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Kidnapped Lagosian spends 12 days in Delta creeks, pays N5m ransom

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, October 6th, 2012

A few weeks ago, a building contractor based in Ikorodu, Lagos, Alhaji Alaka Kamaldeen, 46, had a harrowing experience. Kamaldeen was standing outside his office on Aug. 24, 2012 when an Audi car with four passengers suddenly pulled up close to him. The occupants were armed with guns. Without saying a word, they pounced on […]

1,000 Anambra flood victims lose N1bn property – Rep

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, House, Legislature, State News Thursday, October 4th, 2012

October 5, 2012 by John Ameh and Emmanuel Obe – Punch At least 1,000 persons displaced in the floods ravaging parts of Anambra State are without food and health facilities, a member of the House of Representatives said on Thursday. Mr. Ikechukwu Ameke, who represents Anambra-West/Anambra-East Federal Constituency, one of the worst-hit areas, sought urgent […]

Taraba deputy gov impeached

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Taraba Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Taraba State House of Assembly on Thursday, in Jalingo impeached the state’s Deputy Governor, Alhaji Sani Abubakar, from office. The action followed the Assembly’s adoption of the recommendation of the seven-member Judicial Commission of inquiry set up by Justice Josephine Tuktur, the acting Chief Judge of the state. The commission, with Mr. Usman Dangiri […]

Mubi massacre: Stop these killings now, Tukur tells Jonathan

Posted by admin Adamawa, Latest Politics, State News Thursday, October 4th, 2012

ANGERED by the massacre at the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, National Chairman of the ruling Peoples, Democratic Party, Bamangar Tukur, on Thursday asked the Federal Government to put an immediate stop to indiscriminate killings in the land. Some gunmen on Monday night stormed an off-campus residence of the students and called them out for […]

Ogun traditional rulers exchange blows

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012

From MOSHOOD ADEBAYO, Abeokuta The Nigeria Police Division in Itori, Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State was turned into a boxing arena on Tuesday when two traditional rulers engaged each other in fisticuffs over disagreement on a cultural festival. The two traditional rulers involved in what many have described as desecration of the Yoruba […]

Gunmen kill 23 students, others in Adamawa

Posted by admin Adamawa, Headlines, State News Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

GUNMEN midnight Monday stormed an off-campus residence of students of the Federal Polytechnic, Mubi, Adamawa State, and shot dead 23 students. Also, three other persons, including a retired soldier, a guard and father of a student, lost their lives in the orgy of killing with a total of 25 felled victims. The murdered students were […]

Nigeria not worst place to live —Fashola

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, October 1st, 2012

The Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, at the weekend, said the challenges confronting the nation should be seen as building blocks to greater things, calling on the country to take advantage of Africa as the next investment destination to reclaim her pre-eminent status. He stated that the country was not the worst place to live […]

Female Student Stripped Naked For Allegedly Stealing Blackberry Phone •Man in Court For Attempted Incest Against Daughter

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Friday, September 28th, 2012

A female final year student , in one of the universities in Imo State simply identified as Chisom was on Friday stripped naked for allegedly stealing a Blackberry phone at a very popular nightclub located in Owerri metropolis . According to an eyewitness, Chisom had removed the phone from the bag of another colleague in […]

Saudi Deports 137 Zamfara Female Pilgrims

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, State News, Zamfara Friday, September 28th, 2012

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has deported 137 intending female pilgrims from Zamfara State, the Amirul Hajj, Malam Ibrahim Wakkala, said on Friday at a news briefing in Gusau. Wakkala, who is also the state deputy governor, said the deportees, who arrived in the state in good health, were received by top government officials. He […]

Ambrose Alli: Ex-Gov Who Died On His Birthday

Posted by admin Delta, Edo, Headlines, State News Friday, September 28th, 2012

Last Saturday, 22 September, 2012, marked the 82nd anniversary of the birth of the first executive governor of the defunct Bendel State, now Edo and Delta States, Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Alli. Coincidentally it was also the 22nd memorial of his death, having been born on 22 September, 1929 and died on 22 September, 1989. The […]