Posted by admin
Abia, Headlines, State News
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Abia State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bala Hassan has said the shooting on Tuesday in the state government house, which left Corporal Clement Amaechi dead and Corporal Umoru Mohammed wounded has nothing to do with the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko-Haram. Both policemen were security details of state Governor, Chief Theodore Orji. The CP said he was […]
Posted by admin
Anambra, Headlines, State News
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Anambra State Government has debunked the statement by CBN governor that it was the first state to borrow money from the non-interest bank. Speaking through its Commissioner for Finance, Mr. Eze Echesi, yesterday, inAwka, the Peter Obi-led administration stated that it has not borrowed funds from any financial institution. But giving insight into how Anambra […]
Posted by admin
Headlines, Ogun, State News
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State yesterday swore in 17 commissioners and 13 Special Advisers,urging them to hit the ground running. Among those sworn in were the children of Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka and late Hubert Ogunde while late Moshood Abiola’s daughter Hafsat was sworn in as a Special Adviser. The governor in his […]
Posted by admin
Governors, Lagos, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has directed immediate arrest and prosecution of owners of collapsed buildings in the state. He also directed Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development to commence immediate review of current building laws to restore sanity to the building sector. The state Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. […]
Posted by admin
Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Bauchi – Two persons have been arraigned before a Bauchi Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly bewitching one Hafsatu Sani in the last four years. Those charged before the court sitting in Warji Local Government Area of the state are Adamu Mamuda and Ibrahim Ganye. According to the Prosecutor, Inspector Mato Albasu, the two accused persons […]
Posted by admin
Bayelsa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Yenagoa – About 45 students of Bayelsa State origin evacuated from the University of Maiduguri, Borno, Wednesday, narrated their ordeals in the troubled city. The traumatised students lamented that days after being evacuated by the Bayelsa State Government, they still hear bomb explosions and sounds of gunfire in their sleep. The students, who were evacuated […]
Posted by admin
Benue, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
THE Benue State govrnor, Dr Gabriel Suswam, has described the office of a commissioner as pivotal to effective goverance, even as he charged the newly sworn in commissioners in the state to be catalyst for meaningful development. In his address on the occasion, Suswam said “I want to charge you to consider your appointment […]
Posted by admin
Borno, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
EARLY morning blast on Tuesday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, left three members of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Restore Order, in Borno, critically injured, while members of the JTF were said to have made several arrests in connection with the bomb blast. Speaking by phone on Tuesday, JTF spokesman, Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, […]
Posted by admin
Abia, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

As shoot-out involving security details of Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Ahamefule Orji, has led to the death of one mobile police officer. Another is reportedly on danger list. The incident, which happened in the early hours of yesterday at the police quarters of Government House, was said to have rattled government functionaries, who were […]
Posted by admin
CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Delta, Headlines, State News
Monday, July 18th, 2011
DELTA State Controller of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mrs. Elizabeth Agu, weekend, narrowly escaped the wrath of some youth corps members in the state, when she delivered a paper by the CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, which touched on the controversial Islamic banking system soon to be introduced in the country. Agu who […]