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Ogun, State News
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
ago Font size: Late Chief Oluwole Olumide Why would a successful architect and businessman take his own life? This was one of the questions triggered yesterday by the dead in Abeokuta of Chief Oluwole Olumide, described as a close political and business associate of the immediate past governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel. […]
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Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
• The smouldering tanker at the scene of the fire disaster at Igwuruta junction, Port Harcourt , yesterday • 25 houses, four vehicles also burnt • Six fire fighters attacked, hospitalised A family of four -father, mother, and two children- was burnt to death at their Port Harcourt residence yesterday in an early morning petrol […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Friday, March 16th, 2012
By JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU, Calabar ABOUT 35 persons suspected to be members of secret cults that have been terrorizing residents of Calabar, the Cross River state capital for five days have been arrested by the state Police Command. Besides, over 10 suspected cultists and innocent residents of the area have been feared dead in the renewed […]
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Bayelsa, State News
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson on Thursday said he inherited an empty treasury from the Timipre Sylva administration. Dickson alleged that Sylva left “heavy and intimidating debt portfolios” for his administration to service. The governor, who spoke in the Banquet Hall, Yenagoa, during his maiden monthly press conference stated that the figure of the debt […]
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Lagos, State News
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
IT is no longer news that hotels in Nigeria are about the most expensive in the world. Many factors have been attributed to this. The factors are numerous. They range from the challenge on providing security to electricity. It is no longer news that the country is in total or partial darkness depending on the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
March 14, 2012 by Kunle Falayi 37 Comments The brutality ascribed to officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority still persists as a man, Chudi Obiefuna, was on Monday brutalised by a combined team of LASTMA officials and riot policemen in the Ijeshatedo area of Lagos. An unidentified man, who intervened by explaining that […]
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Cross River, State News
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
ABOUT four people were feared killed by rival cult groups in Calabar, Cross Rivers State, in the last three days. The activities of the cult groups have created fears in the minds of residents of the state. The state governor, Liyel Imoke, had in the last four years tried to stamp out cultism in the […]
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Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Latest Politics, State News
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Federal Government has approved the setting up of central military commands in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. THE PUNCH learnt that the nation’s service chiefs took the decision after assessing the economic importance of the state to the country and the rising activities of cultists and pirates. Also, there has been a resurgence of violence in the […]
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EFCC Politics, Ogun, State News
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, stormed the office of the Ogun State Property Investment Corporation (OPIC) and interrogated its officials. The officials of the anti-graft agency arrived at the headquarters of the OPIC, at Oke-Ilewo area of Abeokuta, at about 11.00 a.m, in a Honda Space bus, with registration […]
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Adamawa, Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
From DAVID MOLOMO Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Fleeing from the military heat in Maiduguri, Borno State, Boko Haram may have relocated to neighbouring Mubi in Adamawa State. But soldiers pursued the Islamist sect members to the town on Monday. In an encounter, 11 people were killed. They include seven militants, a police Inspector, a soldier […]