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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
AHEAD of the chairmanship and councillorship election scheduled to hold in Rivers State today, the Rivers State Police Command has deployed 20,000 officers and other security agents to ensure adequate security. The state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, disclosed this yesterday in Port Harcourt while briefing journalists on the preparedness of police for […]
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Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Unknown gunmen, yesterday, killed a pastor and one other person at Jaruma village in Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State. It was gathered that the two victims, Pastor Irmiya Maigida, 55, from Bogor Local Government Area and his neighbour, Joshua were murdered at home while asleep. Widow of the pastor, Keziya Irimiya, speaking from […]
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Abia, Headlines, Labour Party (LP), Party Politics, State News
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The Abia State Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Chief Obi Aguocha, said yesterday that he has prepared his own burial programme, as he awaits death in the hands of those who might think that he is talking too much. He said that he did that to make things easy for those he alleged have been […]
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Borno, Headlines, State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
MAIDUGURI, the Borno State capital, on Thursday, was rocked by three separate bomb explosions, which left an officer of the Nigeria Police dead, while several others were said to have suffered varying degrees of injury. In one of the explosions, five security officers were injured near a military checkpoint. This came barely 12 hours after […]
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Borno, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News, Women Politics
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
WOMEN in the Borno State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have rejected the nomination of Hajia Inna Ciroma for a ministerial position by the state chapter of the party. Rising from an emergency meeting held at the PDP state secretariat in Maiduguri, on Wednesday, the women stakeholders rejected the nomination of Ciroma, the […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
Oyo State governor-elect, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, on Thursday, debunked the claim that he has dual citizenship, describing it as mischievous and unfounded. Ajimobi, in a statement signed by his Director of Media and Publicity, Mr Yanju Adegbite, denied ever being a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States of America. According to him, the […]
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Headlines, Oil Politics, Osun, State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The Alowa of Ilowa-Ijesha in Osun State, Oba Adebukola Alli, on Wednesday appeared before an Osogbo chief magistrates’ court on charge of rape of a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in his domain. Oba Alli was said to have raped one Miss Helen Okpara, a corps member serving in his domain, […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
THE Oyo State governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, has said he used his classical style of administration (O yato) to make a mark, so as to make the state better than he met it in 2007. Governor Alao-Akala said this while playing host to members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the state, who […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
THE Lagos State Commissioner for Healh, Dr Jide Idris, has said at least 9,253 people, about 8.9 per cent of the population in the state, tested positive to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the last one year. He also said the three most prevalent diseases managed in the 7,211 patients attended to during the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
THE Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Maharazu Tsiga, has said that the NYSC scheme will not be scrapped but will remain to unite the people of the country together. Speaking at the 2011 Annual Management Conference entitled “Reviving and Strengthening Discipline in the NYSC Scheme,” held in Ilorin, Kwara State, on […]
