed at Nairobi’s international airport a day after fire gutted the arrivals hall, causing serious disruption. A plane from London was the first to land at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 06:30 local time (03:30 GMT), Kenyan airport authorities said. Other planes from Bangkok and Kilimanjaro also arrived. The cause of […]
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Headlines, Sports, Track & Field
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has stated that she is unperturbed by the threat posed by Nigeria’s Blessing Okagabre in the women 100m at the IAAF World Championships starting Saturday in Moscow, Russia. Okagbare emerged as potential champion in Moscow when she ran 10.79 seconds at the London Anniversary Games in July. She beat the two-time […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Warning! This story contains a graphic photo some may find disturbing By EVELYN USMAN Reports of Fulani herdsmen attacking members of their host communities with AK 47 rifles and other dangerous weapons have often been treated as a fairy tale by those saddled with the responsibility of protecting lives and property of the citizenry. Recently, […]
