Enugu boosts mechanized farming with 27 tractors worth N79m
By Tony Edike ENUGU – THE Enugu State government’s drive to boost its agricultural fortunes through mechanized farming got a massive push at the weekend with the arrival of a first batch of 27 brand new multi-purpose tractors. Receiving the tractors at the old Government Lodge Enugu, Governor Sullivan Chime described their arrival as a […]
Rejecting amnesty, making demands, What we want, by Boko Haram
The group, two months ago, in a three-page statement purportedly written in Hausa and distributed to newsmen in Maiduguri, vowed no end to the persistent attacks, explaining that the ward and village heads, politicians, police and the army, had fell victims of its serial killings, and that they have their list of targets which they will execute chronologically, “because they erred by associating themselves with the government in its effort to arrest Muslim brothers and sabotage Islam.”
Carnage they wrote: A catalogue of attacks by Boko Haram
In January 2010, the group struck again in Borno State, killing four people in Maiduguri metropolis. In September of that year, Boko Haram Islamists freed over 700 inmates from a prison in Bauchi State and torched the prison. By December 2010, the Boko Haram extremists had visibly graduated to the use of deadly bombs in […]
‘Critics can’t distract Ajimobi’
Governor Abiola Ajimobi will not allow himself to be distracted by needless comments by critics, according to his senior special assistant (public communication), Festus Adedayo.
‘How Edo PDP can bounce back’
BY SIMON EBEGBULEM THE Restoration Project 2012, a group under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, has urged the leaders of the party in the state to urgently address the problems which led to the poor results recorded by the party in the just concluded general elections with a view to do better […]
‘Those behind Edo PDP crisis’
Edo PDP leader, Sunny Uyigue, in this piece, speaks on the crisis rocking the state chapter of the party.
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