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Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
The ancient city of Kano was once again plunged into confusion yesterday, following reports of the death of Osama Bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man and the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade centre (WTC) in New York. As the news hit into the city, non-indigenes living […]
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Bauchi, Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
ABUJA-Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has said reports quoting him in a section of the media which portrayed him as being insensitive to the death of some members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in the state during the recent political riots that trailed the presidential election was done out of context. Some […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, May 2nd, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday directed all national security agencies to remain on full alert in order to thwart any further attempt to breach the peace. The President, who is still on his seven-day retreat at the Obudu Cattle Ranch, Cross River State, told security agencies, especially those deployed “in identified flashpoints across the country”, to […]
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Bauchi, Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Raw Politics, State News
Sunday, May 1st, 2011

Denunciation and condemnation on Saturday trailed the comments attributed to the governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Isah Yuguda, that the National Youth Service Corps members who were murdered in the state were destined to die the way they did. Some corps members were killed in the state as well as in some other northern […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Niger Delta
Saturday, April 30th, 2011

Leader of the Niger Delta Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujadhadi Asari Dokubo, has said that presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari, should be arrested and prosecuted over the riots that claimed lives and properties in the North. Speaking with Saturday Sun, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Dokubo said that the violence […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently address critical issues bordering on the Nigerian state, so as not to jeopardize the continuity of the federation. He said multifarious problems buffeting the nation must be addressed comprehensively, without which, an ominous fear and uncertainty would continue to loom over the […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp)
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Ismaila Tsiga, yesterday, berated governors in Northern states where corps members were killed in post-presidential election violence, penultimate weekend, and said he was ready to quit. Speaking on an African Independent Television, AIT, programme, monitored in Abuja, the D-G said governors of states where the […]
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Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Latest Politics, Sultan of Sokoto
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), His Eminence Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has faulted the statements credited to the president, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayodele Oritsejafor, in some of the newspapers, in which he described the post-election violence which followed the presidential election of April 16 […]
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Bauchi, Kaduna, Latest Politics
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
OTUOKE – PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has indicated that unless the security situation in Kaduna and Bauchi states, where elections were earlier postponed, improves to the extent that election holds on April 28, it may be necessary to declare the dreaded state of emergency in the affected states. President Jonathan however added a caveat that it […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
HE Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP said Tuesday that it has no plans to sanction former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, ex- minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma for anti-party activities. In a statement signed Tuesday by PDP National Publicity Secretary, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali, the party was also not anticipating same for […]