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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
As events in Imo State increasingly indicate that Governor Ikedi Ohakim may lose his treasured throne tonight as the gubernatorial election in Imo State concludes, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has assured SaharaReporters that contrary to one of our earlier reports, he is in Abuja, not the United […]
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Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate
Friday, May 6th, 2011
When the late flambouyant and effervescent Senate president, Dr. Chuba Okadigbo, called the shots in politics, not much was heard of his wife, Margery. But she was strongly behind the late senator, who she called the master. Mrs. Okadigbo, who said she learnt a lot from her husband, recently stepped into the political arena, where […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Today’s “Supplementary Elections” called by INEC to complete Imo’s “inconclusive” gubernatorial elections ran into troubled waters in Oguta local government area in the state as election materials failed to arrive the area on time. It was not clear what happened to the materials as at the time of filling this report but women in the […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, said it arrested the wife of the sacked Managing Director of PlatinumHabib Bank (PHB), Mrs Elizabeth Atuche, for allegedly colluding with her husband, Francis Atuche, to steal N100 billion depositors’ funds while the latter was in charge of the bank. Her company was said to have […]
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Headlines
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
A renowned global rating agency, Fitch Ratings, has warned that Nigeria faces a ratings downgrade to B+ from BB- if the newly elected government fails to implement badly needed post-elections reforms to improve its outlook. Fitch’s director of sovereign and international public finance Veronica Kalema, told Reuters in a phone interview, on Wednesday, that the […]
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Presidency, Top Stories, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Today marks one year anniversary of the death of former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The Katsina-born statesman was committed to good governance. He enunciated a seven point agenda that encapsulated his administration’s policy thrust including electoral reform and resolving the Niger Delta crisis. He initiated the amnesty programme as part of efforts to find […]
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Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate, South-East, South-West
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
AS part of his ongoing consultations on the formation of the next administration in line with the federal character principle enshrined in the constitution, President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday invited the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, to the Obudu Cattle Ranch in Cross River State, venue of his seven-day retreat. Sources in Abuja […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, obviously took the gubernatorial polls in Imo State for granted. They believed that they had the structures, as well as completed and on_going projects executed by the present administration as their testimonial. Events have since shown that it was their biggest mistake. The opposition parties took […]
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Headlines, Imo, INEC Politics, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Some staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, serving in Imo State have been suspended from office and others charged to court for alleged complicity in the political stalemate in the state. The supervisory Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, for Imo State, Aniedi Abasi Ikoiwak, who disclosed this Thursday in Owerri while briefing the press, […]
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Bauchi, Governors, Niger Delta, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp)
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has berated Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State for his alleged comment on the killing of several National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members serving in the Northern part of the country. It will be recalled that Governor Yuguda was quoted last week as saying that the killers of the NYSC […]
