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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 […]
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Gombe, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, November 5th, 2014
Gunmen, suspected to be members of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, attacked the headquarters of Nafada Local Government Area of Gombe state, North-East Nigeria on Tuesday, killing soldiers, an Islamic cleric and left no fewer than 10 persons dead. But the state Police Commissioner, Kudu Nma, however, said he had yet to hear of the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has urged motorists across the state not to regard officials of the federal task force who have been deployed in major roads in the state. The governor said this even as officials of the task force and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority clashed on Monday. Fashola said […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Militant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, has renamed Mubi as ‘Madinatul Islam,” meaning the city of Islam. The action is further confirmation that the sect was in total control of the town which it recaptured last week after troops stationed there withdrew. Boko Haram had earlier hoisted its flag in some parts of the town, including […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, November 1st, 2014
By TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, MAIDUGURI on November 2, 2014 National Attempts by Boko Haram to invade a Borno community on Friday snowballed into a fierce battle with soldiers, leading to the killing of 41 of its fighters, security sources confirmed. Some Boko Haram on motorcycles and a Hilux reportedly stormed Sabon Gari in Damboa Local Government, […]
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Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, November 1st, 2014
2015: I’ll defeat Jonathan if APC gives me ticket –Kwankwaso By DESMOND MGBOH, KANO on November 2, 2014 Politics Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has assured Nigerians that if given the presidential ticket of the All Progressive Congress (APC), he will defeat President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming 2015 presidential election. Kwankwaso spoke […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Friday, October 31st, 2014
Ayo Fayose Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has said he patronises drinking joints every Friday in order to get close to the ‘common man’ in the state. The governor said this in Abuja on Thursday while defending the concept of “stomach infrastructure” introduced by his government. He told journalists that it would […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Thursday, October 30th, 2014
A former Minister of Petroleum Resources and member of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, Chief Don Etiebet, on Thursday dismissed rumours making the rounds that the National Working Committee of the PDP had zoned the Akwa-Ibom State 2015 governorship ticket to Eket Senatorial Zone. He described it as malicious. He however confirmed that, […]
