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Governors, Latest Politics, Niger, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
MARCH 12, 2013 BY OLUSOLA FABIYI, ABUJA 110 COMMENTS Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi | credits: File copy Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, who is also the Governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, was among six governors that were not at the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, March 9th, 2013
Seven loud explosions shook Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday, witnesses said, hours after President Goodluck Jonathan ended a trip there to try to galvanize support for his battle against Islamist insurgents. Witnesses said the explosions happened within minutes of each other, suggesting the kind of coordinated strike that used to be the hallmark […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, March 8th, 2013
The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has thrown its weight behind President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision not to grant amnesty to the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. A chieftain of the group, Ayo Adebanjo, told Saturday PUNCH in a telephone interview on Friday that the President’s stance was a step in the right direction. The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Friday, March 8th, 2013
By Ndahi Marama, with agency reports Damaturu- President Goodluck Jonathan declared, yesterday, that his government will not grant amnesty to members of the Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram, as demanded by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III and some Northern groups. The president, who made the declaration while speaking in Damaturu at a […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
FORMER Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, dissected Nigeria’s economy and declared that the country was operating a voodoo economic policy that is pauperising the citizenry and urged urgent economic surgery to save the polity. For instance, Tinubu wondered why the Federal Government is maintaining a foreign reserve of $46 billion with one […]
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CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Latest Politics
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, has said the highest the nation’s external reserves had ever attained was $62 billion during Musa Yar’ Adua administration and was never $67 billion as being currently speculated. Sanusi, who was the guest speaker at the Metropolitan Club Forum in Lagos on Tuesday, explained that […]
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Boko Haram, Governors, Latest Politics
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
BY Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor …C’ttee recommends amnesty, compensation LAGOS—The recent split in the ranks of the Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram, leading to a division over a ceasefire, has been traced to a recent peace initiative spearheaded by the Northern States Governors Forum, NSGF. The peace offensive, which saw a delegation of the forum […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Sultan of Sokoto, Top Stories
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
By Luka Binniyat KADUNA — THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately grant amnesty to all members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as a way of encouraging them to lay down their arms. Abubakar, who is also the President-General of Ja’matu Nasril Islam, JNI, the umbrella […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
Peoples Democratic Party governors sympathetic to the embattled Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, are threatening to leave the PDP, SUNDAY PUNCH has gathered. Reliable sources within the party told our correspondents on Friday that a few of the governors had intimated the party leadership with their disaffection and […]
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Bayelsa, Latest Politics, State News
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
BY Dotun Ibiwoye Access to Justice, a civil society group, has said that the perpetrators of the genocide committed against the people of Odi in Bayelsa State in 1999 should be brought to justice, in spite of the recent court judgment. It will be recalled that Justice Lambo Akanbi of a Federal High Court, Port […]
