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Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Cape Town (S-Africa) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised sit-tight leaders across Africa that time is running out and should take a cue and bow out peacefully. Obasanjo, who spoke at the presentation of the Africa Progress Panel (APP) report in Cape Town, yesterday, urged African leaders to realise that there is life after […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Mallam Hassan Saleh is former Director, Customs, Immigration, Prisons Pension Office (CIPPO). He almost lost his life in the mayhem that followed the presidential elections. He told Daily Sun in Damaturu, Yobe State, that he was surprised to find himself alive along with his wife having been attacked by the hooligans in Potiskum. Saleh declared […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
A National Electoral Commissioner, Prof. Lai Olurode, on Wednesday said the Independent National Electoral Commission was compiling the dossier of corps members who participated as ad hoc staff in the just concluded general elections. Olurode, who applauded the performance of the corps members during the polls, said it was only wise to collate and […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Latest Politics, Party Politics
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
THE Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said it is not interested in the proposed Government of National Unity (GNU) by the Peoples Democratic Party PDP-led Federal Government, because it is satisfied with the role it is playing as the leader of opposition and a”government-in-waiting.” The party, in a statement issued in Abuja, on Wednesday, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Pakistan blamed worldwide intelligence lapses for a failure to detect Osama bin Laden living near its capital, while Washington worked to establish whether its ally had sheltered the al Qaeda leader. A US acknowledgement bin Laden was unarmed when shot dead in Monday’s raid in Abbottabad raised accusations Washington had violated international law. Exact […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Niger, Presidency, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Buhari Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is unfit to hold a responsible office in Nigeria. Governor Aliyu had lashed out at the former head of […]
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Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
SUSPECTED Boko Haram gunmen have shot and killed three prisons warders, along with a housewife, in two separate attacks on Monday and Tuesday in Abaganaram ward of Maiduguri metropolis. One of the prison warders and his wife, were ambushed on Monday night at the Abagaram ward shop at about 10.35 p.m., while the two other […]
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Judiciary, Latest Politics
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday sent names of three Justices of the Court of Appeal to the Senate for screening and confirmation as Justices of the Supreme Court. Their appointments followed the retirement of Justices of the apex court, Justices G. A. Oguntade, J. O. Ogebe, Niki Tobi and I. F. Ogbuagu. In a letter addressed […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The helicopter carrying members of the United States special security force, Navy SEALs, malfunctioned as it approached Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Monday morning. This heightened the tension that gripped President Barack Obama and members of his war cabinet in the White House Situation Room where they monitored the raid. But […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
There was pandemonium in some areas in the Kano metropolis on Monday as residents scurried to army and police barracks for fear of reprisal attack on them over the killing of the Al-Queda leader, Osama bin Ladin. In Hotoro, in Nassarawa Local Government area, one of the places that recorded heavy toll during the […]