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Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Bauchi — Fresh violence erupted in Bogoro and Tafawa Balewa Local Government Areas of Bauchi State yesterday, barely three weeks after the post-presidential election riots in the state that claimed many lives. Most of the victims of the latest mayhem are the Sayawa, who constitute the majority in the town and surrounding villages. Their traditional […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
There was tension in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Friday, following a plot by the lawmakers to remove the Chairman of Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area, Chief Ebikintin Dioongoli. Our correspondent gathered that the call divided members of the house and almost led to a breakdown of legislative proceedings. It was gathered that […]
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Abia, Cross River, Headlines
Friday, May 6th, 2011
The Margaret Ekpo International Airport in Calabar, Cross River State, has been shut down for two months to effect repairs on the runways. While an official of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria maintained that the airport was closed to enable the management to fix the runway, a source told our correspondent that the […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
There was security scare in Abuja on Thursday as Police and State Security Service operatives intercepted a truckload of youths numbering 246. The youths who claimed to be migrant labourers, said they were on their way to Nyanya, an Abuja sattelite town from Dutse-mai, Katsina State. The youths were stopped by the security agencies […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Oyo State has set up a 15-member transition committee, just as it warned the out-going governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, against unnecessary spendings. The leader of the party in the state, Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, while addressing newsmen in Ibadan on Friday, called on Governor Alao-Akala to set up similar […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Osun, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
THE Osun State police command has advised residents of the state to be wary of kidnappers and robbers, who have deviced new method of using small children to carry out their nefarious activities. The command, in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Olugbemileke Olumide Taiwo (ASP), said that it has come across […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Eight people were reported dead on Friday evening in an accident which occurred on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. According to the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), the accident occurred around 1.45 p.m. at around Km 11 on the expressway. The eight of them were said to have died immediately. Four were said to be men, while […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
As events in Imo State increasingly indicate that Governor Ikedi Ohakim may lose his treasured throne tonight as the gubernatorial election in Imo State concludes, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has assured SaharaReporters that contrary to one of our earlier reports, he is in Abuja, not the United […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Today’s “Supplementary Elections” called by INEC to complete Imo’s “inconclusive” gubernatorial elections ran into troubled waters in Oguta local government area in the state as election materials failed to arrive the area on time. It was not clear what happened to the materials as at the time of filling this report but women in the […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, obviously took the gubernatorial polls in Imo State for granted. They believed that they had the structures, as well as completed and on_going projects executed by the present administration as their testimonial. Events have since shown that it was their biggest mistake. The opposition parties took […]