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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
The crisis in the Kaduna State House of Assembly deepened on Tuesday with the impeachment of the Speaker, Mua’azu Gangara. A new speaker, Shehu Usman Tahir, was elected. But Gangara led 15 other members of the House, including the principal officers, to announce that he remained the Speaker. He insisted that those who impeached him […]
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Armed Forces, Borno, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Strong indications have emerged that Islamic militants from some North African countries are coordinating attacks against the Nigerian military in the North Eastern part of the country. A military source told one of our correspondents in Abuja that security operatives came to this conclusion when they discovered that many Arabs of Shuwa descent and fair-skinned […]
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Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, State News
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
THE Nigeria Police Force has begun an independent investigation into the killing of eight suspected members of the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in Abuja on Friday. It was learnt on Sunday that the police authorities did not believe the claim of the Department of State Security that the suspects, who were killed by the […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
RIVERS State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the State Police Commissioner, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, of mingling with criminals in the state. Amaechi, who spoke at the maiden edition of Rivers International Fashion Week in Port Harcourt on Sunday, said the development had worsened the security situation in the state. The governor explained that […]
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Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party got messier on Friday with the ruling party asking the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, to write a formal letter to the Dr. Bamanga Tukur-led National Executive Council for his suspension to be lifted. Amaechi, who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH, over the weekend has, however, vowed […]
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Headlines, State News
Sunday, September 22nd, 2013
Desperate to halt a probe into his finances, former Delta State Governor James Ibori tried to bribe anti-corruption boss Nuhu Ribadu in 2007 with $15m in cash in a bag so heavy one man alone could not lift it, Ribadu told a London court on Thursday. Reuters quoted Ribadu as telling the court that he pretended […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News
Saturday, September 21st, 2013
To stop death of prominent sons Iju-Odo, an Ikale town in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State is blessed with sons and daughters who have excelled in their various fields of endeavour. The town, which has long been celebrating her successful sons and daughters with pomp and ceremony, recently witnessed an uneasy calm as […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Rivers, State News
Saturday, September 21st, 2013
Former Governor of Rivers State, Sir Celestine Omehia, has said that nobody can stop the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, except God. Omehia, who spoke with Saturday Sun in Abuja, said the refusal by the North to allow Jonathan contest in 2015, is tantamount to telling the entire South South region to go to […]
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Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Saturday, September 21st, 2013
RIVERS State Governor and the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, declared on Thursday that the Nigerian economy had gone comatose. Amaechi explained that contrary to the rosy picture painted on Wednesday by the Minister of Finance and the Coordinating minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, about the nation’s economy, Nigeria was […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Saturday, September 21st, 2013
Taraba State Governor, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, on Friday, held talks with sacked commissioners and special advisers as they paid a solidarity visit to him at Government House, Jalingo Suntai had on Tuesday, August 27, 2013 dissolved the State Executive Council, leaving only his assistants, few days after he returned from a 10-month stay in German […]