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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 […]
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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 […]
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Delta, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
…As church robber is set ablaze Pandemonium rocked the General Hospital, Agbarho in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State at the weekend when armed robbers unleashed hell on patients and workers. It was gathered that the robbers, for the umpteenth time, in the hospital raped patients and female workers before carting away their […]
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Headlines, Nasarawa, State News
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
eets Jonathan over impeachment threat By JULIANA TAIWO-OBALONYE, Abuja on July 22, 2014 · National President Goodluck Jonathan, at the weekend, met with embattled Governor of Nasarawa State, Tanko Al-Makura, during which he told the governor that he had no hand in his current travails. Impeachment move has been instituted against Al-Makura by members of […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, July 21st, 2014
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect stormed Ngala town and abducted the wife and two children of a politician, Zaraye Mala Sheriff. Zaraye Mala Sheriff is a councillor in the area and a cousin of ex-governor Ali Modu Sheriff. Witnesses said the insurgents also kidnapped two prominent politicians in the area, […]
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Akwa Ibom, General Politics, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, July 19th, 2014

Bayelsa restates commitment to diversify economy 0 By Our Reporter on July 20, 2014 · National 19-year old Miss Akwa Ibom, Iheoma Nnadi Friday emerged winner of the 2014 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, MBGN pageant and carted away a cash prize of N3 million and a brand new car, among other […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, Philip Ikomi, State News
Saturday, July 19th, 2014

By Dr. Philip A. Ikomi | NNP | July 19, 2014 – Your Excellency and Honorable Lawmakers: I salute your hard work and diligence in the art of your exemplary executive rule and legislation respectively, in Lagos State. I lived in Lagos beginning in1967 when I was an Upper Sixth student at King’s College, Lagos, […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Oyo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
[print] Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi. Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi. In Oyo State, the fear of the possible impeachment of Governor Abiola Ajimobi heightened last week with a series of secret political moves by members of the state House of Assembly. The development in Oyo is coming just as one of our correspondents gathered […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said engaging Governor Rauf Aregbesola in a public debate may be risky because the governor may attack him. Omisore said this in an interview with our correspondent in Osogbo. Aregbesola had earlier challenged Omisore to a public debate to tell […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
July 19, 2014 BY NDAHI MARAMA, Maiduguri with agency report Boko Haram extremists have killed more than 100 people and hoisted their black and white flag over a town left undefended by the military, just 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Maiduguri, a civil defense spokesman and a human rights advocate said Saturday. Hundreds of villagers […]