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Articles, Columnists, Delta, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, Ibadan, Nigeria, March 8, 2012 – In a country like ours where corruption is a norm and culture, quickly embraced and never fought to either a standstill or logical conclusion, the repatriation of Ibori’s loots by the Southwark Crown Court in the UK, remains a source of concern to this writer, most […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
No fewer than 20 people were burnt to death in a road accident that occurred yesterday, when two 18-seater buses collided and caught fire at Iwaraja-Ijesha junction along Akure-Ife Road in Osun State. According to an eyewitness, an 18-seater bus, which was heading probably for Ekiti State or Iwaraja swerved from its lane to avoid […]
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Lagos, State News
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
At least 42 murder cases were recorded in Lagos between January and February this year. Summary of the crime statistics and achievements recorded in the months under review showed that Lagos State Police Command arrested 85 suspected armed robbers and also killed 14 purported bandits. The police record showed that only one policeman was killed […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Plateau, State News
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) yesterday identified Mr. Adams Joseph Ashaba, as the Boko Haram suicide bomber, who allegedly masterminded the bombing of the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) in Jos, the Plateau State capital on February 26, disclosing that he was actually a member of the church. The bomber had allegedly attacked COCIN that […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Kano, Latest Politics, Plateau
Monday, March 5th, 2012
VIOLENCE continued to reign in some states of the north at the weekend as members of the Boko Haram sect killed five people, including a 10-year-old child. The sad incident persisted as three of the four victims of the February 26 bombing at the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) Headquarters in Jos were buried […]
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Ogun, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), State News
Monday, March 5th, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday congratulated former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his 75th birthday today. In a letter released in Abuja, President Jonathan thanked God that Obasanjo has spent virtually all of his adult life “in dedicated patriotic service to our fatherland.” Also, Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, congratulated the former President. Amosun, in a statement […]
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Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Niger Delta, State News
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Authorities of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, codenamed “Operation Pulo Shield”, on Friday deployed local divers to retrieve the corpses of its officers, including a lieutenant colonel, who were shot dead on Thursday morning by suspected oil bunkerers, along Brass-Ogbia waterways, in Bayelsa State. Though, the identities of the slain officers […]
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Borno, Headlines, State News
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
A SUSPECTED Boko Haram factory house located in Kaleri and London Chiki area of Maiduguri metropolis in Borno State exploded around 10.30am yesterday, killing three persons said to be in the place at the time of the incident. The blast was heard about three kilometres radius. Other bomb-making materials recovered by the Joint Task Force […]
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Delta, Imo, Judiciary, State News
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
THE Supreme Court yesterday in Abuja put judicial seals on the elections of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, as it dismissed the appeals seeking to nullify their victories at the polls. In separate judgments, the Supreme Court predicated its decision on the same legal pedestal and reasoning. The […]
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Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
…MEND Claims Responsibility For Thursday’s Killings THe Joint Military Task Force (JTF), code named Operation Pulo Shield, has declared missing the Commander of the Brass Unit of its command and three others shot by suspected oil bunkers along the Brass-Ogbia waterways of Bayelsa State. JTF Media Coordinator, Lt. Col. Timothy Anthinga, confirmed to The Guardian […]
