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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Nollywood star, Desmond Eliot; son of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Chairman, Lagos State, Ladi Ajomale, 10 incumbent lawmakers and others have on Tuesday won the APC House of Assembly primaries conducted in Lagos. Five other incumbent lawmakers in the State House of Assembly, however, lost their primaries and will not be […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Abakaliki A Federal High Court sitting in Abakaliki on Tuesday sacked all the 13 local government chairmen, vice Chairmen and Councilors elected during last year’s council polls in the state. In a judgment delivered on the suit filled by one of the candidates in the election, Mr Alieze Nweka of Ohaukwu council Area the court […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
At least 40-armed officers of the Department of State Security (DSS) have raided the Data Centre of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria for the second time on Monday night. The APC has described the raid as the height of lawlessness and an orchestrated provocation by the DSS, saying the out-of-control agency […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
From Agabus Pwanagba, Jos As the battle for December 10, 2014, All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential primary draws near, former Vice President (VP) and Presidential hopeful of the opposition, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, had reiterated that the challenges presently confronting the country are the effects of incompetence and lack of experience of the incumbent President Goodluck […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Senators on Tuesday traded words over existence of impeachment plot against President Goodluck Jonathan. Abdulkadir Jajere (APC Yobe South) said it was real while Ayogu Eze (PDP Enugu North), Senator Sahabi Yau (APC Zamfara North) and Adegbenga Sefiu Kaka said nothing like that exist in the senate at the moment. Jajere had […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Adamu Mu’azu has roundly defeated his predecessor, Bamanga Tukur as the suit instituted by an aspirant to the House of Representatives from Adamawa State, Aliyu Buba Gurin, seeking to unseat Muazu was dismissed by the court. This is just as the court also dismissed […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja Justice Evoh Chukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has withdrawn from a suit instituted by a House member, Hon. Abiodun Ishiaq Akinlade, seeking to compel the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal to vacate the speakership following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
From Mustapha Abdul Salaam After 24 hours of dreadful siege on Damanturu, the Yobe State capital, by the Boko Haram insurgents, Governor Ibrahim Gaidam has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew on all parts of the capital city and its environs. The Monday siege by the militants sparked violent engagements between the terrorists and the Military, a […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Abia State government says it is committed to the security and welfare of National Youth Service corps (NYSC) members deployed to the state. Governor Theodore Orji stated this at the Government House, Umuahia, when he received in audience the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps Scheme (NYSC), Brig-Gen Johnson Bamidele Olawumi, who paid him […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
By MAXWELL EZE, Abakaliki The November 29th 2014 primaries for the House of Assembly aspirants under the umbrella of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi State has become an eye opener to the politicians and observers of the new born polity in the area. A few hours to the primaries, the state governor, Chief […]
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Oyewale Oyelola The United States has cancelled the counter training of a battalion of the Nigeria Army on the request of the Federal Government. This was contained in a statement made available to journalists by the Information Office of the United States Embassy in Abuja on Monday. The statement reads, “At the request of the […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja. A Federal High Court in Abuja the People’s Democratic Party to apply the go-ahead to file for a mandatory order compelling either the Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives to declare vacant the Kebbe/Tambuwal seat being held by Aminu Tambuwal vacant. The Speaker defected from the PDP to the […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
Ayo Balogun, Lagos Fresh crisis is brewing between the Lagos State Government and doctors under its employment as the government says it will not pay the doctors outstanding two months salaries incurred when the doctors embarked on strike during the outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the State. The state government has […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has sympathized with the passengers of the Overland airline that was involved in a minor accident on the runway of the Ilorin International Airport at the weekend. Governor Ahmed in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Alhaji Abdulwahab Oba, said the incident was unfortunate, adding, however, that […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Department of State Security (DSS) to immediately tell Nigerians the outcome of its investigations into the cooked-up allegation of PVC cloning which forced its men to unlawfully invade the party’s offices in Lagos over a week ago. In a statement issued in Abuja Monday by its […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
FROM IGNATIUS OKPARA, Awka As part of measure to reduce road crashes on the highways in Anambra, the State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano has prohibited the selling of alcoholic drinks in all the motor parks across the State. The Governor, stated this Monday through the Commissioner for Transport, Barr. Chuma Mbonu, while declaring open the […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
By Funmilayo Omidiji A Federal High Court in Lagos, has ordered the Department of State Security (DSS), to effect the release of the five officials of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) arrested by its men in the party data’s entry office in Ikeja, over a week ago. In the resumed hearing Monday, of the […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen There was confusion and anxiety again Monday, in the popular Maiduguri , Borno State Monday market as another female suicide bomber stormed the premises. The Military has confirmed the development and added the market and its environs have been cordoned off. Similarly, the State Police Command Spokesperson, Gideon Jubrin, confirmed the incident […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
IGNATIUS OKPARA, Umuahia Abia state Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has approved 20 per cent across board reduction in the school fees of students of Abia State University, (ABSU) Uturu. A statement signed by Secretary to the state Government SSG, Professor Mkpa Agu, Mkpa, on Monday, said the gesture is aimed at boosting education in the […]
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
Johannesburg – MTN Group on Monday announced the launch of a mobile money cross-border remittance service between Ivory Coast and Benin, to further enable the cheaper and easy movement of money in the West Africa region. The Ivory Coast-Benin mobile money cross-border corridor follows the successful introduction of a similar service in April this year […]
