NNPC shuts down clinic after suspected Ebola case is admitted
Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC said on Friday it had shut down its own clinic in Lagos’ commercial district of Victoria Island, after a suspected Ebola case was admitted there. The patient who...
View ArticleTension as policemen deployed for election duty clash in Osogbo
There was tension around Ring Road area of Osogbo the capital of Osun State, when policemen deployed for today’s election duties clashed and fired several gunshot as well as teargas over a...
View ArticleOkada, bus commuters risk contracting virus – Experts
Medical and Dental Association of Nigeria, yesterday, said okada riders, their passengers and commuters of commercial vehicles could be at risk in the spread of the Ebola virus through body contact....
View ArticleAPC says arrests, harassment of members is coup against democracy
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over the mass arrest and intimidation of its members in Osun on Saturday as the state’s governorship election continues, saying over 250 of its...
View ArticleOSUN 2014: Counting of ballots starts, results so far
Counting of ballots has started in Osogbo and some polling units in Ilesha. These are the results we have so far (Disclaimer: Yet to be verified by INEC).. —#Unit 006, Elerin Irepodun LGA APC – 66 PDP...
View Article1.4m voters registered for Osun poll – INEC
A total of 1,407,222 voters, comprising 661,394 males (47 per cent) and 745,828 females (53 per cent) were registered by INEC to vote in Saturday’s governorship election In Osun. An Information kit on...
View ArticleJudiciary workers call off strike
Technical committee to work out modalities for implementation of agreements Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, has called off the industrial action it embarked on to protest the...
View ArticleAPC loses in Oyinlola’s Polling Unit
Former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola failed to deliver his booth at today’s election to his new party, the APC. In the results just released in Ward 1 Unit 003 where the former governor voted the PDP...
View ArticleVoters more democratic than most of us – Aregbesola
Osogbo – Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Saturday commended voters for turning out enmasse to be accredited for the governorship election. Aregbesola, who arrived with his wife, Sherifat, at about...
View ArticlePDP Plans To Force INEC To Announce Different Result
Plans by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to force the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce a different result in today’s Osun State governorship election have been...
View ArticleARMY WARNS BORNO RESIDENTS AGAINST STREET PROTESTS
The 7 Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri on Saturday cautioned residents of Borno against embarking on street protests, saying such was not allowed under emergency rule.Col. Sani Usman, the...
View ArticleINEC declares Aregbesola winner of Osun election
THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has declared the incumbent governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as the winner of the 2014 governorship elections. The Returning Officer,...
View ArticleOsun election: PDP rejects result
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has rejected the result of Osun state gubernatorial election won by Governor Rauf Aregbesola alleging fraudulent activities. The party agent at the collation of...
View ArticleTraffic gridlock: Commissioner urges residents to be patient
Plateau state Commissioner of Works, Chris Hassan, has urged Jos residents to exercise patience over the incessant gridlock following the on-going construction of the city’s township roads. Hassan told...
View ArticleMan defrauds brother’s wife
Mrs Joy Ogidi, a native of Umuimo in Osisioma Ngwa local government area of Abia state is relying on the intervention of police men from the Enugu state command, to recover the sum of N680,000 and...
View ArticleGOC tasks journalists on objectivity
General Officer Commanding, GOC, commanding 82 division of the Nigerian army, Enugu, Brigadier General Shehu Yusuf, has tasked practising Journalists in Nigeria, to always be factual in their report....
View ArticleINEC SAYS OSUN ELECTION SUCCESSFUL
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Sunday that facts available showed that the Osun Governorship election was better than the Ekiti poll, held on June 21. The Chief Press...
View ArticlePRESIDENT JONATHAN CONGRATULATES AREGBESOLA
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan congratulates Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on his victory in Saturday’s governorship election in the state. The President commends the Independent National...
View ArticleMY RE-ELECTION, A CALL TO INCREASED SERVICE – AREGBESOLA
Re-elected governor of Osun, Rauf Aregbesola, on Sunday said he accepted his victory at the Saturday polls as a call to increased service. Aregbesola stated this in his first official reaction to the...
View ArticlePolice arrest killer of colleague
Benue State Police Command yesterday arrested the killer of Police Sergeant Bawa Ekoja attached to its ‘Operation Zenda’ unit. The killer, an okada man-turned taxi driver was arrested with the gun he...
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