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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
By FROM EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, LOKOJA on August 17, 2014 · COVER Tears flowed freely as people beheld the pathetic sight of a middle-aged nursing mother whose three-month old baby was thrown into the bush while an eight-man gang of devilish souls raped her to a point of unconsciousness right in the presence of her husband. […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) to establish a training centre, the first of its kind in Africa. It will be located at the University of Port Harcourt. This partnership entered on behalf of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Chairman, Ebola Viral Disease Control Committee, Kwara State, Prof. Sunday Opabola, on Thursday said that a suspected case of Ebola disease has been reported in the state. He stated that the suspect is a seven-month old baby, who came with his parents from Ibadan for a visit at Ilorin. Addressing journalists in Ilorin on […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Ekiti, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday lined up 35 witnesses to counter the petition of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Governorship Election Tribunal against the election of Ayodele Fayose in the June 21 gubernatorial poll in the state. The APC is challenging the declaration of Fayose as the […]
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Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Bauchi State police command has arrested 10 robbery suspects who have been terrorizing residents of the state. The command Public Relations Officer Mr Mohammed Haruna, a Deputy Superintendent iof Police (DSP) disclosed this to Daily Sun, explaining that the gang specialised in instilling fear among the villagers and travelers along Darazo-Misau and Giade axis […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
Tragedy sruck in Port Harcourt yesterday as four persons were burnt to death and scores wounded in an early morning fire that gutted residential houses in the Rivers State capital. The incident, which occurred in Agip-Rumueme-Mgbuoshimili area of Obio-Akpor Local Government Area of the state, claimed the lives of a five-year-old girl, her mother and […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Kwara State Government yesterday, announced the immediate closure of a private hospital in the metropolis over a suspected Ebola virus contamination. Announcing the closure of the hospital, the Senior Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor on Public Health, Professor Sunday Opabola, and his counterpart on Secondary Health, Dr Ibrahim Gambari, said the seven […]