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We need sovereign national conference now —Princewill

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Prince Tonye Princewill was the Rivers State governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria in 2007. He has however defected to the Peoples Democratic Party. In this interview with journalists, Princewill speaks about the country’s security challenges among other issues. OLUSOLA FABIYI reports Some believe that the situation in the country is as a […]

5,000 people contracted HIV/AIDS in Kogi – Investigation

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, State News Monday, June 25th, 2012

OVER 5,000 youths are said to have been allegedly infected with the deadly HIV/AIDS virus in Kogi State within the last one year. This was disclosed during the capacity training organised for over 1,000 barbing and hairdressing salon operators in the Kogi Central senatorial district. A research recently carried out by a lecturer at the […]

True federalism, solution to insecurity -Mimiko

Posted by admin Ondo, State News Monday, June 25th, 2012

THE Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, on Saturday, said the only solution to the problem of insecurity and insurgence across the country is the adoption and implementation of true federalism. The governor also said the time was ripe for the Yoruba nation to restrategise its approach towards agitations in the country. Mimiko said this […]

Yobe: Gunmen attack prison, school •Free 40 inmates in Damaturu, 2 sect members killed •We can’t fight Muslims – Sect’s spokesman

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, State News, Yobe Monday, June 25th, 2012

DAMATURU, the Yobe State capital, again came under heavy fire on Sunday morning, when suspected members of the Jam’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram attacked a school and prison in the city. According to reports, the assailants attacked the prison and freed many prisoners also left a prison warder in critical […]

Tribune now northerners’ delight —Zamfara SSG

Posted by admin State News, Zamfara Monday, June 25th, 2012

THE Zamfara State Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Hassan Ato, has said the Nigerian Tribune has won the hearts of northerners in recent times, with the way and manner it is reporting events in the country without bias. The SSG made the disclosure during the recently concluded local government election in Bungudu, his […]

JTF kills 6 pirates in gun duel in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Monday, June 25th, 2012

THE efforts of the Joint Task Force (JTF) codenamed “Operation Pulo Shield” in the Niger Delta to rid the region’s waterways of criminal elements paid off on Saturday as operatives of the special security force killed six suspected pirates in a gun battle that lasted for one and a half hours in Bayelsa State. Nigerian […]

Picture: We got N7,000 to launch Biu Church attack-Boko Haram suspects

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

By: TIMOTHY OLA, Maiduguri Date: Fri, 06/22/2012 – Seven suspected Boko Haram men alleged to have masterminded the attack on Ekklizivar Yan’uwa A Nigeria (EYN) Church in Biu, Borno State recently said they were paid N7, 000 each to carry out the attack which left no fewer than three worshipers dead. One of the seven […]

T-e-r-r-o-r-! Family of 6 killed in Jos

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

By Taye Obateru, AbdulSalam Muhammad, Wole Mosadomi, Joseph Erunke & Boluwaji Obahopo A family of six including a six-month old child and a 70-year old grandmother were yesterday brutally murdered by gunmen at Kumpun village in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State. In Lokoja, capital of Kogi State, the police command has discovered a […]

Jonathan, Obi, Chime, eulogise Olusola

Posted by admin Anambra, Enugu, Latest Politics, State News Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

By McPHILIPS NWACHUKWU, BEN AGANDE & JAPHET LAKAM with agency report President Goodluck Jonathan was among several Nigerians who paid tribute to late Ambassador Segun Olusola, one-time Nigerian Ambassador to Ethiopia and a cultural icon yesterday. Olusola, 77, died in a Lagos hospital Thursday. Aside Jonathan, those who mourned Olusola included Governors Peter Obi and […]

Blast outside nightclub after security chiefs’ sack

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

ABUJA (AFP) – A blast went off outside a nightclub in the capital city Abuja hours after the national security adviser and defence minister were sacked amid fears over spiralling violence in the country’s north. No casualties were reported in the explosion late Friday. Windows in the nightclub, a bank and a barber shop were […]