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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Friday, September 5th, 2014
PORT HARCOURT —Three doctors, a nurse and one other health worker have been kidnapped in Rivers State. Vanguard gathered that the health workers were taken hostage at Okolomabo community in Abua/Odua Local Government Area. Condemning the abduction, Coordinator, Niger Delta Youths for Positive Attitude Change and Progress, Mr Emmanule Enisuo, called for their unconditional release. […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Friday, September 5th, 2014
By Ndahi Marama MAIDUGURI—Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State who has been on foreign trip since last week was forced to cut off his trip and return to Maiduguri following the recent Boko Haram attacks on Bama town. Governor Shettima who arrived Maiduguri, yesterday, through a chartered flight along with his entourage went straight to […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, September 4th, 2014
• More troops coming from govt, says Shettima • Ezekwesili, others want Nigerians to remember Chibok girls NORTHERN leaders Thursday rallied support for President Goodluck Jonathan over the Federal Government’s campaign against insurgents. The leaders, who spoke under the aegis of the Northern Elders Council (NEC), urged Nigerians to support the government to overcome […]
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Headlines, Niger, State News
Thursday, September 4th, 2014
The Niger State Government on Thursday made it clear that there was no case of Ebola Virus Disease in the state, and so will take proactive measures to ensure that it does not gain entry into the state. The Commissioner for Health, Hajia Hadiza Abdullahi, at a news conference in Minna disclosed that government was already creating […]
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Bauchi, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
Boko Haram insurgents have captured another territory in Yobe State on Wednesday after engaging in a fierce battle over Bama, a town not far from Maiduguri in Borno State. Reuters reported that the newly captured town was taken over by the Islamist fighters without any resistance, with witnesses saying that the town has no Nigerian […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday announced that the Federal Government had signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of a new railway line that will run from Lagos to Calabar and also extend to the Obudu Cattle Ranch. The President made the announcement when he performed the groundbreaking of the second cement line being […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Monday, September 1st, 2014
BY NDAHI MARAMA MAIDUGURI – No fewer than 45 suspected members of Boko Haram sect have been killed in an encounter with military troops when the terrorists attempted to invade and take over Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. Over 30 of the insurgents were also injured in the fierce battle with security operatives that lasted […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Friday, August 29th, 2014
The police college overrun by Boko Haram sect over a week ago has been converted into the base of the terrorist group, according to the Director, Catholic Social Communications, Maiduguri Diocese of the Catholic Church, Gideon Obasogie, who narrated the account of a survivor to Saturday PUNCH on Friday. The clergyman in both telephone chat […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Friday, August 29th, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu were instrumental to the granting of waiver to Mallam Nuhu Ribadu by the PDP in Abuja on Friday, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. With this, Ribadu is cleared to take part in the party’s September 6 governorship primary in Adamawa State […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Friday, August 29th, 2014
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Samson Parker, says the late Dr. Samuel Enemou, who treated Olu Koye, a Nigerian diplomat with the Economic Community of West African States, was aware that the diplomat was a carrier of the deadly Ebola virus. The commissioner stated this during a press conference in Port Harcourt on […]
