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Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Saturday, November 15th, 2014
THE leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State has warned its governorship and other aspirants to play by the rules and be guided by the provisions of Article 58 (1) of the party’s constitution of 2012 as amended, threatening that disciplinary actions would be taken against errant members. The state Chairman of the […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Friday, November 14th, 2014
The Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal has upheld the dismissal of a N1.5bn libel suit instituted by Governor of Enugu State, Mr. Sullivan Chime, against The Guardian Newspaper and Chief Okechukwu Ezea, his opponent in the 2007 gubernatorial election. The appellate court, in a lead judgement delivered by Justice Rita Pemu on Friday, […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Friday, November 14th, 2014
A combined team of local hunters, civilian JTF and the Nigerian soldiers on Wednesday night launched a fierce battle against Boko Haram insurgents and recaptured Mubi and its environ, which had earlier fell into the hands of the sect. Reports from Mubi also indicated that five Nigerian Armoured Personnel Carriers, seized by the dreaded Islamists […]
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Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Olaniyi Olanike, State News
Sunday, November 9th, 2014
By Olaniyi Olanike | Umuahia, Abia | Nov. 9, 2014 – “Ojo Maduekwe was also as wily as they come in the politics of eating one of his own to pave way for himself… In essence, a few pro-Igbo policies of the Obasanjo era were lost in the din of tribal self-hate Ojo polluted all around […]
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Abia, Articles, Columnists, Madubuko Hart, NNP Columnists, State News
Sunday, November 9th, 2014
By Madubuko Hart | Lagos, Nigeria | Nov. 9, 2014 – A critical look at the government of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State spells one thing: There must be something positive about him and his government that critics of his government do not want the world to know, so they are doing everything within their […]
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Headlines, Nasarawa, State News
Sunday, November 9th, 2014
No fewer than 32 people were feared dead on Sunday evening when gunmen suspected to Fulani insurgents gunned down some Eggon villagers in an ambush at Arikya-Soni in Lafia East Development Area of Nasarawa State at about 3pm. It was gathered that the villager were returning from from their farm when the suspected Fulani gunmen, […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Soccer, Sports, State News
Sunday, November 9th, 2014
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, on Friday revealed that the Super Eagles would on May 29 next year host the Brazil senior national team in a friendly at the newly commissioned stadium in Uyo. May 29 is generally marked as Democracy Day in Nigeria for the swearing-in of newly elected governors and president. It […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Sunday, November 9th, 2014
The Kogi State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Mallam Suleiman Abdullahi, on Sunday said a teacher recently died in the state because of his inability to raise N3,000 required for his medical bill as teachers in the state were being owed salaries and other entitlements. He claimed that teachers in the state had been subjected to unbearable hardships. […]
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Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Friday, November 7th, 2014
At least 10 people have been killed in a bomb blast as they queued to withdraw money from a cash machine in northern Nigeria, residents have told the BBC. They say the attacker approached the queue with a parcel before it exploded in Azare, Bauchi state. No group has said it carried out the attack […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
AS survivors of the Boko Haram attack on the town of Mubi continued to flee, a family man, who fled to Kano, has told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BB)C Hausa in an interview that parents were forced to collect N5,000 and surrender their daughters to the insurgents. Similarly, a woman, who also fled to […]
