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Elections 2011, Headlines
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
THE 2011 general election may have started experiencing hiccups amid plans to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from conducting the elections based on the timetable it released some weeks ago. Indications to this effect emerged on Monday, following a motion filed in an Abuja Federal High Court by some political parties, led by […]
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Elections 2011, Headlines
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
The Federal Government has ordered that all cargoes arriving the nation’s airports must henceforth be taken to cargo sheds within 30 minutes on arrival. The order followed the theft of 20 Direct Data Capturing machines at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, a few weeks ago. The stolen DDC machines were part of the 132, […]
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Elections 2011, Headlines, Kano, State News
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
One of the new parties making waves in the country, with amazing followership is the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). As a new party, it prides itself as perhaps, the surest path to the nurturing of a truly democratic institution, capable of galvanizing the Nigerian electorate for the common good. Majority of its followers, who […]
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Headlines, Lagos
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its political gladiators not to distract the country’s preparation for 2011 general elections with its zoning policy. Fashola who carpeted those involved in the zoning and rotational presidency palaver when the national executive of Ansar- Udeen […]
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Headlines, Oyo
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao Akala of Oyo State has declared that he is ready to drop his immunity and subject himself to questioning by law enforcement agents over his alleged complicity in death threats said to have been issued to some prominent citizens of the state. The governor, who said this while speaking with newsmen in […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
I must state as a prelude to my comments on post-independence elections in Nigeriathat I have never taken part in partisan politics and I do not aspire to do so, even now that I am in retirement. I have been a public servant virtually all my career. Partisan politics never appeals to me. Additionally, at […]
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Headlines, National Politics
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
A Nigerian, Hajiya Zainab Suleiman,62, on Sunday died aboard an Ethiopian airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Abuja. The deceased’s husband, Alhaji Suleiman Abdulra’uf, a Kano-based businessman, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent in Addis Ababa that they were returning from New Delhi, when they transited to Addis Ababa and boarded another plane […]
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Headlines
Monday, December 20th, 2010
An Abuja Magistrate court sitting in wuse zone 2 yesterday slammed 3 months imprisonment on an 18-year-old boy, Thompson Faasama for stealing and mischief by fire. Thompson Faasama, a cleaner with Assorted Foods Ltd Abuja was caught red-handed with N517,095 money belonging to his company and consequently arrested by the police on the 7th of […]
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Headlines, National Politics
Monday, December 20th, 2010
The Police Service Commission (PSC) yesterday announced the promotion of 35 deputy commissioners of police to the rank of commissioners. In the same vein, 46 assistant commissioners of police were also elevated to the rank of deputy commissioners of police, while 56 chief superintendents of police were promoted to assistant commissioners of police. Eighty-six superintendents […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Monday, December 20th, 2010
The Joint (Military) Task Force (JTF) on the Niger Delta yesterday arrested 11 suspected pipeline vandals including a native doctor along the creeks of the Delta with over 172,500 illegally refined petroleum products worth several millions of naira. The suspects were arrested in two wooden boats popularly called “Pekpekpe” along the Igbomaturu creek in Southern […]
