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Delta, Headlines, State News
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori | credits: File copy Prominent lawyers have said the recent report that a British Metropolitan Police officer collected a £20, 000 bribe from former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, who is serving a 13-year jail term in the United Kingdom, is not a problem for Nigeria, since […]
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Headlines
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
May 27, 2012 by Allwell Okpi A 34-year-old commercial bus driver, Edwin Ozoani, has died after a wrap of cocaine ruptured in his stomach. According to the Head, Public Affairs of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Mitchell Ofoyeju, the deceased returned from Brazil aboard a South African Airline flight, tested positive to drug ingestion […]
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General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Presidency, Top Stories
Sunday, May 27th, 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan’s loyalists have begun moves to neutralise the plot by northern governors to stop the President’s alleged 2015 ambition. The Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, had in an interview with journalists at the Northern Governors’ Forum’s meeting in Kaduna on May 17 vowed that the North would ensure that it got the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
African viewpoint: Nigeria’s dialling dilemmas In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, writer Sola Odunfa considers the difficulty of making a phone call in Nigeria. If you must make a call to anybody’s mobile phone in Nigeria, you need to be understanding and patient – it can be a very frustrating and annoying experience. […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
Nigeria marks her 13th year of straight democratic governance without interference. So far, it has been an eventful period for everyone, not only by virtue of being the longest stretch of uninterrupted democratic governance we have ever had since we achieved independence in 1960, but by what we all have learnt in terms of the […]
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Headlines
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
THE ongoing remodeling of eleven airports in Nigeria pales into insignificance if it is to be compared to the enormous resources sunk into building new airport terminals in major aviation hubs around the globe. Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah-Ogiewonyi, has taken the initiative to ‘remodel’ most of the country’s decrepit facilities. The decay dates back […]
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Headlines
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
• Osu Makes Case For Free Education WITH this year’s celebration of the Children’s Day come heart-felt calls from the chief celebrants on political leaders, especially the president and the governors, to focus on providing basic amenities in fulfillment of their campaign promises to the people. Similarly, the Social Communications of the Catholic Archdiocese of […]
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American Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
ALTHOUGH the United States government condemns the activities of the Boko Haram sect, its State Department is concerned that designating the group a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) may become counter-productive, according to sources close to both US and Nigerian governments. The situation presents what sources believe is a strategic dilemma for the American Government, which clearly […]
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All People Grand Alliance (APGA), Biafra, Party Politics
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
*Party chairman, Gov. Okorocha, others boycott parley By Tony Nwankwo, Tony Edike, Enugu and Peter Okutu, Abakaliki By voice vote, members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), yesterday, in Enugu consented to plans to structure the party so that it could emerge as a formidable platform for future electoral contests. At the enlarged meeting […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Saturday, May 26th, 2012
A team of policemen attached to the Central Police Station, Onitsha, Anambra State on Friday shot dead four suspected armed robbers, who were noted to have been terrorising the city of Onitsha and Asaba. Saturday Tribune gathered that the suspects had organised themselves inside a thick forest in Omelumgbome, in Delta State where they wanted […]