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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Presidency
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: dailypost.com.ng The Presidency, on Tuesday, challenged those who claimed that President Goodluck Jonathan signed an agreement to spend one term, to produce the document. The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, said this on an Africa Independent Television programme, Focus Nigeria, monitored in Abuja. […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
ABUJA—As the controversy over the single term agreement said to have been reached by Northern governors with President Goodluck Jonathan deepens, Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed, yesterday, said that the furore over the matter was unnecessary, as President Jonathan was not qualified to seek re-election in 2015 in the first place. Mohammed, who spoke in […]
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Niger Delta
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – FORMER Acting Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Pastor Power Aginighan, has urged governors in the Niger Delta region, to give special attention to the development of oil bearing communities. Aginighan, also former Executive Director, Finance and Administration of NDDC, said it was lamentable that most of […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
A Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt Tuesday ordered the Federal Government to pay N37.6b compensation to the people of Odi community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over the invasion of their community by armed soldiers during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Justice Lambi Akanbi of the Federal High Court, […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
President Francois Hollande confirmed that seven French tourists from one family, including four children, were kidnapped Tuesday in northern Cameroon and said he suspected a Nigeria group was responsible. “What is most probable is they were taken to Nigeria,” Hollande said, adding that they were seized by a Nigeria-based “terrorist group that we know well”. […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
BY HENRY UMORU ABUJA—THE Presidency Monday reacted to comment by elder statesman and former Secretary General of Ohaneze, Prof. Ben Nwabueze describing Nigeria as a failed state, saying it was a gross act of unpatriotism According to the Presidency, as elder statesman, he should be abreast with facts that indices in the country do not […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, February 18th, 2013
BY IFEANYI OKOLIE LAGOS — It was a bloody weekend at Igando area of Lagos State, when a suspected kidnapper said to be operating in Delta State, attacked the Lagos home of his girlfriend, killing her and seven others. Vanguard gathered that the alleged kidnapper, identified simply as Henry, who is currently on the run, […]
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First Ladies, Latest Politics, Patience Jonathan
Monday, February 18th, 2013
BY EMMANUEL AZIKEN, DAPO AKINREFON, CHARLES KUMOLU & GBENGA OKE The disclosure by First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan of the critical nature of her health, Monday, aroused scathing criticisms from opposition political parties and some of the country’s leading civic society groups. The opposition parties and civil society advocates slammed Federal Government for projecting a […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, February 18th, 2013
BY SONI DANIEL & KINGSLEY OMONOBI ABUJA— There were indications, Sunday, that the embattled Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Chairman, Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, had fled the country to escape arrest by the police and other security agents on his trail. Maina is reported to have moved to one of the Middle East nations, following the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, February 18th, 2013
President Jonathan, Monday, has ordered security agencies in th country to rescue the kidnapped foreign workers. According to Reuben Abati, presidential spokesman, in a tweet, “Pres. Jonathan orders security agencies to rescue kidnapped foreign workers…” Meanwhile, Police in Bauchi said four Lebanese, one Briton, a Greek citizen and an Italian were among those taken hostage […]
