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Abia, Headlines, State News
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
ABIA State Government has said its statement on the gang rape video clip was based on claims by the Vice-Chancellor of the state University, the institution’s student union government and the state police commissioner. Five suspected members of a cult group had gang-raped a student of ABSU, recorded the incident and posted it on […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
A northern cabal said to be the mastermind of the sustained unrest in the North almost succeeded in causing a declaration of a state of emergency in Plateau State, but for smart moves by the governor, Jonah Jang and his colleague from Niger State, Babangida Aliyu. Findings by Nigerian Tribune indicated that members of the […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Port Harcourt- About 16 illegal refineries have been discovered within Imo River Field of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Abia State, causing the company to shut down production of 25, 000 barrels of oil per day since August 28, 2011. The action aims at starving the bunkerers of oil product in order to prevent further […]
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Delta, State News
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
UGHELLI—THREE armed youths, weekend, disrupted the Delta State monthly environ-mental sanitation exercise in the Ughelli North Local Government Area. They dismantled a mobile court and chased away two unarmed police officers attached to the court. The invasion of the mobile court in the outskirt of Ekiugbo-Ughelli metropolis on the East-West Road by the youths, forced […]
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National Politics, Niger, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
The five people believed to be Igbo traders were said to have been shot dead at Madala Market on Thursday Night between 7 – 8pm. Our correspondent reliably gathered that the yet to be identified gunmen were said to have stormed the Madala market and made straight to a shop believed to be that of […]
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Delta, State News
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan By Adibe Emenyonu The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Thursday struck out the appeal filed by Chief Great Ogboru of Democratic People’s Party (DPP) against the decision of the lower tribunal which upheld the declaration of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as the winner of the governorship re-run election held January 6, 2011 […]
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Kogi, State News
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Kogi State, took a turn for the worse Thursday, when four of the aspirants vying for the position opted out at the twilight of the election. The aspirants, who withdrew from the governorship primary include Alhaji Jibrin Isah; former Special Assistant to former […]
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Abia, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Abia State Police Command Thursday commenced prosecution of the police corporal, Umar Mohammed, who killed a fellow officer, Clement Amaechi, for some inexplicable reasons. Mohammed was arraigned at a Magistrate Court in Umuahia, where he was charged with the killing of Amaechi by “shooting him in the heart with AK 47 rifle, which caused his […]
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Boko Haram, Delta, Lagos, Plateau, State News
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Following threats by Islamic sect, Boko Haram to attack Lagos, Delta, Anambra and other cities in the southern part of the country, a nation wide security alert was put in place yesterday especially in Lagos, Asaba and Jos. The sect, according to new intelligence reports available to the Armed Forces, had also perfected plans to […]
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Kogi, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Few hours to the Kogi state governorship Peoples Democratic Party’s primary held in Lokoja township stadium yesterday, prominent aspirants in the race to Lugard House told journalists they were withdrawing from the race owing to what they alleged as government hijacking of the delegates. Addressing newsmen in his residence, one of the leading aspirant,Adinoyi –Ojo […]