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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
A PRO-DEMOCRACY and development focused non-governmental organization, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has threatened to drag President Goodluck Jonathan before the International Crimes Court (ICC) if he disregards its advice to take practical and effective measures to stop the killings in Jos and Maiduguri. HURIWA in a statement made available to The Guardian indicated […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
There are indications that at least three sitting Peoples Democratic Party governors in the North are currently desperate for the support of President Goodluck Jonathan in the run-up to April’s governorship election. Investigations by our correspondents on Friday showed that there was concern among the supporters of Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi; his Sokoto […]
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Arewa House, Latest Politics
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Barely 48 hours after the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) issued a communique denouncing the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primary that produced President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate, a pro-Jonathan member of the ACF and former secretary of the forum’s political committee, Alhaji Mohammed Abdurrahman, has called the bluff of the Arewa chieftains, whom he […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, witnessed pandemonium on Friday following the killing of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) candidate in the forthcoming April poll, Alhaji Modi Fannani Gubio, and six other persons, including blood brother of Governor Ali Modu Sheriff, Alhaji Goni Modu Sheriff. The men were killed by gunmen suspected to be members of […]
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Borno, Latest Politics, State News
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
When Alhaji Awana Ngala, an in-law to the Sheriff’s family and then chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) was shot dead last October, allegedly by Boko Haram men, not many believed that his death had anything to do with his political ambition. However, with the killing, yesterday, of Alhaji Modu Fanami Gubio, ANPP’s […]
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Latest Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, January 29th, 2011
Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has said that the struggle for the state of Biafra is still on. He said that his group will keep pressing for the state of Biafra until this is achieved, revealing that MASSOB has built an estate for […]
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Latest Politics, Top Stories
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, was thrown into chaos yesterday afternoon following the killing of the governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Modu Fanami Gubio, the younger brother of Gov Ali Modu Sheriff and five others by unknown gunmen. Saturday Sun gathered that Gubio, who was on his way to his father’s […]
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Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Another batch of 212 ex-militants from the Niger Delta has been sent to Ghana for various vocational trainings under the Federal Government’s amnesty programme. The 212 ex-militants, who formed the second batch to be sent abroad for training, had also gone through non-violence transformational programme in Obubra, Cross River State. The first batch of 38 […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Joint Task Force, JTF, on Customs Physical Examination of goods, yesterday, impounded 165 kilogrammes of substances suspected to be Cocaine at Tin Can Port, with a street value of about 10.2 million pounds (about N2.55 billion). The drugs, which were concealed in 36 cartoons, came in from Bolivia and impounded based on a tip off […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Director General of the Timi Alaibe Campaign Organisation, Senator Enatimi Rufus Spiff yesterday explained the reasons behind the out-cry of the Labour Party (LP) and other pro- Alaibe groups to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over alleged plots by some state government officials to register non-indigenes, saying such had prompted violence in the state. […]
