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House, Legislature
Friday, January 6th, 2012
A member of the House of Representatives, Monsur Alao Owolabi, has described President Goodluck Jonathan’s removal of fuel subsidy as an impeachable offence. Speaking exclusively to Daily Sun in Lagos, Owolabi who represents Mainland Federal Constituency hinged this on the fact that the president did the withdrawal illegally. Said he: “It is a big fraud. […]
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Latest Politics, Women Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
Friday January 06, 2012 • Iweala Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The Minister for Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has debunked online reports of threatening to resign her appointment if the Jonathan-led administration bows to public pressure and rescinds its decision on removal of fuel subsidy. She said the reports, which tried […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
PROTESTS against the removal of petrol subsidy continued on Thursday, as they spread to various states in the country, including Edo, Zamfara, Bauchi, Kaduna, Ekiti and Ondo. Since the announcement of the removal of subsidy on fuel on Sunday, there have been protests by organised labour, human rights activists and others condemning the removal. The […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
MEMBERS of the Boko Haram sect, on Wednesday evening, killed two members of a family; an 80-year-old man, Usman Durkwa and his 40-year-old son, Musa Durkwa, a staff member of Himma Secondary School in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. This is just as members of the Operation Restore Order of the Joint Task Force […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
A team of experts constituted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to review its operations in 2011 ahead of the 2015 general election, on Thursday, urged its chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, to intensify efforts at the ongoing restructuring of the commission to make it a competent election management body. The team, christened “Registration and Election Review […]
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Bayelsa, State News
Friday, January 6th, 2012
With less than two months to the conduct of the governorship election in Bayelsa State, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Honourable Seriake Dickson, on Thursday, said the case of the alleged diversion of N150 million levelled against him by the state House of Assembly and the Governor Timipre Sylva’s administration […]
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Cross River, Headlines, State News
Friday, January 6th, 2012
GOVERNOR LIYEL IMOKE CALABAR, January 04, (THEWILL) – Tinkoriko Mission Hill, a socio cultural group comprising of youths of voting age from the Southern Senatorial Distinct of Cross River State, has identified with the people oriented policy thrust programme of Governor Liyel Imoke and assured him of support in the April 2012 gubernatorial election. While […]
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Kano, State News
Friday, January 6th, 2012
KANO, January 04, (THEWILL) – Hundreds of youths Wednesday in Kano converged at the ever busy Zaria Road by the famous Silver Jubilee roundabout and totally barricaded the area, thereby causing serious traffic gridlock as mass protests continued over the federal government’s transfer of subsidy on petroleum products. Although the protest was conducted in a […]
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Boko Haram
Friday, January 6th, 2012
AS the three-day ultimatum given to southerners in the northern part of the country by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to vacate the region expires, the traditional ruler of the Yoruba in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Oba Olusegun Salau, has urged all non-indigenes in the North not to panic but to stay in their […]
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Oyo, State News
Friday, January 6th, 2012
THE Court of Appeal in Ibadan has dismissed an appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State to challenge the election of the state governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on the grounds that the governor allegedly held Nigerian and United States of America citizenship. The court, in […]
