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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The Cross River State Police Command has arrested a fake medical doctor, who worked with the name, Dr. Collins Okafor, at the General Hospital in Calabar, the state capital. The suspect, whose real name is Mr. Simeon Kejohu (34), was said to have used the certificate of a medical practitioner to secure employment with […]
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Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
More Stories on This Section Agony, anger, sorrow yesterday characterized the mass burial of victims of Christmas Day 2011 bomb blast, which Boko Haram claimed responsibility. They were laid to rest at the church’s premises. The Islamist sect sent 43 worshippers of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, to their early graves last December […]
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Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Shaibu ABUJA—Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has discovered that contracts for the construction of Abuja-Airport and Kubwa-Zuba roads were inflated to the tune of N38 billion. The revelation came during the budget defence of FCT, when the Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, told the committee that the two road projects had been reversed by […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Abuja — IN Continuation of its plan to Islamize Northern Nigeria, the Boko Haram Islamic Sect on Monday night invaded the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, barracks as well as a police station in Maiduguri, Borno State, killing five persons including a soldier, two policemen and two civilians. Also, two other civilians were reportedly injured, as […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Abuja — What could have been another Boko Haram tragic incident this year, was averted over the weekend, by staff of a private security firm, Encouragers Security company Limited, thwarted attempt by a female suicide bomber, suspected member of the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram from gaining entrance into the complex of the Federal Capital […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Immediate past governor of Kano State and presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the April 2011 general elections, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau was on Tuesday quizzed for several hours by the State Security Services, SSS, operatives over alleged sponsorship of the Boko Haram sect. The sect which had killed at least 1,000 […]
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Edo, State News
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
The Federal High Court 1 sitting in Benin City, yesterday ordered the Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice in the state, Osagie Obayuwana, to be remanded in prison custody over non-compliance of the state government on an interlocutory injunction it gave in a suit involving the state government and a private investor, Churchgate Industries Limited relating […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
The Military-led Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno has killed another Boko Haram sect member barely a week after it gunned down 11 suspected members of the sect during an attack in Maiduguri, the state capital. Daily Sun gathered that some sect members had attacked the task force outpost located around the London Chiki in […]
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Cross River, State News
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
The former minister of finance, Etubom Anthony Ani, has won the second round of his protracted legal battle over who occupies the coveted traditional Efik stool of Obong of Calabar. The High Court in Calabar has restrained the incumbent Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu V, from parading himself as the Efik mornarch. […]
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Abuja (FCT), State News
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
THE Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has threatened to seal off any petrol station in the territory that allows hawking around its premises. FCT Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, said this at the weekend, adding that the measure had become imperative to improve both security and environment of Abuja. Besides, he said hawkers loitering around the […]