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Akwa Ibom, Presidency, State News
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA—ANOTHER pressure group, Oriental Peoples Movement, OPM, has joined the army of groups campaigning for President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 presidential election with a rally planned for August 15, 2014, in Awka. Participants at the rally will come from all the states in the former Eastern region and the federal capital, Abuja. National […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, announced the command’s resolve yesterday, while briefing journalists in Port Harcourt. Ogunsakin said the command had reduced the rate of abduction in the state, adding that the number of rescued victims had been overwhelming. He said the police were not happy with the reported cases of […]
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Headlines, Lagos, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Two policemen were stabbed yesterday in Alakija area of Lagos metropolis as they tried to drive an insane woman away from the premises of a popular pentecostal church. According to an eyewitness, who did not want to be named, “trouble started when the woman was standing in front of the church and policemen deployed to […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
… Links rural roads to civil servants, police housing estates In line with his commitment and avowed bid to revolutionise healthcare delivery system in the state and sustain the provision of free maternal and child healthcare delivery, Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, has given an assurance that he would employ more doctors to […]
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Governors, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
As the tenure of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State gradually inches towards its end, some politicians eyeing his office have started making moves to succeed him, ahead of the 2015 general election. Online findings by iPUNCH on Wednesday showed that no fewer than three aspirants have since registered their presence on major social networking […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service on Thursday said it generated more than N120bn from taxation between January and June this year. The Executive Chairman of the service, Mr Tunde Fowler, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that 90 per cent of the taxes were generated from the organised private sector and civil […]
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Headlines, Katsina, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Residents of Funtua and its environs in Katsina State are mobilising for prayers as they had increased community surveillance to avert the activities of suspected insurgents in the area. The District Head, Alhaji Sambo Idris, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Funtua that he had instructed religious, traditional and community leaders in […]
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Latest Politics, Osun, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Panic gripped residents of Osun State on Wednesday when operatives of the Department of State Service in about 50 Toyota pickup vehicles fired into the air as their convoy rode through the capital city. The officials, some of whom wore masks, were fully armed and were conveyed round Osogbo in the siren-blaring vehicles. They […]
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Headlines, Nasarawa, State News
Thursday, July 31st, 2014
Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Al-Makura | credits: feelfree.co The Nasarawa State House of Assembly and the state Chief Judge, Justice Justice Sulaiman Dikko, may be heading for a showdown over the composition of the seven-man panel put in place to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by Governor Tanko Al-Makura. The assembly wants Dikko to dissolve the […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Latest Politics, Osun, Party Politics, State News
Wednesday, July 30th, 2014
Osogbo Former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode said on Tuesday in Osogbo that his decision to return to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was well-thought-out. Speaking with newsmen, Fani-Kayode said it was better for him to “return home’’. The former minister said he left the All Progressives Congress (APC) because he did not like the way […]