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Corps Member Rape: Court Acquits Osun Monarch

Posted by admin 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 […]

Ibori to be released for a day in Dec 2014 (Why, let him rot in jail)

Posted by admin 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 […]

Christians protest merger of schools by Aregbesola

Posted by admin 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 […]

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

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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, […]