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Armed Forces, Bauchi, State News
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Bomb explosions rocked the 23 Artillery Brigade headquarters in Bauchi at about 8.25 p.m yesterday, killing five people and injuring several others. The commissioner of Police, Muhammed Indabawa confirmed the casualties during a telephone interview with journalists. The Public Relations Officer of the Brigade, Major Etete also confirmed that two bombs exploded at the Shadawaka […]
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Borno, Governors, Headlines, State News
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has begged the people for forgiveness over the shortcomings of his government, noting that he might have offended the people in the course of leading the state for eight years. In his valedictory speech on Sunday at the Ramat Square venue of the inauguration of the new […]
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Governors, Headlines, State News, Zamfara
Monday, May 30th, 2011
The new Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar has sworn that the Holy Qur’an would be his guide in administering the state, even as the former governor, Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi left over N40billion debts and asked for forgiveness of any wrong done during his tenure in the state. Abubakar, who spoke during the inauguration ceremony […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Monday, May 30th, 2011
Senator Ibikunle Amosun yesterday took the oath of office as the fourth civilian governor of Ogun State with a pledge to transform the state beyond what his predecessors left. Amosun in his acceptance speech shortly after the state Chief Judge, Mr. Charles Oluremi Jacobs administered the oath of office on him at the MKO Abiola […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, May 29th, 2011
The Lagos State Government has warned residents of areas prone to flooding to look for alternative accommodation on higher grounds from June to January next year. The warning, according to it, is necessary because of the anticipated unusually heavy rainfall that the state is likely to witness this year. Some of the flood prone […]
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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 […]