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Articles, Columnists, Delta, State News, Sunny Chris Okenwa
Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Asaba: The Sexual Predators’ Paradise! By Sunny Chris Okenwa, Abidjan, Ivory Coast – Jan 13, 2011 – After my last article on Great Ogboru and his quest to become the Governor of Delta State last week I received a ‘petition’ from a reader, a man of God based in Delta State (names withheld). The Reverend […]
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Headlines, Niger, State News
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
The death toll from cholera outbreak in Lavun and Edati Local Government Area of Niger State has now risen from 8 to 13. LEADERSHIP gathered that 7 out of the victims were from Tama-Nku, a village in Edati Local Government where the outbreak was first noticed late on Tuesday. It was further gathered that 5 […]
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Kaduna, State News
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Thirty years after his impeachment as the civilian governor of the old Kaduna State, the National Chairman of the Peoples Redemption Party and Chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Alhaji Balarabe Musa on Wednesday picked the governorship ticket of the PRP in the state. With this development, Musa, 75 is expected to […]
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Plateau, State News
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
The Special Task Force in Jos, Plateau State has arrested the five soldiers that were on duty at Riyom when suspected Fulani herdsmen attacked Wareng village. During the attack, 13 persons, mainly women and children, were killed. STF spokesman, Capt. Charles Ekeocha, told newsmen on Wednesday in Jos that the soldiers would help the agency […]
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Lagos, State News
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Dep Pol Editor, Moses Nosike & Providence Obuh UNLESS the Lagos Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, receives additional 5,000 Direct Data Capturing, DDC, machines from the national headquarters before Friday, the exercise might run into a hitch in Lagos. Lagos State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola, told Vanguard yesterday that so far, only […]
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Plateau, State News
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Violence continued in Plateau State on Monday evening as 18 people were killed and four others seriously injured by suspected herdsmen in three villages in Riyom Local Government Area. Seventeen houses were also said to have been set ablaze by the herdsmen in the villages. Thirteen of the victims were killed at Kuru Tasha (Wareng) […]
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Delta, State News
Monday, January 10th, 2011
BARELY 72 days after he was sacked from office by a Benin Appellate Court, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan was yesterday sworn-in as governor of Delta State by the Chief Judge, Justice Abiodun Smith. Meanwhile, a protest match allegedly organised by the faithful of the defeated Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) governorship candidate in last week’s Delta re-run election, […]
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Abia, Bauchi, Party Politics, State News, Zamfara
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The results of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries which held across the country yesterday have continued to favour the incumbent political office holders, even as the exercise has been springing up surprises in certain areas. Many of the Governors who aspired to return to office had continued to have easy pick of the party […]
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Oyo, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Monday, January 10th, 2011
Despite the late arrival of the officials of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from the national headquarters for the primaries into the 32-seat Oyo State legislative arm, the election was successful with loyalists of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, winning most of the seats. Among those that emerged as winner is Mr. Jimoh Fadipe, the lawmaker who […]
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Borno, State News
Monday, January 10th, 2011
A police constable attached to Cocin Church at Gomari ward of Maiduguri metropolis, Mr. P .C. Amos, was shot dead last night by suspected serial killers that had been terrorising the state since the Boko Haram crisis in 2009. Nigerian Tribune gathered that residents of Gomari Airport in Maiduguri metropolis, were thrown into confusion following […]