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Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
Kwara State Security Council has called on the police to prosecute all pending cases of thuggery to halt increasing incidence of political thuggery in the State. The council at its meeting headed by the state governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed expressed concern that increase of political violence as the general elections approach has created serious security […]
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
By IGNATIUS OKPARA, Owerri – Owerri, the Imo state capital was on Tuesday thrown into pandemonium for several hours following a clash between two women groups in the state and the eventual deployment of Battalion of soldiers from the 34 artillery brigade of the Nigerian Army to the scene. African Examiner reports that trouble started […]
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin City – Edo state Governor,Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has fired his Executive Director, Community Development, Hon. Faustines Ovienrioba with immediate effect. The sack was contained in a press statement issued on Tuesday in Benin city, by the governor’s Special Adviser on media and public Affairs, Kassim Afegbua. The statement reads: “Hon Ovienrioba […]
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos – To ensure a violent free political transition, candidates of different political parties vying for various elective positions, in the 2015 general elections on Tuesday signed a violence free peace-pact by the commissioner of Police Plateau State Command, Nasiru Oki. Oki said the Police are ever ready to deploy security personnel in […]
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Benin City – The Edo State Police Command has apprehended a fake journalist, identified as Yakubu Farouk, who has been posing as the Niger Delta correspondent of the Hausa service of the Voice of America, VOA. According to the security operative, Farouk, who hails from Nasarawa State, was nabbed by police officers […]
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
Ayo Balogun, Lagos – Following the postponement of the election, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has extended the collection of the Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) to 8 March to allow more people to obtain their cards. This was contained in a statement issued by the body and signed by its Secretary, Augusta Ogakwu on […]
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Monday, February 9th, 2015
Fears of political violence in Kwara State heightened on Sunday as suspected People’s Democratic Party (PDP) thugs destroyed eight All Progressive Congress(APC) branded vehicles in an unprovoked attack in Share, Headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area and home town of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed. According to eye-witness accounts, the convoy of PDP flag bearer in the […]
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Monday, February 9th, 2015
Traditional rulers in Gombe Central Senatorial District have pledged support for Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo’s bid for re-election, even as he assured of his determination to deliver more dividend of democracy to the people. The three traditional rulers who endorsed Gov. Dankwambo include Emir of Gona, Alhaji Abdulsalam Abdulkadir, Emir of Akko, Alhaji Atiku Umar and […]
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Friday, February 6th, 2015
Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed has denied reports in a section of the media that he shunned a debate organised by the State Joint Labor Congress yesterday in Ilorin. Speaking through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Dr. Muyideen Akorede, Governor Ahmed said on the contrary he was unable to participate in the debate […]
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Friday, February 6th, 2015
The election Petition Tribunal sitting in Osun on Friday dismissed the petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyiola Omisore, seeking to nullify the result of the governorship election in the state, the Nigerian Politics Online is reporting. The Independent National Electoral Commission had returned Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress […]
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Friday, February 6th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – Stakeholders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Igbo-Eze North council Government Area of Enugu state, have distanced themselves from all actions taken by Senator Ayogu Eze regarding the outcome of the December 8, 2014 governorship primaries in the State, saying that the lawmaker “is on his own”. Senator […]
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Thursday, February 5th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – As politicians intensify their political campaigns ahead of the forthcoming general elections, the Enugu state police command has warned the gladiators against any form of violence, insisting they must play the game according to the rule. “There is need for members of the public, particularly party faithful and stalwarts to […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki – The embattled Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief Martin Elechi on Wednesday alleged a plot by some politicians in the state to use fake security operatives and members of National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) to manipulate this month’s general elections in the state. Elechi, who had been in a serious political […]
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
By Sadiq Umar, Abuja – Strong indications have emerged on why the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, snubbed former governor of Gombe state, Sen. Danjuma Goje at theTuesday APC campaign rally at the state capital. Sources close to Buhari said the General was reluctant to raise the hand of the APC […]
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
Rivers State Governor and Director-General of Buhari Campaign Organisation Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has dismissed rumours by critics that Buhari will Islamize Nigeria. He also said the issue was unnecessary as the nation’s constitution had already guaranteed freedom of worship and association to all citizens in the country. Amaechi stated this Tuesday during the […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Lagos business mogul, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas is dead. He died on Monday at the age of 79. Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University, LASU, Prof. John Obafunwa confirmed this on Monday in Lagos, describing Okoya-Thomas as a man who would be greatly missed. “It is sad loss, a strong stabilising factor in the partly turbulent history […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2015
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has been challenged to explain to the people of Ngor Okpala local government area how he spent the sum of N6.6billion that accrued to the council in the last three and half years. Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives and Imo State PDP Governorship Candidate Chief Emeka Ihedioha who gave […]
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Friday, January 30th, 2015
Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu has warned the newly posted AIG Joseph Mba and any police officers against any sinister motive in Lagos state during the forthcoming elections saying such moves will be resisted. Speaking while receiving Gen. Buhari and his entourage at his palace during APC presidential campaign rally in Lagos, the Oba also […]
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Friday, January 30th, 2015
Audu Limun, Gombe – Former governor of Gombe state Senator Danjuma Goje has donated 29 Volkswagen Sharon busses, 500 motorcycles to supporters of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state to strengthen the party’s campaign machinery in Gombe state. The state leader of the party, Senator Goje also donated 1000 sewing machines to the […]
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Friday, January 30th, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enug- The Deputy Senate president, chief Ike Ekweremadu, has staked a whopping 5 million naira for any Council area in his Enugu west senatorial district that garners the highest number of votes for the peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the February general elections. According to Ekweremadu, each of the five elections which […]
