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Headlines, Kebbi, State News, Top Stories
Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Image copyright . Image caption Hindatu Umar assumed the position after the tenure of the local chairman expired A 25-year-old woman has taken over as the head of a local authority in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria. Hindatu Umar is the first woman and the youngest person to hold the position in […]
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Governors, Headlines, Kaduna, Kebbi, Niger, State News, Zamfara
Sunday, June 28th, 2015
FROM NOAH EBIJE, KADUNA Governors of the states bordering the dreaded Ka¬muku Forest of Kaduna, where series of criminal activities have been on¬going for years met yes¬terday with Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai to find solution to rising fears of being a future nest for Boko Ha¬ram insurgents. According to El-Rufai, “the forest which […]
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Abia, Abuja (FCT), Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Election 2015, Elections, Enugu, Gombe, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85), Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Presidency, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Taraba, Top Stories, Yobe, Zamfara
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
State-by-state projection of their chances With the presidential election just around the corner, our correspondents write that the battle, which is a straight one between President Goodluck Jonathan and General Muhammadu Buhari, may spring some surprises As Nigerians, nay the world, wait for the March 28 presidential election and the 10 competing political parties putting […]
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Boko Haram, Kebbi, Latest Politics, State News
Wednesday, June 25th, 2014
-Punch *Chibok: ‘Asari’s statement puts govt in bad light’ Alhaji Adamu Aliero is a former governor of Kebbi State. He was also a Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and a senator. He is currently a delegate to the National Conference in Abuja. In this interview, he speaks on the state of the nation, […]
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Headlines, Kebbi, State News
Sunday, January 20th, 2013
Birnin Kebbi – The Police in Kebbi on Saturday arrested three men accused of raping a pregnant housewife for listening to an “offensive” Islamic sermon. The suspects, Yusuf Ahmed, Muazu Mohammed and Bawa Ibrahim, were nabbed for raping a housewife (names witheld). The offence was committed in Ula-Ira town in the Ngaski Local Government Area […]
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Governors, Headlines, Kebbi, State News
Thursday, December 29th, 2011
Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto yesterday quashed the judgment of the Kebbi State Governorship Election Tribunal, which nullified the election of the incumbent Governor, Usman Dakingari of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and made an order for fresh elections in 90 days. In his ruling, Justice Amiru Sanusi, ruled in favour of Dakingari and […]
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General Politics, Governors, Headlines, Kebbi, State News
Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Kebbi State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Birnin Kebbi yesterday nullified the election of Governor Usman Saidu Dakiagari of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Alhaji Dakingari thus became the first governor to lose election in the current democratic dispensation . Justice Mairo Laruba Mohammed in delivering judgment in the petition brought by the governorship candidate […]
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Headlines, Kebbi, State News
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
The Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, Mr. Habib Musa Jega has been unanimously returned by the newly elected members of the House along with his deputy, Muhammad Garba Bena for another four-year term at the inauguration of the new House in Birnin Kebbi. The return of Jega as Speaker came as a […]
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Abia, Bayelsa, Benue, Delta, Ebonyi, Elections 2011, Enugu, Imo, Katsina, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Niger, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Ogun, Oyo, State News
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
• Niger, Nasarawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Oyo, Ogun affected • Imo dicey-Low voter turnout in several states • Police detonate bomb near INEC office in Delta Early results trickling in from different zones indicate that the opposition Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) are making serious inroads into erstwhile Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled […]
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Kebbi, Legislature, Senate, State News
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The re-elected senator for Kebbi Central District, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, has inaugurated a N100m youth and women employment programme. Bagudu told the News Agency of Nigeria in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday, that any unemployed youth within his senatorial district would benefit from the programme irrespective of state of origin. He said the decision to […]