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Suspected pipeline vandals arrested in Bayelsa

Posted by admin 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 […]

2011: In-fighting tears CPC apart in Kano

Posted by admin 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 […]

Don’t Polarise Nigeria With Zoning – Fashola

Posted by admin 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 […]

Alleged death threat: I’m ready to drop my immunity —Alao-Akala

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao Akala of Oyo State has declared that he is ready to drop his immunity and subject himself to questioning by law enforcement agents over his alleged complicity in death threats said to have been issued to some prominent citizens of the state. The governor, who said this while speaking with newsmen in […]

JTF Arrests 11 Vandals in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News Monday, December 20th, 2010

The Joint (Military) Task Force (JTF) on the Niger Delta yesterday arrested 11 suspected pipeline vandals including a native doctor along the creeks of the Delta with over 172,500 illegally refined petroleum products worth several millions of naira. The suspects were arrested in two wooden boats popularly called “Pekpekpe” along the Igbomaturu creek in Southern […]

Forget Lagos, ACN tells Jonathan

Posted by admin Lagos, National Politics, State News Monday, December 20th, 2010

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as a pipe dream and an unnecessary dissipation of energy President Goodluck Jonathan’s exhortation to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to win Lagos in the 2011 general elections. In a statement issued in Benin on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the […]

Disaster looms as NNPC pipeline bursts in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, December 19th, 2010

A repeat of the October 18, 1998 pipeline explosion in Jesse community in Delta State, which claimed thousands of lives, is currently looming at Diamond Estate along LASU\Igando road, Lagos following spillage of fuel from a Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, pipeline. Residents of the estate are already fleeing en masse while those who could […]