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Oliseh mourns Okafor

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, January 10th, 2011

Former Nigeria international, Sunday Oliseh has described the death of his former team mate in the national team, Uche Okafor as a “very great loss to Nigerian football. Sunday Oliseh Speaking in an interview with BBC, the former Super Eagles attacking midfielder said, “”there is something a lot of people don’t talk about. In a […]

Tension as PDP Holds Primaries

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, January 10th, 2011

There was tension yesterday in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, as information filtered in that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed the primary election to pick the governorship candidate of the party in the April poll. But across the country, there was no upset as PDP governors won their tickets amidst protests from other aspirants […]

Again, gunmen attack Church in Maiduguri

Posted by admin Borno, State News Monday, January 10th, 2011

A police constable attached to Cocin Church at Gomari ward of Maiduguri metropolis, Mr. P .C. Amos, was shot dead last night by suspected serial killers that had been terrorising the state since the Boko Haram crisis in 2009. Nigerian Tribune gathered that residents of Gomari Airport in Maiduguri metropolis, were thrown into confusion following […]

George, 5 others regain freedom next month •14 prisoners plead for clemency

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, January 10th, 2011

Former national deputy chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South-West, Chief Olabode George and five others will on February 28 regain their freedom. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the former chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and others were jailed for financial mismanagement at the port during his tenure. The suspects who were jailed […]

More amendments to 1999 Constitution coming – Jonathan

Posted by admin Constitution, Latest Politics Monday, January 10th, 2011

HISTORY was made in Abuja on Monday, as President Goodluck Jonathan assented to the first ever amendments of the 1999 Constitution with a pledge to send more areas for amendment once the next National Assembly is inaugurated later this year. Flanked by Senate President, Senator David Mark and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable […]

Zamfara commissioner stripped naked during Assembly by-election

Posted by admin State News, Zamfara Monday, January 10th, 2011

Thugs stripped a female commissioner in Zamfara State, (name withheld) naked during the just-concluded House of Assembly by-election in Anka, which took place at the weekend. An eyewitness told the Nigerian Tribune that the commissioner, who is a card-carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was seen by some thugs distributing wrappers and detergents […]

I’m Not Afraid to Die, Says Tinubu

Posted by admin Top Stories Sunday, January 9th, 2011

FormerLagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said he was not afraid of death and stressed that threats to his life or a phantom frame up that is politically motivated was one of the greatest disservice to enthroning democratic stability in Nigeria. Tinubu told reporters yesterday at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on […]

Sarah Jibril Asks Court to Stop Atiku

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday, January 9th, 2011

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mrs. Sarah Jibril, has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja for an order of injunction restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting the nomination of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as a presidential aspirant of the ruling party for the April general election. This comes […]

Jos: House Burning Escalate

Posted by admin National Politics, Plateau, State News Sunday, January 9th, 2011

As efforts are being made by the security agency to contain the crisis that broke up in Jos city following the congress of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Angwa Doki area of Bukuru in Jos south local government went on fire leading to shoot out between security men and hoodlums. Secret killings and burning […]

Jonathan, Atiku appear before PDP screening panel

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday, January 9th, 2011

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will today Screen its Presidential aspirants to get the party’s flagbearer for the April Presidential election. Those to appear before the Ambassador Aminu Wali led 10 –member Screening Committee are President Goodluck Jonathan, former vice-President Atiku Abubakar , Mrs Sarah Jibril and Alhaji Aminu Dutsima from Katsina state and thereafter […]