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Ekiti, General Politics, Governors, Headlines, State News
Sunday, June 22nd, 2014
By Dapo Akinrefon Mr Peter Ayodele Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been elected Governor of Ekiti state. Ayodele-FayoseThe Returning Officer for the 2014 governorship elections and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Oye-Ekiti, Professor Isaac Azuzu announced the results of the governorship elections in Ekiti State declaring the candidate of the […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, INEC Politics, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
The Independent National Electoral Commission has said 120,000 security operatives have been deployed in Ekiti State for the governorship election holding on Saturday. In an exclusive interview with our correspondent, the Head, Publicity Division, INEC Headquarters, Mr. Nick Dazang said INEC had customised all the ballot boxes and result sheets according to polling units “such […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
Protests on Wednesday greeted the Federal Government’s withdrawal of the N446.3bn theft charge it instituted against Mohammed Abacha, son of a former Head of State, the late Gen. Sani Abacha. Those who flayed the action which took place at the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, were prominent Lagos lawyers – Femi Falana, Jiti Ogunye, […]
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Headlines, Top Stories, Yobe
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
At least 21 people were killed in an explosion which ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, Yobe State on Tuesday, Agence France Presse quoted a medical source as saying on Wednesday. “We received 21 dead bodies and 27 injured victims from the blast,” said the source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Monday, June 16th, 2014
The Akwa Ibom Police Command on Sunday arrested 63 persons, suspected to be members of ‘Black Axe,’ a cult group. DSP Etim Dickson, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, announced this while briefing newsmen in Uyo. He said that the suspected cult members were arrested during their initiation at Effoi village forest, near Eket. The […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Monday, June 16th, 2014
Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has condemned Sunday’s attempt to bomb the Living Faith Church, located on Port Harcourt Road, Owerri. Okorocha, who addressed newsmen condemned the act, and commended the security agencies for their timely intervention. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the two improvised explosive devices were hidden under a flower […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
The Abuja-Kaduna standard rail project is 85 per cent completed, the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, has said. Umar announced this on Saturday in Doko, Kaduna State, at a ceremony to mark the attainment of 100km of track-laying for the railway modernisation project. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Vice President Namadi Sambo […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Boko Haram sect | credits: File copy The terrorist sect, Boko Haram, on Sunday reportedly killed 15 persons, mostly traders in a local market in Daku village in the Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State. The terrorists were said to have stormed the market in the early hours of Sunday, armed with AK47 rifles, […]
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Headlines, Osun
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Osoba | credits: File copy There are strong indications that President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party are wooing a group, led by a former governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, in Ogun State’s All Progressives Party to the PDP. The PUNCH’s investigations on Sunday in Abuja revealed that since the crisis in Ogun State’s […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, said the certificate with which the former Chairman, Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, Eze Cletus Ilomuanya, was appointed as the traditional ruler in the state had been withdrawn. He therefore stated that since he had been dethroned, the monarch should give way for […]
