Regional & State News
Gunfight breaks out in Oyo State, Nigeria
Posted by on Dec 22, 2005, 17:11
Ibadan - A gun battle raged for hours on Thursday around a southern Nigeria state parliament, wounding five after gunmen opened fire on politicians.
NIGERIA: 30 killed in clashes between farmers and herdsmen in Adamawa state
Posted by on Feb 11, 2005, 04:18
ABUJA - At least 30 people have been killed in a week of clashes between farming communities and nomadic cattle herdsmen in Adamawa state, near the eastern frontier with Cameroon, local officials and residents said on Tuesday.
Ethnic Militia: Niger-Delta Youths Denounce Warlord
Posted by ThisDay on Jul 19, 2004, 22:34
A coalition of Ijaw and Niger-Delta youth groups under the aegis of Congress of Niger Delta Youths (CNDY) have once again denounced Alhaji Asari Dokubo, saying he has for long constituted himself into a nuisance.
Warri Peace Deal Collapses
Posted by ThisDay on Jul 7, 2004, 06:49
Barely two weeks after the nation applauded the peace deal between leaders of the Ijaw and Itsekiri ethnic groups, the peace process in the embattled city of Warri took a turn for the worse yesterday as key Ijaw signatories to the peace accord backed out of the deal.
Ijaw dump Warri peace accord as 3 delegates withdraw
Posted by Vanguard on Jul 7, 2004, 06:45
WARRI —THREE membersof the 14-man Ijaw delegation to the recent peace meeting between the Itsekiri and Ijaw that culminated in a peace accord, yesterday, announced their withdrawal from the peace committee.
Igbo President: Ogbeh's Denial Face-saving - Ohanaeze
Posted by ThisDay on Jul 5, 2004, 18:26
Less than 24 hours after the National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Audu Ogbeh denied working against the interest of Ndigbo to produce Nigeria's president, his accusers have hit back at him describing his denials as a "face saving gesture."
Enugu Insists on International Airport
Posted by ThisDay on Jul 5, 2004, 18:25
Enugu State Government has lashed out at the Senate Committee Chairman on Aviation, Senator Chris Nshii over his statement that his committee preferred Owerri Airport in place of Enugu to be upgraded into an international airport.
Warri: Urhobo's Exclusion Counter-productive, Says Okumagba
Posted by ThisDay on Jul 5, 2004, 18:22
Delta State Primary Education Boards Chairman, Chief Emmanuel Okumagba yesterday faulted the ongoing peace process in Warri, saying the exclusion of the Urhobo ethnic group from the current efforts to restore peace amongst the feuding groups could be counter-productive and delay the actualisation of the peace agenda.
Native, settler conflict unhealthy, Obasanjo tells Plateau indigenes
Posted by Vanguard on Jul 5, 2004, 18:13
The debate over the constitutional right of every Nigerian to live or settle anywhere in the countrycontinued last Friday with President Olusegun Obasanjo declaring that “the idea of settler and native is unhealthy and if you go back far enough, all of us could be settlers”
Govs stall North’s unity meeting
Posted by Vanguard on Jul 5, 2004, 18:12
An initiative to bolster the peace and unity of the North has been stalled as a grand meeting scheduled to hold in Kaduna tomorrow and Tuesday has been postponed indefinitely.
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