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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Sunday, March 29th, 2020
By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | March 29, 2020 – It is all over the news that the Imo State House of Assembly on Thursday called on the Inspector General of Police to arrest the State Returning Officer, Prof. Francis Otunta, and the Imo Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Francis Ezeonu, for illegally returning Emeka […]
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Headlines, Religion, Rivers, State News
Sunday, March 29th, 2020
Most churches in Rivers had not more than 50 members in each worship session in compliance with the rule on social distancing by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Some leaders of the churches, who spoke to newsmen on Sunday in Port Harcourt, said that the church was committed to the […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Sunday, March 29th, 2020
Four years after he became the first governor to articulate a stimulus package in the midst of Nigeria’s first recession in 25 years, Anambra’s Chief Willie Obiano has announced a welfare package to help ameliorate the economic hardship arising from measures to combat the Coronaravirus rampaging the world. In a directive yesterday to the Commissioner […]
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Governors, Kaduna, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, March 28th, 2020
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has tested positive for the coronavirus disease. He announced this in a video posted on his verified Twitter handle on Saturday evening. “Earlier this week, I submitted a sample for the COVID-19 test. The result came in this evening, and I regret to say that it is positive,” […]
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Anambra, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Anambra State: In response to the growing threat of the Coronavirus [Covid-19] pandemic, the Government of Anambra State has come out with the following measures to keep its residents safe: 1. Civil servants in the state are hereby directed to proceed on a 14-day work-from-home with effect from Tuesday, March 24, 2020. However, any civil […]
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Cross River, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja A Peoples Democratic Party member representing Cross River North Senatorial District in the National Assembly is dead. One of her aides who confirmed to our correspondent on condition of anonymity in Abuja on Tuesday morning, said the late Senator died on Monday at the age of 63. He said the late Oko […]
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Aviation, Lagos, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, March 21st, 2020
As the cases of Coronavirus jumps from 12 to 22, the Federal Government has announced indefinite closure of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja, effective from Monday, March 23. The planned shutdown was contained in a statement signed Saturday by the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), […]
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Headlines, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 21st, 2020
A former governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Soalabo West, has been killed by suspected herdsmen. He was reportedly kidnapped outside his farm and later died in custody. The lawyer was abducted on March 7 in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Two days into his abduction, the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, March 16th, 2020
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says 15 corpses, including a family of four, have been recovered from the scene of Sunday’s explosion which occurred at Abule Ado, Trade Fair axis of Lagos State. No fewer than 60 students of Bethlehem Girls College located within the area who sustained various degrees of injuries in the […]
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General Politics, Kano, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
Yesterday, March 9, 2020, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State did what his former charismatic predecessor, the late Abubakar Rimi, planned to, but could not do: He deposed the Emir of Kano and split the Kano Emirate into four chiefdoms. When it started, it was as if Ganduje was following in the footsteps of […]
