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Gunmen kidnap Senator’s mother in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, Legislature, Senate, State News Wednesday, July 30th, 2014

By Samuel Oyadongha, Yenagoa Gunmen, Tuesday morning,kidnapped Senator Emmanuel Paulker’s 90-year old mother. The abduction took place at her residence at the Opolo suburb of Yenagoa. Details later.wp_posts

I’ll contest 2015 gov poll, Ladoja insists

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

National Leader of Accord Party and former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has maintained that he has not endorsed any aspirant under the platform of the party to contest 2015 governorship ticket, noting that he will pick expression of interest form with a view to contesting 2015 gubernatorial election in the state. […]

Gunmen kidnap ex-gov Sylva’s uncle

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Monday, July 28th, 2014

By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA — Unknown armed men have kidnapped the 86-year-old uncle of Chief Timipre Sylva, the immediate past governor of Bayelsa State. The victim, identified as Chief Benson Ayerite Adigio-Eseni, a retired army major, it was learnt, was seized in the wee hours of yesterday in his country home at Okpoama, Brass Local […]

We’re still angry over last population census —Niger govt

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger, State News Monday, July 28th, 2014

Says State was grossly under counted By Wole Masadomi Minna—Niger State government has said that it is still angry over the outcome of the last national population census in the country, saying that the state was grossly under counted. It, therefore, said it had taken the necessary steps to ensure that the people were adequately […]

Impeachment: Ebonyi founding fathers meet Assembly members

Posted by admin Ebonyi, Headlines, State News Monday, July 28th, 2014

By Peter Okutu ABAKALIKI—Founding fathers of Ebonyi State yesterday met with members of the State House of Assembly over the impeachment crisis that had trailed the legislature in the last one week. The meeting, which lasted over four hours, was held in efforts by the founding fathers to broker peace in the House. All members […]

Opinion: Everyone is crazy in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, July 26th, 2014

Few weeks ago, I got a call from a friend asking me out for a drink, but I was already at the Lagos airport. “I’m not going to be around for the next few days,” I told him. “I’m going to Abuja.” His immediate reaction was – “Why? What’s wrong? Do you want to bore […]

Scores feared dead as bomb blast rocks Kano motor park

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Kano, Latest Politics, State News Thursday, July 24th, 2014

By Abdulsalam Muhammad Kano – A high calibre improvised explosive device went off inside the crowded New Road motor park located at Sabon Gari, a predominantly Christian quarters of Kano metropolis leaving scores dead. The blast an eye witness said ripped through a bus station in Kano as passengers boarded buses out of the city. […]

Windfall for wife of man killed by Edo traffic officials

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 24th, 2014

GOOD things come in surprise package, they say. Such was the lot of Juliet Imobhio, a woman whose husband was allegedly killed by officials of the Edo State Traffic Management Agency (EDSTMA). When her 41-year-old husband, Godfrey Imobhio, died in April, 2014, thoughts about […]

173 Turkish Airline passengers escape death in Kano

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines, Kano, State News Thursday, July 24th, 2014

NO fewer than 173 passengers narrowly cheated death at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, on Wednesay, when a Turkish Airline plane caught fire while fueling. It took the prompt intervention of the fire service at the airport to avert what could have been a major disaster. According to findings, the aircraft, with a […]

Emir of Kano, Sanusi, visits Jonathan

Posted by admin Kano, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

President Goodluck Jonathan and Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi. President Goodluck Jonathan and a former Central Bank Governor, Lamido Sanusi, on Wednesday met for the first time since he (Sanusi) became the Emir of Kano. The former CBN boss was one of the northern traditional rulers who joined Jonathan in the Presidential Villa, Abuja […]