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Headlines, NNP News
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
By New Nigerian Politics In this celebratory season of giving, compassion and love, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Jesus House Scarborough (Toronto) is making a significant difference in the lives of the Scarborough community members through its community outreach initiative. In its inaugural outreach event last year, it assisted several Scarborough families in need […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
The choice of a new Deputy Governor for Kaduna State has started to generate tension between top politicians from the southern part of the state as groups intensified lobby for their candidates. The position, which has been zoned to the predominantly Christian south, became vacant after Alhaji Mukhtar Yero was sworn in as Governor […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Enugu State Governor Sullivan Chime underwent a heart surgery in the United States of America in 2005, The PUNCH learnt on Tuesday. This was two years before he contested the state governorship election in 2007. Some of his aides and a commissioner claimed that Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, who was governor of Enugu State at the […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
DECEMBER 19, 2012 BY MIKE ODIEGWU AND DAVID ATTAH The remains of the Late Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa, and that of his aide and friend, Dauda Tsoho, arrived in Kaduna airport aboard a Nigerian Air Force cargo plane at 2.45pm on Tuesday. The bodies were received by hundreds of wailing sympathisers who thronged […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
Principal, Ajuwon Senior High School, Ajuwon, Ifo Local Government Area, Ogun State, Rev. Olufunke Oladeojobi, has been quizzed by the police for allegedly conducting virginity tests on the pupils. PUNCH Metro learnt that Oladeojobi, who was described as a strict disciplinarian, by her pupils called in a nurse and jointly carried out virginity tests on […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
By Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri The chopper went down. Souls perished. Investigations, as usual, have been ordered. Three days mourning have also been declared. And the routine blame and counter-blame games erupt among the populations, with the attendant religious, ethnic and tribal twists to a sad story. This is the story of Nigeria! I am neither going […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Soldiers were out on Kaduna streets yesterday to prevent any outbreak of violence, following the death of Governor Yakowa. Army spokesperson in Kaduna, Colonel Sani Usman, confirmed the deployment of troops on the streets of the city, which has witnessed a spate of clashes between Christian and Muslim residents that have left scores of people […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Kaduna State Governor Mukhtar Yero yesterday declared a one week mourning. The late Governor Patrick Yakowa’s remains will be buried on Thursday, he said. In a state broadcast last night, he announced today as public holiday – to enable the people receive the body of the late Yakowa and his friend, Dauda Tshoho, who also […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson wept yesterday at the Federal Medical Centre Mortuary in Yenagoa where he went to inspect the bodies of Governor Patrick Yakowa, ex-National Security Adviser (NSA) Gen. Patrick Azazi and four others who died in Saturday’s helicopter crash. Dickson, with whom were Service Chiefs and other notable personalities, described the incident […]
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Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Unidentified gunmen yesterday in Owerri, the Imo State capital, abducted the Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Affairs, Nkiru Sylvanus. The Nollywood actress was redeployed from the state’s Liaison Office in Lagos. She was reportedly abducted around the famous Concord Hotel in company of some friends. Though details of the incident were still sketchy […]
