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Headlines, Niger, State News
Friday, April 17th, 2020
Niger State Government has declared a Councillor in Katcha Local Government Area of the State , (name withheld) wanted for allegedly disappearing with 30 bags of palliative grains meant to be distributed to members of his constituency. Secretary to the Niger State Government, who is also State Chairman Taskforce on COVID-19, Alhaji Ibrahim Matane, who […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Friday, April 17th, 2020
Menegian, son of the late environmental activist and poet, Ken Saro-Wiwa, has died of coronavirus in Britain, The Tide can report. He died on Monday after being hospitalised following COVID-19 complications. Noo Saro-Wiwa, sister of the deceased, made this known yesterday through a Facebook post. She said her 1970-born brother had underlying health conditions before […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, National Politics, North-West, State News
Friday, April 17th, 2020

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi (left); Attorney General/Commissioner for Justice, Moyo Onigbanjo; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso; Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship, Beecroft, Apapa, Commodore Ibrahim Aliyu Shettima; Commander, 9 brigade, Ikeja Army Cantonment, Brigadier General, Etsu Ndagi; Commander, 651 Base Services Group, Nigerian Air Force Base, […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, State News
Wednesday, April 15th, 2020

By Kazeem Ugbodagaagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday said extending the lockdown in Lagos by another 14 days by President Muhammadu Buhari was a tough decision the government had to take in a bid to defeat Coronavirus. Buhari had on Monday announced an extension of the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and Abuja in a […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
Keniebi Okoko: dies during liposuction surgery eniebi Okoko, Bayelsa-born billionaire businessman and philanthropist, has died in Lagos, throwing many Bayelsans into mourning. Some reports said Okoko died on Tuesday during a liposuction surgery in a Lagos hospital. A power outage was blamed for the death. Okoko contested the Bayelsa primary for the governorship ticket […]
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Aviation, Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

By Egufe Yafugborhi – PORT HARCOURT – TWO pilots and 10 passengers of Carveton Helicopters remanded for flouting the Executive Order of the Rivers State Government to check spread of Coronavirus have been granted bail by a Port Harcourt Magistrate Court. Chief Magistrate D.D. Ihua-Maduenyi in granting the bail Tuesday ordered that both pilots, Samuel […]
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Kaduna, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 13th, 2020

John Owen Nwachukwu Bello, one of the sons of Governor of Kaduna State, has stirred controversies on social media after he threatened to gang rape the mother of a Twitter user. During an argument on Twitter, a user by the handle name @Thanos_zer had blasted the present government, describing President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged ineptitude as […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 13th, 2020

Akinwunmi Ambode to the Rescue editorApril 12, 2020 5:44 Pm Still, on the matter of the Covid-19 pandemic and all the fruits it has ripened for the world’s halt and eventual closedown, folks have begun to realize that heroes will not be falling out of the skies on winged sails anytime soon. In fact, […]
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Articles, Aviation, Bruce DelValle, Columnists, Lloyd Ukwu, Ministries, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Sunday, April 12th, 2020

By Lloyd F. Ukwu & Bruce DelValle | Port-Harcourt, Nigeria & Washington DC, USA | April 12, 2020 – Governor Wike declared a lockdown in Rivers State as did other states. Yesterday one Calverton helicopter brought in 10 persons into the city Port Harcourt in direct disregard for the health of the people of Rivers […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News
Sunday, April 12th, 2020
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt amuel Nakpoo, a member of a kidnapping and robbery gang on the Ogoni-Uyo axis of the East West Road in Rivers State has been killed by the police. He was gunned down while trying to escape from policemen inside the forest camp of the gang. Other members of the gang took to […]