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Court dethrones Obong of Calabar

Posted by admin 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. […]

No more hawking in petrol stations, FCT minister warns

Posted by admin 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 […]

What would the ghosts of Kano say? – By Anthony A. Kila

Posted by admin Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, Kano, NNP Columnists, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK – Jan. 29, 2012- Scientist and atheists may not agree but most people believe that after death there is a soul that lives on. Many are convinced or at least hope that the dead continue to, in one way or another, show some interest in the lives and vicissitudes […]

Gbaramatu youths warn Chevron over EGCDF

Posted by admin Kano, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

WARRI – GBARAMATU youths of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have warned Chevron Nigeria Limited to stay away from the feud between youths of the Kingdom and their representatives in the Egbema Gbaramatu Cmmunities Development Foundation, EGCDF. In a letter addressed to the management of Chevron in Lagos and ESCRAVOS, signed […]

Fear mars Sunday worship in Kano

Posted by admin Kano, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

KANO (AFP) – Christians in the city of Kano were searched outside church on Sunday by troops on alert after Islamists who recently killed 185 in the city vowed their violent campaign would go on. Some in the flashpoint northern city avoided services entirely, fearing fresh attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist sect whose daring […]

Gunmen attack police station in Kano

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Kano – (AFP) Gunmen attacked a police station on Sunday in Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Kano sparking a shootout with police, witnesses and police said. The attack followed the January 20 assault by the Islamist group Boko Haram that killed at least 185 people in the city — and after a string of recent threats […]

‘I’ve Lived in Kano For 25 Years, But Today, I am Afraid… So, I’ve to Move My Family Home’

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, NNP Spotlight, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Northern Governors Plead With Non-Indigenes To Remain • Boko Haram, In New Message,Threatens To Bomb Sokoto IN droves, they besieged motor parks in the ancient city that has been under siege of gunmen in the past few days. The intended journey was not one of the numerous routine trips they had always done, to and […]

Acting Governor Sacks SSG

Posted by admin Adamawa, Governors, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

THE Acting Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Umaru Fintri, has commenced formation of his cabinet, sacking, in the process, Mr. Kobis Ari, former Secretary to the State Government under the defunct government of Murtala Nyako. The new SSG, Prof. Liman Tukur, had been chairman of the Adamawa Universal Basic Education Board, prior to his sack […]

Boko Haram Threatens Sultan of Sokoto, warns of release of members

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Religion, Sokoto, State News, Sultan of Sokoto, Top Stories Sunday, January 29th, 2012

THE Boko Haram sect has warned the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, to intervene in the release of its arrested members by the police, as failure to do so could lead to attacks and bombings of Sokoto, as it did in Kano on Friday, January 20, 2012. The sect alleged that many […]

9 suspected pirates, others arrested

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

The joint police and military patrol has apprehended nine suspects in an effort to curb the activities of sea pirates and other criminals in Akwa Ibom waterways and creeks. Parading the suspects on Friday in Uyo, the Commissioner of Police, Mr Solomon Arase, said that they were arrested in collaboration with sister security services along […]