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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, Latest Politics, Yobe
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
» • Soldiers begin patrol on Borno, Yobe, Adamawa roads From TIMOTHY OLANREWAJU, Maiduguri and MOLLY KILETE, Abuja The Nigerian Army yesterday said 37 Boko Haram members died during a coordinated raid and air strike by its troops and Nigeria Air Force on camp located in the eastern part of Borno. This is coming at […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
By SOLA BALOGUN and HENRY AKUBUIRO Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, has pledged N3 billion for the completion of a multipurpose creative village in support of writers and culture workers. The proposed creative village, which is expected to encourage artists and writers, will be commissioned before Port Harcourt City is celebrated globally as […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
From TONY JOHN, Port Harcourt A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, yesterday, upheld its earlier decision ordering the Federal Government to pay the people of Odi community in Bayelsa State the sum of N37.6 billion as general damages over its invasion by soldiers during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. Ruling on an application brought by […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, Raw Politics
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | October 22, 2013 – The announcement by the Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha, that he will re-contest his position in the 2015 general election generated several headlines and commentaries. Okorocha’s declaration to contest the next election is in total negation of his position before assumption […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Niger Delta, Oil Politics, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Monday, October 21st, 2013

FROM CHRIS ANUCHA The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has said that it was responsible for the damage of Shell facilities, which caused further pollution of the environment in Ogoniland and other communities in the Niger Delta region. The pollution was said to have been due to crude oil spills and […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News
Monday, October 21st, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere | Rivers, Nigeria | October 21, 2013 – They have told us that Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji has built a new society of law and order. They sufficed that to say that Abia State is standing tall, as a model state, in the federation, under him. These statements are such that […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, General Politics, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Monday, October 21st, 2013

Members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect may have killed 19 people in Borno State on Sunday. AFP reported that the insurgents who were dressed in military uniforms and wielding AK 47 assault rifles killed the 19 motorists by blocking the highway near Logumani which is 19 kilometres from the nation’s border with Cameroun. It […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, October 20th, 2013
Goodness A police sergeant from Ibiaku community, Mkpat Enin Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Ita Ayamba, has allegedly brutalised and abandoned his eight-year-old daughter, Goodness Ayamba over her refusal to confess to witchcraft. Ita was said to have paraded the little girl along the village streets naked, declaring that Goodness was […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Sunday, October 20th, 2013
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi The All Progressive Congress on Sunday described the alleged plot to force Governor Rotimi Amaechi to resign, as a ‘’last desperate act’’ to frustrate him out of office. The APC in a statement by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, also condemned the reported plot to abduct […]
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Edo, Governors, Headlines, Imo, Prince Charles Dickson, Rivers, State News
Sunday, October 20th, 2013
Three Governors – Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, Rochas Okorocha of Imo and Rotimi Amechi of Rivers – did not attend the South-East/South-South governors meeting held on Sunday in Enugu. The meeting was attended by eight of the 11 governors in the two geo-political zones. Governors who attended the meeting include Theodore Orji of Abia; […]