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Latest Politics
Monday, February 14th, 2011
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday released the list of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), a week after President Jonathan had concluded zonal presidential campaigns. The list has the former Director-General of the Jonathan/Sambo campaign organisation which operated from Plateau House as the Director-General of the council. The council, which is to be inaugurated today, […]
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Columnists, NNP Columnists, Okey Ndibe
Monday, February 14th, 2011
Pask many a Nigerian what it would take to turn her country around, and you’re likely to get this answer: “Only God can solve the problems of this country.” The evidence so far is that God isn’t impressed. A people with the extraordinary natural resources and variety of human talent that Nigeria boasts has no […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, February 14th, 2011
ROM the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has come a warning that Nigerians should desist from encroaching on the pipeline right of way to avoid the tragic consequences that usually follow such encroachment. The corporation spoke as a combined team of pipeline engineers and safety/environment experts from the NNPC and its subsidiary, Pipelines and Product […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, February 14th, 2011
FORMER Nigerian Permanent Representative in the United Nations (UN), Alhaji Maitama Sule, has argued that the Nigerian problem has no bearing with religious differences but with the individual practitioners who are not faithful to the teachings of their Holy Books. Sule spoke yesterday at the opening ceremony of the 25th National Qur’anic Recitation Competition in […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, February 14th, 2011
NIGERIA’S moribund automobile sector may be on the way to a rebound as the Federal Government mobilises funds for the operators. The project, to be executed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through the Bank of Industry (BoI), will cost about N550 billion. The money will be raised under a special intervention fund for […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Monday, February 14th, 2011
The death of his wife, Doris, an employee of Bank PHB, has not only left a vacuum in Eugene Okere’s life, but also made him a widower with the added burden of bringing up an eight-month-old baby, Chidiebere. He had to engage a nanny to care for the baby who has been exposed to the […]
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Ogun, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Monday, February 14th, 2011
Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a former member of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Lola Abiola-Edewor, and other members of the faction of the Peoples Democratic Party led by Chief Joju Fadairo on Sunday said they would not quit the party. The governor, who led members of the faction to a meeting that lasted […]
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Elections 2011
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Commission, says it will begin the verification of the voter registration on Monday (today) throughout the country. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Sunday. According to him, the exercise will take place from February […]
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Education, Headlines
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
Ruth, wife of the slain Chief Security Officer of the Federal College of Land Resources Technology, Jos, Plateau State, Mr. Haruna Danjuma, has given a gory account of how her husband was killed, on Thursday, by some alleged herdsmen in his quarters located inside the school premises. Apart from being the chief security officer of […]
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Headlines
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
A 36-year-old trader, Mrs. Abigail Osakwe, was allegedly murdered by her driver in Jebba town, Kwara State on Sunday. THE PUNCH learnt that the driver, Sule Salau aka ‘Elegusi’, allegedly murdered his boss in an attempt to forcefully take away an undisclosed amount of money meant for trading. The late Delta State-born Osakwe, who studied […]
