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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, May 9th, 2015

Top left: Osamor; top bottom: Onwurah; middle: Cameron; top right: Grant; top bottom: Umunna. In one of the most keenly contested general elections in British history, four Nigerians won seats to the revered parliament, making it the first time such feat would be recorded Against all odds, David Cameron has won his re-election bid in […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

This handout picture released by the Nigerian army on April 30, 2015 and taken this week in an undisclosed location in the Sambisa Forest, Borno state, purportedly shows a member of the Nigerian Army standing next to a group of girls rescued in an operation against the Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram hostages were […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
By Madu Onuorah, Abuja Bureau Chief on April 29, 2015 68429 • Identities yet to be confirmed NIGERIAN troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast have rescued no fewer than 200 girls and 93 women from Sambisa forest in Borno State. Defence Headquarters, in a tweet yesterday, described the operation as ‘daring and precise,’ […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Wednesday, said four Nigerians executed in Indonesia for drug-related offences might have been denied their right to Nigerian lawyers. Martin Anderson, (50); Silvester Nwolise, (47); Okwudili Oyatanze, (41), and Jamiu Abashin, (50), along with four others, were shot dead by […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
[print] Sacked Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Abdullahi Habib Sacked Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority, Abdullahi Habib President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday sacked Mallam Habib Abdullahi as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority. He has also named Alhaji Sanusi Bayero as his replacement. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, April 30th, 2015

The Federal Government has warned the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, against utterances and actions capable of portraying him as running a parallel government at a time President Goodluck Jonathan is still fully in charge. The Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Sulaiman, disclosed this at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on […]
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Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
One of the top contenders for the Senate presidency, Senator George Akume, and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday met at the Lagos home of Tinubu. Our correspondent learnt that at the meeting which took place around 3pm, Tinubu told Akume to shelve his ambition and support Senator […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Friday, April 24th, 2015

By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA – In a move to accord the President-Elect, General Mohammadu Buhari some presidential respect even before being sworn-in, the federal government has made available the Defence House for his private and official engagements. Vanguard gathered that the House was built by the regime of the former Military president, Ibrahim Babangida. The […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, April 24th, 2015

President Goodluck Jonathan and the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday met behind closed-doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The meeting which lasted about 30minutes started at about 3pm with the arrival of the President-elect and members of his entourage. A few minutes before his arrival, Jonathan walked a distance of about 100 metres […]
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Constitution, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Legislature, Presidency, Senate
Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Joseph Erunke, ABUJA—AS the Presidency drags the National Assembly to the Supreme Court seeking an order to nullify all the proposed amendments to the 1999 constitution, majority of senators said yesterday that they were ready to meet the presidency in court. Members of the House of Representatives on their […]