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Impeachment: Probe panel defies Nyako, begins sitting

Posted by admin Adamawa, Headlines, State News Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Despite the public holiday declared by the Adamawa State Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako (retd.), the seven-man panel set up by the outgoing Acting Chief Judge, Justice Ambrose Mammadi, began sitting in Yola on Monday. Though the public holiday announced by Nyako was to cover Monday and Tuesday (today), but members of the panel commenced sitting […]

Bank manager commits suicide in Ogun

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Policemen attached to the Ibafo Police Division of Ogun State, on Saturday recovered the decomposed body of the manager of a commercial bank, Mr. Habeeb Olatunde, at an uncompleted building at Arepo. PUNCH Metro learnt that Olatunde, who had been declared missing since June 18, allegedly committed suicide. The policemen, led by the Divisional Police […]

Confab: Delegates bicker over creation of new states

Posted by admin Latest Politics, State News Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

STERN-looking security operatives were on Monday deployed in the entrance to the venue of the ongoing National Conference, apparently to forestall unsavoury occurrence as delegates expressed anger over the confab’s recommendation for creating new states. The National Conference had on Thursday endorsed the carving out of 19 new states from the existing ones but some […]

Redeemer University student kills dad

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Monday, July 7th, 2014

The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old undergraduate, Tolani Ajayi, of Redeemers University along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, for allegedly killing his father, Mr. Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. The incident, according to the police, occurred on Tuesday, July 3, at their residence on Canaanland Street within the Redeemed Christian Church of […]

Impeachment: Nyako declares public holiday

Posted by admin Adamawa, Headlines, State News Monday, July 7th, 2014

The move to impeach Adamawa State Governor, Alhaji Murtala Nyako, took a dramatic turn on Sunday as the governor declared Monday and Tuesday as work-free days in the state. The governor’s opponents in the state House of Assembly said Nyako’s action was an attempt to frustrate his impeachment. The governor was said to have played […]

The Plot to Put Ikenna Samuelson Owuoha Out of Circulation in Imo State – By Kenneth Uwadi

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News Thursday, July 3rd, 2014

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | July 3, 2014 – The Youths Against Human Rights Violation And Corrupt Practices (YAHVCP) wish to inform the media, trade union activists locally and internationally, organizations and individuals in Imo State, student and youth members of the JTVC, activists across the federation and the general public that the […]

Akpabio’s money holder on the run

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 3rd, 2014

By Bassey Ukpe AKPABIO’S MONEY HOLDER ON THE RUN The alleged custodian of the overseas assets of Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has taken off. The guy named Kola Aluko, is on the run from the law over several controversial and fraudulent dealings in the petroleum industry. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission […]

Breaking News!!! Godswill Akpabio orders the arrest of a journalist—Mr. Thomas Thomas

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 3rd, 2014

By Thompson Essien Breaking News!!! Godswill Akpabio Orders the Arrest of a Journalist—Mr. Thomas Thomas Mr. Thomas Thomas is the editor of a front line newspaper in Akwa Ibom State known as the Global Concord. The newspaper is one of the few in Akwa Ibom State that stands for truth without accepting brown envelopes from […]

Isaac Boro reburial and Bayelsa governorship race

Posted by admin Bayelsa, State News Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

hough Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, is yet to make public his intension to seek a second term, many see his administration’s decision to rebury the late Ijaw nationalist, Major Isaac Boro, in Yenagoa, as a precursor to a declaration, writes SIMON UTEBOR The reburial of the exhumed remains of Niger Delta icon, Isaac Adaka […]

Blasts in Kaduna, Borno, Osun

Posted by admin Borno, Kaduna, Osun, State News Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima and an injured victim of Maiduguri Monday Market explosion…on Tuesday | credits: Borno State Government. A suicide bomber, suspected to be a member of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, early on Tuesday detonated an Improvised Explosive Device at the popular Maiduguri Monday Market, killing no fewer than 17 persons. […]