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American Politics, Headlines
Monday, December 24th, 2012
Tens of thousands of people have signed a petition calling for British Cable News Network host Piers Morgan to be deported from the United States over his gun control views, the Associated Press reports. Morgan has taken an aggressive stand for tighter US gun laws in the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting. Last […]
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Headlines
Monday, December 24th, 2012
A commercial bus driver, Isaac Popoola, on Monday died after being allegedly assaulted by two officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority in the Oshodi area of the state. The bus conductor, Aremu Salawu, who witnessed the incident, said the LASTMA officials, Adesanya Olatunde and Oludele Ogunrinde, assaulted Popoola at about 6.30am around Brown […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Monday, December 24th, 2012
Youth and professional groups from Southern Kaduna kicked against the choice of Ambassador Nuhu Bajoga as the deputy governor of Kaduna State on Monday, even as the state House of Assembly prepared to screen the former envoy for the position. At a press conference in Kaduna, the groups said they would no longer fold their […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Osun, Oyo, State News
Monday, December 24th, 2012
THE Oyo and Osun state governments have been urged to harmonise efforts and jointly re-open the case file of the slain former Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, the late Chief Bola Ige, so that those who assassinated him on December 23, 2001 could be fished out and brought to book. Former president of […]
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Legislature, Senate
Monday, December 24th, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has commiserated with the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, over the death of his elder brother, Prince Chukwuemeka Ekweremadu. A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, in Abuja, on Monday, said the president described the news of the death as “very shocking, […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Monday, December 24th, 2012
A group of top politicians, who played key roles in the administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua has denied a media report which insinuated that they were plotting against the presumed ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. A statement signed by a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), Senator Adamu Aliero, clarified […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics, Raw Politics
Monday, December 24th, 2012

THE manner and place of arrest of the ailing chairman of Bi-Courtney Limited, Dr Wale Babalakin by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday, are attracting controversies. The commission charged him for laundering N3.4 billion for the jailed former Delta State governor, James Ibori. While it was tagged an abduction from the Lagos […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Monday, December 24th, 2012
VICE-PRESIDENT Namadi Sambo, on Monday, dissociated himself from the controversy surrounding the proposed construction of a new residence for the vice-president, saying that it has nothing to do with him. He explained in a statement issued by his spokesman, Umar Sani, in Abuja that the authorities of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were merely implementing […]
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Africa & World Politics, Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Monday, December 24th, 2012
FRESH abduction has occurred in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, as four Italian oil workers were kidnapped along Pennington River, Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa State, while as of the time of going to press, their whereabouts remain unknown. The expatriates were returning from Eket, Akwa Ibom State, when the armed men accosted them […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Latest Politics
Monday, December 24th, 2012
THE United States has said beginning from 2013, its army brigade will dispatch small army teams to 35 African nations, as part of its plan to check the rising terror threats from al-Qaeda-linked groups in Africa, particularly with the rise of the extremist Islamist sect, Boko Haram, in Nigeria. According to a report the CBS […]