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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 […]
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Headlines, Osun, Oyo, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
THERE was confusion at the North campus of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday, as no fewer than six cars were stolen before dawn. The vehicles, according to a source, were three Honda cars, Honda CRV, Nissan Primera and Peugeot. The robbers, numbering about 12, were suspected to have arrived on the campus on […]
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Lagos, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
IN its determination to further ensure safety of lives and free flow of traffic, the Lagos State government has directed that with effect from Friday, June 15, 2012, all commercial bus drivers operating within Ikorodu and its environs, especially those loading and discharging passengers indiscriminately at the town’s roundabout, should desist from such an illegal […]
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Headlines, Jigawa, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
GOVERNOR Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has urged Nigerians to look beyond the allegations of bribery and corruption currently rocking the House of Representatives, saying that corruption is a national crisis that must be tackled holistically. Fielding questions from newsmen after paying a courtesy call on the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
Borno elders, led by a former Minister of Petroleum, Dr Shettima Monguno, has said the face-off between the aggrieved sect of the Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnah Lid da’waati Wal Jihad a.k.a Boko Haram and federal law enforcement agents has denied the people of the state the peace they had enjoying and almost brought the society to […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
By Nadahi Marama MAIDUGURI—AN Elder statesman and former Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Shettima Monguno, has said the type of government being practised in the country was not democracy but “democorruption,” as according to him, the present administration was doing nothing to tackle the high level of corruption in the country. Mungono spoke at his residence, […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, State News
Friday, June 15th, 2012
By AbdulSalam Muhammad, Kano KANO – Heavy artillery fire and sporadic gunshots around Naibawa and Darmunawa areas of Kano over the last couple of hours have forced residents to remain indoors. Witnesses say the first shot was heard around 3.25am Friday, and had since then gained intensity in the affected areas. Vanguard gathered that parents who were initially unaware […]
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Delta, State News
Thursday, June 14th, 2012
June 15, 2012 by Emmanuel Addeh, Warri Gunmen who kidnapped a cousin to the Governor of Delta State, 75-year-old Sam Uduaghan, on Thursday demanded N50m before his release. The kidnappers had struck on a day the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, was receiving patrol vehicles purchased by the state government in Asaba. Our […]
