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Headlines, INEC Politics, Ondo, State News
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro | credits: http://www.indepthnigeria.com/ A stakeholder meeting called by the Independent National Electoral Commission in Ondo State, almost degenerated into fisticuffs on Tuesday as the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Akin Orebiyi, hinted that the commission had a report which showed that the Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, had […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | April 15, 2014 | On Saturday 5th April 2014, at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel in London, the Association of Nigerian Academics in the UK (ANAUK) led by Councillor Adedamola Aminu, the acting Mayor of the London Borough of Lambeth and a lecturer himself, recognized the achievements […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
There was confusion in Portharcourt, the Rivers State capital on Tuesday as operatives of the Nigeria Police Force evacuated a leather bag suspected to contain explosives. Residents, commuters and traders along the ever busy Ikwerre Road axis of Port Harcourt ran for their dear lives when an unidentified man dropped laptop bag by the roadside […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
Azuka Onwuka | credits: File copy One thing that is striking about Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State is that he is a fighter. He is also never afraid to bare his mind on any issue. As a fighter, when President Olusegun Obasanjo denied him his Peoples Democratic Party governorship ticket with the lame excuse […]
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Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 14th, 2014
Abuja explosion: Security agencies on red alert in FCT – Mba 4 By on April 14, 2014 · Breaking News (ABUJA) Security agencies have been placed on red alert throughout the Federal Capital Territory following the explosion that occurred in Nyanya bus stop on Monday morning. CSP Frank Mba, Police Force spokesman, told newsmen in […]
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Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 14th, 2014
ABUJA) President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday urged Nigerians to be conscious and observant of possible security threat around them, to reduce incidences of terror attacks. The President gave the advice when he visited the scene of the early morning bomb attack at Nyanya motor park in Abuja. Jonathan, who was accompanied by the Senate President, […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Monday, April 14th, 2014
Lamido of Adamawa, Lamido Mustapha THE Ijaw National Congress has slammed the Lamido of Adamawa, Dr. Muhammadu Barkindo Mustapha, over his position on the demand for resource control by the South-South geo-political zone. Mustapha had during a plenary at the National Conference proposed a stringent condition for the demand for a 100 per cent resource […]
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Abuja (FCT), Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Monday, April 14th, 2014
Security men at the scene of explosion | credits: PUNCH Photos Security agencies have confirmed that 71 persons have so far lost their lives in the bomb explosion that occurred at a motor park in Nyanya, a satellite town of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Monday. Police spokesman, Frank Mba, disclosed this to […]
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Abuja (FCT), Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 14th, 2014
Abuja motor park blast | credits: ‘Lekan Adetayo Scores of people were killed and maimed as an early morning bomb explosion rocked a motor park in Nyanya area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Monday. Nyanya is a satellite town bordering the FCT and Nasarawa State. The explosion reportedly occurred in a section of […]
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Adamawa, Headlines, State News
Sunday, April 13th, 2014
A delegate to the National Conference and the Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammadu Mustapha, has said that the North can survive economically without proceeds from petroleum resources. The controversial monarch noted that but for the laziness on the part of the people of the region, the proceeds from agricultural produce would have made the region […]
