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Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Ondo, Party Politics, State News
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
The Mimiko Campaign Organisation (MCO), Saturday, alleged the plan by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to bring Tokyo, the factional leader of the Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) into Ondo state ahead of the gubernatorial election slated for October 20. In a statement by the MCO’s Director of Publicity and Media […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta, Ondo, State News
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
By Dayo Johnson THE leader of ex-militants in the riverine communities of Ondo State, High Chief Bibopiri Ajube, has endorsed Governor Olusegun Mimiko for second term. Ajube, popularly known as “shoot at sight”, also expressed concern over the alleged politicising of the amnesty programme in the state. Speaking with newsmen in Akure, the ex-militant leader […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
