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Latest Politics
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
The West African Examination Council (WAEC), the highest examination body in Nigeria brought the gross incompetence in handling public information to the fore last week when it failed to produce statistics on past results it has released. For an examination body handling a magnitude of information, which could be rightly regarded as a public utility, […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
AS members of the crisis-ridden Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), in Ogun State go to the polls today to elect their standard flag-bearer for the forthcoming general elections, what is on the lips of residents of the state is whether the party would be able to overcome their problem or juHow Daniel, Obasanjo-Bello, Bankole emerged in […]
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Gombe, Latest Politics, Plateau, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
No fewer than nine persons were killed in a fresh wave of violence that erupted in Jos, the Plateau State capital, during the ward congresses of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) at the weekend. Making the weekend bloodier, a group of masked and armed bandits walked into a beer parlour in Gombe, Gombe State, […]
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Delta, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
The announcement of the final result of the Delta state gubernatorial re-run election may have once again thrown the state into another round of political brouhaha as some contestants have disputed the result, alleging gross electoral irregularities. PHILIP NYAM recounts how it all happened. After several weeks of mudslinging, muck raking, subterfuge and finally a […]
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Raw Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011

This Thursday, at the Eagle square in Abuja, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) delegates will at its special national convention, elect the party’s presidential flag-bearer for this year’s presidential election in April. Barring any last minute developments, Thursday’s contest will be between incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. Since the registration of […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
A 27-year-old teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with one of her own teenage students. The boy of 16 told police their relationship, which officers believe may have gone on for over a month, blossomed in her car. Ashley Blumenshine was arrested behind a department store in Plainfield, Illinois, after police caught her […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Delegate lobbying shifts to hotels || Aminu Wali chairs screening Panel || Determined to ensure security in Abuja as the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) holds its special national convention, the Nigeria Police Force will deploy its anti-terrorist squad to the Eagle Square, venue of the convention where the party’s presidential candidate for this April […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Americans who speak Yoruba It seems like a page out of a fiction novel to see five white American youths conversing in fluent Yoruba. But this is not fiction, as these Americans currently reside in the University of Ibadan studying one of the indigenous Nigerian languages, Yoruba. Tobiloba Fademi reports When SUNDAY PUNCH called to […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Worried by alleged link to terrorist acts in some parts of the country in recent times, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said that anybody who said the North was behind the spate of bomb explosions in the country was being irrational. The ACF specifically pointed fingers at President Goodluck Jonathan and alleged that “Federal […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
THE Presidency, yesterday denied allegations by Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) that President Jonathan blamed the North for the spate of bombings across the country. The ACF had on Friday accused the President of linking the North with the series of bomb blasts across the country. Presidential Spokesman, Ima Niboro, said in Abuja that President […]