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Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Maiduguri — Bomb blasts have killed at least three people in Maiduguri, while at least 15 were wounded, the police said today. The police said they suspected the Islamist sect known as Boko Haram was behind the attacks on Easter Sunday night at a hotel tavern and transport hub in Maiduguri, as well as a […]
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Anambra, Elections 2011, State News, Top Stories, Women Politics
Sunday, April 24th, 2011

The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate in the inconclusive National Assembly election for Anambra central senatorial district, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has hinted that she might sue the returning officer, Dr. Alex Anene for allegedly defaming her character. Akunyili disclosed this on Friday in Awka while reacting to the INEC’s decision to conduct […]
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Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
A prominent politician and one time presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, had opened up to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY on how he escaped death when irate youths stormed his house last Monday in the wake of the riot to protest preliminary results of the presidential election. Tofa, who lost […]
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Cross River, INEC Politics, State News
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Conmmission (INEC) Cross River State, has cancelled observer and vehicle permits ahead of Tuesday’s House of Assembly polls. Though no reasons were given for the action, the INEC directed all those entitled to permits to come foreward for re-validation, re-accreditation and re-issuance. The resident electoral commissioner (REC), Barr. Mike Igini, in […]
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Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Osun, State News
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has evacuated 70 out of about 200 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), who are indigenes of the state in the crisis-ridden northern states back home. The corps members who were trapped in crisis-torn states were successfully brought home by a task force set up by Aregbesola. The […]
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Kaduna, Nigerian Police, State News
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
FOLLOWING the recent violence and series of bomb blast in Kaduna, the State Police Command yesterday, said it has uncovered a bomb making-factory at the Rafin Guza area of Kaduna metropolis, where already manufactured explosives and other weapons were recovered. Conducting journalists round the residential building, where a bomb exploded Friday night, killing one and injuring […]
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Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Osun, State News
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Akwa Ibom, Osun Evacuate Indigenes ABOUT 3,000 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in Bauchi State are awaiting evacuation to their states of origin following the continued insecurity in the state. Quartered in the State Security Services (SSS) Development Centre on Maiduguri Road, for the fourth day, some the corps members […]
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Jigawa, Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Raw Politics, State News
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Dutse-The NYSC coordinator in Jigawa, Mr Baba Ahmed, said he has withdrawn 350 corps members serving in Hadejia local government due to insecurity resulting from post election violence in the area. Ahmed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview, Friday, in Dutse that the corps members were taken from their places of […]
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Anambra, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News, Women Politics
Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Former Minister of information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has sensationally revealed what transpired in the inconclusive Anambra Central Senatorial District election on April 9, which she contested. In an interview, in her Abuja residence, Akunyili dismisses the bribery allegation made by the former returning officer in the election. She told Saturday Sun that there […]
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General Politics, Kaduna, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News
Friday, April 22nd, 2011

Barely one week after the presidential election, tragedy struck the household of vice presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, when his Lagos home was gutted by fire yesterday. No life was lost. Saturday Sun gathered that the fire, which affected a section of the building, on Abiodun Olaiya Street, […]