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Abdulrazaq O. hazmat, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, November 23rd, 2012

By Abdulzaraq O. Hamzat / NNP / Nov. 23, 2012 – Someone might have asked you, or you may have been asking yourself this question: if democracy means all the theoretical, institutional and behavioural dimensions that is usually written in books, why is it that not every country in the world where democratic government is […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Friday, November 23rd, 2012

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba / Yola, Nigeria / Nov. 23, 2012 – One of the responsibilities of a president is to inspire their citizens, to give them a reason to look forward to a better life. I watched the presidential media chat on Sunday, November 18, 2012, expecting to get answers from my president, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
BUT for President Goodluck Jonathan’s last minute diplomatic manoeuvres, Nigeria would have suffered irreparable damage in its relationship with the European Union (EU) and the West. This is not unconnected with what diplomatic sources say was a move by an infuriated Germany to swing a coalition of support against what it thought was a fundamental […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
The Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Restore Order, in Maiduguri, Borno State, has placed a price of N290 million on the heads of 19 members of the Boko Haram sect, including the group leader, Abubakar Shekau, while declaring the sect members wanted. A release from the office of the spokesman of the JTF, Lt. Col. […]
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Governors, Headlines, Judiciary
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
THERE was pandemonium on the premises of the City Higher Sharia Court, Kanwurin Sarki, Gusau in Zamfara State, as a 27-year-old man, Safiyanu Musa, stormed the court with a cutlass and attempted to behead the judge, Alhaji Hadi Sani Gusau. Eyewitnesses told the Saturday Tribune that Musa broke into the court session about 11.30 a.m. […]
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EFCC Politics
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have intensified moves to arrest the Chief Executive Officer of Bi-Courtney, Mr. Wale Babalakin. The commission had summoned Babalakin to appear before it on Thursday and had since put him under surveillance. It was gathered that the operatives of the commission were at the residence of the […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
NOVEMBER 24, 2012 BY SEGUN OLATUNJI Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital laid the foundation of a N350million mosque located within the premises of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library. Four northern governors, Aliyu Wamako (Sokoto), Shehu Shemma (Katshina), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Usman Dakingari of Kebbi State joined their […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
NOVEMBER 24, 2012 BY IHUOMA CHIEDOZIE, ABUJA Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke | credits: An Abuja Federal High Court on Friday failed to deliver judgement in the suit over the missing $12.4bn oil windfall. The court had scheduled judgement in the matter for Friday, but the Presiding Judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, eventually adjourned […]
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Legislature, Senate
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
NOVEMBER 24, 2012 BY SUCCESS NWOGU, ILORIN LEAVE A COMMENT Senate President, David Mark | credits: Senate President, David Mark on Friday said that many dishonest people, pretenders and mere ‘actors’ dominated the political scene in Nigeria. He said this during a condolence visit to the family of the late Senate Leader in the Second […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
NOVEMBER 24, 2012 BY COMFORT OSEGHALE The detention of a Nigerian information technology expert, Matthew Ikechukwu, in France for allegedly trafficking in hard drugs is currently giving members of his family and the Network on Police Reform in Nigeria a cause for concern. CRIME DIGEST gathered that Ikechukwu was arrested at the Lyon Airport in […]