Taraba Crisis: Commissioners Shun Acting Governor As Majority Leader Lambasts Assembly Speaker

The political crisis in Taraba State continued on Friday as members of the state cabinet, re-instated by the Acting Governor, Garba Umar, refused to resume work. Mr. Umar had on Thursday asked the commissioners to continue in office and ignore a statement read by an aide to ailing governor, Danbaba Suntai, announcing the dissolution of the State Executive Council. The council members were appointed by Mr. Suntai before his accident...

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Assassins Storm Home of AUPCTRE National President, Kill Son

Unknown bandits have stormed the home of the National President of Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees of Nigeria (AUPCTRE) Mr. Solomon Adelegan, murdering his first son, Oluseyi. When the reporters reached the scene of crime in Aduralere Quarters, Ijoka in Akure, Ondo State Capital, sympathisers were already gathered near the house and prayers were being said...

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PHOTONEWS: Hairstyles of Worshippers at Osun Osogbo Festival

Osun River goddess worshipers and their African hair styles at the just concluded Osun Osogbo festival. ...

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SHOCKING: Pregnant Woman, Five Others Killed In Jos By Gunmen

A pregnant woman and five men were on Thursday killed by unknown gunmen at Bisichi in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. Four other people were seriously injured as the suspected armed robbers opened fire on their vehicle along Foron Road around 7.30 pm. while returning home from Bukuru.The attackers said to have been armed with sophisticated weapons, dispossessed their victims of their valuables before escaping from...

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VIOLENCE: Woman Battered For Cautioning Lover Against Smoking Indian Hemp (GRAPHIC PHOTO)

Temitope Oladejo,26, never envisaged that the once blossoming romance between her and her lover, Ahmed Babalola, would go sour, judging by the endearing manner at which Babalola pampered her from the onset. But today, she is looking a shadow of her old self ,following several scars on her body allegedly inflicted on her by Babalola.Trouble according to her, started after she discovered that her lover was smoking Indian hemp....

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French Language Will Be Part Of UTME – Ruqayyatu Rufa’i

French language would be part of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as from 2014 for interested candidates, the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, said on Thursday in Abuja. Minister Rufa’i said this at a farewell reception held in honour of the French Language Project Manager, Mr Jean-Phillipe Roy. She said that being multi-lingual in the 21st Century was essential as it helps individuals to operate more...

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South-West Governors Consider Yoruba as the Language of Instruction for Primary Schools

South-West geopolitical zone of Nigeria may soon approve the use of Yoruba language, their mother tongue, as the language of instruction at Primary schools in the region. It has been revealed after the meeting on Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) held by South-West Governors in Ibadan, Oyo State capital on the evening of August 29, 2013, Thursday. Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the Governor of Ekiti State, has spoken on behalf...

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Arik stowaway boy: The big picture

Nigerians woke up on Sunday 25 August, 2013 to learn of a stowaway teenage boy, Daniel Ohikhena, who flew with Arik’s flight W3 544 from Benin to Lagos, thinking the plane was US-bound! Daniel, probably, had fantasised of life in far away America, watched films where some movie stars in a feign  show of bravado, stowaway precariously on fast moving cars and aircrafts , chose to be the hero in reality, difficult to tell if he was...

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Professionalizing revenue collection in Delta State

Author: By Princess Tureme Generally, there are three major indicators or measures of an efficient tax system - number of tax payments, time required to comply with tax obligations and total tax. In Delta State, factors which had hindered the timely achievement of a well organised system of taxation included multiplicity of taxes before July 2009, where there is inadequate use of technology in tax collection and...

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DRM pitches tent with APC

*Tongue lashes Delta State govt. on improper project planning Author: By Brisibe Perez A political pressure group under the auspices of Delta Rescue Mission (DRM) in Delta State has congratulated Nigerians, the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) and the all progressive democrats on the registration of the newly formed All Progressive Congress (APC). Speaking during a briefing of journalists at...

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PDP’ll Win Delta Central By-election-Prof. Utuama

… Fly clean; don’t think of rigging -Odibo Author: By Onitsha Shedrack The Delta State Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, has assured the People Democratic Party (PDP) faithful in Delta Central Senatorial District that the party will win the forth-coming senatorial by-election to fill the vacant seat occasioned by the death of late Senator Pius Ewherido, noting that the Urhobo Nation cannot afford...

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There is no interim Exco of Delta APC –DRM

                  Author: By Brisibe Perez A social-political movement in Delta State, Delta Rescue Mission (DRM) which has promised to midwife the leadership of the All Progressive Congress in the State for good governance of Deltans, has reinstated to its supporters and faithful in the State that the party for now, has no executive as speculated in some quarters and newspaper publications. Speaking...

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Great Ogboru: Greater Than Conspiracies

Author: By Efe Duku PREAMBLE ‘He is a coup plotter.’ ‘He is a debtor.’ ‘He has no money.’ ‘He wins elections but not allowed to govern.” “He is a coward.’ ‘He is too principled.’ ‘Ogboru this, Ogboru that!’ For so long, these have been recurrent allegations against Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru by his enemies, opponents or haters. The motive of Ogboru’s accusers has always been and remains how to dim his constant...

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Great Ogboru: Greater Than Conspiracies

Author: By Efe Duku PREAMBLE ‘He is a coup plotter.’ ‘He is a debtor.’ ‘He has no money.’ ‘He wins elections but not allowed to govern.” “He is a coward.’ ‘He is too principled.’ ‘Ogboru this, Ogboru that!’ For so long, these have been recurrent allegations against Chief Great Ovedje Ogboru by his enemies, opponents or haters. The motive of Ogboru’s accusers has always been and remains how to dim his constant...

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