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Ekiti, State News
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
In order to prepare well and ensure victory in the 2014 gubernatorial election the Ekiti State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, are already making desperate efforts to bring back into the party former Governor Ayodele Fayose and other old members who had dumped the party earlier. Speaking to Daily Sun on phone yesterday, […]
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Ebonyi, State News
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
The Ebonyi State Government seems bent on discovering its potentialities. The 15-year old state has been through hurdles of infancy, grooming and now at adolescence. It has been one of the lowest economically rated states, but it might be gearing towards saying ‘never again’. The states of the nation live as beggars – arms stretched […]
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State News, Taraba
Sunday, August 21st, 2011
Jalingo: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has led a Kenya-based American investor to inspect about 30,000 hectares of marshy land in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State for possible commercial rice cultivation. Obasanjo, was accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and Gov. Dambaba Suntai of Taraba State. The former president described the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Emmanuel Ajibulu, NNP Columnists, Ondo, State News
Saturday, August 20th, 2011

By Emmanuel Ajibulu, NNP, August 20, 2011 –The history of our great nation seems not to be complete without the exploits of Ondo people being written in gold; we’ve got a lot of great men and women from the state scattered all over the world, making remarkable contributions and recording key milestone in their respective […]
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Anambra, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Senator Anyim Pius Anyim , SGF The National Working Committee of Peoples Democratic Party has initiated moves to resolve the factional crisis in its Anambra State chapter, as it set up dates for the various congresses in its Edo State chapter. According to documents from the party, made available to THISDAY, NWC directed […]
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Governors, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, State News, Taraba
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has expressed his happiness over the vision of governor Danbaba Suntai in the agricultural sector. He stated this in Jalingo when he led an America-based Kenyan, Mr.Calvin on a courtesy call on governor Suntai at government house, Jalingo on Friday. Chief Obasanjo appreciated the natural endowments in Taraba State, describing it […]
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Edo, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State said that his government was presently discussing with the family of the late former Chief of General Staff , Admiral Augustus Aikhomu who served under General Ibrahim Babagida’s military administration on the burial plans and how to immortalise the elderstateman who was the only Edo indigene to have risen […]
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Lagos, State News
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
Five people were on Saturday afternoon feared killed, several others severely injured and property worth millions of naira destroyed when a three-storey building collapsed on the Island in Lagos State. Among the injured was a man said to be a welder. One of the Ikeja offices of the Nigeria Postal Services (NIPOST) also, on the same day, went […]
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Katsina, State News
Saturday, August 20th, 2011
About 110 houses have been washed away in Baure and Garki villages in Baure Local Government Area of Katsina State following a heavy down pour. The incident, which occurred on Friday, started around 6 am and lasted for about five hours. The flood was blamed on blocked drainages, even as most of the houses affected were on […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, August 19th, 2011

By Kenneth Uwadi, Imo State, Nigeria – August 19, 2011– It was night, 8pm to be precise, when I entered a bar in Owerri for a drink. The damned bar’s sloppy wet due to the heavy down pour earlier. The rain soaked part of my shirt; my sleeves the more. It’s an entertainment bar.Some men […]