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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Niger Delta
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Anglo-Dutch oil giants, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has been summoned by the House of Representatives to explain alleged involvement in the series of killings and clashes in the Niger Delta, especially in Rumuekpe village of Rivers State. The management would face the House Committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) to clear its linkage with militant […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
After over seven years of illegally operating the Excess Crude Account (ECA), the Presidency has finally bowed to the National Assembly’s pressure to scrap the account. The ECA, which was created in 2004, during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, with a whopping $9.4billion, was said to contravene section 80 of the 1999 constitution. The […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petirin, has said that there was no cause for alarm over the insurgency of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram. Since 2009, members of Islamist sect, which translates to ‘western education is sin’, has held the northeastern state of Borno at the jugular, paralyzing economic and social […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
The Presidency has indicated plans to remove the controversial fuel subsidy as from 2012 fiscal year. The Federal Government claimed it was subsidising petroleum products by over N600 billion yearly. If removed, critics of the fuel subsidy removal argued that the pump price of fuel may rise from its current N65 to between N120 and […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
It’s contradictory, says defence FORMER Commander of the 33 Artillery Brigade in Bauchi, Brig.-Gen. Muraina Raji, who was standing trial before a Special Court Martial at the 3 Armoured Division, Jos for his alleged role in the escape of two high profile Boko Haram suspects, has been discharged and acquitted of all the three […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
The violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has said that it is ready for dialogue with the Federal Government. But the sect says this will only happen if the government releases all its members in detention. The proposed talks, however, might not lead to the final solution that government had long searched for as the sect’s […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
ABUJA- Members of the Jaamatus Ahlus Sunnah Lid Daawatis Wal Jihad, a.k.a. Boko Haram yesterday celebrated the inability of the Federal Government to celebrate the nation’s 51st independence anniversary at the Eagle Square owing to threats by the group and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), to bomb the nation’s capital […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
IT emerged, on Sunday, that the decision by the Federal Government to host the nation’s independence anniversary inside the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, was informed by the need to cut costs. President Goodluck Jonathan had hosted a number of former heads of state at the Presidential Villa where a parade also took place. The parade […]
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Boko Haram, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
AS security services struggle to combat budding terrorism, a fresh alarm has been raised about the inflow of sophisticated arms of various types into northern Nigerian cities from the vast northern borders of the country with Niger and Chad. Nigerian Tribune was told that arms and ammunition taken by loyalists of ousted Libyan president, Moammar […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Foremost religious leader and Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto State, Monsignor Matthew Hassan Kukah has enjoined Nigerians to believe in President’s Goodluck Jonathan’s plans and strategies in the war aginst the activities of the dreaded Islamic insurgent, Boko Haram. Speaking to journalists yesterday at a press parley organized to mark the conclusion of the […]
