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Governors, Latest Politics, National Politics, Ogun, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
The Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, has justified his decision to travel out of the country before the May 29 handing over date to a new administration, adding that his predecessor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, never attended his swearing-in ceremony. Daniel on Friday night left the Murtala Muhammed International Airport aboard British Airways around […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, Obinna Emeka, Obinna Emeka, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
By Obinna Emeka, Indianapolis. Indiana – May 29, 2011 – It is no more news that the APGA, governorship candidate, Rochas Okorocha, won the Imo state gubernatorial election and will be in charge of Douglass House for four years beginning from May 29th 2011.Okorocha defeated Ikedi Ohakim the incumbent governor . The APGA candidate (Okorocha) […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
The Commissioner of Police in Akwa Ibom State, Felix Uyanna, says his command has received an intelligence report on a planned bomb threat ahead of the inauguration of Governor Godswill Akpabio for a second term in office and has since taken appropriate measures to foil such possible plans. CP Uyanna, who briefed the media on […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
TRAGEDY struck on Friday night in Ilorin, Kwara State, as about 30 people, mostly women, lost their lives in a stampede during the valedictory party held for the outgoing governor, Dr Bukola Saraki. Dr Saraki met his political supporters, about 5, 000 of them at the Mandate House around 6 pm on Friday, where he […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
The deputy governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the last elections in Ogun State, Comrade Tunde Oladunjoye, has described the escape of the out-going governor of the state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel to United Kingdom as a vindication that he had skeleton in his cupboard. The PDP deputy governorship candidate whose council was […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
The outgoing Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, on Friday officially handed over to his successor and governor-elect, Chief Rochas Okorocha, two days ahead of schedule. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Ohakim lost to Okorocha of the All Progressives Grand Alliance in the general elections in April. In his remark at […]
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Governors, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Friday, May 27th, 2011
The children in Lagos are in for a swell time this Children’s Day celebration as the Lagos State governor, Mr Raji Fashiola, SAN, has concluded plans to host over 500 of them in the Rafiaji area of Lagos. The event scheduled to hold on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at the Community Center, Onikan aims among […]
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Enugu, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan, has lambasted those lobbying for ministerial appointments, saying less than 10 per cent of them are genuine. He disclosed this during the presidential inauguration lecture in Abuja, which was delivered by Prof. Ladipo Adamolekun, even as the independent scholar urged the President to declare and make public, his assets and those of […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio has sacked his entire 26-member cabinet as he prepares for a second term swearing-in this weekend. DailySun learnt that the governor announced the resolution of the cabinet in a valedictory executive council meeting with the erstwhile commissioners and special advisers, on Wednesday. The outgoing commissioner for information and […]
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EFCC Politics, Enugu, State News
Thursday, May 26th, 2011
Former governor of Enugu State, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani was arraigned yesterday and later remanded in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the orders of an Enugu High Court pending a bail application which is due for hearing on Wednesday next week. The anti-corruption body arraigned the former governor in the […]
