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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 […]
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State News, Zamfara
Monday, January 10th, 2011
Thugs stripped a female commissioner in Zamfara State, (name withheld) naked during the just-concluded House of Assembly by-election in Anka, which took place at the weekend. An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the commissioner, who is a card-carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was seen by some thugs distributing wrappers and detergents […]
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National Politics, Plateau, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011

As efforts are being made by the security agency to contain the crisis that broke up in Jos city following the congress of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Angwa Doki area of Bukuru in Jos south local government went on fire leading to shoot out between security men and hoodlums. Secret killings and burning […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
AS security men continue to make efforts to halt the fresh crisis that engulfed the city of Jos on Saturday, silent killings are still going on in some parts of the city while more houses were burnt in the early hours of Sunday. Nigerian Tribune learnt that after peace returned to Jos after about five […]