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Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, South-East
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The controversy trailing the last presidential election took another dimension yesterday when members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) disowned the party’s standard-bearer, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. They said that the election was the freest ever conducted in Nigeria. After the results of the presidential election were announced, Buhari had rejected results in the South […]
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Anambra, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News, Women Politics
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Former Minister of information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has sensationally revealed what transpired in the inconclusive Anambra Central Senatorial District election on April 9, which she contested. In an interview, in her Abuja residence, Akunyili dismisses the bribery allegation made by the former returning officer in the election. She told Saturday Sun that there […]
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General Politics, Kaduna, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Barely one week after the presidential election, tragedy struck the household of vice presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, when his Lagos home was gutted by fire yesterday. No life was lost. Saturday Sun gathered that the fire, which affected a section of the building, on Abiodun Olaiya Street, […]
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Education, General Politics, Headlines, National Politics, Women Politics
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The federal government has ordered for immediate blacklisting of examination centres nationwide, identified to be promoting examination malpractices variously called ‘’miracle, magic and special centres’’. The minister of education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i gave the directive in her office while inaugurating an implementation committee on ‘release my result’ which is charged with ensuring prompt and […]
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Articles, Elections 2011, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
In this information age, every editor’s worst nightmare is how to discern the wheat from the chaff that they are fed with from different sources on a big news day. Starting from the social networks, electronic mail, BlackBerry instant messenger, regular SMS and phone calls, to good old television, coupled with all the wireless gadgets […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Top Stories
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
New York-based TIME Magazine has named the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi among the 2011 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the most influential people in the world. The full list and related attributes appear in the May 2 issue of the magazine, available from today. The Time 100 […]
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Elections 2011, Nigerian Police
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Kaduna 400, Niger 136, Kano 120, Bauchi 200, Adamawa 128 Elections postponed in Kaduna, Bauchi to April 28 A total of 984 persons have been arrested across five states for the violent protests that led to breakdown of law and order in those places. The protest were in reaction to the release of the result […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
CPC’s allegations unfounded – Jega The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has challenged the Congress for Progressive Change’s, presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to produce evidence that the presidential poll was rigged in favour of its candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan. The party said that Buhari’s allegations of rigging, baseless as they are, amounted to ‘sour grapes’ […]
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Latest Politics, Women Politics
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The only woman presidential candidate in last Saturday’s presidential election, Ebiti Jegede (otherwise known as Mrs Ebiti Ndok) has been arraigned before the Magistrate Court sitting in Karu, Abuja for issuing two separate dud cheques to two different hotels to offset bills for her lodgement. The ANDP presidential candidate was arrested shortly after she finished […]
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General Politics, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The son of the late Head of State General Sani Abacha, Mohammed, on has asked the Supreme Court to stay the judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal which invalidated his nomination as the Kano State governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change. In a notice of Appeal by his […]
