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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
THE Federal Government yesterday explained that its decision to have a low-key 51st Independence Anniversary does not have any link with the security challenges confronting the country. Minister of Information. Labaran Maku who made the clarification yesterday while addressing State House correspondents, dismissed the reports in some national dailies (not Vanguard) that the low key […]
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
ABUJA- A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, granted leave to the State Security Service, SSS, to arraign six suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, today. The accused persons, Shuaibu Abdulkadir, Salisu Ahmed, Umar Baba-Gana, Mohammed Ali, Musa Adamu and Umar Ibrahim, will be docked over allegations bothering on acts of terrorism, felony […]
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
A pro-democracy group, the Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, has taken a swipe at President Goodluck Jonathan on his recent statement on the critics of the incumbent administration in Nigeria, insisting that the statement was nothing but a gentle way in self-mocking. In a statement by the Secretary-General of the group, Mr. Akin Malaolu, the forum […]
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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Party Politics, Senate
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
In less than two hours, supporters of no fewer than 10 members of the National Assembly yesterday watched in disbelief as the eye popping judgment of the Election Petition Tribunal in Katsina State stripped their lawmakers of their victory in the April 9 poll. They are two senators and eight House of Representatives members elected […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The decision to release Boko Haram co-founder, Aliyu Tishau, was taken by all security agencies, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petirin, said yesterday. The CDS’ pronouncement ended the controversy trailing Tishau’s release even as the Police and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) traded blames. Earlier in the week, the Presidency threatened […]
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has announced plans to bomb the Eagle Square, Abuja again on the nation’s 51st anniversary on Saturday. MEND issued the threat in a press statement released yesterday by its spokesman, Jomo Gbomo. The terse three-paragraph statement said Nigerians had nothing to celebrate after 51 years […]
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Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), would today close its defence in the petition lodged by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) before the Presidential Election Tribunal against the declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the April 16 election. In the said petition, the petitioner was seeking […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
The Chief Of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant-General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday told journalists that it was no longer in doubt that the Boko Haram group was receiving training and possibly funding from external forces, if the kinds of weapons and communication gadgets so far captured from the group by the military were anything to go […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
Deputy spokesman of the sect, Abu Kaka, told journalists in a telephone interview that the committee was on its own. Kaka said that the Islamist sect still maintained its course of ensuring strict Islamic laws in the country and wage war against the people it called infidels. He said the alleged split in its fold […]
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
ACADEMIC activities were paralysed at various universities in the country on Monday, following the commencement of the one-week strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Our correspondents who monitored the situation observed that all the lecturers obeyed the union’s directive to stay away from classrooms or any official duty during the strike expected […]