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Cross River, State News
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Barely seven months to the April 2012 governorship election, crisis has sparked off in the Cross River State chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), as the state leader of the party, Dr. Lawrence Henshaw and other party chieftains have called for the dissolution of the State Executive Council of the party, alleging brazen corruption […]
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Bayelsa, State News
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in Bayelsa State has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Governor Timipre Sylva administration and the eight local government chairmen to implement the N18,000 minimum wage or face industrial action. Sylva, however, at various fora had expressed the readiness of his government to pay the minimum wage and followed it […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Success, they say brings forth special benefits. And that is the case with Heartland Football Club of Owerri whose historic Federation Cup victory over their more prosperous neighbours, Enyimba International Football Club of Aba, Sunday in Lagos has continued to attract bounteous returns ever since. After the triumph on Sunday, the team did not return […]
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Abia, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The Abia State House of Assembly has summoned the Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bala Hassan and the Vice Chancellor of Abia State University , Uturu, Prof. Chibuzo Ogbuagu , following the total outcry over the alleged gang rape of a female student by five students suspected to be students of Abia State University. […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Players of Heartland, who are still basking in the euphoria of their Federation Cup victory, are not happy with the state government. Governor Rochas Okorocha had on Tuesday night, announced a reward of N1million each for the players, an amount which the gallant players consider as nothing but a peanut. One of the players, who […]
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Headlines, Ondo, State News
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko has reiterated the need for a forum, where stakeholders can discuss about the structure of the Nigerian federation. Delivering a paper, ‘People, Power, Good Governance and the Future of Democracy in Nigeria,’ at the public presentation of a book, Nigeria’s Golden Book, published by The Sun Publishing Limited, yesterday in […]
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State News, Taraba
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
The Taraba State government has concluded plans to sack any civil servant found working with forged certificates in the state. It further warned that it would no longer be business as usual, as dismissal now awaited any- one found in the act of indiscipline. The state Head of Service, Mr Augustine Bazing, who handed down the warning […]
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Headlines, Kano, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Monday, September 26th, 2011
TWO weeks after the uproar over the reported gang-raping of a student of Abia State University by five hoodlums, the police in Kano State, yesterday, paraded two of the four men who allegedly gang-raped a youth corps member. One of the suspects has confessed to having allegedly taken part in gang-raping the youth corps member […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Governor Rochas Okorocha is still high on the success of Heartland FC who won the FA Cup on Sunday. The club was to return to Owerri Monday morning but he has ordered them to stay back in Lagos. There are no pretences about his mood. The success, coming 23 years after they won the FA […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Monday, September 26th, 2011
THE threat to Nigerian unity, fanned by ‘indigene’ and ‘non-indigene’ issue is apparently not about to abate, going by a recent order emanating from the Abia State Government. The Theodore Orji-led government practically sacked so-called non-indigenes from the state’s public service, even when many of these are Igbo sons and daughters from other states in […]