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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Rivers, State News
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
The First Lady, Dame Patience Faka Jonathan, has donated 10,000 pieces of economic empowerment items to women and youths in Rivers. A statement signed by her Media Assistant, Mr Ayo Adewuyi, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja, said the beneficiaries were drawn from 21 local government areas of […]
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Headlines, Rivers
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT – At least five persons were shot dead on Monday night at a drinking joint on Aggrey Road, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Sources who spoke to the Vanguard said the incident was cult-related, adding that the gunmen stormed the drinking joint close to the popular Agip filling station […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA— FOUR buildings, including a church, said to belong to suspected kidnappers were yesterday demolished in Anambra State. It was part of the state government’s continued clampdown on criminals in the state. Governor Willie Obiano has already revoked the Certificates of Occupancy, C of Os of the four buildings. Two of the […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
By Demola Akinyemi ILORIN—Tragedy struck, yesterday morning in Ilorin, when a Pastor who was a volunteer member of his Community Development Association, was drowned in a flood while creating pathway for the water’s free flow in front of his house. The over 10-hour rain in the state capital started about midnight lasting till about 11am, […]
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Bayelsa, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
Yenagoa— Traditional rulers in Bayelsa State have called on members of the Boko Haram sect to sheathe their swords and embrace amnesty like the former militants of the Niger Delta region did. The royal fathers, under the aegis of EA/EJA Oil Field Traditional Rulers Leadership Forum made the call in Yenagoa after a meeting with […]
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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 […]
