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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. […]

Ebola: Osun bars foreign tourists from festival (How do you enforce it?)

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

Osun State Government has declared that tourists from outside the state would not be allowed to participate in the forthcoming Osun Osogbo Festival scheduled for Friday. This, the government said, was part of measures to prevent the spread of Ebola virus to the state. Addressing a press conference in Osogbo, the state Commissioner for Information […]

Presidential Ambition: I Will Make Known My Stand At The Right Time – Saraki

Posted by admin Kwara, Latest Politics, State News Monday, August 18th, 2014

By Our Reporter on August 18, 2014 · Politics, Trending (ILORIN) A representative of Kwara Central District in the Nigerian Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, has responded to rumours of his ambition to contest for the Presidency in 2015, saying he will make his decision known in the right time. After a stakeholders meeting of the Kwara […]

Evil son strangles mother, burns her corpse

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

•The suspect •Remains of Mrs. Ucheagwu Twenty-nine-year-old Ekene Ucheagwu, a native of Ndikpa Awuka Ogbunka, Orumba South Local Government Area, Anambra State, who allegedly committed an abominable act is now gnashing his teeth in the custody of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Anambra State Police Command. Ekene kidnapped his 65-year-old mother, Agnes, strangled […]