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Judiciary, Latest Politics
Friday, May 13th, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan will lead a high powered Federal Government delegation to the burial of Mrs Victoria Mimidoo Katsina-Alu, wife of the Chief Justice of the Federation, Justice Aloysius Katsina Alu at the country home of the Chief Justice at Tse-Alu, Mbayem, Ushongo local council of Benue State today. In an interview with The Guardian […]
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EFCC Politics
Friday, May 13th, 2011
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday in a statement made available to The Guardian, declared former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche and wife of detained former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank , Mrs. Anthonia Akingbola, wanted over alleged theft of N56 billion depositors’ funds. The former Chief Financial Officer of Bank […]
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Armed Forces, EFCC Politics
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Soldiers from the 2 Division, Nigerian Army, Ibadan, said over 108 hoodlums and political thugs were arrested at the last gubernatorial and state Assembly elections. Dangerous weapons such as machetes, dynamites, axe, dane guns, locally made pistols, 7.62mm live rounds of ammunitions, charms, cartridges, mobile phones were recovered from the hoodlums, among them women in […]
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Latest Politics, Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Last week, when the Federal Government and, indeed, Nigerians marked the first anniversary of the death of the late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua, not many knew that for the family, there was not much to cheer about the former number one citizen of the country. This is so because he did not leave anything, in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, May 13th, 2011
U.S. officials are analyzing one million pages of data from the trove found in Osama bin Laden’s compound during the raid that killed him, and say they have learned more in the past ten days than in the past 10 years. Among the things they have learned is that the al Qaeda leader wanted to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Moammar Gaddafi may have fled Tripoli and at least one Catholic official in Tripoli reports that the Libyan strongman has been hurt, the Italian foreign minister said yesterday. Franco Frattini said that Tripoli’s bishop has said Gaddafi is “probably wounded.” Frattini stressed that Italy has “no hard information on the current fate of Gaddafi.” Still, […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Friday, May 13th, 2011
By the time cases at election petitions tribunals are determined, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will invoke a section in the amended Electoral Act to deregister more than 50 political parties, Saturday Sun can authoritatively reveal. When this provision is invoked, only 10 political parties would survive. Part V, Section 7 of the Electoral […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Ugandan police shot at a crowd in the capital Kampala after it attacked a car carrying Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan who had attended President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration, a government spokesman said. At least one person was killed in the incident. “The car belonging to Goodluck Jonathan was stoned by mobs,” said Fred Opolot, director of […]
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Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency, South-East
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has thanked the people of the South East for massively voting for him during the just concluded Presidential election.Jonathan, at a one-day rally in Owerri on Friday, however, said the support and votes for him as President cannot be complete if the governors of the zone are not carried along in the […]