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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 […]
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Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
NO fewer than three people were confirmed dead while 14 others were seriously injured, when unknown persons threw a locally made bomb into some beer joints on Sunday, at about 8.30 p.m., in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Mike E. Zuokumor, addressing newsmen on Monday in his office, […]
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Elections 2011, Latest Politics
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
A strong indication has emerged that the recent post-presidential election violence which erupted in the North was carefully organised to cause unrest across the country with a view to forcing the armed forces to take over government in the country. However, a source who preferred anonymity told the Nigerian Tribune that those who allegedly sponsored […]
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Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has appealed to the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) to toe the path of honour by intervening in the post-election violence in some parts of the North by appealing to rampaging youths in the affected areas to sheathe their swords. […]
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Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Maiduguri — Bomb blasts have killed at least three people in Maiduguri, while at least 15 were wounded, the police said today. The police said they suspected the Islamist sect known as Boko Haram was behind the attacks on Easter Sunday night at a hotel tavern and transport hub in Maiduguri, as well as a […]
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Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
A prominent politician and one time presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC), Alhaji Bashir Othman Tofa, had opened up to LEADERSHIP SUNDAY on how he escaped death when irate youths stormed his house last Monday in the wake of the riot to protest preliminary results of the presidential election. Tofa, who lost […]
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Jigawa, Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Raw Politics, State News
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Dutse-The NYSC coordinator in Jigawa, Mr Baba Ahmed, said he has withdrawn 350 corps members serving in Hadejia local government due to insecurity resulting from post election violence in the area. Ahmed told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview, Friday, in Dutse that the corps members were taken from their places of […]
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Latest Politics, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp)
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
That confidence was shattered on Thursday when the Director General of the National Youth Service Corps in the company of Governor Isah Yuguda of Bauchi State addressed about 600 corps members who had been evacuated to the state capital following the violence that greeted the outcome of the presidential election. Four of the corps members […]
