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Anarchy: Two Speakers In Bauchi Assembly

Posted by admin Bauchi, State News Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Yesterday armed mobile policemen with an armored tank cordoned off the entrance into the Bauchi State House of Assembly denying entrance to all staff, including members of the House in what was an escalation of the leadership crisis that engulfed the House since last week. The fully armed policemen were at the main entrance of […]

Insecurity: VP, NSC, 3 Govs in Crucial Meeting (Endless Meetings)

Posted by admin Latest Politics Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday chaired a meeting of National Security Council (NSC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in which the Council was said to have intensified efforts at addressing the current security problems in the country.This is just as Plateau State Governor; Da Jonah Jang yesterday chided those clamouring for the imposition of a […]

Jonathan Appoints Mu’azu NIMASA Chairman

Posted by admin Latest Politics Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed a former governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Ahmed Adamu Mu’azu, as chairman, board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). He replaces Senator Baba Tela, who recently resigned his appointment to run for governor under the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state. A […]

OBJ’ll Be Irrelevant After 2011 Elections – Balogun

Posted by admin National Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

The chairman of Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo would be absolutely irrelevant in Nigerian politics after the 2011 elections.This was the view of Senator Lekan Balogun, a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party and leader of a coalition against Alao Akala’s second term […]

EFCC Recovers $11b

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Latest Politics Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

The Federal government has pledged a renewed commitment to the fight against corruption in the country, just as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said it had recovered a total sum of $11 billion in seven years, from fraudulent persons, groups and organizations in and outside the country. The Vice President, Federal Republic of […]

1,393 DDC machines faulty in 14 states – Investigation

Posted by admin Elections 2011, INEC Politics Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

THE ongoing voter registration, which entered its last week on Sunday, has so far recorded a huge number of faulty Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines across the states of the federation. Investigation by the Nigerian Tribune revealed that no fewer than 1,393 machines are dysfunctional in 14 states across the geopolitical zones. The exercise began […]

Minister blames teachers for candidates’ failure in public exams

Posted by admin Education, Headlines, Ministries Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Minister of State for Education, Mr Kenneth Gbagi, has blamed teachers for poor performance of candidates in public examinations in the country, saying, “teachers are not doing enough to educate their students.” Gbagi declared in Minna, Niger State, on Tuesday, that, “from my point of view, it is not government that has failed; we have […]

Jos crisis, not religious – Kukah

Posted by admin Plateau, State News Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Socio-political commentator and Vicar-General, Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, Reverend Father Matthew Kukah, has warned Nigerians not to get confused, about the recent crisis in Jos and other parts of northern states of the nation with religion. Father Kukah, while addressing the Young Men Christian League of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Mount of East, Ebute […]

Nigerian Navy fights Nigerian Merchant Navy for supremacy

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

There seems to be a battle for supremacy between the Nigerian Navy and the Nigerian Merchant Navy with the former accusing the latter of impersonating the naval personnel by wearing its uniform. The cold war which has lingered for some years reached its peak last week, when the Nigerian Navy clamped down on the commandant […]

Politicians, not Boko Haram killed ANPP guber candidate, 5 others – Gov Sheriff

Posted by admin Latest Politics Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Following the murder of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) gubernatorial candidate and six others, Borno State governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, on Monday, described last Friday’s killing of the late Modu Fannami Gubio and his younger brother, Goni Mustapha Sheriff as politically motivated and not Boko Haram, as being generally insinuated. Sheriff said that […]