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Bayelsa, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
Politicians in Bayelsa State, including candidates in the 2015 elections, on Wednesday shunned a one-day stakeholders’ meeting organised by the state police command. The major political parties and their officials, including members of the Peoples Democratic Party, stayed away from the meeting. Candidates vying for positions in the National Assembly and state House of Assembly […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe On Sunday, an exceptional event occurred in Paris, France. About 60 world leaders, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, had in a show of international solidarity, gathered to mourn the cartoonists, satirists and others […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
Nigeria Defence spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade An attempt by Boko Haram to take over Biu, the largest town in the south of troubled Borno State, was on Wednesday repelled by the military, according to military sources and residents. Military sources said the insurgents suffered heavy casualty as many of them who attempted to invade […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
By Bose Adelaja Imagine yourself driving and suddenly, you get stoned by an underage person and you try to react but somebody appears out of the blues and says to you sarcastically: “Ah, ah, he is a child now! What do you want to do to this little kid? After all, you are a parent.” […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, January 12th, 2015
Scenes of the fire incidents | credits: Samson Folarin and Esther Olajide Tragedy struck in Lagos State on Sunday and Monday as multiple fire incidents occurred in different parts of the state, taking a life and destroying property. The fire razed Balogun Market on the Lagos Island, Oko Baba Sawmill in Ebute Meta and four […]
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Armed Forces, Borno, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News
Monday, January 12th, 2015
Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade | credits: www.ynaija.com The Defence authorities have faulted the claim that over 2,000 people were killed in the Boko Haram attack on Baga, the headquarters of the Multi-National Joint Task Force on January 3. The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, said this during a press […]
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Ekiti, Lagos, Latest Politics, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, State News
Friday, January 9th, 2015
By Clifford Ndujihe & Dapo Akinrefon With states like Ekiti (E), Lagos (L), Ogun (O), Ondo (O), Osun (O) and Oyo (O), the six South-West states can also be described as ELOOOO states. The word elo in Yoruba, the indigenous language of South-westerners, means how much. The issue of elo or how much will play […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Friday, January 9th, 2015
Lagos—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday said the Federal Government was clueless about the challenges confronting the country. Fashola made the statement at the commissioning of the Cooperative Home Ownership Incentive Scheme, CHOIS City at Agbowa, Ikosi in Ejirin Local Council Development Area, LCDA, and the first Solar-powered Primary Health Care, PHC, centre, Epe. […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Lagos, Presidency, State News
Friday, January 9th, 2015
LAGOS—President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, flagged off his campaign for re-election with a declaration that his generation has failed Nigeria. While addressing youths at the campaign ground, the President told them to work for the future of Nigeria, through hard work and dedication, adding that the youths are the ones to take the country to the […]
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Bayelsa, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, January 9th, 2015
All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), yesterday, took his campaign to the home base of President Goodluck Jonathan in Bayelsa and Rivers States with a promise to frontally address environmental concerns and degraded infrastructure, if elected. Buhari’s promise to implement the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, report on Ogoniland was elatedly […]
