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France won’t negotiate with Boko Haram

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

France will not negotiate with Boko Haram gunmen who have taken a French family of seven hostage, the country’s Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said yesterday. The three adults and four children were kidnapped in Cameroon’s far north, near the Nigerian border in Borno State, last week. In a video posted online on Monday, the […]

Nigeria, others, fulfil 70 percent of troop pledge in Mali

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

•Evidence of Boko Haram’s link with al-Qaeda found About 70 percent of troops pledged by Nigeria and others to the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) have been deployed, it was learnt yesterday. Foreign Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Charles Koffi Diby made the disclosure at the opening of an extraordinary meeting of the Mediation […]

Bill Clinton: Poverty fuels violence in the north

Posted by admin American Politics, Latest Politics Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Former United States President Bill Clinton yesterday gave an insight into how Nigeria, given its abundant natural and human resources, can attain her full potential and bring development to the citizens. Clinton said Nigeria must strive to overcome her “three big challenges” – poor utilisation of oil money, bridging the widening gulf between the urban […]

Hurricane Mukthar: 3 judges to go

Posted by admin Judiciary, Latest Politics Monday, February 25th, 2013

ABUJA—There were indications, yesterday, that the National Judicial Council, NJC, was not yet done with the cleansing of the judiciary of bad eggs that have significantly tarnished the image of that tier of government. In what has now been termed “Hurricane Mukthar,” three more judges, alleged to have been implicated in corruption-tainted matters are said […]

Good Governance tour, a fraud – CDHR

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, February 25th, 2013

By LAJA THOMAS LAGOS—COMMITTEE for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has said the ongoing “good governance tour” by the Federal Government is a fraud. Lagos State coordinator of the committee, Buna Isiak, in a statement said that what the Federal Government was doing by the tour was an aberration that should be condemned by […]

We can’t achieve our aim through violence – Boko Haram group insists

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Sunday, February 24th, 2013

Maiduguri – A splinter group of the Islamic Boko Haram group, led by Sheikh Abdulaziz Ibn Adam on Saturday insisted that it was ready to dialogue with government to the group’s current bloody campaign. Ibn Adam made the announcement at a news conference in Maiduguri. He said that the group had come to realise that […]

Kalu, Saraki, Bode George, Ribadu, others form new group

Posted by admin Latest Politics Sunday, February 24th, 2013

A new political group with membership drawn from the nation’s crop of prominent politicians, has been formed. Chaired by the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the group parades an array of over 200 politicians in the country. According to a report by The Eagle Online, they include Senator Gbemisola Saraki who […]

Boko Haram denies kidnap of 7 French nationals

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

Abu Muhammad Ibn Abdulazeez, commander of the Boko Haram sect in charge of southern and northern Borno who has been speaking for the sect in recent times appeared again yesterday at a press conference with journalists in Maiduguri and absolved the Islamic militant sect of involvement in the kidnap of seven French nationals in the […]

100 opposition parties cannot defeat PDP (Because it always rigs?)

Posted by admin First Ladies, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Patience Jonathan, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Raw Politics Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

By HENRY UMORU ABUJA— WIFE of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan Thursday boasted that 100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election. Also Thursday aspirations of some politicians to the most exalted position in the land may have been dashed as the PDP through the […]

Atiku donates N75m to fight polio in Nigeria (Where did he get that kind of money?)

Posted by admin Latest Politics Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

Former vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has donated the sum of N75 million to the Rotary International, District 9110, Lagos, to help it fight polio in the country. he former vice-president, who was the guest speaker at the dinner and dance ball organised by the Rotary International at Muson Centre, Lagos, linked the increase in polio […]