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Niger Delta youth hail Odi court decision

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Sunday, February 24th, 2013

YOUTHS in the Niger Delta region have lauded the court ruling that ordered that compensation be paid to the people of Odi community in Bayelsa State for the invasion of the area. Soldiers had in November 1999 invaded Odi and killed many innocent indigenes of the community. The youths, who spoke under the auspices of […]

Football dispute sets off sectarian riot in Taraba

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, State News, Taraba Sunday, February 24th, 2013

KANO (AFP) – A disagreement over a football pitch set off sectarian riots in a central Nigerian town that killed at least one person and left homes, mosques and churches burnt, officials said Sunday. Authorities have slapped a round-the-clock curfew on the town of Wukari, located in Taraba state, following Saturday’s rioting, which was said […]

Train crushes mad woman to death in Osun

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Sunday, February 24th, 2013

From BAMIGBOLA GBOLAGUNTE, Osogbo Asuspected mad woman was last weekend crushed by a train on the railway line along Olaiya junction in Osogbo, Osun state capital. Residents in the area described the middle agedwoman as a popular person who had turned the rail line to her place of abode. It was gathered that the train, […]

5 killed, 300 houses burnt in Taraba crisis

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Taraba Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

From JOHN MKOM, Jalingo No fewer than five people were killed and about 300 houses set ablaze yesterday in early morning religious crisis that engulfed Wukari, headquarters of Wukari Local Government in Taraba State. A House of Assembly member representing Wukari II State Constituency in Taraba State, Ishaya Gani, who confirmed the incident to Sunday […]

Nigeria Governors Forum & The Plot to Remove Amaechi – By Odimegwu Onwumere

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

By Odimegwu Onwumere / Rivers, Nigeria / Feb. 23, 2013 – Dr. Dennis O’Grady tells us in “Bottom Line – Personal” that change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn’t all bad — not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life — to keep us moving… to keep us […]

Gunmen kill family of 10 in Plateau

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Friday, February 22nd, 2013

Ten persons, including a two-month-old baby, were killed on Friday morning when gunmen attacked Kogwom village in the Vwang district of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau, a spokesman for the Special Task Force said. Two other persons, who sustained serious injuries, have been admitted at the Christian Hospital, Vom. Lt. Kingsley Egbo, Assistant […]

Boko Haram, Ansaru target Lagos, others

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, State News Friday, February 22nd, 2013

-PunchTerror groups have begun a recruitment drive in the South-West with the aim of establishing cells in the zone, Saturday PUNCH’s investigations have shown. The recruitment drive by the Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis-Sudan, it was gathered, was a prelude to attacks they were planning to launch in the […]

Mimiko, Ladoja, Obi may defect to PDP

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, All People Grand Alliance (APGA), Anambra, Headlines, Ondo, Oyo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Friday, February 22nd, 2013

Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko; his Anambra counterpart, Mr. Peter Obi; and a former Governor of Oyo State, Alhaji Rashidti Ladoja, may soon defect to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. Competent sources at the national headquarters of the party said on Friday that the party had concluded arrangements to have these men in its […]

Corruption charges: Daniel heads for appeal over ruling

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Friday, February 22nd, 2013

By DAUD OLATUNJI,Abeokuta Erstwhile Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, Friday, urged the Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta to stay its proceeding on count 1-13 concerning criminal charges on alleged abuse of land administration filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Daniel, through his lead counsel, Prof. […]

Angry youth stone monarch, beat chiefs over death of young people

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Thursday, February 21st, 2013

THE youths of Emure Ekiti Thursday protested what they called incessant deaths of young people in the community. The angry youths, who made several bonfires in community and disrupted the market, stoned the traditional ruler the Elemure of Emure, Oba Emmanuel Adebowale Adebayo, a retired Commissioner of Police while trying to pacify them. The youths […]