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Anambra, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
ARRANGEMENTS by the family of ailing former leader of the defunct Biafran Republic, Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, to fly him overseas for further treatment have been completed even as the medical team handling his case at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Enugu, have continued to battle to keep him alive. A member […]
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Ekiti, State News
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Ekiti State governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Monday, presented a budget proposal of N74.7 billion to the state House of Assembly for the 2011 fiscal year. The budget, which was entitled, “Budget of Renewal,” has N40 billion, representing 55 per cent, for capital expenditure, while N30 billion, representing 45 per cent, was proposed as recurrent […]
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Headlines, Plateau, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
CRISES have again broken out in Jos, the Plateau State capital and two communities in Rivers State, leaving about eight people dead. About five people were reported killed, with several others injured and about 200 houses burnt in an attack on Kegbara Dere, also known as K-Dere, in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, […]
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Plateau, Raw Politics
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Three persons were feared dead and two others wounded following a fresh attack in Gonghwong settlement of Turu village in Vwang district, Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State yesterday evening. The attack was suspected to have been carried out by Fulani men who were said to have made away with over 100 cows belonging to the […]
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Delta, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
AS a way of showing their support and confidence in the candidature for Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan for his visionary leadership, Delta State students have contributed the sum of N250, 000 to support him in the re-run election coming soon in the state. The Delta State students, who made this contribution known in a statement at […]
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Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Sokoto
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has said that in spite of what is said about the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP by some people across the country, the party still remains the backbone of the unity of this country. He spoke when he received 392,299 people that defected to the party from other parties, mostly from […]
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Bayelsa, Niger Delta, Top Stories
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

The Joint Task Force, Wednesday, said it had taken over ten ex militant camps in the creek of Bayelsa State just as the whereabouts of the kidnapped site engineer at Okpoama in the Brass council area of the state remained unknown. Nine of the camps, according to the JTF were razed down while the one […]
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Bayelsa, Niger Delta
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
ELEVEN suspected pipeline vandals, including a native doctor, were, on Monday, caught on the creeks of Bayelsa State, with over 172,500 illegally refined petroleum products worth thousands of naira. The suspects were arrested at two different locations; Igbomaturu and Nembe creeks in Southern Ijaw and Nembe local government areas of the state, by the operatives […]
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Elections 2011, Headlines, Kano, State News
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

One of the new parties making waves in the country, with amazing followership is the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). As a new party, it prides itself as perhaps, the surest path to the nurturing of a truly democratic institution, capable of galvanizing the Nigerian electorate for the common good. Majority of its followers, who […]
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Headlines, Lagos
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its political gladiators not to distract the country’s preparation for 2011 general elections with its zoning policy. Fashola who carpeted those involved in the zoning and rotational presidency palaver when the national executive of Ansar- Udeen […]