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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Charles Okah After a gruesome trial that lasted several hours, a Federal High Court Tuesday fixed February 25, 2011 to decide whether or not to quash the treason and terrorism charges brought against Charles Okah and three others for alleged complicity in the bomb blasts that occurred in Abuja on October 1, 2010. The Federal […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday chaired a meeting of National Security Council (NSC) at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, in which the Council was said to have intensified efforts at addressing the current security problems in the country.This is just as Plateau State Governor; Da Jonah Jang yesterday chided those clamouring for the imposition of a […]
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed a former governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Ahmed Adamu Mu’azu, as chairman, board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). He replaces Senator Baba Tela, who recently resigned his appointment to run for governor under the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the state. A […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
The Federal government has pledged a renewed commitment to the fight against corruption in the country, just as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), said it had recovered a total sum of $11 billion in seven years, from fraudulent persons, groups and organizations in and outside the country. The Vice President, Federal Republic of […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Following the murder of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) gubernatorial candidate and six others, Borno State governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, on Monday, described last Friday’s killing of the late Modu Fannami Gubio and his younger brother, Goni Mustapha Sheriff as politically motivated and not Boko Haram, as being generally insinuated. Sheriff said that […]
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Borno, Latest Politics, Plateau, State News
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
THE National Prayer Movement (NPM), on Tuesday, said the ceaseless carnage in Borno and Plateau states portended danger for the corporate existence of the country. In an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, the organisation asked him to immediately demonstrate the necessary political will by tracking down the masterminds of the crises before the situation […]
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EFCC Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
The Federal Government on Tuesday said that the construction of the permanent site of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will gulp over N18.8 billion just as the commission chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri, revealed that the anti graft agency had recovered about N11b within the last seven years. The vice-president, Alhaji Namadi Sambo, who […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has said that Nigerians did not understand the Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, when he (Sanusi) said members of the National Assembly alone were spending 25 per cent of the country’s annual budget. Makarfi, who spoke to journalists in Kaduna at an interactive forum disclosed that he […]
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Bauchi, Borno, Latest Politics, Plateau, State News
Monday, January 31st, 2011
Minister for Information and Communications, Mr. Labran Maku, yesterday, vowed to bring the perpetrators of Plateau, Bauchi and Borno states’ killings to book. Maku, who stated this while answering questions from newsmen, condemned incessant killing of politicians in recent times in the country. It would be recalled that Borno State All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP, […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, January 31st, 2011
THE Presidency yesterday declared that President Goodluck Jonathan was uncomfortable toeing the line of a state of emergency in both Plateau and Borno states where street organised crime had continued unabated in the recent past. A Presidency source said despite repeated calls for a state of emergency to be declared in Plateau and Borno states, […]