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Latest Politics
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
• Oshiomhole denies saying Jonathan voted 4 times in 2007 President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday threatened to institute legal action regarding media report that he voted four times as Vice President in the April 2007 general elections, if the story was not retracted and an unreserved apology tendered to him by the media organisation.Jonathan’s position followed […]
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Latest Politics, Legislature
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has submitted a budget proposal of N236.587 billion for the 2010 fiscal year for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the House of Representatives for approval. The budget, which was contained in a letter to the Speaker of the House, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, and read at yesterday’s plenary by deputy speaker, Hon. Usman Bayero […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
The inspector-general of police (IGP) Alhaji Hafiz Abubakar Ringim, at the weekend, said that President Goodluck Jonathan did not in any way influence his running of the Nigeria Police ahead of the 2011 general elections.He also argued that there was no police action that justifiably proved that it was favoring the ruling People’s Democratic Party […]
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Latest Politics, South-South
Monday, March 7th, 2011
FOUR-YEAR development plan aimed at opening up the South-South geo-political zone has been unveiled by President Goodluck Jonathan. The major projects contained in the blueprint are coastal roads and railways, which the President said are designed to open up the oil-producing region. Before his supporters that gathered at the Esuene […]
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Latest Politics, Ministries
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Four Federal Ministers and 78 other chief executive officers of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) may face arrest by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over their failure to submit their 2009 capital projects estimate to the Commission. The affected ministers are those in charge of Interior; Cooperation and Integration in […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Former Special Adviser to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo on Policy and Programs Monitoring, Professor Julius Ihonvbere, has said that the only way to achieve internal democracy amongst political parties in Nigeria, is for Nigerians to learn the Egyptian example. The professor of political science said: “I believe that internal democracy within parties will not come if […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, March 7th, 2011
Former Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has finally opened up on why he did not succeed in securing the position of the Vice President following the event that brought President Goodluck Jonathan to office. He told Daily Sun in Abuja that what happened was a show of interest by the legislators and that […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics
Monday, March 7th, 2011
National leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday urged those who love Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Bode George, to prevail on him to keep silent and stop embarrassing himself in public. Tinubu, who was reacting to an interview in Daily Sun in which […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service on Friday stormed Arik Air’s head office at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos over the alleged violation of the expatriate quota. According to sources at the airport, the officials, who came from the Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos office of the NIS, asked for the files of Arik’s foreign […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, March 6th, 2011

INVESTIGATION by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) into the alleged multibillion naira scam in the Pensions office has reportedly led to the discovery of another secret personal bank account containing N1.5 billion, believed to have been diverted from the scheme. The latest discovery brought to N14.3 billion, money allegedly stolen from the scheme […]