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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
With the March 28 Presidential election two days away, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State, desperate to secure victory by all means and at whatever cost, has concluded arrangements to purchase result sheets for the Presidential and National Assembly elections. PDP, according to the Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, working in agreement with […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
…Plans Mass Burial For Dead Members FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Enugu – A faction of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), says it has concluded arrangements for the naming of a new leader, and mass burial of its members killed in the struggle. This is coming as the crisis of […]
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Thursday, March 26th, 2015
Chief Anabs Sara Igbe, Kalabari leader and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has reaffirmed his resolve to vote for Dr. Dakuku Peterside, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Rivers State regardless of his membership of PDP. Sara Igbe also promised to vote for General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the […]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
Some leaders including the German, Angela Merkel, French Francois Hollande and Spanish Mariano Rajoy have visited the scene of Tuesday, Germanwings plane crash. During the visit, the leaders were briefed on their mission at the crash site of the Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, but came down after an […]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam – Defence Headquarters has announced it had restrained two Aljazeera Television journalists who were found loitering around areas in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, North Eastern Nigeria, where military operations are still ongoing. The journalists, named Ahmed Idris and Mustafa Andy were noticed to have been moving around various locations including […]
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
The Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Ima Niboro may have opened a discreet investigation of key officers of the agency who took advantage of the ill health of the immediate past CEO, Dame Oluremi Oyo to pillage the assets and resources of NAN. Sources informed that the current managing director is […]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
From Ignatius Okpara, Asaba – The people of Oteri community in Ughell North council Area of Delta State, on Monday staged a protest over alleged Extra Judicial Killing of its people. They had during the protest demanded a probe into the killing of the community’s vice Chairman, one Mr. Blessing Unusiefe. The aggrieved community also […]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday. There was no immediate official confirmation of the figure, but the Islamist group has previously carried out mass kidnappings. Boko Haram’s abduction […]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday said it would sue the federal government for contempt of court if it failed to abide by the recent judgments that restrained it from deploying troops for elections. Rather, the party asked President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to abide by the decisions of two […]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
Plans to cause maximum harm to election officials and voters in Rivers State on Saturday, March 28 during the Presidential election by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have been condemned and described as evil. To that effect, the Greater Together Campaign Organisation, GTCO, has warned PDP to lay down such dastardly and satanic plans, noting […]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
Passenger plane for the airline Germanwings flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in southern France, officials have confirmed. The Airbus A320 making the flight for Lufthansa’s lowcost arm, Germanwings, crashed near the small mountain village of Barcelonette in the southern Alps. It had made a distress call at 10.47am then disappeared off the radar […]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
Pro-democracy activist and Senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Comrade Shehu Sani, has described the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, as an affliction on the people of Nigeria in the last six years. Sani who spoke at a sensitization workshop organized by the Buhari/osinbajo Youths Support Groups as well as […]
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
From Ignatius Okpara, Asaba – Delta state Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has put smiles on the faces of 100 indigent students of the state, as he presented a total of N500 million for their benefit under the 2013 First Class Graduate Scholarship Scheme of his administration. While speaking in Asaba, the State capital, at the […]
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Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Rivers State Governor and Director-General of the All Progressives Congress(APC) Presidential Campaign, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has accused the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the state and former Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike of giving one million dollars monthly to the wife of the President, Mrs Patience Jonathan. Amaechi spoke at a Praise and Worship session […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
Golden age is one milestone usually celebrated by many with profound fanfare and passion because it marks a critical turning point in one’s life. To Rt Hon Emeka Ihedioha, Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives , this long established aphorism is not any different as he attains 50 today. But then for someone who has accomplished […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia – After a long period of manhunt,the police weekend arrested a notorious child trafficker in Abia state,identified as Mrs. Mma Achumba. The suspect, according to the police, has been on the wanted list of various security agencies. She was apprehended in Akwa Ibom state where she has been hiding. Abia state […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
*Says He’s Appendage Of Uche Secundus The APC in Andoni, hometown of Engineer Tele Ikuru, Rivers State Deputy Governor has described his defection to PDP as a mere scratch on the surface of the towering popularity of APC in the State from the ward to the State. Speaking with Newsmen in Port Harcourt, a leader […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
The Chairman of an International Non Governmental organization, stephanos Foundation, Mr Mark Lipdo has said Boko Haram was not the only threat to the existence of minority ethnic groups in the northeast and the middle belt region. Lipdo, who disclosed this at a sensitization workshop for representatives of minority ethnic groups in the middle belt, […]
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Sunday, March 22nd, 2015
The house of one of the ex-militant leaders in Bayelsa, Eris Paul, popularly known as General Ogunboss, has been rocked by dynamite explosion. It was gathered that the attack occurred at the Etegwe, Yenagoa residence of the ex-agitator at about 11pm on Thursday. The dynamite was thrown into the premises from the right side of […]
