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Chime underwent heart surgery in 2005 – Aides

Posted by admin 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 […]

Yakowa’s body arrives in Kaduna amid tears and soldier collapsing

Posted by admin 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 […]

Principal quizzed for conducting virginity tests on pupils

Posted by admin 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 […]

Venting About The Bayelsa Crash

Posted by admin 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 […]

Soldiers deployed to Kaduna to prevent riot due to governor’s death

Posted by admin 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 […]

Yakowa for burial on Thursday

Posted by admin 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 […]

Gov. Dickson weeps at mortuary

Posted by admin 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 […]

Picture: Nollywood actress Nkiru Sylvanus feared kidnapped

Posted by admin 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 […]

Man 42, stabbed to death for settling dispute

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, December 16th, 2012

By DONALD ARJI LAGOS —The police in Lagos State have arrested an Okada rider simply identified as Igali for stabbing a father of two, Demola Talabi 42, to death. The middle-aged Igali allegedly used a screw-driver to stab Talabi on the neck and other parts of his body because he prevented him from stabbing his […]

Gov. Chime of Enugu not dead – commissioner

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Sunday, December 16th, 2012

By Nnamdi Ojiego The Enugu State government Sunday, debunked the rumours making the round that governor Sullivan Chime has passed away. Chime was reported by some publications (not Vanguard) to have passed on at an Indian hospital on Saturday, after battling an undisclosed ailment for some months. Governor Chime The State Commissioner for Information, Mr […]