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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Sunday, November 11th, 2012
The editor, kindly allow me a small space in your widely read on-line paper to commend Governor Peter Obi on the marvellous job the state is doing to make sure kidnapping does not exist any more. In addition to pulling down the structures of these nefarious people, the state should introduce other form of humiliating […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson, State News, Taraba, Yobe
Sunday, November 11th, 2012

By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Nov. 11, 2012 | To criticize one’s country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, November 11th, 2012
From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna Kaduna State governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa yesterday said that he sacked over 4,000 primary and secondary schools teachers in a move to ensure quality and vibrant education sector in the State. In a speech delivered at the joint national graduation and award ceremony of the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI), Kaduna, Yakowa […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News, Zamfara
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Gusau – A police corporal, Jeremiah Yusuf, lost four children in a fire incident at Tudun-wada Quarters of Gusau, Zamfara, on Wednesday. Yusuf said a neighbour’s house where he was receiving sympathisers, that “I watched all my children burn helplessly before me and I could not do anything to save them.” Yusuf explained that he […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
A yet-to-be identified policeman attached to the Alapere Police Division, Ketu, Lagos, on Wednesday allegedly shot and killed a bus conductor for stepping on him. Eyewitnesses said the policeman was standing at Tipper Bus Stop when the conductor stepped on him. The eyewitness said, “The policeman was in mufti. He challenged the man on why […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
The Lagos State Government is working on a number of options to engage genuine commercial motorcycle operators, recently thrown out of jobs as a result of the implementation of the new traffic law, in meaningful ventures. The Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, dropped the hint in Lagos on Wednesday, stressing that the move was […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
THE recent acquisition of private jets by the governments of Rivers and Akwa Ibom states is as reckless as it is highly insensitive. The massive waste of money is coming at a time when the rate of poverty and deprivation is worsening in the country. It is indefensible for state governors to add acquisition of […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
What exactly happened to Dr. Olawunmi Thorpe, an Ogun State indigene, who died a homeless man, may never be known. To passersby and residents, who saw Thorpe everyday in the rubbish dump beside the rail line at Fagba Bus Stop in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, he was a deranged man. But what […]
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Articles, Emmanuel Ajibulu, NNP Columnists, Ondo, State News
Sunday, November 4th, 2012

By Emmanuel Ajibulu | Abuja, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | As expected with every victory, the landslide success of Governor Olusegun Mimiko at the October 20, gubernatorial poll, triggered uncontrollable jubilation amongst the great people of Ondo State and even beyond. In the euphoria of jubilation, the number one citizen was swarmed with congratulatory […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Sunday, November 4th, 2012

By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | This is certainly not the best of times for over 15 communities of Egbema and Oguta in Imo State of Nigeria ,many of whom have been forced to flee their homes in the last four weeks due to flood and are now taking temporary […]