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					Boko Haram, Headlines, Niger, State News
					Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
				
			Minna – TWENTY- four hours after the  blast that claimed four lives and injured others at All Christian Fellowship Mission Church, Suleja,  another blast exploded, yesterday, at Ecwa Church in Madalla town,  near Suleja. The blast exploded at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, on the day the Acting Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto, led a government delegation […]
			
				
							 
						
			
				
				
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					Headlines, Niger, State News
					Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
				
			The 25 local government councils in Niger State would need a whopping sum of N6.5billion monthly to be able to pay the new minimum wage of staff and primary school teachers even as the state government detected 4000 ghost workers in the last staff audit. This was coming on the heels of the disclosure that […]
			
				
							 
						
			
				
				
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					Bauchi, Borno, Kano, Latest Politics, Niger, Plateau, State News
					Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
				
			ABUJA-TO thwart any possible attack by the Boko Haram sect, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, has beefed up security in about seven states including Borno, Bauchi, Kaduna, Niger, Plateau and Kano.  Ringim, also said yesterday that the post-election violence which engulfed parts of the country could not have been avoided. Fielding questions from […]
			
				
							 
						
			
				
				
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					Governors, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Niger, Presidency, State News
					Thursday, May 5th, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
				
			Buhari Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is unfit to hold a responsible office in Nigeria. Governor Aliyu had lashed out at the former head of […]
			
				
							 
						
			
				
				
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					Abia, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Borno, Ebonyi, Elections 2011, Enugu, Kano, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, State News, Top Stories, Yobe
					Thursday, April 28th, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
Amosun, Ahmed win Ogun, Kwara, Doma loses in Nasarawa Lamido, Amaechi, Fashola, Akpabio, Suswam re-elected Chime, Orji, Geidam, Aliyu retain seats Kwankwaso returns to Kano Govt House Stalemate in Imo, Ajimobi floors Alao-Akala THE wind of change blowing across the polity yesterday swept away some sitting governors and helmsmen of state legislatures. Some outgoing governors […]
			
				
							 
						
			
				
				
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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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					Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Niger, Presidency, Top Stories, Yakubu Gowon (1966-75)
					Thursday, April 21st, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
				
			Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) was yesterday prevented from entering Suleja by security agents. The motorcade of the former military leader was stopped at Madalla and he was told he could not proceed to Suleja. Buhari was on his way to Suleja to pay a condolence over […]
			
				
							 
						
			
				
				
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					Abia, Abuja (FCT), Adamawa, Adebayo Adejare, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Elections 2011, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara
					Friday, April 15th, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
				
			Today, the die is cast and all the anxiety of who becomes the country’s president in the next four years would give way within the next 48 hours, when the results would be announced.  Some of the presidential candidates are seen as contestants to the throne, while some are mere pretenders. Indeed, most of them […]
			
				
							 
						
			
				
				
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					Elections 2011, Niger, State News
					Saturday, March 26th, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
				
			Niger State Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture has  denied the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Presidential candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu  the usage of the Trade Fair complex for his presidential campaign rally billed for tomorrow in Niger State. The same treatment was meted on Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential candidate, General Muhammed […]
			
				
							 
						
			
				
				
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					Niger, State News
					Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
					
						
											
				
			
				
			A strong indication emerged weekend on the possibility of crude oil reserves in the flood plain of the river Niger around Bida area of Niger State. The Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS) gave the indication in Minna.The society’s president, Professor Anthony Azubuike Elueze, in a press briefing, said investigations into the samples of the […]