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Shooting, violence characterise Osun rerun election
SPORADIC shooting, ballot snatching and violence characterised the Ejigbo state constituency rerun election in Osun State, on Saturday, as no fewer than eight supporters of the Action Congress were attacked in two polling units. This was a sharp...
Edo, Abia, Rivers Evacuate Indigenes From Jos
Edo State Government has dispatched a team to evacuate its indigenes trapped in the mayhem in Jos, Plateau State in which scores of people have been killed in a brawl sparked off by ethnic-cum religious differences. Led by the Director General of...
Anambra guber race: Soludo emerges PDP candidate
IT was a theatre of the absurd yesterday at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, venue of the meeting between members of the National Working Committee(NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Anambra State stakeholders as they engaged in counter...
Kaduna SSG Released
The Secretary to the Kaduna State Government (SSG), Mr. Waje Yayok, who was kidnapped in the state 10 days ago has been re-united with his family and colleagues after the government allegedly paid N20 million ransom to his abductors. The government...
How Ribadu plotted to sack Yar'Adua, says Ibori
THE verbal exchange between former Governor of Delta state, Chief James Ibori and former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, is far from over, as Ibori yesterday, lashed out on Ribadu, calling him...
How Yar'Adua, Ekwueme, Anenih Endorsed Soludo
It is becoming clear that former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Chukwuma Soludo, is not the only one with the desire that he should become Anambra State Governor next year. Daily Independent learnt at the weekend that after he left the...
Cholera – 76 Killed, 840 Hospitalised in Adamawa
At least 76 persons have been confirmed dead from a suspected outbreak of an epidemic of cholera in about seven local government councils of Adamawa state. The strange disease which manifests with symptoms of vomiting, diarrhea, coughing and mild...
Kaduna SSG's captors demand ₦40m ransom
The kidnappers of the Kaduna State Secretary to the State Government, Waje Yayok, are asking a ₦40 million ransom for his release, his relations said on Tuesday. Mr. Yayok was kidnapped on Monday night at Manchok, his home place, in Kaura...
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC BREAKS OUT IN ADAMAWA STATE: 16 CONFIRMED DEAD
Cholera has broken out in Adamawa state in North east Nigeria.The epidemic which has just been confirmed as cholera has broken out in various local governments in Adamawa.So far 16 people have been confirmed dead and a large number hospitalized...
