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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
A few hours after President Goodluck Jonathan and ex-Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari took a swipe at former leaders, ex-Military President Ibrahim Babangida fired back. He asked Dr. Jonathan to learn to accept criticisms and threatened to expose the “holier-than thou-attitude” of Gen. Buhari. Gen. Babangida, who spoke through Prince Kassim Afegbua, […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a middle-aged man, Uzoma Madueke, to three years imprisonment with hard labour for importing fake Fulcin tablets into the country. Justice Okon Abang in a judgment on Tuesday held that the convict chose to indulge in a venture that could result in the death of Nigerians. The […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Former World Bank Vice President for Africa, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili yesterday said about $400 billion of Nigeria’s oil revenue has been stolen or mismanaged since independence in 1960. Presenting a paper entitled “Corruption, National Development, The Bar and The Judiciary” at the ongoing 52nd Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), she said […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Residents of Okobaba, a community in Ebute Meta, Lagos State, have appealed to the state government to relocate them before embarking on the demolition of the area. PUNCH Metro learnt that the state government had during the administration of Bola Tinubu resolved to re-develop the area in line with the Lagos Mega City project. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
The Federal Government on Tuesday signed a $1.487bn (N234.95bn) agreement with a Chinese company, CCECC Nigeria Limited, for the modernisation of the first phase of the Lagos-Kano rail line. Specifically, the contract is for the modernisation of the Lagos to Ibadan standard gauge rail double track, covering a distance of 156.65 kilometres. The signing of […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Latest Politics
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday dismissed fears that the planned introduction of N5000 note could engender inflation. The apex bank said the fears expressed by Nigerians, including economists and finance experts, had no basis in economics. It threw a challenge to economists against the move to make public, any theory that opposes higher […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Fifteen persons have been confirmed dead in floods which also destroyed property estimated of N120m in Kano State on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The state Rehabilitation and Emergency Relief Agency, which confirmed the deaths, added that over 2,000 persons were displaced. Director of Operations at the agency, Alhaji Shehu Maitama, told the […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has scored his administration high, saying he achieved all that he set out to do as President between 1999 and 2007. Obasanjo said this in Lagos on Tuesday after delivering a lecture titled, ‘Leadership foundation and underpinning’ as the guest speaker at the forum of the Nigeria Leadership Initiative. He said […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
The police in Ogun on Tuesday paraded Pastor Michael Oyewole (29) and Mathew Akiode (30) at the command’s headquarters Eleweran, for allegedly exhuming human skull in Sabo, Abeokuta. The state Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, told journalists that Akiode was caught committing the offence in the midnight. Okoye added that after Akiode’s arrest, the suspect […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
By INNOCENT ANABA ABUJA — Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Ibrahim Lamorde, argued, yesterday, that drastic measures were needed to check corruption in the country. Speaking at the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja, Lamorde said that corruption had eaten deep into the society’s fabric. He […]
