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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
SIX days after the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, set conditions for ceasefire, President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday described its members and sponsors as “uncivilised” “Terminating innocent lives through terrorist acts is primitive, so perpetrators and sponsors of terrorism through Boko Haram cannot be anything but uncivilised,” Jonathan said. He spoke in Dutse, Jigawa State […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
• Picks Buhari, others for dialogue in S’ Arabia • Seeks compensation, release of members, others • Amnesty, security agents disagree on killings AFTER about three years of keeping the country on the brink of disintegration owing to the violence it regularly inflicted on it, Boko Haram may have decided to dialogue with the Federal […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
Set To Discredit It In Coming Days THERE are indications that indicted parties are making moves to discredit the Mallam Ribadu report submitted to the Presidency last week. The plan is prompted by the subsisting controversy trailing the report. The Guardian learnt that the leadership of the regulatory bodies, who had procured copies of the […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Amnesty International has released its latest report on the atrocities carried out by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as well as human rights violations perpetrated by Nigerian security forces in response. The report titled, ‘Nigeria: Trapped in the cycle of violence’, was presented to the media, in Abuja, on Wednesday. Secretary-General of AI, Salil Shetty, […]
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Latest Politics, Women Politics
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Some civil society organisations on Wednesday in Abuja called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and her counterpart in Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, based on the Report of the Nuhu Ribadu-led Petroleum Revenue Task Force, which alleged corruption in the oil and gas industry. The groups […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
Published on October 30, 2012 by pmnews Twenty-One Nigerian pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia, the National Hajj Commission has announced. Male pilgrims that died were 13. The commission’s bulletin shows that Katsina State has the highest figure of four; Sokoto, three, Kano, Lagos, Zamfara and Ogun recorded two deaths each. Oyo, Gombe, Yobe and the […]
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Biafra, Latest Politics
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
The Federal Government has been dragged to an Owerri High Court over the rights of the indigenous people of Biafra to self-determination and compensation for deaths and losses suffered by the people of the South-Eastern Nigeria in the hands of federal forces during the war. The suit, brought by a human rights group under the aegis […]
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Bayelsa, Latest Politics, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has denied any involvement in a boundary dispute between Rivers and Bayelsa states. The presidency, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati, in Abuja, on Tuesday, said those behind a protest in Abuja, where Jonathan was accused of orchestrating plans to cede five Rivers State oil communities to Bayelsa State, were […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, October 27th, 2012
Written by Wale Adele Saturday, 20 October 2012 Just as the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, (NAHCON) announced the death of 14 pilgrims, another pilgrim from Lagos State has died, bringing the total number of Nigerian Pilgrims, that have died in Saudi Arabia during this year’s pilgrimage to 15. The Lagos pilgrim, Taoreed Oshodi, 62, […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, October 27th, 2012
Where is the $25million plea-bargain money paid by a multi-national company operating in the country and indicted in the monumental Halliburton scandal? This is the riddle security operatives are trying to unravel as they commence investigations into the $25million plea-bargain over the multi-billion dollar scam. Authoritative sources said the money could not be located in […]
