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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Raw Politics
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party may have finally spurned former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s efforts to influence his daughter, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello’s return to the Senate. On Thursday, the PDP gave out the Independent National Electoral Commission’s forms to some winners of the primaries conducted by the Governor Gbenga Daniel-led faction of the party […]
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Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Another batch of 212 ex-militants from the Niger Delta has been sent to Ghana for various vocational trainings under the Federal Government’s amnesty programme. The 212 ex-militants, who formed the second batch to be sent abroad for training, had also gone through non-violence transformational programme in Obubra, Cross River State. The first batch of 38 […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo , London, UK – Jan 27, 2011 – On 25th of January 2011, I came across a Press Release on Page 27 of the Monday, January 24 2011 edition of THISDAY Newspaper. The advert was from the Committee of Chief Compliance Officers of Banks in Nigeria (CCCOBIN) titled UPDATE OF BANK […]
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Headlines
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to vacate the order restraining the board from registering candidates for the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. It will be recalled that the court had on October 26, 2010 restrained JAMB from securing or retaining the services of […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Still fuming over over the presidency’s recent comment that he is not a democrat, Senator Joseph Waku yesterday accused the presidency of rather being undemocratic. Waku, who represented Benue North-West Senatorial District between 1999/2003, had in a national daily (not Vangaurd) accused President Goodluck Jonathan of inducing delegates to secure his victory during the just […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Joint Task Force, JTF, on Customs Physical Examination of goods, yesterday, impounded 165 kilogrammes of substances suspected to be Cocaine at Tin Can Port, with a street value of about 10.2 million pounds (about N2.55 billion). The drugs, which were concealed in 36 cartoons, came in from Bolivia and impounded based on a tip off […]
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Kogi, State News
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Over alleged plans to bomb rerun venue || Governor disowns him || The State Security Service (SSS), acting on intelligence, is currently in a hot chase after Mr. Ogwu Achemu a.k.a Araka, the special assistant to Governor Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State on Youth Empowerment, over an alleged plan to bomb the venue of […]
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General Politics
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The recent ambassadorial appointments by President Goodluck Jonathan are causing a growing atmosphere of unease and resentment in the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs where deserving career staff members were passed over in favour of the less experienced ones. In particular, the new appointments not only ignored seniority, experience and competence but also breached the […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Director General of the Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation, Senator Enatimi Rufus Spiff yesterday explained the reasons behind the out-cry of the Labour Party (LP) and other pro- Alaibe groups to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over alleged plots by some state government officials to register non-indigenes, saying such had prompted violence in the state. […]
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Chinedu Vincent Akuta, Latest Politics, Ministries
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
The Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity yesterday urged the House of Representatives to approve the sum of N622.5 million for local and overseas travels in the 2011 fiscal year. Minister of Labour and Productivity, Mr Emeka Wogu, made the plea during its budget defence meeting with the House Committee on Labour. The ministry which […]
