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General Politics, Kaduna, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012

KADUNA State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar yesterday alleged that foreign nationals especially from three African countries were involved in the acts of terrorism currently ravaging parts of the north. The Commissioner told reporters in his office that citizens of Niger Republic, Chad and Cameroon were among those involved in the terror activities and warned […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
By BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO …parade security guard, 8 other suspected robbers LOKOJA—Kogi State Police Command has paraded seven persons for allegedly posing as bishop, pastors and prophets during a revival programme in Lokoja, capital of Kogi State. Those paraded include Bishop Bamidele Abraham of Eagle Kingdom Church, Lokoja and Pastors Chucks Ingalis Kelvin, Chinedu Okosisi, Samson […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
KADUNA (AFP) – Residents of Kaduna stayed indoors on Wednesday as a heavy deployment of soldiers and police enforced a ban on movements after three days of religious violence killed at least 61 people. The round-the-clock state-wide curfew was first imposed after three church bombings in the state on Sunday sparked reprisal violence by Christian […]
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Kaduna, Latest Politics, State News, Yobe
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
2012 VICE-PRESIDENT Namadi Sambo, on Tuesday, met in an emergency session with service chiefs over escalating violence in parts of the country. The National Security Adviser (NSA) to the President, General Andrew Azazi, who fielded questions from State House correspondents after the meeting which took place at the vice-president’s wing of the Presidential Villa, said […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Kaduna, Presidency, State News, Yobe
Monday, June 18th, 2012
June 19, 2012 by Success Nwogu, Ilorin, David Attah, Kaduna 92 Comments As violence continued in some parts of Kaduna State on Monday and fresh attacks were reported in Damaturu, Yobe State, President Goodluck Jonathan, will depart for Brazil today. Jonathan is going to the Brazilian commercial capital city, Rio de Janeiro, to take part […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Monday, June 18th, 2012
The death toll of Sunday’s bomb blast reprisal attack in Kaduna had risen to 70 while the number of those injured stood at 130 as at the time of filing this report. This was just when Corporal George Korinya of Kakuri Police Station narrated how hoodlums seized his gun during the reprisal attack when Daily Sun […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Monday, June 18th, 2012
•35 killed, scores injured in bombings, reprisal attacks •Govt imposes 24-hour curfew Photo: Sun News Publishing Victims of reprisal attacks in Kaduna By: NOAH EBIJE and ABDULGAFAR ALABELEWE, Kaduna Date: Sun, 06/17/2012 – 22:49 Suicide bombers, yesterday struck at different churches in Kaduna metropolis and Zaria town, killing many people, as well as injuring scores […]
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Edo, Niger Delta, State News
Monday, June 18th, 2012
Investigations into the fracas that resulted in the destruction of over 40 vehicles at Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State on Sunday morning revealed that the warring ex-militants and suspected cultists were quarrelling over a female student of the institution. Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Eghosa Osaghae who addressed journalists yesterday, denied reports of a […]
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Articles, Columnists, Edo, Frisky Larr, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012

By Frisky Larr | NNP | June 15, 2012 – Within the past two months, Nigerians have witnessed not less than ten media headlines reporting the alarm raised by Governor Adams Oshiomole over impending electoral manipulations in Edo state. Each time, he is accusing the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of planning to rig the […]
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Benue, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
FOUR people, mostly children, were admitted in a hospital, on Thursday, when the Benue State Urban Development Board invaded and demolished structures at the new garage area of the capital city intended to be used for recreation centre. Nigerian Tribune gathered from the scene of the incident that the affected people sustained injury from teargas […]