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B’Haram abducts 185 children, women near Chibok

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Thursday, December 18th, 2014

No fewer than 185 women have been reported kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents in Gumsuri, North of Chibok in Borno State. The insurgents, who killed about 32 men, set fire on the village with petrol bombs before herding the women and children in their pickup trucks. The Sunday incident is coming less than nine months […]

Soldiers nab Fulani herdsmen robbing on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

The Lagos State Police Command has detained two Fulani herdsmen, Mohammed Umar and Manu Hassan, for allegedly robbing motorists on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Our correspondent learnt that Umar and Hassan, who were herdsmen from the Ngaski area of Kebbi State, were arrested by soldiers attached to the OP MESA while they were robbing some people. […]

2015: Kalu’s wish for PDP – By Rubby Obinna

Posted by admin Abia, Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, Rubby Obinna, State News Sunday, December 14th, 2014

By Rubby Obinna | Imo, Nigeria | Dec. 14, 2014- From one generation to the other, history has recorded where men and women have bamboozled themselves, while twisting the facts in order to make their points. This still persists in the present days. Those in this line of habit have equated the withdrawal of Dr. […]

Abia PDP Primaries: Governor Orji as a Transparent Leader – By Madubuko Hart

Posted by admin Abia, Articles, Columnists, Madubuko Hart, NNP Columnists, State News Sunday, December 14th, 2014

By Madubuko Hart | Lagos, Nigeria | Dec. 14, 2014 – In the Abia State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primaries held on Monday, December 8, 2014, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu was declared the winner. The Returning Officer and Chairman of the electoral panel, Dr. (Mrs.) Angela Mba, who announced Ikpeazu winner […]

Scores die in Akure gas explosion

Posted by admin Headlines, Ondo, State News Saturday, December 13th, 2014

Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko Several persons were feared dead and many others injured on Saturday in an explosion at a gas station along Arakale Road in Akure. Eyewitnesses said the fire started at about 7pm during the sale of gas within the station. “We just heard a loud explosion and fire coming […]

Picture: Two hours in Tompolo’s Oporoza

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Saturday, December 13th, 2014

Oporoza, the country home of former lord of the creeks, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, is fast becoming an enviable new world. Ebenezer Adurokiya explores the quiet and steadily transformed headquarters of Gbaramatu kingdom in Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State. THIS is not a hatchet job. It welled up from over three-week cogitation […]

Buhari represents change Nigeria needs – Amaechi

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Rivers, State News Friday, December 12th, 2014

Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North Barely a day after the emergence of former head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari as the Presidential flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress, Rivers State Governor, Chubuike Rotimi Amaechi, has described him as the change that Nigeria urgently needs in order to move forward. Amaechi, who took to his […]

B’Haram: Army uncovers plot to invade five states

Posted by admin Adamawa, Armed Forces, Bauchi, Boko Haram, Borno, Gombe, Headlines, State News, Yobe Friday, December 12th, 2014

The Nigerian Army has discovered a plan by the Boko Haram insurgents to attack 25 communities and villages spread across five states in the troubled North-East zone. A credible security source, who confided in our correspondent on Thursday, said that the Boko Haram hit list was recovered by Special Forces during an operation at the […]

Female suicide bombers hit Kano again

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, State News Wednesday, December 10th, 2014

There was confusion in Kano on Wednesday as bombs exploded near the popular Kanti Kwari Textile Market along Ibrahim Taiwo Road. Six people, including two female suicide bombers, who alleged detonated the bombs, were confirmed dead. Nine sustained varying degrees of injuries. The Kano State Police Commissioner, Mr. Aderenle Shinaba, told journalists at the scene […]

Wamakko picks APC senatorial ticket (Governors’ retirement home)

Posted by admin Headlines, Sokoto, State News Monday, December 8th, 2014

Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko yesterday picked the All Progressives Congress (APC) ticket to contest for Sokoto North Senatorial seat in the forthcoming general elections. The governor was elected by no fewer than 2,432 delegates at the Trade Fair Complex in Sokoto city. Announcing the result, Chairman of the Electoral Panel, Alhaji Nasiru […]