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Elections 2011, Latest Politics
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Acting on the reports on the last general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is to embark on total restructuring and overhaul of its over 12, 000 personnel in preparation for the next polls. This is even as the commission disclosed that it spent over N10 billion to conduct the April elections. The INEC […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon arrived Abuja yesterday on a two-day visit. Ban arrived Abuja from, his first trip to Nigeria since he took office in 2007, from Ivory Coast where he attended the inauguration of President Alassane Ouattara last Saturday. He will leave Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia tommorow. The UN chief was […]
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Latest Politics, South-East
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
The apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohaneze Nd’Igbo, at the weekend submitted the names of four persons to President Goodluck Jonathan for consideration as the next Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF). Those in list included former Senate President, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, season academics, Profs. Uzodinma Nwala and Ben Obumselu and the current […]
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Latest Politics, Ministries, Raw Politics
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Strong indications emerged on Saturday that core politicians may have a limited place in the new cabinet being put together by President Goodluck Jonathan. The development, SUNDAY PUNCH gathered, is already causing bad blood between the nation’s political class and technocrats as the chances of the former get slimmer by the day. Our correspondents learnt […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
FOLLOWING rumours of impending crisis in Kaduna State, the State Security Service (SSS) has smashed a syndicate that specialized in sending threat messages to unsuspecting members of the public with a view to causing trouble and extorting money from them. The suspects have engaged in disseminating messages of impending crisis by promoting religious disharmony among […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) will be represented at the May 29 inauguration of President Goodluck Jonathan, its President, Dr Idriss Ndele, said in Johannesburg on Friday. Ndele said Nigeria was playing a very important role in the continent and occupied a vital position in the AU. “We are going to represent PAP just like […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The Federal Government has admitted that the post election violence in some parts of the north is embarrassing saying it is part of the challenges Nigeria expects to face to realise true and sustainable democracy. It has therefore declared its determination to ensure that the brains behind the violence are brought to book. Information and […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Presidency
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Chief Tokunbo Ajasin, son of the former executive governor of the old Ondo State, Chief Michael Ajasin, has slammed the former military president, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (retd) for saying that power must return to the North in 2015. The chairman of Atayese, a Yoruba socio-cultural organisation and chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria […]
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Governors, Latest Politics
Friday, May 20th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said it was mandatory for all elected officers in the 2011 elections to deliver the dividends of democracy to the electorate, as failure to do so would amount to reneging on electoral promises to the people. Meanwhile, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon would during his three-day working visit to […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has expressed government’s decision to institutionalise the leadership of federal delegations to all pilgrimages, saying that it was to build institutional memory and establish an acceptable standard of operations. He said this when he received the report of the Federal Government’s delegation for the 2010 Christian pilgrimage to Israel, at the State […]