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Education, General Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
The chairman of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Mr Sampson Akpabi, has said that out of 1.5 million candidates who sat for the examination this year, only 350,000 would be admitted. He made this clarification on the occasion of the 2011 combined technical committee meeting for the Unified Tertiary Institution Matriculation Examinations (UTME) admission […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, NNP Spotlight
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
State Security Services (SSS) yesterday picked up former Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The SSS said el-Rufai had accused the security forces of receiving N286 billion for their operations but had nothing to show for it, which was why insecurity in the country […]
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General Politics, Judiciary, Latest Politics
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, yesterday said critics of President Goodluck Jonathan over his approval of National Judicial Council (NJC)’s suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal (PCA), Justice Ayo Salami are biased and partisan in their views. He accused them of ignoring the provisions […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Raw Politics
Monday, August 22nd, 2011
A former Minister of Aviation in the Olusegun Obasanjo-led administration, Femi Fani-Kayode, yesterday said it was wrong for his former boss to have attacked ex-military president Ibrahim Babamasi Babangida (IBB). Ex-military governor of Katsina State, Col. John Madaki (rtd), called on the duo to sheathe their swords in the interest of peace. Fani-Kayode was one […]
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Bayelsa, General Politics, Oil Politics, State News, Top Stories
Friday, August 19th, 2011
THOUSANDS have fled the Ikarama community, Bayelsa state following an inferno triggered by an oil spill from a Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) pipeline. No fewer than 100 houses were also burnt by the fire, which has compounded the problems arising from the spill. Saturday Tribune gathered that the damage could have been worse, but […]
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General Politics, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency, Top Stories
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Former Chief of General Staff (CGS) and military Vice-President under the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, is dead, aged 72. A personal aide to the ex-CGS, Mr. Clement Iriata, a lawyer, confirmed Aikhomu’s death, yesterday. He was said to have passed on at a Lagos hospital after a prolonged illness. In a […]
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General Politics, National Politics
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
For the second time in less than one week, Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos High Court in Igbosere on Monday shielded the former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, from being cross-examined on a vital document in the trial. However, she admitted the document […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency, Raw Politics
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Signing the death warrant of a childhood friend is not exactly a position anyone would like to be — especially when that friend had become more like a blood brother. As former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, marks his 70th birthday Wednesday, he looks back in pain, revealing that the execution of Major-General Mamman […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Tochukwu Ezukanma, Top Stories
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
This news from Germany is really disturbing. Why is it that our leaders make us laughing objects before the international community and they will turn around to accuse us, the poor and voiceless masses? This accusation from “The Voice Baden Württemberg” in Germany that most Nigerian refugees are deported without proper identification or procedure is […]
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EFCC Politics, General Politics, Governors, Latest Politics
Friday, August 12th, 2011
THE chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, has disclosed that 72 per cent (about 26) of former governors in Nigeria are being investigated by the commission. The commission has also recorded over 600 convictions and recovered almost 12 billion dollars in the last eight years. Mrs Waziri made the […]
