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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
A PEOPLES Democratic Party (PDP) panel headed by a former Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Alhaji Aminu Wali, yesterday screened three presidential aspirants on the platform of the ruling political grouping with President Goodluck Jonathan, describing the exercise as rigorous. Later Wali told journalists that the three candidates have been cleared. Also, former Vice […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attajiru Jega has announced that the Commission has received and deployed 110,000 Direct Data Capture machines as at Tuesday. He said this in an interview with the Nigeria Television Authority monitored in Abuja. Jega said the supply and deployment of the equipment was on a “24 hours […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The workers of the hotel where Obasanjo was staying and a member of his security detail, according to the Associated Press (AP) confirmed that the former president left early yesterday for Nigeria. Gbagbo has refused to step down even though results issued by the electoral commission and certified by the United Nations (UN) showed he […]
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
Former national deputy chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South-West, Chief Olabode George and five others will on February 28 regain their freedom. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the former chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and others were jailed for financial mismanagement at the port during his tenure. The suspects who were jailed […]
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Constitution, Latest Politics
Monday, January 10th, 2011
HISTORY was made in Abuja on Monday, as President Goodluck Jonathan assented to the first ever amendments of the 1999 Constitution with a pledge to send more areas for amendment once the next National Assembly is inaugurated later this year. Flanked by Senate President, Senator David Mark and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, Ogun, Oyo, Plateau, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
AS security men continue to make efforts to halt the fresh crisis that engulfed the city of Jos on Saturday, silent killings are still going on in some parts of the city while more houses were burnt in the early hours of Sunday. Nigerian Tribune learnt that after peace returned to Jos after about five […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
A former governor of Lagos State and chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Sunday said the spate of ‘political persecution and threats’ against opponents of the Federal Government might destabilise the political process. Tinubu, who spoke to journalists at the Presidential Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, however, said […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011
THE daughter of late President Yar’Adua, Hajiya Mariam, has replaced her husband, Hon. Badamasi Kabir who was said to be seriously sick as the PDP House of Reps member for katsina federal constituency. Also two of the three incumbent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) out of the 15 members of the House of Representatives from Katsina […]
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011
THE police at the Homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku, Ibadan, are currently trying to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of a 15-year-old girl living with a mother of two at Oke Itunu area of Ibadan, Oyo State. The guardian, 31-year-old Mrs Olufunmi Abdulahi, had reported at the Sango Police […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
AGAINST the backdrop of complaints arising from the primary elections of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), its national chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, has assured that the party would conduct primaries that could stand the test of time. A statement by Ike Abonyi, Special Adviser to the PDP Chairman, on Media, promised that a level playing […]