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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
Kaduna — KADUNA State is under tension over fears of reprisal attack, following the murder of two Christian women worshippers inside a church by unknown gunmen. The attack by the gunmen also left 11 critically injured in Zonkwa village in Zangon Kataf Local Government in the state. The women were said to have gone for […]
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Headlines, State News, Yobe
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
No fewer than 100 persons died in separate attacks in Potiskum and Damaturu, the Yobe state capital following hours of bombardment by the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic sect. Among the victims, according to Sunday Sun findings, were a professor, a lecturer with the Federal Polytechnic Damaturu and a corp member, Eucheria Remigu serving with the […]
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Benue, Headlines, State News
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The Court of Appeal, sitting in Makurdi, Benue State, on Wednesday, sacked the Speaker of the Benue State House of Assembly, Honourable Terhemwen Tarzohor. The court also ordered that the certificate of return issued to the former speaker who represented Makurdi North state constituency be nullified and that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) should issue the […]
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Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief ABUJA—After over a week of negotiations, the federal government and state governments yesterday, reached an accord on the sharing of the September revenue as a total of N611. 453 billion was distributed among the three tiers of government. The Minister of State for Finance, Dr. Yerima Ngama, who briefed […]
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Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
KANO (AFP) – A one-month old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the levels to which corruption runs country. The name of the infant was recently found on the payment voucher of a local government council in northern Nigeria during an exercise to fish out […]
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Armed Forces, Borno, Headlines, State News
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
KANO (AFP) – Soldiers from a special military unit deployed to end the violence in the city of Maiduguri on Tuesday launched a house-to-house search for weapons following an October 31 deadline for residents to turn in weapons. A military unit’s spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, said they have recovered at least 1,000 firearms in […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
The Chairman of the Kano State Board of Internal Revenue, Alhaji Habu Mohammed Fegge is not one man to be envied, going by the huge challenges of revenue generation before the Kano State government. But in this interview session, the man who is saddled with the task of changing the face of revenue generation in […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
A member of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Femi Allen-Taylor escapes death at the hands of gunmen. A member of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Femi Allen-Taylor narrowly escaped being sent to early grave in Abeokuta, the state capital following severe injuries sustained on the head when gunmen violently attacked him. NEXT authentic […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha, has commenced the payment of monthly stipend to primary and secondary schools students. The payment takes off simultaneously in each of the 27 local government areas today November 1, 2011). While primary school pupils receive N100, their secondary school counterparts will get N120. Also, primary school monitors will […]
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National Politics, State News, Taraba, Top Stories
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, on Monday told an Abuja High Court that she complained to the then Taraba state Governor, Rev Jolly Nyame, about the way the state government disbursed various sums of money to contractors for jobs not done. At the resumed hearing of the case […]