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General Politics, Headlines, Plateau, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Chief Solomon Lar | credits: File copy First civilian governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, is dead. Lar passed on in a US hospital of what family sources described as old-age related ailment on Wednesday. He was aged 80. Commissioner for Information, Mr. Abraham Yiljap, who confirmed his death, told our correspondent that […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, State News
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | October 9, 2013 – Laughter, they say is the best medicine. Let’s take a comic look at our predicament in Nigeria The good state of Bayelsa proclaimed to the world on car number plates that it is the ‘The Glory of All Lands’ but has now been […]
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Latest Politics, Niger, State News
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu said yesterday that the North will survive in case of a breakup of the country. The region, he declared, is not afraid of being on its own as he warned against statements that suggest that the country is heading for a breakup. “If Nigeria splits, the north can still survive […]
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Aviation, Legislature, National Politics, Ondo, Senate, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, and heads of agencies under her ministry, to explain the real state of the nation’s aviation industry. The invitation followed Thursday’s Associated Airlines plane crash in which about 15 out of the 20 passengers and crew on board, had been confirmed dead. […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Chief Olu Falae As condolences continued to pour in over the death of Ondo State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Deji Falae, his father, Chief Olu Falae, has declared that he has surrendered to the will of the Almighty God. Falae said this on Tuesday while receiving leaders of Afenifere in his residence in […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Church Headquarters, at Odofin Park Lane, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway shut by the Lagos State Government …on Monday. | credits: Goke Famadewa The headquarters of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement, along the Apapa – Oshodi Expressway in Lagos has been sealed off by the Lagos State Government for gross environmental […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade The Ondo state government has said it did not hire the aircraft of Associated Airline that crashed last week in Lagos while carrying the body of former Governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, to Akure for the commencement of the burial rites. The clarification […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
…. they had consensual sex The Alowa of Ilowa-Ijesa, Oba Adebukola Alli, the traditional ruler who was alleged of raping a Youth Corps member, Miss Helen Okpara has been discharged and acquitted by an Osun State High Court. Justice Oyejide Falola of an Osun State High Court, Osogbo ruled that Helen failed to tender enough exhibits […]
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Delta, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
From Tunde Oyedoyin, London /ibori-james-onanefe_200_160[1].jpg advertisement * Asset hearing proceedings end abruptly * Court awaits witnesses THERE was shock and disbelief all around Southward Crown Court’s Courtroom 14, London Monday as the confiscation of assets hearing proceedings of jailed former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori came to […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Christians in Osun State, especially members of the Osun Baptists Conference, on Monday protested against the attempted merger of Muslim students wearing hijab with the Baptists High School, Iwo, under the new education policy introduced by Governor Rauf Aregbesola. Aregbesola last week inaugurated a new education policy in Osun, which the governor said had necessitated […]
