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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), EFCC Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, Top Stories
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) moved swiftly to respond to claims of underhand occurrences in the last presidential election by raising four points which it believed would easily knock off the petition by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had on Friday filed a notice at the […]
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Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
GOVERNOR Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state disclosed, Sunday, that over 600 suspects have so far been arrested and being prosecuted in connection with the murder of nine members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC during the post election violence in the State. Speaking with Journalists in Abuja, Sunday, Yuguda who noted that he stands […]
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Latest Politics, Ministries
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
Indications emerged on Saturday that some of the Peoples Democratic Party governors who failed to secure a second term in office in the just concluded elections are lobbying for ministerial appointments in President Goodluck Jonathan’s new cabinet. Also, some ex-governors, particularly those whose tenures were cut short at election tribunals, are also making moves […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The flurry of messages congratulating President Goodluck Jonathan from all over the world may have finally persuaded northern elements who were once opposed to his emergence as the nation’s number one citizen into soft-pedalling. SUNDAY PUNCH investigations showed that this change of heart and the consequent thaw in the attitude of some key northern […]
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Imo, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan and the defeated governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, have congratulated the All Progressives Grand Alliance candidate, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on emerging victorious in the governorship poll concluded in the state on Friday. Speaking through a statement from his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, Jonathan said, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Niger Delta
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
The trial of Nigerian militant leader in South Africa, Mr Henry Okah, may have run into stormy waters as he has reportedly refused to take his meals for about three weeks. Okah is facing terrorism-related charges, following the October 1, 2010 bomb explosion in Abuja, Nigeria, that claimed about a dozen lives. He is linked […]
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Imo, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
The newly-elected governor of Imo state, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on Saturday declared that his victory at the polls is the triumph of truth over falsehood, maintaining, ‘this will be beginning of the end of the attitude of people foisting leaders on the people of Imo.” Speaking in an interview, the elated APGA candidate also disclosed […]
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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Party Politics, State News
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
The Association of Opposition Political Parties, under the aegis of Patriotic Alliance of Nigeria (PAN) in Imo, on Saturday described the defeat of Gov Ikedi Ohakim as “a new dawn” for the state. In the same vein, the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) says the emergence of Chief Rochas Okorocha also signalled “the end […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
Owerri – The declaration of the APGA candidate in the Imo supplementry governorship poll Rochas Okorocha as winner by INEC has been received with mixed feelings by Nigerians spoken with on Saturday. Thousands of youths, traders, artisans, tricycle operators took over the major roads and streets of the town in celebration of the candidate’s victory. […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
Owerri – Imo State capital virtually stood still as loyalists of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, stromed the streets of the municipality to jubiliate over the declaration of their principal, Chief Rochas Anayo Okorocha, as the winner of the governorship election in the state. Motorcyclists, who were hitherto banned from plying the streets of the […]
