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EDITORIAL: LG Polls: Enough is Enough to Violence

Preparations are in top gear towards electing local government chairmen and councilors into the 31 legislative councils in Akwa Ibom for the next legislative period. Read the rest of this entry

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MATTER OF THE MOMENT: Blood Bath in Nigeria! What’s Qualm?

Earlier in this column, the issue of “War between Safe Makers and Safe Breakers” was discussed and brought to the attention of Nigerians which mow manifest into bomb blasts in some sections of the country. Read the rest of this entry

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KOGI:INEC, Playing Politics With Law!

By: PHRANK SHAIBU
About two days after the Supreme Court Judgement on tenure elongation which sacked five State Governors including Kogi State where elections had been conducted about eight weeks before the Apex Court ruling, a reporter from a major newspaper contacted the Chief Press Secretary to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) Chairman, Mr Kayode Idowu, Read the rest of this entry

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Amaechi and Non-Rivers Indigenes Involvement In Government

While scrutinizing his government, as was reported on March 11, 2012, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State said that over 2,000 Rivers and non-Rivers indigenes have so far benefited from his Special Overseas scholarship programme. Unlike the governor we knew who believed so much in the indigene and non-indigene dichotomy in his state, Read the rest of this entry

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IGP Woo’s Benin Monarch Over Curse on Kidnapping

By Confidence  Aghator, Benin

The Acting Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr Muhammed Abubakar at the weekend open debate with Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa on what should be done to re-enact the curse placed on kidnapping by making it potent. Read the rest of this entry

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