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Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Friday, October 26th, 2012
•Gives chilling details of how her co-traveller was slaughtered From PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi, Call it a narrow escape or a close shave with death, you are not wrong in capturing the story of 25-year old Patience Bitrus who recently escaped from suspected ritualists in Bauchi State. However, her co-traveller was not as lucky as Patience […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Rivers, State News
Thursday, October 25th, 2012

By Clarius Ugwuoha | NNP | Oct. 25, 2012 – It is very disconcerting that a kind of violence-mentality has permeated the consciousness of Nigerians. What informed the gruesome murder of four promising youths on the flimsy excuses of phone and laptop thefts, which were unsubstantiated, remains a puzzle to most social analysts in Nigerian. […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ondo, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Oct. 24, 2012 – The gubernatorial elections held recently in both Edo and Ondo states has come and gone with all stakeholders, most especially the INEC as the electoral umpire having learnt one or two things. Even as this writer is of the opinion that there is more […]
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Cross River, Latest Politics, Raw Politics, State News
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

An Abuja Federal High Court on Wednesday dismissed a suit in which the indigenes of Bakassi asked for an order to compel the Federal Government to repossess the Bakassi Peninsula and nullify the Green Tree Agreement it entered with Cameroon. The International Court of Justice, in a judgment on October 10, 2002, ceded the oil […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
The police in Anambra State on Wednesday arrested Mrs. Njideka Imoka, the teacher that allegedly flogged a pupil, Chidimma Ukachukwu, to death at St. John of God Secondary School, Awka. The police also arrested the school’s principal, Mrs. Phil Odenigbo, who happened to be the wife of the immediate-past secretary to the state government, Mr. […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012
With the restriction of okada on some routes and the worsening fuel scarcity in Lagos State, many Lagosians who were stranded trekked to their destinations on Wednesday. Also, motorists were held up for hours following gridlock on most major roads. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway towards Seven-Up, Yaba, Iyana Ipaja, Ikorodu Road, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Oba Akran […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
caption: Sheila Solarin By SaharaReporters, New York Saharareporters has just learnt of the death of Sheila Mary Solarin (nee Tuer), the widow of Dr. Tai Solarin, one of once one of Nigeria’s foremost educators and agitators for social justice. With her late husband, she had founded the famous Mayflower School in Ikenne, Ogun State. A […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News, Top Stories
Monday, October 22nd, 2012

The people’s Democratic Party, PDP in Ondo state has declared that the Ondo state governorship election is “marred by irregularities” and may go to court to challenge the results of the election. In a statement issued by PDP spokesman in the state Ayo Fadaka, the party says it rejects results of Ilaje Ese Odo area […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Oyo, State News
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
The remains of Tennessie Jurry. Inset: The drugs puportedly given to Jurry to treat malaria The family of a Liberian national, Mr Tennessie Jurry, who reportedly came from the Oru Refugee Camp in Ogun State to Iseyin, but died recently while working as a mortician at Our Lady Hospital, Iseyin, Oyo State, suspects foul play […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Osun, State News
Sunday, October 21st, 2012
What on earth could have given a man the impetus to test a gun on a Divisional Police Officer, leading to the officer’s incapacitation? OLUWATOYIN MALIK reports the escapades and confession of Mutairu Were, a member of a dreaded robbery gang. THE Osun State Police Command recently recorded a victory when it arrested an armed […]