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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
Activities in Oshodi Local Government Area of Lagos, Nigeria were halted for hours when residents stormed the office of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, IKEDC, Mafoluku, Oshodi, to protest against extortion from IKEDC officials and incessant blackout that has plagued the council. The residents, who defied the early morning sleep to storm the office of […]
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Borno, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
Latest information on Maiduguri bomb blast indicates that no fewer than 30 people lost their lives while twenty vehicles and many roadside tents destroyed. A police traffic warder, women selling bean cake; many motorists and a popular suya meat seller and four of his boys who were all by the road near a mosque at […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
Contrary to allegations in some quarters that the governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio, is nursing an ambition to become president or vice-president of the country in 2015, the state government has stated that there was no iota of truth in the allegations, describing them as an “invidious campaign of calumny and blackmail.” […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News, Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
By Ugochukwu Favour-Mayor | Owerri, Nigeria | Jan. 12, 2014 – The gathering was actually for the Independent Newspaper Publishers Association (INPA) in Imo state, because the year came to an end and it was time for celebration, but it turned out to be a meeting for the association’s reassessment. Yes, all the pen pushers and news-makers […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Party Politics, Rivers, State News
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
Five children of Rivers State extraction died when the police forcibly stopped a rally of the State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party has said. In a second statement on the incident, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, Senior Special Aide on Media and Publicity to Interim State Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, alleged […]
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Headlines, Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
The condition of Senator Magnus Abe, who was shot this morning during an All Progressives Congress (APC) rally organised by the Save Rivers Movement at the College of Arts and Science, Rumuola, Port Harcourt, the state capital, is critical, according to state chapter of APC. According to a senior state APC official who spoke […]
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Headlines, Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, January 12th, 2014
The political crisis in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria, is assuming a more dangerous dimension by the day. Information reaching News Express has it that Senator Magnus Abe, a staunch supporter of embattled Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, was shot this morning during a rally in Obio Akpor by the Save Rivers Group. The state chapter […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Saturday, January 11th, 2014
From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa Suspected sea pirates have attacked and killed two passengers at Ekowe, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. This is even as another gang of suspected sea-pirates have kidnapped two senior staff of Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) along Ogbia / Brass River. Investigations revealed that the passenger boat was […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Saturday, January 11th, 2014
FROM EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, lokoja Two armed robbers who carried out violent attacks on two commercial banks in Kabba, Kogi State on Friday have paid with their lives as they were shot dead by a crack team of police men. Two of their accomplices were also arrested. Announcing the cheery news at the headquarters of the […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Saturday, January 11th, 2014
From CHRIS ANUCHA, PORT HARCOURT Rivers State governor, Hon Chibuike Rotimi Aamechi, yesterday lost one of his supporters to Wike group. He is the Rivers State Local Government Service Commissioner, Chief Azubike Nmerukini. Chief Azubuike Nmerukini was said to have been forced to resign his position, as the Chairman of the Rivers State Local Government […]
