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State News, Zamfara
Friday, March 18th, 2011
The die is cast. The battle line is drawn in Zamfara State between the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP). But where will the pendulum of victory swing? The answer lies in the womb of time. The unfolding events indicate that Zamfara is one of the states where next month’s general […]
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Elections 2011
Friday, March 18th, 2011
Presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigerian (ACN), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has said that he is still a candidate in next month’s presidential election. In a statement issued yesterday, on his behalf, the Ribadu Adeola Campaign Organization said it has recently been inundated with calls and queries from the media, friends, associates and teeming […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, March 18th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday adduced reason he did not participate in the presidential debate organised by the NN24, a channel on DSTV. The debate held, in Abuja yesterday. In a statement by the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation, signed by Mr. Ide Eguabor, director of media/publicity, the president said that he opted out of the debate because […]
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Latest Politics, Top Stories
Friday, March 18th, 2011

The presidential candidates of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari; Mallam Nuhu Ribadu of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) last night engaged in war of words as they tried to convince Nigerian voters to pick them as the next president […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, March 18th, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, at the Northern Economic Summit, lamented that the once rich and glorious Northern Nigeria has fallen far below the Human Development Index, saying something went “grossly wrong.” Also, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, took […]
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Enugu, State News
Friday, March 18th, 2011
ENUGU – WOMEN in Aku community, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State are now living in fear, following violent attacks by Odo masqueraders, which stripped two women in broad day-light for allegedly wearing trousers. The scourge of the latest masquerade scare, which had raised security concern in parts of the state, according to sources, […]
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Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Friday, March 18th, 2011
Port Harcourt – Following the bomb scare at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Wednesday, Nollywood Actress Hilda Dokubo, has rejected newspaper reports, that she was arrested, insisting that she could not have been arrested and was never arrested. The actress had boarded a plane at the Port Harcourt International Airport on her way to Lagos […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics
Friday, March 18th, 2011
IBADAN- UNLIKE the previous elections when governors, their deputies and other public officers moved about unhindered , the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said such movement and undue influence would not be allowed in the April elections. It said the restriction order did not exclude anybody except those on election duties, pointing out to […]
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Elections 2011
Friday, March 18th, 2011
ABUJA – As part of its contribution towards conduct of free, fair and credible polls during the forthcoming general elections, the European Union Election Observation Mission, EOM, has deployed 52 observers to monitor the conduct of the polls across the country. The team of observers, which had already arrived Nigeria, are expected to be deployed […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, March 18th, 2011
The UN Security Council has endorsed a resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya, with the three African Union members of the Council, Nigeria, Gabon and South Africa, voting in its favour. UN security council members vote on the resolution to impose a no-fly zone on Libya. Photograph: Monika Graff/Getty Images Resolution 1973 (2011), passed […]