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Results from Lagos, Anambra, Katsina, Enugu & Abia

Posted by admin Abia, Anambra, Elections 2011, Enugu, Katsina, Lagos, State News Sunday, April 10th, 2011

Rafeequat Arinola Onabimiro wins Badagry West Federal Constituency – Dimeji Bankole concedes defeat to ACN candidate – Oluremi Tinubu wins Lagos Central Senatorial seat with 202, 506 votes – Akinloye Hazeez Babajide of ACN gets 32, 473 votes to win Eti-Osa Federal Constituency – CPC has won the 3 senatorial seats in Katsina – PDP […]

Court stops INEC from publishing Masari’s name as guber candidate

Posted by admin INEC Politics, Katsina, Latest Politics, State News Friday, February 11th, 2011

The governorship ambition of a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari suffered a temporary set-back yesterday as an Abuja division of the Federal High Court, issued an interim order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from publishing his name as the standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change, […]

Anti-Jonathan Protests in Katsina, Bauchi

Posted by admin Bauchi, Katsina, State News, Top Stories Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Hundred of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Katsina State took to the streets protesting the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP presidential candidate during the just concluded party presidential primary. The protesting members of the party also burnt over 40, 0000 PDP membership cards, stating that they have dumped the party because […]

FG, States Share $1b Secretly – Deplete Excess Crude Account to $3m

Posted by admin Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Headlines, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Presidency, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara Saturday, January 1st, 2011

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) at an emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja, shared $1billion from the Excess Crude Account. With the disbursement of the amount, the balance in the ECA account now stands at $3million. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, lasted for only 29 minutes (11:10am and ended at about 11:39am). […]

Katsina 2011: Ruma Set To Topple Shema

Posted by admin Katsina, State News Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Why Shema is falling out of favour || Feelers from Katsina State indicate that the people are yearning for deliverance. They are yelling, so to say, for the good old days of the great resource manager, the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, their governor from 1999 to 2007, when he was elected president. But what has […]