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Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, South-East
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The controversy trailing the last presidential election took another dimension yesterday when members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) disowned the party’s standard-bearer, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. They said that the election was the freest ever conducted in Nigeria. After the results of the presidential election were announced, Buhari had rejected results in the South […]
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Anambra, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News, Women Politics
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Former Minister of information and Communication, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has sensationally revealed what transpired in the inconclusive Anambra Central Senatorial District election on April 9, which she contested. In an interview, in her Abuja residence, Akunyili dismisses the bribery allegation made by the former returning officer in the election. She told Saturday Sun that there […]
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General Politics, Kaduna, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Barely one week after the presidential election, tragedy struck the household of vice presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Pastor Tunde Bakare, when his Lagos home was gutted by fire yesterday. No life was lost. Saturday Sun gathered that the fire, which affected a section of the building, on Abiodun Olaiya Street, […]
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Latest Politics, Women Politics
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The only woman presidential candidate in last Saturday’s presidential election, Ebiti Jegede (otherwise known as Mrs Ebiti Ndok) has been arraigned before the Magistrate Court sitting in Karu, Abuja for issuing two separate dud cheques to two different hotels to offset bills for her lodgement. The ANDP presidential candidate was arrested shortly after she finished […]
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General Politics, Kano, Latest Politics, State News
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The son of the late Head of State General Sani Abacha, Mohammed, on has asked the Supreme Court to stay the judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal which invalidated his nomination as the Kano State governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change. In a notice of Appeal by his […]
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Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) on Thursday, challenged the defeated presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to proceed to the election petition tribunal to prove his claim that last Saturday’s presidential election was rigged in favour of its presidential candidate,Goodluck Jonathan, or shut […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
THE All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) presidential candidate, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has refuted an allegation being passed through a text message on GSM that he and his counterpart, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, of the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN), received N20 billion each from President Goodluck Jonathan to work for his success in last Saturday’s presidential election, […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
THE Yoruba socio political group, Afenifere, has congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan on his victory at the just-concluded presidential elections. This is just as it condemned the violence, arson and general breakdown of law and order rocking some northern states over the results of the election. The group sued for peace and called for an end […]
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Latest Politics, North-East, Religion
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Authorities are blaming members of a radical Muslim sect for the killing of an Islamic cleric in the country’s northeast. Police chief Mike Zuokumor said that when police responded to the scene of the attack Wednesday night in Maiduguri, a police patrol was ambushed by a blast that wounded three officers. The […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Raw Politics
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
THE Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom (UK) has filed money laundering and fraud charges against James Onanefe Ibori at the Westminster Magistrate Court in London. The charges also featured some other prominent Nigerians, including former Governor Victor Obong Attah of Akwa Ibom; David Edevbie, a former Principal Secretary to late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua […]
