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Bomb blast rocks Suleja...6 feared dead

By BALA B. BITRUS, MINNA
Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011

Massive explosions yesterday rocked the local government office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) in Kwamba area of the council killing six persons and injuring over two dozen others. Only last March, (2nd March, 2011) a similar explosion in Suleja had rocked a campaign...read story

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• NNPC COMDP commissions renovated primary school
• Police, politicians told to ensure security of corps members against thugs
• INEC confirms receipt of result sheets in Kaduna
• FG committed to achieving 75% water supply by 2015— Official
• Yuguda suspends Bogoro LG chairman,
  district head, 6 chiefs
  

Go out to cast your vote – Akala

By BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala yesterday asked Nigerians to go out and cast their votes and be orderly in today's rescheduled National Assembly election. The governor said in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan personally signed by him, that Nigeria as a nation cannot afford to get things wrong with its growing democracy at this crucial period....read story

Supreme Court upholds Wamakko's election

By ANDREW OROLUA, Abuja
Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011

THE Supreme Court yesterday finally laid to rest the Governorship Election Petition suit before Sokoto Court of Appeal that sought to upturn the election of Governor Alhaji Aliyu Magatarkada Wamakko as it said "the appeal is dead and should be allowed to rest in peace". "The order of this court made on 26/11/10 dismissing Appeal No. CA/ S/ EP/ Gov/ 10/ 2009 pending at the Court of Appeal Sokoto...read story

Bomb blast:
SSS, police trail link 

By ABDULL-AZEEZ AHMED KADIR, MIDAT JOSEPH, Kaduna
Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011

THE State Security Service said yesterday in Kaduna that they were on the trail of the link in Thursday's bomb blast which killed one man and seriously injured another. State Director of the SSS, Mr. Abayomi Zamba who disclosed this said operatives were on top of the matter and were collaborating with the police to get at the bottom of what happened....read story

Bloody as Bankole's supporters, Area Boys
clash in Abeokuta

By NIYI OGUNGBOLA, Abeokuta
Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011

THE campaign team of the Speaker of House of Representative, Hon. Dimeji Bankole clashed with suspected street urchins in Abeokuta leaving a tale of woes in the mouth of an innocent victim, Samuel Kolawole. Mr. Kolawole a judicial worker lives at No. 74, NUD Road , Isabo in Abeokuta metropolis where the incident happened at about 7p.m....read story

Normalcy returns at Kadpoly

By Our Correspondent
Posted: Saturday, April 9, 2011

Normalcy is gradually returning to Kaduna Polytechnic after the proscription of activities of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) by the institution's Governing Council last week. Investigations by New Nigerian Weekly revealed that both academic and non academic staff have been trooping into the five colleges of the institution to sign the attendance registers as directed by the management....read story