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Elections 2011, Governors, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
As events in Imo State increasingly indicate that Governor Ikedi Ohakim may lose his treasured throne tonight as the gubernatorial election in Imo State concludes, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has assured SaharaReporters that contrary to one of our earlier reports, he is in Abuja, not the United […]
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Elections 2011, Imo, Latest Politics, NNP Elections 2011 Updates, State News
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Today’s “Supplementary Elections” called by INEC to complete Imo’s “inconclusive” gubernatorial elections ran into troubled waters in Oguta local government area in the state as election materials failed to arrive the area on time. It was not clear what happened to the materials as at the time of filling this report but women in the […]
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Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate, South-East, South-West
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
AS part of his ongoing consultations on the formation of the next administration in line with the federal character principle enshrined in the constitution, President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday invited the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, to the Obudu Cattle Ranch in Cross River State, venue of his seven-day retreat. Sources in Abuja […]
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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 […]
