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Arewa House, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
NORTHERN elders under the umbrella of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), at the weekend, urged Nigerians to jettison threat by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, which demanded that southerners and Christians leave the north. The elders said the threat reflects a minority view that should be ignored and not taken seriously by patriotic Nigerians. In […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Urge action on Boko Haram, confab, subsidy FOR three of Nigeria’s foremost literary giants, it is time to take the pulse of the nation, assess its challenges and alert the leaders and the led to the dangers these threats pose not only to individual citizens but to the corporate existence of the country. The writers […]
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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Latest Politics, Religion
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Warns Against Civil Strife Following the incessant attacks on Christians and Southerners in the Northern Part of the country, The President of the Christian Association of Nigerian (CAN) Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has blamed Northern Governors and leaders for the terrorist attacks against innocent Nigerians. Accusing them of not doing what they suppose to do to […]
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Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
The clueless Emir of Saluja,Awal Ibrahim on Friday, paid a condolence visit to St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla in Niger State, venue of the last Christmas day bomb blast to offer prayers to God for forgiveness, if the series of bomb explosions in his domain were as a result of his sins. ”If it […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said that the controversial deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry was a necessary change Nigeria must make. Nationwide protests have greeted the government’s decision that took effect from January 1 and increased the price of petrol from N65 per litre to between N141 and N200. Labour unions […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
January 7, 2012 by Friday Olokor, Abuja The National Industrial Court in Abuja on Friday stopped the planned nationwide strike by the organised labour and civil society groups against the removal of the fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. In arriving at the decision, the NIC granted an order restraining the Nigeria Labour Congress […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics, Raw Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
The wife of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Ganiyat, on Friday in Osogbo, said that the spirit of her husband was behind Nigerians in the fight against the removal of fuel subsidy. The widow said that ineptitude and corruption on the part of the Federal Government was the reason behind removal of fuel subsidy. Ganiyat called […]
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Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Latest Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
January 7, 2012 by Mustapha Salihu, Kano The spate of unrest that has enveloped the country since the removal of petroleum subsidy by President Goodluck Jonathan has added to the challenges facing security operatives nationwide. In Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states, not only has the fear of bomb blasts and other nocturnal activities of the […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
January 7, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja Indications have emerged in Abuja on why President Goodluck Jonathan hurriedly removed subsidy from petroleum products on January 1, 2012. An investigation by our correspondent showed that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party and some politicians insisted that the subsidy must be removed early in his regime. […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
January 7, 2012 by Niyi Odebode, Fidelis Soriwei and Everest Amaefule, Abuja Organised labour and other interest groups have faulted the N141 per litre of petrol template being used by the Petroleum Products Regulatory Agency and the Federal Government in selling the product to Nigerians. This is even as a top official of the Nigeria […]
