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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has lamented the alleged high politicisation of the Federal Government’s proposed fuel subsidy removal, saying that those against the policy wanted to bring down his government. The president spoke, on Thursday, in Abuja at the presidential dialogue with global chief executive officers in the ongoing 17th Nigerian Economic Summit, organised by the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
By Rotimi Ajayi, Regional Editor, North & Kenneth Ehigiator ABUJA — British Airways lobbyists have pressured the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to intercede on behalf of the airline to save it from losing more than 50 per cent of its flight frequency to Nigeria following the treatment meted out to Nigeria airline, Arik Air, […]
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Bayelsa, Latest Politics, Niger Delta, State News
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
ALTHOUGH they were stopped by a combined team of armed mobile policemen and men of the Joint Military Task Force, some aggrieved former militants in Bayelsa State used the wedding reception of President Goodluck Jonathan’s brother to make their plight public. The demonstrators, who claimed to be the third batch that protested earlier in the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
With a wave of the hand, National Security Adviser (NSA), Gen. Andrew Owoye Azazi, yesterday dismissed the warning by the United States of a plot by Boko Haram to bomb three Luxury hotels in Abuja. The US warned on Sunday that that Islamist sect’s next targets were luxury hotels frequented by diplomats, top politicians, and […]
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Abuja (FCT), Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
This government should realise that Nigerians are totally tired of this off and on bloodbath in the name of Boko Haram menace. He warned that if the Boko Haram menace was not decisively dealt with it was capable of bringing the government down. Also, the President of Fellowship of Churches of Christ in Nigeria (TEKAN), […]
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Bayelsa, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, November 7th, 2011
BAYELSA State Governor Timipre Sylva may have finally decided to take the case of his second term ticket to God in the face of uncertainty surrounding his clearance by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Today in Yenagoa, the state capital, Sylva and his supporters will meet at the Peace Park to offer prayers to God. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll from attacks by a radical Muslim sect in northeastern Nigeria rose to more than 100 on Sunday, and the United States Embassy warned that the sect might be preparing to bomb three luxury hotels frequented by foreigners in Abuja, the capital. The unusually specific warning from American diplomats […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The State Security Service said it had traced text messages about a purported plan by Boko Haram to attack the Presidential Villa and the National Assembly complex to two pupils of a secondary school in Kagara, Niger State. The suspects, aged 17 and 18, were said to have circulated text messages in which they claimed […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the augmentation of three existing contracts to the tune of N49bn. The affected contracts were the dredging of River Niger, the Kubwa Satellite Town Infrastructure Development District III and IV as well as the Karshi Satellite Town Infrastructure Development District I and II. The Minister of Information, Mr. […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
LEADER of the South-South geopolitical zone, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday, raised the alarm over the growing incidence of corruption in Nigeria with the greatest impact on the judicial system, as he called for declaration of a state of emergency in the judiciary for the government to tackle the menace. Clark said the menace of […]
