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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
The removal of former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo is creating some ripples within the ranks of the party, following the move by some leaders of the North to ensure the seat is moved to the North. Nwodo was appointed mid last year to complete the tenure of Prince […]
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Elections 2011
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
One of the candidates for the Mbaitoli-Ikeduru Federal Constituency, Imo State, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mrs. Ijeoma Nwafor, has formally kicked against the outcome of the primary for her constituency. Nwafor, in a letter to the party, dated January 11, 2011, and made available to Sunday Tribune, faulted the primary […]
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Headlines
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
Scores of passengers were in the early morning of yesterday stranded at the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airpot following the grounding of flights operations of many of the domestic carriers by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) over debts running to N4 billion. Among the airlines affected were Aero, Air Nigeria, DANA, […]
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Elections 2011
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
Revelations coming from informed sources have indicated that Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, could fail to deliver on his promise of credible elections in April having fallen for some web of intrigues and power play within the commission. A number of technical incapabilities are also set to hinder the […]
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General Politics
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

Though he faulted last week’s Peoples Democratic Party’s Special National Convention that elected President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate, former vice president Atiku Abubakar has said that he would remain in the party and that anyone thinking otherwise was making a mistake. Atiku stated this yesterday in Abuja at the formal winding down of […]
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General Politics, Oyo, State News
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

More facts have emerged on why the Oyo State government failed to demolish the state secretariat of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) at the Olomi area of Ibadan, the state capital, on Thursday. Although the authorities had mobilized a team, comprising officials of the state Ministry of Environment and Water Resources and […]
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General Politics
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

On December 24, armed men suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect stormed some churches including the Victory Baptist Church at Dala-Alamderi and shot to death the resident pastor, Rev. Bulus Marwa (37), Christopher Balami, a lecturer in the state-owned polytechnic, Paul Mathew, Philip Luka and a tea hawker, Yohana Adamu. The rampaging […]
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General Politics
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
Chairman of Lagos Peoples Vanguard (LPV), a multi-ethnic pressure group, Comrade Sola Omoshola, has alleged plans by President Goodluck Jonathan to destabilize the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)-led administration in the state. He alleged that the president was planning to incite some ethnic groups to work against the party, all in a desperate bid to […]