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Raw Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011

This Thursday, at the Eagle square in Abuja, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) delegates will at its special national convention, elect the party’s presidential flag-bearer for this year’s presidential election in April. Barring any last minute developments, Thursday’s contest will be between incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. Since the registration of […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
A 27-year-old teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with one of her own teenage students. The boy of 16 told police their relationship, which officers believe may have gone on for over a month, blossomed in her car. Ashley Blumenshine was arrested behind a department store in Plainfield, Illinois, after police caught her […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Delegate lobbying shifts to hotels || Aminu Wali chairs screening Panel || Determined to ensure security in Abuja as the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) holds its special national convention, the Nigeria Police Force will deploy its anti-terrorist squad to the Eagle Square, venue of the convention where the party’s presidential candidate for this April […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Americans who speak Yoruba It seems like a page out of a fiction novel to see five white American youths conversing in fluent Yoruba. But this is not fiction, as these Americans currently reside in the University of Ibadan studying one of the indigenous Nigerian languages, Yoruba. Tobiloba Fademi reports When SUNDAY PUNCH called to […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Worried by alleged link to terrorist acts in some parts of the country in recent times, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said that anybody who said the North was behind the spate of bomb explosions in the country was being irrational. The ACF specifically pointed fingers at President Goodluck Jonathan and alleged that “Federal […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
THE Presidency, yesterday denied allegations by Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) that President Jonathan blamed the North for the spate of bombings across the country. The ACF had on Friday accused the President of linking the North with the series of bomb blasts across the country. Presidential Spokesman, Ima Niboro, said in Abuja that President […]
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Top Stories
Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Saharareporters just learnt minutes ago that the SSS at MMIA in Lagos arrested Okey Ndibe and detained, a columnist and US professor. Mr. Ndibe arrived on Turkish airlines at 9:31 PM (Nigerian Time). An Immigration officer handed his passport to an State Security Service (SSS) who instructed him to get his luggage and come with […]
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Articles, Columnists, Headlines, Presidency, Reuben Abati
Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Reuben Abati, Lagos,Nigeria – Jan 8. 2011 – THE various forces that had resisted Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s emergence as Acting President showed their hands fully with the return of President Umaru Yar’Adua. This included to start with, the protest by the Northern political establishment, prompted obviously by the Yar’Adua cabal, that allowing a Jonathan Acting Presidency […]
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Plateau, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, January 8th, 2011

Jos, Plateau State capital, was again thrown into confusion as two separate incidents degenerated into violence resulting in the death of at least five people. A disagreement among members of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) over their ward congress held yesterday was said to have turned violent and was allegedly hijacked by some people who […]