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Headlines, Imo, State News
Thursday, December 6th, 2012
•Gov promises to go public with probe reports By CHINELO OBOGO Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has set up a panel that would probe his predecessor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim. A statement signed by the Special Assistant on Media, (print), to the governor, Ebere Uzoukwa said the probe was long overdue and the government has concluded […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has accused the Federal Government of underfunding security agencies in the state. The governor said although security was the exclusive preserve of the Federal Government in the constitution, it (Federal Government) had failed to provide adequate equipment for security operatives, especially policemen, to function well. Fashola, who spoke on […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Chairman and principal owner of Globacom, Nigeria’s leading telecommunications company, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jnr, has donated a whooping sum of N500m to support the flood relief efforts of the Bayelsa State Government. Presenting a draft cheque to the Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson, in Abuja yesterday, the business mogul said he was […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
By OLA AJAYI, IBADAN – Scores of women marched round major streets of Ibadan calling on legislators to make laws on violence against women. The women under the aegis of Zonta Club International, Zonta Club, Ibadan and Oyo State Officers Wives Association who were observing sixteen days of activism as declared by the United Nations […]
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Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Rivers, State News
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
From CHRIS ANUCHA, Port Harcourt Four female members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) were at the weekend, kidnapped in Rivers State. They were, however, rescued by a team of security agents. They were abducted at the NYSC Transit Camp, Iriebe, near Oyigbo, by a gang of seven armed men that gained entry into […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, who was seriously injured when his plane crashed on October 25 in Yola, capital of Adamawa State, may have suffered extensive brain damage. As a result, he allegedly failed to recognize members of a presidential delegation that visited him at a hospital in Hanover, Germany, an authoritative source has […]
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Borno, Headlines, State News
Monday, December 3rd, 2012
…As JTF kills another Boko Haram commander From TIMOTHY OLA, Maiduguri No fewer than 10 people died in Borno at theweekend following multiple attacks by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect. Security sources hinted that at Mbwa, a small community in Chibok Local Government, South of Borno, seven people including three Christian worshippers were […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
When the former Deputy Governor Mr. Nsima Ekere resigned some weeks ago, a colleague being conversant with the situation on ground as it were, called to tell me that one of the tyres of Eket Senatorial District has been deflated, he went on to analyze the rhythm of celebration that those against the governorship of […]
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Armed Forces, Kaduna, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
*`Explosives made in US, some components from Brazil’ By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja, Luka Binniyat, Kaduna In what is apparently a fallout of the suicide bombings of a church in the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, Kaduna State, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), yesterday, removed two top military officials from their posts. The DHQ announced […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
KANO – Suspected members of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram set fire to churches and border posts in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday, residents said, but it was not immediately known if there were casualties. Around 50 gunmen in cars and on motorcycles carried out the attacks on three churches and border posts with neighbouring […]