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Federal, state governments owe N9tn

Posted by admin Latest Politics, State News Monday, October 7th, 2013

Finance Minister, Okonjo-Iweala | credits: File copy Nigeria’s total public debt rose from N6.25tn ($40.1bn) in 2010 to N9.04tn ($58.04bn) by the end of December 2012, the Debt Management Office has said. The DMO, in its 2013 Report of the Annual National Debt Sustainability Analysis, released in Abuja on Sunday, also said it would issue […]

Three rebel govs to meet Jonathan today

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Headlines, Kano, Niger, Presidency, Rivers, State News Monday, October 7th, 2013

Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu Governors Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Rabiu Kwankwanso (Kano) are to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday (today) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to seek the postponement of their peace meeting. The meeting was originally scheduled for today but the New Peoples Democratic Party, through its […]

20 killed in fresh B’Haram attack

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News Monday, October 7th, 2013

At least 20 people were killed when Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a town in northeast Nigeria, triggering clashes with troops stationed there, the military said on Sunday. Reuters reported that a spokesman for Nigerian forces in northeastern Borno State, which lies at the heart of a four-year-old Islamist insurgency, said the Islamists crept into […]

Sex workers take over Lagos banks at nights

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, October 7th, 2013

by Ademola Olonilua and Kunle Falayi SEX WORKERS 2 advertisement Hello handsome. My name is Ella – Emmanuela. I’ll give you a memorable night. If you can’t afford an all night, we can have a ‘short time’ somewhere around. It’ll cost you much less. Just pay the security man […]

Rivers lawmaker, Tonye Ezekiel Harry, dies on his way to France

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Sunday, October 6th, 2013

By BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO, Lokoja A FORMER Speaker of the Rivers state House of Assembly, Hon Tonye Ezekiel Harry is dead. Governor Amaechi in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary David Iyofor described Harry’s death as deeply shocking and traumatic for him. He recalled with nostalgia and fond memories the life and times of Tonye […]

Fashola’s apology, the media and South-East development

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, South-East, State News Sunday, October 6th, 2013

By Chris Okoye The most celebrated news item published about the silver jubilee celebration of Aka Ikenga, the respected think tank of the Igbo community in Lagos, is the unreserved public apology to the Igbo people by Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola for the relocation of some people of Igbo origin from Lagos […]

Anambra guber: PPA campaign director escapes assassination

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, Party Politics, State News Sunday, October 6th, 2013

The Director of Publicity and Media, Godwin Ezeemo Campaign Organisation. Mr. Okey Nwoke has said that he narrowly escaped death when he was accosted by suspected dare devil killers at Igbo Ukwu town, Anambra State yesterday. Nwoke told Daily Sun in a telephone interview that he encountered the suspected assassins close to the National Museum, […]

Agagu crash: LASUTH begins DNA test on victims

Posted by admin Headlines, Ondo, State News Sunday, October 6th, 2013

As AIPB commences Black Box analysis BY LOUIS IBA, OGE OKAFOR and JOB OSAZUWA, Lagos The management of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), yesterday said it has started the identification of charred bodies of victims of the ill-fated Associated Airline plane that crashed in Lagos, last Thursday, few minutes after take-off. This is coming […]

Governor Amaechi: Gird Up Your Loins – By Igwe Douglas

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Igwe Douglas, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News Sunday, October 6th, 2013

By Igwe Douglas | Port-Harcourt, Nigeria | October 6, 2013 – The prevailing political atmosphere in the Treasure Base of the nation, Rivers State of Nigeria occasioned by the schemes of desperate politicians who want to take over or have partially taken over the structure of the Peoples Democratic Party calls for serious caution, concern […]

Akpabio blames Nigeria’s woes on false prophecies

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Saturday, October 5th, 2013

Governor Godswill Akpabio | credits: File copy Governor Godswill Akpabio of AkwaIbom State, on Friday, attributed the many problems in the country to false prophecies by some clergymen. A statement sent to Sunday Punch by the Special Assistant to the governor on Media, Mr. Jackson Udom said the governor made the observation at a […]