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Headlines, Imo, INEC Politics, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, serving in Imo State have been suspended from office and others charged to court for alleged complicity in the political stalemate in the state. The supervisory Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Imo State, Aniedi Abasi Ikoiwak, who disclosed this Thursday in Owerri while briefing the press, […]
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Bauchi, Governors, Niger Delta, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp)
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has berated Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State for his alleged comment on the killing of several National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members serving in the Northern part of the country. It will be recalled that Governor Yuguda was quoted last week as saying that the killers of the NYSC […]
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Governors, Headlines, Oyo, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Members of the Oyo State Council of Obas and Chiefs rose from an emergency meeting on Wednesday and rejected the Tuesday amendment of the council’s enabling law which makes its chairmanship rotational. Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala had on Tuesday signed the law which was passed by the state House of Assembly. The law stops the Alaafin […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Imo State political logjam has taken a strange twist as the All Progressives Grand Alliance and its governorship candidate, Chief Rochas Okorocha, on Wednesday invoked the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting supplementary elections slated for the state onFriday. They warned that […]
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Governors, State News, Zamfara
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
For those who follow the political situation in Zamfara State, it was not by surprise when son in-law, Abdulaziz Abubakar Yari, defeated his farther in-law, out-going Governor Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi in the April 26 governorship polls. The battle was not just between the All Nigeria Peoples Party [ANPP] and the [Peoples Democratic Party [PDP], but […]
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Abia, Governors, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Court of Appeal on The Court of Appeal on WednThe Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an accelerated hearing in the appeal brought by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and governThe Court of Appeal on Wednesday granted an accelerated hearing in the appeal brought by a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Niger, Presidency, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Buhari Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is unfit to hold a responsible office in Nigeria. Governor Aliyu had lashed out at the former head of […]
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Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
SUSPECTED Boko Haram gunmen have shot and killed three prisons warders, along with a housewife, in two separate attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Abaganaram ward of Maiduguri metropolis. One of the prison warders and his wife, were ambushed on Monday night at the Abagaram ward shop at about 10.35 p.m., while the two other […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
ABAKALIKI- Barely two days to the supplementary election ordered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the stalemated Imo State governorship poll, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Wednesday alleged plot by the ruling party in the state to rig the supplementary election through stuffing of ballot boxes with already thumb-printed ballot papers in favour […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
For those who knew her, it would have been better passed as an April Fool joke as the news filtered on April 1, that Ngozi Ogbe, nee Obetta, had died. Ngozi had lived in refuse dump for 25 years, where she delivered and nurtured a son, but was retrieved and rehabilitated by a Catholic sister. […]
