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Lagos: 9,253 people tested positive to HIV in 1year

Posted by admin 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 […]

Evacuated corpers from Lagos refuse to return to North

Posted by admin 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 […]

I’m not hiding John Togo –Gov Sylva

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Governor Timipre Sylva has denied hiding the leader of the Niger Delta Liberation Force (NDLF), John Togo, in Bayelsa State Government House. Sylva was reacting, through a statement ‘Sylva not hiding John Togo’ signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Doifie Ola, to claims by the Camp Administrator of Obubra Amnesty Camp, Mr. Ekpein Appah […]

Zamfara governor-elect to sack 10,000 workers

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Zamfara Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Zamfara State governor-elect, Alhaji Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari may sack 10,000 ghost and illegal workers just as he alerted security agencies over alleged looting of government property by the outgoing administration. He urged the security agency to find ways of curbing unprecedented looting in this period of transition in the state. Addressing journalists on Wednesday, in […]

Robbers defy curfew in Kaduna – Beat cleric to coma, raid house

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Thursday, May 19th, 2011

A businessman and Islamic scholar, had a close shave with death penultimate Saturday when a five-man gang of armed robbers invaded his storey residence behind Kaduna Polytechnic, Ungwan Sanusi in Kaduna, leaving him with broken arm and severe brain injury. The 39-year-old Abubakar Abdullahi Goron Na Maye who sources say enjoys spiritual patronage of important personalities […]

Oyo PDP appeals Ajimobi’s victory

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Oyo State Governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala and the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did a volte-face on the just concluded governorship election in the state won by Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Senator Ajibola Ajimobi. They appealed his victory. The governor had in the wake of the electoral verdict congratulated Ajimobi, […]

Delta chief killed, 16 houses burnt

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

THE Elema of Obi-Anyinma community in Ika South local Government Area of Delta State, Vincent Chinyere Aminomwan, was shot dead while over 16 houses were burnt following a bloody fight in the community over sharing of royalty from an oil prospecting company. Meanwhile, the entire community has been deserted. Also, the recurring communal crisis between […]

Akala must be probed, says Alaafin

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, Oyo, State News Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

ALAAFIN of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi,Wednesday, said that the out-going Governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, should be probed immediately the new government takes over on May 29. Oba Adeyemi urged the incoming Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, to investigate particularly how government residential areas across the state were sold and the whereabouts of the money […]

Picture: Abia: Ballot box found inside bush

Posted by admin Abia, Elections 2011, Headlines, State News Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

•Ballot box Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Fresh facts are unfolding in Abia State to corroborate numerous calls by opposition politicians for the cancellation of the April polls alleged to have been rigged by those declared winners in the state, mostly members of Peoples Democratic party, PDP . The latest was […]

Garden City Games LOC rewards sports fans

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, Sports, State News, Track & Field Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

The Local Organising Committee of the forthcoming National Sports Festival is set to splash gifts on sports fans ahead of the Garden City Games in Port Harcourt. The sports festival holds between June 27 and July 11 in Port Harcourt, but the organisers are building up to the event with a promo that will reward […]