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Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Some governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party have reiterated their insistence that party leaders must convene the meeting of the National Executive Committee without further delay. The call for prompt convening of NEC, The PUNCH learnt, is to signal the governors’ resolve to battle with the party leaders over the suspension […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
