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General Politics, Latest Politics, Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate, Top Stories
Saturday, February 13th, 2016
The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and the authorities of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Saturday agreed with the Senate to halt the alleged abduction of the senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District, Buruji Kashamu, to the United States. Kashamu had alleged penultimate week that the anti drug agency was conniving with […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, February 13th, 2016
Fraudulent federal civil servants may have defrauded the Federal Government of more than N5bn annually, estimates made by SUNDAY PUNCH have shown. The minimum wage of a government worker is N18,000. This means that a worker earns a basic salary of N216,000 annually, excluding allowances. The Federal Government has concluded plans to probe no fewer […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, February 13th, 2016
Lt. Gen Theophilus Danjuma on Saturday said he was the third person on the list of those marked for assassination during the failed 13 February, 1976 coup d’état that claimed the life of the then Head-of-State, Gen. Murtala Muhammed, and many others. He said this at the Murtala Muhammed 40th Memorial Lecture held at the […]
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Budget, Latest Politics
Saturday, February 13th, 2016
By Omoniyi Salaudeen THE much awaited 2016 appropriation bill before the National Assembly may take a little longer than expected to be passed into law in view of the latest development arising from the debate of the document by the lawmakers. This time around, the issue is about the discrepancies in the figures contained in […]
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Latest Politics, Murtala Ramat Muhammed (1975-76), Presidency
Friday, February 12th, 2016
By Peter Okutu 40 years ago, after the calamitous coup failed, Lt. Colonel Buka Dimka who played a leading role in the events of February 13, 1976 sought refuge in the arms of an old girlfriend in Afikpo in the then Anambra State. An indigene of the town, Chief Jasper Okoro, a native of Afikpo […]
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Latest Politics, Murtala Ramat Muhammed (1975-76), Presidency
Friday, February 12th, 2016
Tomorrow would make it 40 years since Lt. Col. Buka Dimka and his gang of military adventurers instigated an aborted rebellion against a popular military administration that had quaked political powers not only in Nigeria but globally By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Those who had the booming sound of the gun shot that early Friday […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Friday, February 12th, 2016
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North & Kingsley Omonobi ABUJA—The Nigerian Airforce High Command stepped up its anti-corruption war, yesterday, with the removal of officers, including Air Officers Commanding, AOCs, fingered in the $2.1billion arms scandal and appointed new officers to replace them. As a result, Vanguard gathered that about four senior officers, Air Vice […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, February 12th, 2016
By Emman Ovuakporie & Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—THE Auditor General of the Federation, AGF, Samuel Okura, yesterday, said that the office was under-funded by the Ministry of Finance to carry out its functions. Okura, who disclosed this during the budget defence of N2.986 billion appropriated to the office with the Public Accounts Commission, PAC, against the […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, EFCC Politics, Latest Politics, Navy
Thursday, February 11th, 2016
-Punch The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized houses and other properties belonging to the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (retd.), and other senior military officers worth N5bn. Our correspondent learnt on Wednesday that the properties, which were seized in the Ikoyi, Ikeja GRA and Badagry areas of […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Navy
Thursday, February 11th, 2016
•Says Obasanjo wrong on Chibok schoolgirls By Chris Iwarah The military has denied the claim by Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed that troops combating Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East were doing so with substandard weapons purchased by the Jonathan administration. This is even as the authorities said hopes of rescuing the […]
