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Jos erupts in violence again, 5 killed

Posted by admin Plateau, State News, Top Stories Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Jos, Plateau State capital, was again thrown into confusion as two separate incidents degenerated into violence resulting in the death of at least five people. A disagreement among members of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) over their ward congress held yesterday was said to have turned violent and was allegedly hijacked by some people who […]

Bayelsa: Six Feared Killed in Violence

Posted by admin Bayelsa, State News Friday, January 7th, 2011

AN orgy of violence yesterday swept across Bayelsa State as six people were feared killed in a clash between rival political groups. Trouble started at Port Harcourt where young men suspected to be hoodlums waylaid the convoy of the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Bayelsa, Timi Alaibe at the airport. The suspected hoodlums reportedly […]

Great Ogboru: When Greatness Beckons!

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Delta, State News, Sunny Chris Okenwa Friday, January 7th, 2011

By Sunny Chris Okenwa, Abidjan, Ivory Coast – Jan. 7, 2011 – Chief Great Ovadje Ogboru came into the national limelight and reckoning after the failure of the late Major Gideon Gwaza Orkar-led coup d’etat against the then dictator Gen. Ibrahim Babangida in April 1990. In the aftermath of the coup’s regrettable failure to achieve […]

Delta: Uduaghan Elected Delta Gov – Ogboru May Head Back to Court

Posted by admin Delta, Governors, State News, Top Stories Friday, January 7th, 2011

Dr Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan has been elected the governor of Delta State in a race that was not as close as predicted. In the official results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Uduaghan defeated his closest rival, Chief Great Ogboru, the candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), by 276,795 to 138,244 votes. […]

Plateau: We are not worried by defection of Tallen, others’

Posted by admin Plateau, State News, Women Politics Friday, January 7th, 2011

The Peoples Democratic Party Chairman in Plateau State, Dr. Haruna Dabin, has declared that the defection of the Deputy Governor, Pauline Tallen and seven other governorship aspirants in the state, to other parties will not hurt the party’s electoral fortunes in this year’s poll. “They are free to go; no wise person leaves a sound […]

Delta: Gov rerun: Uduaghan leads •Jega confirms ballot box snatching

Posted by admin Delta, Governors, State News Friday, January 7th, 2011

SUSPENSE and apprehension, these were the two words that played out in Delta State as voters turned out on Thursday in the gubernatorial rerun ordered by the Court of Appeal, Benin City, Edo State. Results so far from the rerun show a race between former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and […]

Delta: As polls results trickle in

Posted by admin Delta, INEC Politics, State News, Top Stories Thursday, January 6th, 2011

INDEPENDENT National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega said last night that the results of the Delta State rerun polls would be announced today. Jega hinted that the collation of results from 24 local councils will start between 10 and 11 p.m. He insisted that it is only INEC that has the official mandate […]

Lagos: Bomb scare in Lagos, police dismiss threat

Posted by admin Lagos, Nigerian Police, State News Thursday, January 6th, 2011

THE fear of bomb explosion swept through a section of Lagos State yesterday. But the police dismissed the panic as baseless. The bomb scare at Motorways complex, opposite 7Up, old Toll Gate, threw residents of the area into pandemonium. The complex has offices of some financial institutions and agencies including Lagos Metropolitan Transport Agency […]

Oyo: Eleweomo: Folarin, 3 others file bail application

Posted by admin Headlines, Sokoto, State News Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Detained Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin and three others charged with the December 30 murder of the factional leader of the Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Salako, alias Eleweomo, yesterday began moves to regain their freedom with the filing of their bail application in an Ibadan High Court. The […]

Delta: Late arrival of materials delay accreditation of voters

Posted by admin Delta, Governors, State News Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Late arrival of electoral materials in various polling centres across Delta State yesterday delayed commencement of accreditation of voters for the state rerun election. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as at 9.50am, electoral materials were yet to be distributed to polling units around Ibusa in Oshimili North Local Government Area. At Ogwashi-Uku, […]