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Monday, January 17th, 2011
STILL smarting from the recent incidents that claimed the lives of many and paralysed business activities, residents of Jos, Plateau State, witnessed another tragedy on Monday, as three people died in the troubled Jos North Local Government Area of the state in the ongoing voter registration. Nigerian Tribune learnt that the ongoing registration turned violent […]
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Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Attempts by President of the Senate, Senator David Mark to register for the forthcoming general election in his Ward I, Otukpo, Benue State failed to yield the desired result as Direct Data Capture (DDC) machine of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) did not function. Senator Mark who was accompanied by his wife, Helen arrived […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
It was a frustrating moment for former president Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday as his attempt to register in the ongoing voters’ registration was thwarted by the Direct Data Capture (DDC) machine. Obasanjo who arrived his Ward 11, Ita-Eko, Abeokuta, the state capital at about 11.53 a.m. in company with his wife, Bola had after several rejections […]
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
NIGERIA yesterday began the first leg of the April general elections with the commencement of voters’ registration across the states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on a shaky note. Apathy, insufficient supply of the DDC machines as well as low battery occasioning poor functions of the DDC machines were reported in […]
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
The former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has congratulated President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on what he described as a landslide victory at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held at the Eagles Square, Abuja. According to General Babangida, who was equally a presidential aspirant on the party’s platform but had to […]
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan would in the next few days hold a series of meetings with elder statesman, Adamu Ciroma and his group, the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) as well as his closed rival in the just concluded presidential primaries of the party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The move, Sun Sunday gathered, is to resolve the […]
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
I am very concerned about the influence that the US Senate Report titled “KEEPING FOREIGN CORRUPTION OUT OF THE UNITED STATES: FOUR CASE HISTORIES” is having on the pending PDP primaries in Nigeria scheduled for January 13, 2011. I will assume that the reader is familiar with the report as it relates to former Nigerian […]
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
THE Goodluck and Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation has extended hands of fellowship to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who lost in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries on Thursday. The team also urged Atiku to accept the outcome of the election. It added that of the victory of the President at the Peoples Democratic Party […]
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
When some party stalwarts summoned an emergency meeting at the residence of Senate President, David Alechenu Mark, and rose from the meeting after about two hours, it was clear the battle line had been drawn. The meeting had just one agenda: how to floor Atiku. It was resolved at the meeting to beat Atiku Abubakar, […]
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
Right from day the Action Congress (AC) transformed to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), leaders have never pretended that they want to present a credible northerner as its presidential candidate. The leadership looked for credible leaders from the North that could match the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the general election. Therefore, the leaders […]