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UNICEF tasks Northern states on polio, girl-child education

Posted by admin Headlines, North-Central, North-East, North-West Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Deputy Representative, Mr Jacques Boyer, has stressed the need for traditional and religious leaders in the 10 Northern states of Nigeria, to mobilise and educate their subjects on the need to tackle polio, girl-child education and child protection in their respective areas. This is just as he said that […]

N-East rules self out of House Speaker

Posted by admin House, Legislature, North-East Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

THE North East caucus in the House of Representatives yesterday supported the zoning formula of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, provided the position of deputy speaker remained in the zone. This development has automatically thrown a spanner into Rep Aminu Waziri Tambuwal’s aspirations to contest the speakership position in the seventh assembly, barely two […]

Northeast senators move to stop Senate President

Posted by admin Legislature, North-East, Senate Monday, May 2nd, 2011

SENATORS elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from the Northeast appear opposed to the Northcentral keeping the job of Senate President. Rising from a meeting in Abuja last wekend, the 14 senators said their zone would be “totally eclipsed” from the national power equation, if the Northecentral is allowed […]

Wild, Wild North: A Festival of Incompetence & Mischief – By Anthony A. Kila

Posted by admin Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, Elections 2011, NNP Columnists, North-East, North-West Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK, – April 26, 2011 – Lest we all become guilty of what we accuse others of doing, two things need to be said very clearly about the ongoing crisis in the Northern part of Nigeria: one is that the Northern crisis is a very good example of a predictable […]

Islamic cleric slain in northeast

Posted by admin Latest Politics, North-East, Religion Thursday, April 21st, 2011

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Authorities are blaming members of a radical Muslim sect for the killing of an Islamic cleric in the country’s northeast. Police chief Mike Zuokumor said that when police responded to the scene of the attack Wednesday night in Maiduguri, a police patrol was ambushed by a blast that wounded three officers. The […]