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Sunday, January 9th, 2011
FormerLagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said he was not afraid of death and stressed that threats to his life or a phantom frame up that is politically motivated was one of the greatest disservice to enthroning democratic stability in Nigeria. Tinubu told reporters yesterday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Sunday, January 9th, 2011

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mrs. Sarah Jibril, has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja for an order of injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting the nomination of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a presidential aspirant of the ruling party for the April general election. This comes […]
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National Politics, Plateau, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011

As efforts are being made by the security agency to contain the crisis that broke up in Jos city following the congress of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Angwa Doki area of Bukuru in Jos south local government went on fire leading to shoot out between security men and hoodlums. Secret killings and burning […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Sunday, January 9th, 2011

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will today Screen its Presidential aspirants to get the party’s flagbearer for the April Presidential election. Those to appear before the Ambassador Aminu Wali led 10 –member Screening Committee are President Goodluck Jonathan, former vice-President Atiku Abubakar , Mrs Sarah Jibril and Alhaji Aminu Dutsima from Katsina state and thereafter […]
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Headlines
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has condemned the arrest of seasoned journalist, Mr. Okey Ndibe and the seizure of his passport at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos by security operatives. Professor Soyinka, Convener of Citizen Forum in a statement yesterday said: “Election neurosis has clearly gripped a most insensitive and inept Security apparatus. Inept […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
AS security men continue to make efforts to halt the fresh crisis that engulfed the city of Jos on Saturday, silent killings are still going on in some parts of the city while more houses were burnt in the early hours of Sunday. Nigerian Tribune learnt that after peace returned to Jos after about five […]
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Plateau, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
Izu Umunna Cultural Association, Nigeria, a Jos-based Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has warned that it will no longer fold its hands and watch the blood of innocent Igbo men and women spilled on the streets of Jos in the name of crises. The group, in a strongly worded statement signed by the President, Prof Zebulon Okoye; […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
A former governor of Lagos State and chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Sunday said the spate of ‘political persecution and threats’ against opponents of the Federal Government might destabilise the political process. Tinubu, who spoke to journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, however, said […]
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Headlines, Raw Politics
Sunday, January 9th, 2011

Chief Convener of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Pastor Tunde Bakare, has passed a vote of no confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying he is an under performer. Bakare, who is also the Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, spoke with Daily Sun in Abuja. Excerpts: State of the nation We must give thanks to God that […]
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National Politics
Sunday, January 9th, 2011

Dr Fatima Atiku Abubakar is the first child of Alhaji and Hajiya Titi Atiku Abubakar, Turakin Adamawa and PDP presidential aspirant. She trained as a medical doctor and works in one of the private hospitals in Abuja. Fatima is worried about the dimension the campaign for election is going and the direct attack on the […]