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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, has told a High Court in the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Abuja, how N450 million was paid by the state government to several persons to supply stationery and office equipment. The permanent secretary said out of the N450 million only N16 million […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Headlines, State News, Tochukwu Ezukanma, Zamfara
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Governor Abdul’aziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State is at loggerheads with his predecessor, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi. Yari lamented that he inherited a whopping N42billion debt without any handover note. Shinkafi, however, insisted few days before he left office that he left substantial amount of money that would finish all ongoing important capital projects in the […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Former Borno State Governor, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff, has denied a claim credited to former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) General Jeremiah Oseni (retd) that he was the brain behind the creation of the Islamic fundamentalist, Boko Haram. The group, he said, had been in existence before he got into office in 2003. […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Thursday, dismissed the suit filed by a former deputy governor of Lagos State, Mr Femi Pedro, against the state House of Assembly and state government. Pedro had filed the case in 2007, to ask the court to make an order declaring his impeachment as deputy governor of […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
TEN persons were reportedly killed, on Thursday, in Kona village near Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, following a land dispute between the people of Mumuye and Kona. Following the development, the state government has set up machinery to identify the culprits and the cause of the crisis with the aim of bringing them to book. […]
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Borno, Headlines, Niger Delta, Raw Politics, State News
Thursday, July 14th, 2011

FOLLOWING contined violence as a result of the war declared on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, by members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, more state governments have ordered the evacuation of their indigenes studying in the town and those on exchange programmes. The Bauchi State government, in a release signed by the Director of […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
TWO thousand workers employed by the immediate past administration in Ogun State were sacked, on Wednesday, by the administration of Senator Ibikunle Amosun. But, the government, in a reaction by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Taiwo Adeoluwa, denied the sack, saying that the workers were directed to re-apply before they could be absorbed […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Niger, State News
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Minna – TWENTY- four hours after the blast that claimed four lives and injured others at All Christian Fellowship Mission Church, Suleja, another blast exploded, yesterday, at Ecwa Church in Madalla town, near Suleja. The blast exploded at 8:30 p.m. on Monday, on the day the Acting Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto, led a government delegation […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
On Saturday June 11, 2011 at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos, our (Akwa Ibom) first lady, Chief (Dr.) Mrs. Unoma Ekaette Akpabio, as I could see from the media, looked very elegant and together with her twin-brother, celebrated their 40th Birthday Anniversary. Many Akwa Ibom people are discussing this matter and insisting that there […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Reacting, the JTF described the claim by the Borno elders as baseless and uncalled for at a moment the state was facing security challenges. Meanwhile, the Federal Government is worried over the decision of some citizens to take up arms against the state, even as it disclosed that insecurities in the country was its greatest […]