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Abuja (FCT), Action Congress of Nigeria, First Ladies, Party Politics, Patience Jonathan, State News, Top Stories, Turai Yar'Adua, Women Politics
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Action Congress of Nigeria has condemned the legal tussle between Mrs. Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua, over a plot of land in Abuja. ACN said, “A study in despicable sycophancy, insider abuse, arbitrariness and manifestation of the culture of impunity all of which have become the hallmarks of the administration of President […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko yesterday in Akure, the state capital, declared his intention to run for a second term under the platform of the ruling Labour Party (LP). Many of the guests, including notable Yoruba leaders, were absent. Among them were the daughter of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, and former […]
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Abuja (FCT), Aviation, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Aviation Minister Ms Stella Oduah has said the full restoration of the airfield lighting at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, will boost passengers’ and operators’ confidence. The minister spoke yesterday in Abuja after the inspection and inauguration of the newly rehabilitated airfield lighting project. She said this would improve air safety. Ms Oduah […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, State News, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 26, 2012 – A major problem of Nigeria is the oil money. Oil money is extraordinary in that it does not come from any national effort, toil or sweat. It comes not from any agricultural, manufacturing, scientific or technological endeavor. It results not from our resourcefulness, innovation […]
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Rivers, State News
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – NO fewer than 20 houses, were, yesterday, set ablaze in Omudioga community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, when irate youths reportedly went berserk over the death of a youth, who was simply identified as Benjamin. Details at press time were hazy but community sources said the rampaging […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Tragedy struck on Raufu Alajo Street, Agege, Lagos, on Wednesday when a 19-year-old bus conductor, Sulaimon Balla, was burnt to death in an abandoned mini bus. PUNCH Metro learnt that Balla slept in the bus which had been abandoned on the street for weeks on Tuesday night. It was gathered that street urchins in the […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Fresh crack emerged among members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Wednesday following an altercation between the Speaker of the House, Mr. Kombowei Benson, and the former Deputy Speaker, Mr. Fini Angaye. The incident occurred three weeks after power-brokers in the Peoples Democratic Party, including President Goodluck Jonathan, intervened in the impeachment saga […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News, Women Politics
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
July 25, 2012 by Mike Odiegwu, Yenagoa 2 Comments Women from Koroama community in Gbarain clan, Yenagoa Local Government, Bayelsa State, on Tuesday barricaded a facility belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company in a protest that lasted for over four hours. Our correspondent learnt that the protest disrupted oil production in the facility, which […]
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Delta, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday granted an interim order forfeiting to the Federal Government $15m said to have been received by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from an undisclosed agent of former Delta State Governor James Ibori in 2007 as a bribe to compromise its investigation. The money has been kept […]
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General Politics, Gombe, Headlines, Kano, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Plateau, State News
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
THE total of 3,100 corps members were redeployed from violence-prone Kano, Gombe and Plateau states, the National Youth Service Corps said as the 2012 Batch ‘B’ orientation camp closing ceremonies took place across the country on Monday. One thousand three hundred of the 2,560 corps members posted to Kano sought redeloyment while no fewer than […]
