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Latest Politics
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Senate President David Mark has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfill all promises made concerning full implementation of the 2012 budget. Mark said this during his opening address to the joint session of the National Assembly on the presentation of the 2012 budget proposals by the President yesterday. The Senate President bemoaned past promises made […]
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Edo, Latest Politics, Presidency, State News, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
-Sun The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole yesterday disclosed to the shock of the crowd gathered for the launch of the ‘Power, Politics and Death’, by the former Special Adviser on Media and Communications to Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, that the late president generously supported his guber race with financial donations. […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
The Three Arms Zone comprising the Presidency, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal Headquarters of the National Assembly was in a security lockdown ahead of President Goodluck Jonathan’s presentation of the N4.8 trillion budget yesterday. Right from the Power House Axis from the Asokoro District, down to the Police Force Headquarters in Area 11, and […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Apparently worried over the menace of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has advocated that Nigeria should split. Addressing a press conference yesterday, the Secretary General of the Northern (CAN), Elder Saidu Dogo, said the division of the country […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
BY CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI— Federal Government’s hammer has now descended on Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, following the planned scrapping and full privatization of the establishment. The Commissioner in-charge of Government/Consumer Affairs of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Mr. Abba A. Ibrahim, disclosed this at a power consumer assembly in Owerri. Noting that […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
By Emma Ujah & Victoria Ojeme ABUJA—European Union Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. David MacRae, has urged the Federal Government to engage in wider consultations and enlightenment of the public on fuel subsidy removal for proper understanding. He said the negative reaction from the general public on the proposed removal of subsidy from petroleum products was […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
A judge from the North faces sack and possible trial for being sympathetic to Islamist sect, Boko Haram. Sources said yesterday that the judge had an alleged link with the sect’s spokesman, Ali Umar Konduga (aka Al-Zawahiri), who was sentenced to three years jail last week by an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court on a one-count […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
The younger sibling of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua at the weekend resigned from the Army in a grand ceremony, which also saw the disengagement of three Major-Generals. Identified as Lieutenant Colonel Abdulazeez Yar’Adua, the officer who was attached to the Signals Corps told Daily Sun that he was leaving the force voluntarily after […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Nigerian Police, Top Stories
Sunday, December 11th, 2011

-Sun Former Inspector General of Police [IGP], Mr. Sunday Ehindero, said at the weekend that the Nigerian Police, as presently constituted, lacks the operational capability to combat the rising crime wave and insecurity, especially the insurgence of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. He gave this stunning verdict in an exclusive interview with Daily Sun […]
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Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has condemned in strong terms the blocking of the Lokoja-Abuja highway by some 1,600 ex-militants last Thursday, adding that there will be no amnesty for anybody caught in any criminal act anymore. The president said this through his Special Adviser on Niger Delta Matters, Honourable Kingsley Kuku, on Sunday, insisting that the […]