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Plateau Deputy Gov, Pauline Tallen, defects to ACN to Challenge Gov

Posted by admin Plateau, State News Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State has written to the state governor, Jonah Jang, to sack the deputy governor, Mrs. Palline Tallen for defecting to Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) where she is contesting for the office of the governor. As part of the crisis rocking the conduct of National Assembly primary election in […]

CPC Okays Aliero for Senate

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Kebbi, Legislature, Senate, State News Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Former governor of Kebbi State and Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Adamu Aliero, will now be contesting for the Kebbi central senatorial district seat on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), just as the gubernatorial candidate of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Malam, yesterday appointed former Secretary to the State Government […]

Secret Killings: Jos Residents Devise Survival Strategies

Posted by admin Plateau, State News Thursday, January 20th, 2011

Residents of Jos have adopted various survival strategies as the warring parties resort to secret killings in the troubled city. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that one of the strategies, known as “chameleon tactics”, involved the use of clothes “acceptable to each of the warring territories. “I wear my jeans trousers and T-shirt […]

Oshiomhole vows to prosecute killers of women leader at ACN primary

Posted by admin Edo, State News Thursday, January 20th, 2011

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State yesterday vowed to ensure that the killers of a Catholic Women Organisation (CWO) leader in Dagbala, Akoko-Edo Council Area, during last week’s Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) primary in the state were brought to book. He said police preliminary reports have already identified the vehicle that was used and […]

Northern govs aren’t traitors to Atiku, says Yuguda

Posted by admin Bauchi, Governors, State News Thursday, January 20th, 2011

GOVERNOR Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has dismissed an allegation by some people that northern governors were traitors for not voting for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primaries, saying that such an allegation was baseless and did not conform to the principles of democracy. He stressed that the […]

‘NDLEA arrested 265 drug traffickers in Kaduna last year’

Posted by admin Kaduna, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency), State News Thursday, January 20th, 2011

TO curtail the trafficking in hard drugs in the country, the Kaduna State National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested about 265 drug suspects last year while 3.4 tonnes of illicit hard drugs were seized from the suspects, the officials said yesterday. A breakdown of the seized substances shows that 3.385 tonnes of cannabis sativa […]

Ebonyi, Imo may produce Nwodo’s successor

Posted by admin Ebonyi, Imo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

AGAIN, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has returned to the politics of picking a new chairman after Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo bowed out on Tuesday. In the search for Nwodo’s successor, two camps have emerged: one pushing for the South-East zone to retain the party’s plum job and the other, which wants the Acting Chairman, Alhaji […]

3 persons shot, one missing in Ebonyi

Posted by admin Ebonyi, State News Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Three persons were allegedly shot and one person still missing in a gun duel between rival groups in Ndike Amagu Ikwo community of Ebonyi Sate over who takes charge of the Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines for the voters’ registration. Three of the victims were lying critically ill at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abakaliki […]

Jos: Soldiers get shoot-at-sight order

Posted by admin Plateau, State News Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Soldiers patrolling Jos, Plateau State capital, received shoot-at-sight orders yesterday after a group of youths killed an ad-hoc staff of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and set his body on fire on Monday. Army spokesman, Capt. Charles Ekeocha, who confirmed the new orders yesterday, said “the best option is to make sure you stop the […]

Police arrest supervisor over hijack of DDC machines in Ebonyi

Posted by admin Ebonyi, State News Sunday, January 16th, 2011

A supervisor (name withheld) recruited by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Ebonyi State, was arrested, weekend, by the state Police Command for allegedly hijacking materials, including the Direct Data Capturing, DDC, machines meant for Ikwo Local Government Area of the state. According to source, men of the state police command working on a tip […]