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Elections 2011
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
FORMER military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has sent a congratulatory message to President Goodluck Jonathan on his victory in last Saturday’s presidential poll. Babangida said Jonathan’s victory had put him in a good stead to further unite Nigeria, just as he admonished the president to assemble a good team to actualise his dream of a […]
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
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Action Congress of Nigeria, CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), Elections 2011, Party Politics
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Representatives of some of the opposition parties said they refused to sign the 2011 presidential result sheets as compiled by INEC because they noticed some irregularities. The parties are Congress for Progressive Change and Action Congress of Nigeria. NAN reports that besides the ruling PDP, it was only the representatives of ACN and CPC […]
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Ogun, State News
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, will on Wednesday (today) meet with President Goodluck Jonathan over the state governorship election. Investigations on Tuesday by our correspondents revealed that the meeting was a last minute effort by the President to resolve the crisis in the state Peoples Democratic Party before the April 26 polls. […]
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Katsina, Latest Politics
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Four persons have been burnt and 45 inmates released from the Federal Prisons in Funtua, Katsina State as the police and other security agencies battled to suppress the orgy of violence that had gripped the state since Sunday. Although state Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Shema, had imposed a curfew between 9pm and 7am on Monday, […]
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Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), INEC Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to ensure that the conduct of Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections was better than those of the presidential and National Assembly polls. Before he gave the order, after collecting his Certificate of Return at INEC’s Electoral Institute in Abuja, the President suspended the Minister […]
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NNP Spotlight
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
The defeated candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change in Saturday’s Presidential election, Maj.- Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has distanced himself, the CPC and its supporters from the violence that rocked some northern statess. The violence started on Sunday when results of the poll showed that President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party was coasting […]
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EFCC Politics
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
ABUJA – Justice Adebukola Banjoko of an Abuja High Court sitting at Gudu, yesterday, fixed May 10 to deliver ruling on the admissibility of fresh proof of evidence adduced against six top officials of the Rural Electrification Agency, REA, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The six officials are facing trial over a […]
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NNP Spotlight
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, suspended the Minister of Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Ihenacho, from office alleging official lapses. suspension of the minister was enveloped in the political intrigues in his native Imo State where he was alleged to have supported opposition party candidates during the National Assembly elections against Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidates promoted by […]
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Kaduna, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
KADUNA-BURNT corpses with machete wounds lay in roads and smoke rose above the city where rioting broke out again, Tuesday, among opposition supporters who were angered by the announcement that President Goodluck Jonathan had won the election. On the outskirts of the city, burnt out minibuses and cars littered the highways, and at least six […]
