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Borno, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
A man suspected to be a member of Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram on Tuesday morning lost his life while detonating an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in London Chiki area of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Also, several people were injured in the blast while hundreds of people fled […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
IMPLEMENTATION of the reforms proposed for the judiciary by the 28-man stakeholders’ committee set up by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, will begin in January 2012, Nigerian Tribune has exclusively learnt. The report of the Justice Mohammed Uwais-led committee, containing the proposed reforms, is expected to be officially presented to him […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Resident Electoral Commissioner for Cross River State, Mr. Mike Igini, has advocated for the urgent revolutionary review of some provisions of the Electoral Act with regard to the operations of the commission. Ingini insisted that the provisions of the Electoral Act that made INEC a mere administrative body without regulatory powers […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
-Sun A tenant, who allegedly killed his landlord in Ogijo area of Ogun State has been arrested by the state Police Command. He was said to have killed Afolabi Olayinka, 73 after being allegedly hit with a club. Parading the suspect yesterday, the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Mr. Nicholas Nkemdeme, said the murder suspect […]
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Edo, Latest Politics, Presidency, State News, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
-Sun The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole yesterday disclosed to the shock of the crowd gathered for the launch of the ‘Power, Politics and Death’, by the former Special Adviser on Media and Communications to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, that the late president generously supported his guber race with financial donations. […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The trial of the former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala and two others being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over allegations bothering on corruption, resumed yesterday before Justice Akintunde Boade of the Oyo State High Court. Akala, his former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters and now a […]
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Abia, Legislature, Senate, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The tenure of Senator Nkechi Nwaogu representing Abia State Central Senatorial zone was yesterday brought to an abrupt end as the Court of Appeal nullified her election. In a unanimous judgment delivered by Justice Ejembi Eko, the appellate court held that Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area, where Nwaogu hails from did not fall within Abia […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
By GBENGA ARIYIBI ABEOKUTA – Ogun State police command yesterday paraded 17 suspected armed robbers including six members of the armed robbery gang that allegedly struck banks along Akarigbo road Sabo, Sagamu in the state last month. The state police Commissioner,Nicholas Nkedeme, told newsmen in Abeokuta that, his men have apprehended six members of the […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
BY CALEB AYANSINA ABUJA—FEDERAL Government has given a victim recently gang-raped by ten men in Bayelsa State a grant of N500, 000 to set her up in her welding business. This followed a request from the victim to enable her to get back to normal life. She also requested that she be treated for any […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
OWERRI—Scores of angry indigenes of Ohii community, Owerri West local council area of Imo State yesterday marched through the major roads in Owerri municipality to protest the gruesome murder of their son, Dr. Moses Amako. The aggrieved villagers carried placards with varying inscriptions, some of which read: “We demand justice now”, “Who killed Dr. Moses […]