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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Presidency
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
SIGNALS that President Goodluck Jonathan has started plotting how to grab the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party for the 2015 election emerged on Monday with the President reaching out to respective former governors of Zamfara and Borno states, Ahmed Yerima and Ali Modu-Sheriff. Our correspondent learnt that the President wanted the two influential […]
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Governors, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Friday, January 18th, 2013
The National Chairman of the crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has said the party is superior to the offices of President and governor. Tukur, in a veiled reference to the lingering battle for the control of the soul of the PDP, advised the party members and other Nigerians to learn to build institutions […]
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Governors, South-East
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha The new Igbo leader and leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has warned the Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Martin Elechi, to desist from distracting Ndigbo trying to conduct another election in Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Uwazuruike said Ndigbo would no longer allow […]
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Governors, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, January 17th, 2013
BY HENRY UMORU & IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA—PIQUED by what they perceived as insincerity on the part of leaders driving the reconciliation efforts in the crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors elected on the platform of the party will shun today’s National Working Committee, NWC, meeting. Vanguard gathered that the PDP governors were determined to shun […]
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Governors, South-East
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
By ANAYO OKOLI UMUAHIA—CAMPAIGN for Democracy, CD, has commended South East governors and security agencies in the zone for maintaining a crime free Christmas and New Year celebrations. CD, in a statement signed by the zonal chairman and secretary, Mr. Uzor A. Uzor and Dr. Jerry Chukwuokolo, said the governors in the zone did their […]
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Adamawa, Governors, Headlines, State News, Taraba
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
From AIDOGHIE PAULINUS, Abuja Former governor of Adamawa State, Boni Haruna, has said that the alleged plan to remove from office, the governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Suntai, is wicked, callous and irresponsible. Haruna, who suffered a similar fate in the twilight of his days in office during the power tussle between former President Olusegun […]
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Bayelsa, General Politics, Governors, State News, Top Stories
Friday, January 4th, 2013
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday seized 48 properties belonging to the former governor of Bayelsa state, Timpre Sylva who is being prosecuted at the Federal High Court, Abuja for alleged misappropriation of N6.46 billion state funds while in office. According to a release issued by the Ag. Head, Media and Publicity, […]
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Governors, Headlines
Wednesday, December 26th, 2012
… Urges security agencies not to despair From AKIN ALOFETEKUN, Minna The Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) has condemned the spate of terrorist attacks rocking the nation just as it urged security agencies working to restore normalcy in the region not to despair. Chairman of the forum and Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Osun, Oyo, State News
Monday, December 24th, 2012
THE Oyo and Osun state governments have been urged to harmonise efforts and jointly re-open the case file of the slain former Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, the late Chief Bola Ige, so that those who assassinated him on December 23, 2001 could be fished out and brought to book. Former president of […]
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Edo, Governors, Headlines, Kano, State News
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
DECEMBER 23, 2012 BY ALLWELL OKPI 42 COMMENTS | credits: bhagwad.com Since 1999, only two governors have signed death warrants of the execution of death row inmates in the country. The first was in 2006 by the former governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State, while the second was by Governor Adams Oshiomhole in October 2012. […]
