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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, December 15th, 2013
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alert on the desperate moves by six rebel members of the state House of Assembly, “acting at the behest of Education Minister, Nyesom Wike, to illegally and unconstitutionally impeach Governor Chibuike Amaechi.” Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi The party in a statement […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News
Friday, December 13th, 2013
» From GODWIN TSA, Abuja An Abuja high court yesterday freed former Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, of charges of abuse of power while in office Justice Sadiq Abubakar Umar who delivered the judgment said the prosecu-tion has failed to establish a Prima facie case against the former minister. […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Boko Haram members Fear has gripped the residents of Maiduguri, the Borno State Capital, as the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic Sect has again threatened to attack selected areas of the city. It was gathered that the Boko Haram Sect singled out the University of Maiduguri as the next target of its planned attacks on […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Speaker, Rivers State House of Assembly, Honourable Otelemaba Amachree | credits: www.nigeriainfo.fm The Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Amachree, and the House have sent a letter to the Inspector General of the Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, asking him to take judicial notice of an appeal challenging the ruling of an […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Military authorities in Borno State has said that the Boko Haram sect has resorted to forcefully conscripting young and able bodied men into the group following the deadly attacks by troops in the last few days at the Sambisa forest and other camps where the sect lost hundreds of their fighters. Colonel Muhammadu Dole, […]
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Headlines, House, Legislature, Rivers, Senate, State News
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, stopped the National Assembly from performing the legislative functions of the Rivers State House of Assembly. 0 Ruling on a suit filed by two lawyers, Messrs Tamunotemi Asobari and John Kpakol, against the National Assembly, represented by its counsel, Ade Okeaya-Inneh, Justice A. R. Muhammed held […]
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Africa & World Politics, Delta, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
FORMER Goldman Sachs banker, Elias Preko, was yesterday, sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison by a London court for laundering $5 million on behalf of James Ibori, the former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori. Ibori is serving 13 years in a British jail after pleading guilty last year to 10 counts of fraud […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, December 9th, 2013
It’s unfortunate that Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State is persisting in his outrageous and totally illogical campaign of falsehood against the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. His statement that Dr Okonjo-Iweala is responsible for the delay of the African Development Bank water project is a […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, December 9th, 2013
Scenes of a multiple accident on the Otedola bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Lagos… on Sunday. | credits: Sodiq Adelakun An unidentified woman and a pregnant lady were said to have died in the multiple accidents which occurred close to Otedola Bridge, along the Alausa area of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Saturday. A large number of people […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Sunday, December 8th, 2013
Ifijeh | credits: File copy I cried all night when Oshiomhole seized my goods — Go and die widow The two encounters between Joy Ifijeh and Governor Adams Oshiomhole; first on the street — where the governor asked her to ‘go and die’ after her goods were seized for blocking the road, and then at […]