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Edo, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
THE prolonged negotiation between the Federal Government and the organised labour ended on a happy note late, on Tuesday, when the Federal Government announced that the minimum pay in the federal civil service and public service will be N18, 900, even as it signed what it hoped will be the final agreement with labour on […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
An unspecified number of candidates who were in Jos, the Plateau State capital, for the post-UTME examination organised by the University of Jos were alleged to have been killed by hoodlums in the wake of fresh violence in the state. Vanguard learnt that some of the candidates unaware of the fresh hostilities were attacked as […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole on Tuesday said the N18,000 National Minimum Wage Act signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan in March, 2011, as the new monthly salary for workers as against the old N5,500 is not a convenient law owing to the challenges it posed to state governments across the Federation. He was, […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has clamped a one-year ban on Imo State FA following a match fixing scandal. The Disciplinary Committee had over the weekend, accused the Imo FA of collaborating with the state’s amateur club, Imo United FC, to fix the match between it and the visiting Akpabuyo FC of Cross Rivers to enable […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Raw Politics, State News, Top Stories
Monday, August 15th, 2011
A deadly explosion was yesterday averted by the police in Borno when a 25-year-old suicide bomber with heavily wired Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) was gunned down by policemen at the entrance of the state headquarters of the police in Maiduguri. The bomber had defiled attempts to check his Honda Accord car at the command’s gate […]
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Headlines, Plateau, State News
Monday, August 15th, 2011
There was palpable tension in Jos, at the weekend, following the gruesome murder of a commercial motorcyclist by some unknown persons at Eto Baba in Jos North Local Government Area of the state. The corpse of the okada rider identified as Kamilu Yahaya, was discovered in a stream in Eto Baba. It was learnt that […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 15th, 2011
AWKA- IRATE youths at Governor Peter Obi’s home town, Agulu, in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, weekend, burnt down the police post in the town following the killing of a middle–aged man by a policeman at a check-point. An eye-witness said the man, who hailed from Awgbu in Orumba North Local Government Area, […]
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Governors, Headlines, Lagos, Rivers, State News
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) yesterday joined his 36 States counterparts under the aegis of the Governors’ Forum of Nigeria in sustaining the campaign against the spread of Polio nationwide, stressing that Lagos State could not afford to stop the campaign against the deadly disease now. Governor Fashola who spoke at the Quarterly […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Sunday, August 14th, 2011
THE people of Lokoja, Kogi State, on Saturday, were in a state of confusion as a grenade suspected to belonging to the police was discovered near Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Oke -Isegun at Phase II Estate extension in the state capital. Operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) and the Nigeria Police uncovered the grenade. […]
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Anambra, Articles, Columnists, Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, August 12th, 2011
By Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP, August 12, 2011 – Gov. Peter Obi should set up technical Committee to re-make diminishing Onitsha. Onitsha the most important commercial center in eastern Nigeria is in shambles and needs immediate attention. Governor Peter Obi and his administration must now listen to a voice of reason and logic without being defensive. […]
