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20 feared dead in an outbreak of Tiv/Fulani bloodbath

Posted by admin Benue, Headlines, State News Saturday, July 6th, 2013

By Peter Duru, Makurdi …As house of ex Benue Ho S razed… No fewer than 20 people were Friday feared dead in an outbreak of conflict between Tiv farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen at Nzorov ward, in Guma Local Government Area of Benue state. Sources told Saturday Vanguard hat the entire Nzorov ward in Iyordye […]

Obi bags Best Governor Award, empowers 5,000 youths

Posted by admin Anambra, General Politics, Governors, Headlines, State News Friday, July 5th, 2013

Anambra State governor, Mr Peter Obi, yesterday bagged the best performing governor on the eradication of polio in the southeast from Bill Gates and Melinda Foundation at a massively attended ceremony at the Women’s Development Centre in Awka. Speaking while presenting the award to Gov Obi which went with a cash prize of N120 million, […]

Doctors reject turning off Mandela’s life support

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, July 5th, 2013

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Nelson Mandela’s doctors have rejected the idea of turning off the ailing icon’s life support unless he suffers massive organ failure, a close family friend told AFP. Denis Goldberg — an anti-apartheid activist who has been Mandela’s friend for more than half a century — on Friday said the issue of turning […]

Lagos-Ibadan Expressway project to last four years –Jonathan

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, Top Stories Friday, July 5th, 2013

President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday inaugurated the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, with a pledge that the N167bn project would be completed in 48 months. He inaugurated the project as thousands of road users were grounded for about three hours on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and Abeokuta-Ore-Benin Expressway. The road users were prevented from accessing the […]

Same sex bill: Gay group attacks Nigerian web portal

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, July 5th, 2013

The Ministry of Information has said that the nation’s web portal, www.nigeria.gov.ng was on Thursday night attacked by a group of gay rights activists. Special Assistant to the Minister of Information, Mr. Joseph Mutah, said in a statement on Friday that the attack was successfully warded off by the ministry, adding that additional measures would […]

Rivers PDP crisis: Odili, others rally against Amaechi, visit Jonathan

Posted by admin Headlines, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News, Top Stories Thursday, July 4th, 2013

LEADERS and elders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, on Thursday, met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House, Abuja, on a solidarity visit. Among the delegation were the acting deputy national chairman of the party, Chibudom Nwuche; state chairman; Chief Felix Obuah; former governor of Rivers State, Dr Peter Odili; […]

Flooding: Bayelsa ACN asks Dickon not to go on leave

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 4th, 2013

y Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Bayelsa State chapter, yesterday, urged Governor Seriake Dickson to reconsider his request to the state House of Assembly for permission to go on annual leave. It insisted that if such permission was granted, it would make mockery of the seriousness of the state’s preparation to tackle […]

Uduaghan sacks Finance commissioner, Okumagba

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 4th, 2013

By Austin Ogwuda Asaba — DELTA State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday effected a minor reshuffle in his cabinet. In a statement signed by Secretary to the State Government, Mr Ovuozorie Macaulay, Mr Bernard Okumagba, hitherto Finance Commissioner was replaced by Mr Ken Okpara, who was Commissioner for Economic Planning. Macaulay’s statement reads: “It is […]

Don’t ‘besmirch’ Mandela’s name, Tutu tells feuding family

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, July 4th, 2013

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu Thursday pleaded with Nelson Mandela’s family not to “besmirch” his name after they engaged in a public spat fuelled by a legal dispute over a burial site. The family of the global icon has been involved in a bitter legal squabble over the reburial […]

ASUU, ASUP strikes ground varsities, polytechnics

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Thursday, July 4th, 2013

BY DAYO ADESULU, LAJU ARENYEKA & IKENNA ASOMBA In what could be described as a near collapse of the nation’s tertiary education sector, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is now in the fourth day of its indefinite strike action. The ASUU strike is the newest cart in the bandwagon of industrial actions in […]