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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Monday, February 8th, 2016
A Chinese worker, identified as Njaga Chang, has cut off one of the right fingers of his Nigerian colleague at the Xin Xin Quarry in Akamkpa Local Government Area of Cross River State. The 23-year-old Nigerian victim, Nsikak Tommy, was said to have incurred the wrath of the Chinese for failing to quickly turn on […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News
Monday, February 8th, 2016
— February 8, 2016 Trailer conveying cattle, goats, collide with stationary vehicle By Omoniyi Ayedun and Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan A trailer carrying goats, motorcycles and about 100 passengers from the northern part of the country, collided with a parked bus along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway (immediately after Ibadan) resulting in the death of about 30 people. Somehow, […]
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Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Sunday, February 7th, 2016
THE Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike, said on Sunday that he would not have contested a governorship rerun if the Supreme Court had failed to uphold his election. The governor also alleged that between December 1 and 18 of 2014, the immediate past government in the state led by Mr. Rotimi Amaechi had used […]
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Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, February 7th, 2016
No fewer than 1,500 women gave birth in 28 Internally Displaced Persons’ camps in Borno State in 2015, the state Primary Health Care Management Board said on Sunday in Maiduguri. The Executive Secretary of the board, Dr. Sule Mene, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the deliveries were recorded between January 2015 and January […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Sunday, February 7th, 2016
It was a disappointing weekend for workers in Ekiti State as the state government on Thursday withdrew two months’ salaries already paid into their bank accounts. This was as teachers in the state declared a two-day warning strike over the refusal of Governor Ayodele Fayose to pay their September 2014 salary arrears and 2014 leave […]
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Benue, Election 2015, Elections, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News
Sunday, February 7th, 2016
By Michael Jegede Former Senate President, Senator David Mark of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and one-time President of West Africa Students Union (WASU), Comrade Daniel Onjeh of the All Progressives Congress, APC, will be slugging it out on February 20, 2016, in the rerun of Benue South senatorial election. After the March 28, 2015 […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Sunday, February 7th, 2016
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has said that the statement issued by the Presidency on President Mohammadu Buhari’s sudden vacation was vague, saying; “Nigerians deserve to know the truth about their President because the President is an open book that every Nigerians should be free to read.” The governor, […]
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Delta, Headlines, State News
Saturday, February 6th, 2016
-Vanguard By Charles Kumolu THE 2016 reunion day of Government College Ughelli ,GCU, was indeed an opportunity for the school’s old students to give back to an institution that was literally a springboard for them. Dignitaries at the commissioning of the renovated facilities at Government College, Ughelli. It was an event that attracted public office […]
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Articles, Columnists, Election 2015, Elections, NNP Columnists, Olalekan Waheed Adigun, State News
Saturday, February 6th, 2016

By Olalekan Waheed Adigun | Lagos, Nigeria | Feb. 6, 2016 – Depending on one’s political persuasions, many stayed glued to their radio or television stations in anticipation of the declaration of the much-anticipated election result in Kogi on November, 21. The social media was awash with all manner of projections about who the eventual […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Friday, February 5th, 2016
A’ Ibom: Woman, 41, dies during stampede for N1m gov’s gift Etim Ekpimah, Uyo A 41-year-old food seller, Mrs. Lizzy Offiong, has died while struggling for a share of the N1m the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, gave to Mbiaobong market women. It was learnt that the woman, who sold food around the […]