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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By Yusuf Ozi-Usman – The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has lamented that Nigeria is losing no fewer than 500,000 infants to malnutrition annually, which it described as silent health crisis. The international donor agency which began a two-day workshop today in Calabar, capital of Cross River state for media executives and health correspondents of […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State says the Appeal Court’s ruling which upheld the victory of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in the last April governorship election was controversial. The party, in a statement issued by its Lagos Publicity Secretary, Mr Taofik Gani said by this development, the APC and governor Ambode could only celebrate a […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – The Police in Enugu has arrested a housewife, one Joy Umeh of No 13 Unubi Street, Achara layout, Enugu for allegedly stabbing the husband with a kitchen knife over feeding money. Our Correspondent gathered that the suspect stabbed the husband identified as one Sunday Umeh on the stomach over his […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
*Says Name Dropping Doesn’t Translate To Delegates In Primaries A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State and close aide of its leader and ex-governor, Timipre Sylva, has stated that a former chairman of Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Timi Alaibe, can never become the party’s flag-bearer in the forthcoming elections despite dropping […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun – Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has again floored his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) contestant in the last governorship election as the Appeal Court on Wednesday upheld Ambode’s victory. The Lagos Division of the Court upheld the decision of the Electoral Tribunal which had ruled in favour of Ambode in July, declaring Ambode as […]
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun – Two people have been feared dead in a bloody reprisal attack on a rival gang group on Lagos Island, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Some gang of youths from Idumota area were said to have assaulted their counterpart from John Street on Lagos Island during a ceremonial gathering at Itafaji area of Lagos […]
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2015
With about five months to the Bayelsa State governorship elections, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson has expressed optimism that he would be re-elected, based on his record of concrete achievements and grace of God upon him. Speaking with journalists in an interview in Yenagoa, he stressed that the restoration support base was far more robust now […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2015
*Govt Says He Must Return All Properties In his Possessions Barely six months after his resignation as the Chief of Staff to the Bayelsa State governor (Abuja office), a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Dikivie Ikiogha is yet to return some of the government properties in his possession in accordance with the […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2015
With less than three months to the December 5 governorship election, major tragedy was averted on Saturday in Nembe, Bayelsa State following the sudden slump of the former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Col. Sam Inokoba (rtd), who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). During the incident which happened at a […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has begun investigation on the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, over his alleged inciteful speech and threat to sink Igbos residing in Lagos State into the lagoon, should they failed to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the April 2015 governorship election in […]
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2015
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Asaba – An alleged carelessness by a 37 year old housewife,identified as Mrs. Maureen Akowe, in Asaba Delta State has thrown the family into sorrow and mourning, as she allegedly lost her four-month-old baby to her wild dog. Mrs. Akowe, a graduate of sociology from the Delta State University, Abraka, had last […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2015
By Niyi Adeyi – The Lagos State Police Command Saturday announced the arrest of a suspect who impersonated the State’s former Commissioner of Police (CP), Kayode Aderanti. The suspect who was identified as Friday Aguibosim was arrested on August 12, after opening a Facebook account in the name of the State ex-CP. Through the […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2015
By IGNATIUS OKPARA. Umuahia – The protracted crisis bedeviling the People’s Democratic Party PDP, Abia state chapter has escalated as over 40,000 of her members, have concluded plans to defect to the opposition All Progressives Congress APC in the state. The aggrieved members of the party, said Friday in Umuahia, that they are moving to […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2015
By Ayo Balogun – The All Progressive Congress Lagos Chapter has asked Chief Bode George to keep quiet for now and continue to lick the wounds inflicted on him by the colossal defeat his party suffered at both the National and the State levels in the just concluded federal elections. In a Press Statement released […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2015
*Alaibe, Ogoriba, Ikiogha lose out of contest With less than five months to the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa State, a socio-political organisation, Bayelsa for Good Governance and Accountability has protested against the zoning of the governorship slot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Central Senatorial District. The organisation therefore warned the […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2015
The immediate past Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has refuted claims by his successor Nyesom Wike that he left an empty treasury. Governor Wike had consistently maintained that he met a completely empty treasury when he took over as governor. Only on Wednesday, while trying to justify why he took a […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
*APC Foundation Members Warn Against Choice of Alaibe There are indications that the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and its national chairman, Chief John Oyegun are divided over the choice of the party’s candidate for the December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa […]
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
Former member of the House of Representatives from Bayelsa State, Hon. Warman Ogoriba, has been castigated as being “blinded by political indulgence” to warrant his comments that the incumbent government in the state have nothing to show for the money so far received from the Federation Accounts. The former lawmaker who recently defected from the […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2015
*Insist Erring Staffers Must Be Sanctioned By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – Against the backdrop of the lingering crisis in the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital Enugu, members of the affiliate Joint Health Sector Union, (JOHESU) of the Hospital, have defended the Hospital’s management, threatening they will resist any attempt by anybody to drag the institution to the […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2015
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu – The Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Solomon Arase, has come under serious pressure to prosecute two stalwarts of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu State, Mr. Paul Anikwe and Mrs. Ify Ozoani for alleged forgery of PDP appointment letters and depose to false affidavit, claiming they were appointed the returning […]
