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Headlines, Jigawa, State News
Monday, October 31st, 2011
BY ALIYU DANGIDA DUTSE—Jigawa State is celebrating what it described as the enormous success recorded in the education sector as 10.5 per cent of its secondary students passed the 2010 West African Examinations Council, WAEC, results in the country. In the previous year, only 2.4 per cent of the students passed same examination. In an […]
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Bayelsa, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Reactions have continued to trail the non-clearance of Mr Ndutimi Alaibe by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest the governorship primaries slated for November 19, 2011, with a pro-Democracy group Internal Democracy Advocacy Network (IDAN) commending the Brig-General Idi Adamu screening committee for sticking by the constitution of the party. Out of the 11 […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Reactions have continued to trail the non-clearance of Mr Ndutimi Alaibe by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest the governorship primaries slated for November 19, 2011, with a pro-Democracy group Internal Democracy Advocacy Network (IDAN) commending the Brig-General Idi Adamu screening committee for sticking by the constitution of the party. Out of the 11 […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
An Islamic cleric was shot dead in Maiduguri over the weekend by gunmen suspected to be of Boko Haram sect, even as an early morning bomb blast targeted against the Joint Task Force (JTF) men rocked the city yesterday. Some gunmen were said to have stormed the residence of the Islamic cleric, Ali Gana at […]
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Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate, State News
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011 • Bala Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Senate has summoned Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration, Senator Bala Mohammed and the Due Process Office over the award of some road contracts in Abuja in foreign currency. Similarly, Senate may also summon the Comptroller General of […]
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Akwa Ibom, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
The authorities, yesterday, shed more light on the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane that crash landed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, saying the aircraft landed 1,100 meters from the runway. They insisted that the two pilots of the plane, one of six involved in the 2011 Staff Continuity Training Exercise and Sports Week […]
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Akwa Ibom, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane has crashed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The L-39 trainer jet was on a routine training exercise from the 303 Training School in Kano when it crashed about 50 metres away from Uyo airport. However, no life was lost in the incident, which happened at 7:15 p.m. on Friday. […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has described the failure of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to respond to the killing of 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor by a policeman at a check-point in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, last week, as an embarrassment to Nigerians and the international community. In a statement by Comrade Joseph Evah, the Ijaw group […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State appears as one with patriotic zeal and love for the fatherland. It is also expected that these ascribed qualities would rub-off on his ethnic group-the Igbo. But political developments in Abia, God’s Own State, in recent times, especially on the vexed issue of non-indigenes in 21st Century Nigeria and […]
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Delta, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State yesterday officially handed over 40 secondary schools to their original owners. It took the state 10 years to complete the process of returning the schools, as the administration of James Ibori in 2001 started the process. Twenty seven of the schools were handed over to the Catholic mission while […]