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Headlines, Kano, Nigerian Police, State News
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Families of 40 police officers who lost their lives to a coordinated attack by the Boko Haram sect in Kano are yet to receive any form of compensation from the Federal Government through the police authorities. The plight of the families were expressed on Thursday, in Kano, when the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful […]
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Governors, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
A new chairman for the Nigeria Governors’ Forum will be elected on Friday (today) by the 36 state chief executives in the country. This is coming as the governors of 19 northern states were unable to take a decision on who they should support among those jostling for the position. The inability of the governors […]
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Africa & World Politics, Anambra, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said the Federal Government and the Government of Ghana would collaborate to rebuild the St. Philip’s Central School, Ogidi, Anambra State, where the late Prof. Chinua Achebe had his primary education. Jonathan made the promise at the church service held for Achebe at Ogidi. However, the promise fell short of […]
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Delta, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Hundreds of members of the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, who are fleeing military attacks in the border communities of Borno State, are regrouping in the mountainous forests of Adamawa State, a top Defence source told The PUNCH on Monday. The source said that militants, who were dislodged from Sambisa Game Reserve and other camps […]
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Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Hundreds of members of the militant Islamic sect, Boko Haram, who are fleeing military attacks in the border communities of Borno State, are regrouping in the mountainous forests of Adamawa State, a top Defence source told The PUNCH on Monday. The source said that militants, who were dislodged from Sambisa Game Reserve and other camps […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Lagos State Government says it has not banned the use of Hijab in public schools. It said rather, the issue was still being looked into with a view to taking a stand on it. In a statement on Monday by the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Lateef Ibirogba, the government said it was still making […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Monday, May 20th, 2013
The Ogidi community near Onitsha in Anambra State has begun a comprehensive sanitation and demolition of shanties in preparation for the funeral of the late Prof Chinua Achebe. The Anambra Waste Management Agency (ASWAMA) and the Onitsha municipal council have embarked on the clearing of refuse dumps in the area. The government ordered the demolition […]
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Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News
Monday, May 20th, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere / NNP / May 20, 2013 – It was Hubert H. Humphrey (American 38th US Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson (1965-69) and US Senator from Minnesota (1949-64, 1971-78). 1911-1978), who said that the essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Plateau, State News
Monday, May 20th, 2013
The Police and Special Task Force in Plateau have put their operatives in Jos, the state capital, on high alert following reports that members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, fleeing from military onslaught in Borno State have been sighted in Bauchi and other neighbouring states. There was high presence of riot policemen as […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, May 20th, 2013
GOVERNMENT functionaries in Rivers State said they might resort to the use of bodyguards to fill the gap created by the withdrawal of policemen attached to them. The Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Amachree, and the Chief of Staff, Government House, Port Harcourt, Mr. Tony Okocha, had alleged that the Commissioner […]