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IG redeploys Lagos, Ogun, Rivers CPs

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Nigerian Police, Ogun, Rivers, State News Friday, July 3rd, 2015

Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase | credits: http://www.thescoopng.com Following a rise in the crime wave, the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has redeployed the Commissioners of Police in Lagos, Ogun and Rivers states and replaced them with new hands. Lagos had last week recorded a violent bank robbery during which millions of naira […]

Salary cut’II lead to chaos, workers tell Aregbesola

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Friday, July 3rd, 2015

Labour unions in Osun State have warned Governor Rauf Aregbesola to stop the plan to cut workers’ salaries by 50 per cent. The Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress in the state, Mr. Jacob Adekomi, who led other labour leaders to address journalists on the issue said on Friday that the decision would lead to an […]

B’Haram kills 145 in Borno mosques, villages

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories Thursday, July 2nd, 2015

Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Badeh | credits: http://www.nigeriancurrent.com/ The fighters of the dreaded Boko Haram sect laid a siege to some Borno communities between Tuesday and Wednesday night and killed 145 persons and injured several others. Some of the deceased were killed in some mosques where the villagers had gone […]

Tribunal rejects Akpabio’s request for adjournment

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 2nd, 2015

Former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio The Akwa Ibom State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, where the election of former Governor Godswill Akpabio as senator representing Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District is being challenged, on Thursday, rejected a prayer for an indefinite adjournment of its proceedings. The counsel representing […]

How 23-year-old First Class Maths graduate changed the face of 24-year-old Community Secondary School (CSS), Abuloma, Port Harcourt

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Rivers, State News Thursday, July 2nd, 2015

Written by: Dapo Falade – Port Harcourt Wednesday, July 1, 2015 Cynthia advertisement OP HEADLINES Last Tuesday, 23-year-old Miss Cynthia Adaeze Onwuchuruba reversed what appeared to be a curse on a school, Community Secondary School (CSS), Abuloma in Port Harcourt Rivers State which had been in existence for 24 years. Doing what many […]

Suicide bombers attack hospital as Osinbajo visits Borno

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Wednesday, July 1st, 2015

Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo Two suicide bombers (a male and female) on Wednesday detonated a bomb at a hospital in Molai Village, Borno State, few kilometres from scenes visited by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who was in the town to pay a visit to Internally Displaced Persons. A member of the youth vigilante group, […]

APC requests resignation of judge who called for Aregbesola’s sack

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Monday, June 29th, 2015

The Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has called on Justice Olamide Oloyede to toe the honourable path by first, resigning her position as a High Court Judge in the state’s judiciary before, “ganging up with the opposition to attempt to destroy the state government” of which she is an integral […]

El-Rufai, 4 other govs meet over dreaded Kamuku forest

Posted by admin 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 […]

Akwa Ibom tribunal affirms Udom’s election as gov

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Sunday, June 28th, 2015

By Our Reporter on June 28, 2015 National The Akwa Ibom State Governor¬ship Election Tri¬bunal holden at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory Complex, Maitama, Abu¬ja has struck out a peti¬tion by the candidate of the Labour Party, Sena¬tor Helen Esuene seek¬ing to nullify the election of the Governor of Akwa […]

Osun State and the Lost Hope of the Common Man – By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Osun, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi Saturday, June 27th, 2015

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | June 27, 2015 – These are really disturbing times in Nigeria. Almost everywhere one goes, the stories are the same. Epileptic power supply, biting fuel scarcity, tanker explosions, intense Boko Haram bombings and attacks, petty agitations in the Niger-Delta, spiralling debts, economic downturn, naira depreciation to mention a […]