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Shettima visits Jonathan, blasts Okupe

Posted by admin Borno, Latest Politics, State News Thursday, February 20th, 2014

Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima | credits: www.bornostate.gov.ng For the second time in about 48 hours, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State on Wednesday met with President Goodluck Jonathan over Boko Haram attacks in his state. Shettima told State House correspondents that he was at the Presidential Villa to update Jonathan on a fresh attack […]

The Thieving Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly – Part 1- By Kenneth Uwadi

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News Monday, February 17th, 2014

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | February 17, 2014 – I write to condemn in absolute terms the silence of the Imo State House of Assembly over the heavy corruption allegations levelled against the Speaker of the Imo House of Assembly Chief Benjamin Uwajumogu by Mr Ikenna Samuelson Iwuoha. Iwuoha, an activist and former […]

How trigger-happy cop slept in a bush in Edo while evading arrest

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News Monday, February 17th, 2014

*Killer cop, Corporal Valentine Ofuamaka, being led by prison official into the blackmaria after being arraigned at the Edo state Magistrate Court in Benin city advertisement <a href=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=12386&m=6&c=1″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=12386&m=6&tp=8&d=s&c=1&vcm_acv=1.3″ width=”300″ height=”250″ border=”1″></a> By SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY Tragedy struck last Saturday along the Ikpoba Hill river, along the Benin Agbor road […]

Go to Akwa Ibom, weep for Abia State!

Posted by admin Abia, Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Sunday, February 16th, 2014

2 Comments » Ebere‭ ‬Wabara, ewabara@yahoo.com‭ ,‬08055001948 The governors of Akwa Ibom and Abia states, Godswill Obot Akpabio and Theodore Orji, respectively, are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), both states border each other and are oil-producing entities. Indigenes of the two sub-nationalities inter-marry and some of their communities have cultural and language affinities! I […]

Fayemi squandered N400bn in 40 months –Bamidele

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Saturday, February 15th, 2014

• He’s a liar, says Info commissioner From Charles Adegbite, Ado-Ekiti Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Hon Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, yesterday alleged that Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi got over four hundred billion naira (N400billion) in forty months, which he claimed was badly managed in view of the value of […]

You’re arrogant, ungrateful, Amaechi tells Wike

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Saturday, February 15th, 2014

From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt The Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, has again hit the Supervising Minister of Education, Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, describing him as arrogant and ungrateful. Amaechi stated this yesterday, at the thanksgiving service held in honour of the Senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, in Bera, […]

C’River denies losing villages to Cameroon

Posted by admin Cross River, Headlines, State News Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

The Cross River Government said on Wednesday that none of its villages were illegally annexed by Cameroon on the orders of the Nigeria-Cameroon boundary demarcation officials. The Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Liyel Imoke, Mr Christian Ita, told newsmen in Calabar that the speculation was untrue. He, however, said that a pillar on the boundary between […]

Bayelsa attack: MEND claims responsibility

Posted by admin Bayelsa, General Politics, Latest Politics, State News Sunday, February 9th, 2014

Militants The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta said on Sunday that its fighters attacked two police gunboats at Peremabiri, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The group said the gunboats were escorting a former militant leader, Mr. Eris Paul, popularly known as Ogunboss. MEND said Ogunboss, other ex-militant leaders and […]

Clerics die as jeep, bus plunge into canal

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, February 9th, 2014

… on Sunday | credits: Odutayo Odusanya Two Islamic clerics lost their lives on Saturday after their jeep collided with a bus and plunged into a canal at the Iyana Ipaja end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victims, Alhaji Akinsola Al-Ameen and Muyideen Thiamiyu, were coming back from Ikorodu when their […]

Lagos shuts 8 firms over non-remittance of N66.7m tax

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, February 9th, 2014

The Lagos State Internal Revenue Service says it has sealed eight more companies for failing to remit N66.7 million personal income tax of their workers to the state government. Folasade Coker-Afolayan, the Head of the Distrain Unit of the LIRS, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos that the companies were sealed […]