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Abuja (FCT), Legislature, Senate, State News
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Senate yesterday summoned top managements of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Julius Berger Plc and Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) over failure by British Airways to land and disembark passengers for over one and a half hours last Saturday. Also summoned is the management of the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP). The […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna Tuesday, April 24 , 2012 •Garba Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Time, it is said, heals the wound. And so, softly and steadily, the victims of the Kaduna Easter day bombing are recuperating fast from injuries sustained in the heinous bomb blast which occurred many days ago. […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Godfrey Dikeocha, who was kidnapped by gunmen about a month and half ago is yet to be released. Dikeocha was abducted by armed men from his Oke Uvuru country home in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of the state on March 9, 2012 few minutes […]
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Benue, Headlines, State News
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
A housewife and mother of nine children has delivered a monkey-like monster in Otukpo, headquarters of Idoma nation in Benue State. The bizarre delivery took place at the weekend at St Theresa Hospital Otukpo by the woman said to be the wife of a hunter from Oju local government area of the state. The abnormal […]
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Headlines, Judiciary, State News
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
A lawyer, Olorogun Benson Ndakara, has described the recent conviction of the formal governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, in the United Kingdom over money laundering as a shame on the Nigeria’s judiciary. In a brief encounter with Daily Sun, he faulted the country’s judicial system for freeing Ibori from the 170 count-charge filed […]
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Boko Haram, Kogi, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
The Joint Task Force comprising the Army, State Security Services and the Police has discovered another bomb factory in a cave at Usomi village along Okene–Ogori/Magongo Road in Kogi State. The top state officer of SSS, who confirmed the startling discovery yesterday while speaking with newsmen at the state headquarters of the SSS in Lokoja, […]
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Delta, Headlines, State News
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
By Emma Arubi WARRI—THE legal team of the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori is to appeal the 13 years sentence handed him by a London court last week. A reliable member of the team and a Warri- based legal practitioner, who does not want his name in print, told Vanguard exclusively, that […]
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Osun, State News
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
BY GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO — Former Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday, dissociated the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from alleged security report claiming that Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State was planning to islamise the state and secede from Nigeria. He argued that evidence on the ground was enough to substantiate the […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Friday, April 20th, 2012
By DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA – Hundreds of patients at Federal Medical Centre {FMC},Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State Capital were subjected to untold hardship following the reported superiority tussle between nurses and doctors which has grounded medical services in the hospital last four days. Vanguard’s investigations revealed that, the two medical bodies locked horns since last week […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Friday, April 20th, 2012
April 20, 2012 by James Azania | credits: Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Thursday received a major boost in his re-election bid after the Oba of Benin gave him his support. Omo N’Oba Erediauwa, who was formally informed by Oshiomhole of his second term bid at the Palace, said the governor deserved it because […]