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Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
No fewer than 10 persons have been reportedly killed in Bar Arewa, a village in Bogoro Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The incident occurred when the village was attacked by yet to be identified gunmen who set the village on fire in a renewed ethno-religious crisis 24 hours after the state governor, Isa Yuguda, […]
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Delta, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
TWO voters were shot dead in today’s National Assembly polls at Ogbe –Ogume in Ndokwa West local government area of Delta State, while vehicles and electoral materials, belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were destroyed by armed men in Isoko South local government. Hundreds of persons who thronged the polling units across the […]
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Akwa Ibom, Delta, Edo, Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Imo, Kaduna, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
Readers election reports as sent in by Vanguard readers across the country. Note: Please include your names and location when sending your messages. Election in Itu ward 5 in Akwa Ibom state was free and fair There was no election nor materials in Southern Ijaw LGA of Bayelsa Materials were hijacked by PDP to Olugbobiri town […]
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Edo, Elections 2011, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
…21 suspected thugs arrested, PDP Youth leader shot dead SIMON EBEGBULEM AND GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN CITY- THE National Assembly election in Edo state commenced peacefully Saturday with large turn out, as soldiers on election duty arrested a truck loaded with election materials alleged to have been meant for Zamfara, Kogi and Ogun States, at […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
THE Lagos State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Adekunle Ogunmola has released the list of the election collation centres in Lagos State for the National Assembly elections holding today. According to Mr Ogunmola, there will be three collation centres for the senatorial election: Lagos Central: INEC Office Lagos Island. Lagos East: INEC Office Somolu. Lagos West, INEC […]
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Elections 2011, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
THE national assembly election took place in the 44 councils of Kano State without any known case of violence and breach of the peace. Despite the mass turn out which took many by surprise, there were cases of three persons arrested with 500 ballot papers at Minjibir, Gejawa council of the state. At about the […]
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Bauchi, Elections 2011, Headlines, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011

A suspected bomber has reportedly died in an explosion at a polling unit in Unguwar Doki near Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno State. The explosion, which occurred as accreditation of voters was underway, led to a fire at the abandoned nearby Maiduguri International Hotel. Reports said the dead man was trying to detonate the bomb […]
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Bauchi, State News
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State narrowly escaped being mobbed yesterday by irate natives of Bogoro during a visit to the area. While at least three vehicles in his convoy were destroyed in the process. The governor was on an assessment tour of Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Local Government areas bedevilled by sectarian crisis since […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Thursday, April 7th, 2011
An Osun State monarch, has been arrested and arraigned in an Osun State Magistrate Court for allegedly raping a corps member. The royal father, who was arrested on March 28 was said to have forcefully had sex with the 23-years-old corps member at his Osogbo residence on March 25. The monarch appeared before Magistrate Olalekan […]
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Lagos, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, April 7th, 2011

The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, has said he cancelled the proposed Lagos metro rail line project that was initiated by the government of Alhaji Lateef Jakande because he did not want to take more loans or devalue the naira. The Lagos metro rail line was designed by […]