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Rivers, State News
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
SPECIAL Assistant to Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi on Students Affairs, Dike Princewill, has been arrested by the State Security Services (SSS) for purportedly threatening to kill the governor. The Assistant Director, Operations and Intelligence, Mr. Kunle Ajanaku, disclosed yesterday that Amaechi’s aide was arrested at the weekend for sending death threats through short message […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
MORE facts emerged yesterday on why the ongoing voters’ registration is enmeshed in controversies and avoidable lapses. While some were discovered to be purely technical, others were induced by boardroom politics within the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the choice of vendors, equipment and consultants. But most importantly, the questions most Nigerians are asking […]
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Cliff I. Edogun, PhD, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
By Dr. Cliff I. Edogun, NNP – Feb 1, 2011 – At no time in our checkered political history have Nigerian voters been offered such a choice between two new generation of political leaders whose intellectual depth and sense of vision far surpass the trove of auctioned certificate and degree holders of our recent past. […]
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Africa & World Politics
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has warned that Nigeria may eventually be the next flash point in Africa after Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt if increasing poverty level, high cost of living and mass unemployment are not urgently addressed. In an interactive session with editors in Lagos yesterday, President of the congress, Mr. Ibrahim Omar, noted […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has said that Nigerians did not understand the Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, when he (Sanusi) said members of the National Assembly alone were spending 25 per cent of the country’s annual budget. Makarfi, who spoke to journalists in Kaduna at an interactive forum disclosed that he […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Two weeks after policemen rescued a self-confessed witch from being lynched by a mos at the Gowon Estate in Lagos, the police are at a loss as to what to do with the woman. Deputy Police Public Relations Officer in Lagos, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, told Daily Sun that the woman is still in the custody […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Hakeem Babalola
Monday, January 31st, 2011
By Hakeem Babalola, Budapest, Hungary – Jan. 31, 2011 – More than three hundred and fifty Africans in the Diaspora converged in Tripoli to participate in an historical conference held for three days in a continuous effort to find permanent solution to the plights of African migrants in Europe and around the world. The conference […]
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Plateau, State News, Top Stories
Monday, January 31st, 2011
A new set of military men from the Nigerian Army arrived in Jos yesterday to take over from the officers and men on ground following a mass protest by over 20,000 women. The soldiers who arrived in almost 20 Marco Polo buses were immediately taken to the headquarters of the Special Task Force (STF) close […]
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National Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Monday, January 31st, 2011
Presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday cried out that he had no link with former President Olusegun Obasanjo again. He made the response while responding to an allegation that he was OBJ’s stooge on facebook. Ribadu, through his campaign group said it was a malicious way of hacking […]
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Headlines
Monday, January 31st, 2011
Alhaji Badamasi Kabir Usman, the son-in-law of former president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, was yesterday reported to have completely lost the basic functions of his brain while in admission in a London hospital.Badamasi, who represents the Katsina federal constituency in the House of Representatives, is the son of the late Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Muhammadu Kabir […]
