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General Politics, Latest Politics, Ministries, National Politics, Women Politics
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
THE name of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Ghali Umar Na’Abba, tops the list of ministerial nominees, whose screening is being finalised at the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS). Sources confirmed to the Nigerian Tribune that while Na’Abba’s name did not emanate from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano […]
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Latest Politics, Raw Politics
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, who is currently facing trial in two courts for alleged fraud and loan conversion, was in a dejected mood yesterday following his week-long detention in the not-so-cosy EFCC custody. An EFCC operative, who would not like to be mentioned, told Vanguard that Bankole has obviously lost […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Raw Politics
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Temporary reprieve yesterday came the way of the former chief executive officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr. Erastus Akingbola, as a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja granted him bail to the sum of N100million with two sureties in like sum. The court, presided over by Justice Habeeb Abiru also granted Bayo Dada, who was […]
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Latest Politics, Ogun, State News
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, former Ogun State governor, Aremo Olusegun Osoba and Secretary of the National Union of Petroleum and Gas Union (NUPENG), Frank Kokori among other notable pro-democracy activists were conspicuously absent yesterday during the June 12 Democracy Walk and Rally in Abeokuta. Soyinka, Osoba and Kokori were billed to address hundreds of […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Chief Alani Bankole, the father of the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, has cried out that some people in government want to kill his son. According to him, he received the intelligence reports late yesterday that arrangements had been concluded to kill his son, Dimeji, who is being detained and […]
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Africa & World Politics, Arnold Alalibo, General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Geneva-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo will today participate in a panel discussion on building sustainable societies at the ongoing 100th Session of the International Labour Organisation, ILO, holding in Geneva. The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent covering the meeting reports that the session is being organised by ‘Club de Madrid’, an independent non-profit organisation composed of […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
The Progressive Leadership Organisation International, PLOI, yesterday, urged the Presidency to reverse the sale of official residential quarters of principal officers of the National Assembly to the Senate President, David Mark; former Speaker, Dimeji Bankole; the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and former Deputy Speaker, Usman Bayero Nafada; describing the purchase as the height of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
A GROUNDSWELL of global goodwill and rising acclaim for Nigeria and its re-elected President Goodluck Jonathan was on display last week at the United Nations, New York and Washington DC, as world leaders expressed the hope that Nigeria would actualise its potentials. For instance, former US President Bill Clinton said, in New York, that Jonathan may turn out […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
THE United States (U.S.) has attributed the success of the 2011 elections in Nigeria to the support of Washington and the appointment of honest people to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In press interviews in Lusaka, Zambia at the weekend at the end of this year’s U.S. African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) summit, which were released […]
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Latest Politics, Presidency, Sani Abacha (1993-98)
Sunday, June 12th, 2011
The Osile Oke-Ona, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Oba Adedapo Adewale Tejuoso, has explained why the late General Sani Abacha refused to release the late Chief MKO Abiola, the widely acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election from detention. The monarch was a member of the 1994/95 Constitutional Conference. He spoke at a media parley […]
