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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
By Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | Oct. 4, 2015 – The September 17 2015 coup in Burkina Faso against the country’s interim leadership contains important lessons in democratic consolidation in Africa. Under pressure from demonstrators, striking labour unions and the continental regional organizations – the African Union and ECOWAS – the coup leader, Gen. […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
By Ikechukwu Amaechi | NNP | Oct. 4, 2015 – Saturday, September 5, was exactly 100 days since Muhammadu Buhari took the oath of office as President. His four-year term has 1,461 days and 100 days are only 6.8 per cent of it. Though it has almost become a global convention to assess the achievements […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Latest Politics, Raw Politics, Top Stories, Women Politics
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke The British National Crime Agency has dispatched a team of detectives to Nigeria who are now working with the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, during the administration of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan. Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH revealed […]
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Headlines, Ogun, State News
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
Mubashiru Abiola Mubashiru Abiola, younger brother of the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, the Chief MKO Abiola, is dead. He was aged 73. He reportedly died on Friday after a three-month protracted illness and he has been buried in Abeokuta on Saturday. Tears flowed freely at the Gaa in Sabo […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
The Vatican, on Saturday, fired a senior priest, Krzysztof Charamsa, who publicly came out as gay on the eve of a major meeting of church leaders to discuss the Church’s stance on social issues such as divorce and homosexuality. A statement by a spokesman for Pope Francis described the Polish priest’s action as “very […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
fricans from other countries go through a mixed bag of experiences trying to survive in Nigeria, writes FOLASHADE ADEBAYO At the Agidingbi Mechanic Village, Lagos, which is usually marked by the pulsating noise of metals, tyres and batteries, the man, ‘Yellow’, needs no introduction. For 15 years, the fair-complexioned Togolese, whose actual name is John […]
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Headlines, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
The immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, was on Friday arrested in the UK National Crime Agency, PREMIUM TIMES can exclusively and authoritatively report. The former minister, who was one of the most powerful officials of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, was arrested Friday morning alongside four other people by the British law […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
The Acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said on Thursday that 80 members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, had surrendered to the troops of the Nigerian Army in Borno State. Those who surrendered, the Army spokesman said, included Boko Haram commanders, foot soldiers and suppliers of logistics. Usman said in a […]
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Headlines, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
-Punch The Senate will on Wednesday decide the procedure for screening ministerial nominees submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, who said this in an exclusive interview with one of our correspondents on Thursday in Abuja, assured Nigerians that the screening of ministerial nominees would not be delayed by the […]
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Headlines, Oyo, State News
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
-Punch The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has begun investigation into allegations of forgery, fraudulent conversion and obtaining the sum of N400m by false pretence against Mr. Adeyeye Ogunwusi and his firm, Metropole Interproject Limited. Ogunwusi is one of the contestants for the vacant stool of the Ooni of Ile-Ife, Osun State. In a petition […]
