State News - New Nigerian Politics | New Nigerian Politics

Community worried over kidnap of 2 NYSC members in Rivers

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Rivers, State News Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT — Rumuewhor community in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, has tasked the Rivers State Government and the Police to intensify efforts to secure the release of abducted two National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members by kidnappers in the state. It will be recalled that two NYSC members were, […]

Delta to introduce BRT in Warri

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Tuesday, May 28th, 2013

Delta State Government is to introduce the Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, model in the country’s oil and gas industry hub, Warri. With this development, and as part of the state government’s transport development plan, Warri will be the third city in Africa to develop the BRT initiative, after Lagos and Johanessburg, South Africa. The state […]

Canada to partner Edo on vocational training

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Edo, Headlines, State News Monday, May 27th, 2013

THE Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Chris Cooter, has said the Canadian government would partner with the Edo State government in the area of vocational training. Mr Cooter stated this in Benin, when he paid a visit to the Executive Director of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ), Reverend David Ugolor, at […]

MASSOB asks Anambra Commissioner to apologise within 3 days

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Monday, May 27th, 2013

BY OKONKWO EZE ONITSHA— The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has given the Anambra State Commissioner for Information and Culture, Chief Joe-Martins Uzodike, a three-day ultimatum within which to tender an unreserved apology to the movement over his (Uzodike’s) alleged provocative and insulting statement against it. In a statement […]

My life under threat, Amaechi cries out … as PDP suspends him

Posted by admin National Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News, Top Stories Monday, May 27th, 2013

By Our Reporters LAGOS —Hours after he was suspended from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, solicited prayers from citizens of the state against desperate persons who he claimed were after his life. The suspension of Amaechi from the party was agreed during an unscheduled and unusually early morning […]

Achebe: Anambra govt commends Jonathan, Mahama, others

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Sunday, May 26th, 2013

BY VINCENT UJUMADU, Awka STILL basking in the euphoria of the success of the burial of the literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, the Anambra State government yesterday commended President Goodluck Jonathan and his Ghanaian counterpart, Dr. John Mahama and other people from all over the world for according the great writer a befitting burial. Commissioner […]

State of Emergency may not last six months – Jonathan

Posted by admin Adamawa, Borno, Presidency, State News, Yobe Sunday, May 26th, 2013

By Ben Agande, Addis Ababa- President Goodluck Jonathan has told the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Ban Ki Moon that due to the success so far recorded by troops deployed to the North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the state of Emergency may not last for six months as prescribed by […]

NGF ELECTION: PDP GOVS, OBI, MIMIKO ENDORSE YUGUDA •Shema to withdraw •Why Northern govs dumped Amaechi

Posted by admin Governors, Katsina, Rivers, State News Friday, May 24th, 2013

NO fewer than 23 governors, it was gathered on Thursday, have endorsed the decision to pick Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State as consensus chairmanship candidate for the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF). Sources said though Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State had also indicated interest in the job, he would be asked to withdraw in […]

Tinubu, Fashola, Al-Makura, others for APC rally in Kaduna

Posted by admin Kaduna, Party Politics, State News Friday, May 24th, 2013

AHEAD of Friday’s rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Southern Kaduna, chieftains of the proposed APC would join General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in Kagoro town of Southern Kaduna to welcome hundreds of former members of the PDP into the party. They include former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, of the Action […]

Warri-based bishop arrested over kidnapping

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Friday, May 24th, 2013

POLICE in Warri, Delta State, have arrested a Warri-based bishop of a pentecostal church and another “prophet,” simply identified as Joseph, following an attempted kidnap on the proprietress of a popular private school in Sedco area of Warri. Police sources confirmed that the partners-in-crime were in detention, after the victim cried out for justice through […]