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Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
NOVEMBER 27, 2012 BY ADELANI ADEPEGBA, ABUJA 178 COMMENTS Forty gunmen suspected to be terrorists in the early hours of Monday stormed the office of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Abuja, where suspects were being held. Two policemen and one of the gunmen were killed in the incident, the first of its kind in the […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Monday, November 26th, 2012
By SaharaReporters, New York Unidentified gunmen riding on motorbikes today waylaid a Christian family on their way to church in Kano killing the father, mother and their young son at the corner of Masalaci in Unguwar-Gano Yar’akwa area on the outskirts of Kano. The couple and their son were shot around 8:15 AM while driving […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Monday, November 26th, 2012
By SaharaReporters, New York Kidnappers today snatched Professor Ilochi Okafor (SAN), a former vice chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Awka in Anambra state. Professor Okafor was kidnapped Sunday morning in front of residence at the Independence Layout in Enugu while on his way to church. The kidnappers later took off with him in a […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Ogun, State News
Monday, November 26th, 2012
Luck ran out of some robbers on Sunday in Sagamu, Ogun state South-West Nigeria when Police recovered a sum of six million naira looted from an ATM of a commercial bank. Reports say the robbers acting on hints that the machine has just been reloaded, blew open the ATM using methane gas and other dangerous […]
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Boko Haram, Kaduna, Legislature, Senate, State News
Monday, November 26th, 2012
Nigeria’s Senate President David Mark has blasted members of the Boko Haram group over the bombings of Jaji Military cantonment which killed about eleven people. The senate president in a statement said “this is a challenge to all, irrespective of religious, ethnic or political leanings. It’s about the survival of Nigeria.” On his own part, […]
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Abuja (FCT), Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Monday, November 26th, 2012
Gunmen believed to be members of the deadly Islamic Boko Haram insurgents have attacked the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) headquarters in Abuja in a bid to free their members detained in the building. Reports say two policemen were killed in the gun battle and some detainees were freed. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) headquarters in […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
Pandemonium broke out in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State at the weekend when a man set his wife ablaze for complaining to her sister-in-law on phone about the husband’s alleged maltreatment . The suspect later reported himself to the police. The man, whose name was given as Ndubuisi Okafor, a trailer driver, who […]
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Ebonyi, Governors, Headlines, State News
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
PAST misdeeds rather than improper dressing might have been the major reasons Ebonyi State Governor Martins Elechi suspended three members of his cabinet from office for three months recently. Governor Elechi had through a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Dr. Onyekachi Eni, suspended the Commissioners for Works and Transport, Chukwuma Nwandugo; Justice and Attorney […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
Alhaji Mu’azu Babangida AliyuArmed Forces Command And Staff CollegeChannels TVGovernor Of Niger StateKaduna StateNorthern States Governors ForumNSGF The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has described the bomb attacks on the Saint Andrews Protestant Church, in a military barracks of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, in Jaji, Kaduna state, as “cruel and wicked.” The […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
A roadside orange seller was killed on Thursday by a high-speed convoy belonging to Kaduna State governor, Patrick Yakowa, the victim of a car carrying one of his commissioners. And despite efforts to kill the story in the Nigerian media, an angry Kaduna resident who called SaharaReporters confirmed that the governor’s convoy not only killed […]