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Elections Cancelled In Two LGAs In Edo

Leadership Editors — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:34:02 +0000

Elections into two local government areas of Edo, Oredo and Ikpoba Okha local government were yesterday cancelled by the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) due to the lack of electoral materials. According to a statement issued by the Commission’s chairman, Solomon Ogor, this was necessary to forestall allegations of foul play. Ogor said eligible voters across the state had turned out to cast their votes for the 18 chairmanship and 192 councillorship candidates of their choice from among 6 political parties, but had different tales to tell. He also disclosed that in...

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PDP Crisis: Amaechi Seeks CJN Intervention

Leadership Editors — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:31:51 +0000

Rivers State Governor, Mr Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has called on the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mariam Aloma Muhktar to intervene in the judgement Justice Ishaq Bello of Abuja Federal High Court, which declared Mr Felix Obuah and Mr Ibibia Opuene Walter, as duly elected chairman and secretary respectively of the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Amaechi, who made the call yesterday while addressing a mammoth crowd of the people of the state, that marched in solidarity to Government House, Port Harcourt, said the verdict amounted to a desecration of the temple of...

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Gunmen Kill 2 Women, Burn 30 Houses In Plateau

Leadership Editors — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 06:29:38 +0000

Two aged women have been confirmed killed and 30 houses razed on Friday night when suspected gunmen attacked Dakum and Jol villages in Riyom local government area of Plateau State. The bandits allegedly struck when the residents were asleep and set the affected houses on fire The majority leader of the Plateau State House of Assembly and member representing Riyom state constituency, Hon. Daniel Dem, who spoke on the attacks with LEADERSHIP Sunday, decried the recent killings and the burning of houses in various parts of the state. He described the situation as bad, claiming...

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Students Stab Kogi Poly Lecturer To Death

Leadership Editors — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:57:12 +0000

Barely two weeks after a lecturer with Kogi State Polytechnic narrowly escaped abduction, another one stabbed to death by some irate students. The lecturer, Mr. Anthony Abimaje, met his untimely death on Friday night when he went to pick his wife, who sells wares on the campus. He was allegedly sighted by members of two rival cult groups who stabbed him severally on the stomach. Ar source said Abimaje who teaches Research Methodology and Entrepreneurial Studies in the institution was adjudged as too rigid by some students, especially in the awards of marks, which made a target of the lazy...

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Kaduna Won’t Spare Agents Of Disunity – Yero

Leadership Editors — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:51:19 +0000

Governor Mukhtar Yero of Kaduna State yesterday asked the media to be objective in their reportage and declared that anyone found to be causing confusion in the state would not be spared by his administration. He said emphasis should be on what would unite Nigerians while issues capable of dividing the state and the country were played down. Addressing the executive members of the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) who visited him at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna, Governor Yero lamented that the people of the state now live in fear, suspicion and mutual...

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Gombe Spends N10bn On Tertiary Schools

Leadership Editors — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:48:55 +0000

The Gombe State government has spent over N10 billion for the construction of its College of Education, Billiri, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Gombe, School of Health Technology, Kaltungo, and two Schools of Remedial Studies in Dukku, and Kumo in Akko local government among others. Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo disclosed this during the inspection of projects in various parts of the state. He said apart from the construction and reconstruction of several tertiary institutions of learning, a number of primary and secondary schools were also receiving attention. The governor said the...

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Rivers PDP: A Ruling Party In Disarray

Leadership Editors — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:22:03 +0000

All is not well with the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State. Factions loyal to governor Chibuike Amaechi and Mr. Nyesom Wike, the current minister of state (Education) are locked in a supremacy battle for the soul of Rivers state politics. Our Correspondent, Anayo Onukwugha, in this expose x-rays the development. On Monday, April 15, 2013, an Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Justice Ishaq Bello sacked the executive of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State led by Chief Godspower Umejuru Ake and ordered the swearing in, with immediate effect, a...

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My Mission Is To Bring The Needed Changes In PDP – Tukur

Leadership Editors — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:18:15 +0000

He inherited a political party that was faced with both internal and external crises. In a self appraisal after weathering the storm in his first year in office, the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur in an interview with some journalists in Abuja bears his mind on the journey so far. chuks Ohuegbe was there. There have been media reports of alleged plans to remove you from office by forces within the PDP, most especially the governors. Sir, how would you react to that? You just said media reports. That is the point. You know that as...

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