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Boko Haram declares Gwoza Islamic caliphate

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Monday, August 25th, 2014

LEADER of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has re-designated Gwoza town that was seized by his men last Thursday as an Islamic caliphate. Shekau announced the declaration that Gwoza had become an Islamic caliphate in a video obtained by the Agence France-Press on Sunday. The terrorist also vowed that his group would […]

How Nyako beat security, escaped to Britain

Posted by admin Adamawa, Africa & World Politics, Headlines, State News Thursday, August 21st, 2014

HOW did ousted governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Hammanyero Nyako, escape from Nigeria a few hours before his impeachment despite the presence of eagle-eyed security agents waiting to arrest him to answer for his actions? – See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/nyako-beat-security-escaped-britain/#sthash.J65nm9N7.dpuf This is a question that has continued to prop up within the security establishment […]

Chibok girls: Britain to send three Tornado planes

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News Thursday, August 21st, 2014

Abducted Chibok girls BRITAIN’s Royal Air Force plans to send three fighter jets to help in locating the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14 this year. The RAF Tornado GR4s equipped with surveillance facilities, according to Daily Mail on Wednesday, will undertake “reconnaissance missions” over the Sambissa Forest where […]

Five new suspected Ebola cases in Lagos –LASG

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Wednesday, August 20th, 2014

As Nigerians continued to mourn Dr. Stella Adadevoh on Wednesday, another sad news broke on Wednesday that five fresh suspected cases of Ebola Virus Disease had been reported in Lagos State. The state Commsioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who announced this shortly after the Federal Government gave an indication that it might immortalise Adadevoh, […]

Of Impeachments and Legislative Rascality – By Arnold A. Alalibo

Posted by admin Adamawa, Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, State News Monday, August 18th, 2014

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | August 18, 2014 – In all democratic societies, there are mechanisms put in place to checkmate the excesses of their leaders. This is in accord with the maxim of Lord Acton that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. Fortunately, Nigeria, like most countries, has one of such […]

Police uncover biggest baby factory in Port Harcourt

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Monday, August 18th, 2014

OPERATIVES of the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU) and men of the Rivers State Police Command have uncovered what might be the biggest baby factory in the southern part of Nigeria, where operators allegely sold babies to women for between N2.5 million and N6 million. The police are also on the trail of the […]

Man pushed out of moving vehicle, crushed to death by another

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Monday, August 18th, 2014

A man in his early 20’s yesterday met his untimely death in Aba, Abia state, when he was pushed down from a moving commercial bus, and eventually crushed by another commercial bus that was coming from behind. Sunday Sun learnt that the young man whose identity could not be immediately ascertained had boarded the commercial […]

Why Kalu Has No ‘Shame’ – By Rubby Obinna

Posted by admin Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rubby Obinna, State News Monday, August 18th, 2014

By Rubby Obinna | Imo State, Nigeria | August 18, 2014 – The frequent attacks on Chief Orji Uzor Kalu by the boys of the government in Umuahia, Abia State, are purely as a result of joblessness. If they had some meaningful things to do, they would not always wake up with what to smear […]

Nasarawa Impeachment: Tension in Lafia as self-exiled PDP lawmakers storm return

Posted by admin Headlines, Nasarawa, State News Monday, August 18th, 2014

By Our Reporter on August 18, 2014 · Breaking News, Trending (LAFIA) Palpable tension has gripped Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, after the Peoples Democratic Party’s lawmakers in the state House of Assembly, who fled the state weeks ago, returned in a long vehicles of cars led by siren blaring outriders. The legislators, who fled […]

Rage in Benin over activist’s murder

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Monday, August 18th, 2014

• Anger, protests, as deceased’s friends point fingers at lawmaker • I’ve no hand in his death, says legislator Over the years, the Nigerian Police and other security agencies have had the challenge of having to unravel those behind a long list of cases of assassinations across the length and breadth of the country. […]