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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
AS members of the crisis-ridden Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), in Ogun State go to the polls today to elect their standard flag-bearer for the forthcoming general elections, what is on the lips of residents of the state is whether the party would be able to overcome their problem or juHow Daniel, Obasanjo-Bello, Bankole emerged in […]
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Gombe, Latest Politics, Plateau, State News
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
No fewer than nine persons were killed in a fresh wave of violence that erupted in Jos, the Plateau State capital, during the ward congresses of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) at the weekend. Making the weekend bloodier, a group of masked and armed bandits walked into a beer parlour in Gombe, Gombe State, […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
A 27-year-old teacher has been arrested for allegedly having sex with one of her own teenage students. The boy of 16 told police their relationship, which officers believe may have gone on for over a month, blossomed in her car. Ashley Blumenshine was arrested behind a department store in Plainfield, Illinois, after police caught her […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Americans who speak Yoruba It seems like a page out of a fiction novel to see five white American youths conversing in fluent Yoruba. But this is not fiction, as these Americans currently reside in the University of Ibadan studying one of the indigenous Nigerian languages, Yoruba. Tobiloba Fademi reports When SUNDAY PUNCH called to […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Worried by alleged link to terrorist acts in some parts of the country in recent times, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said that anybody who said the North was behind the spate of bomb explosions in the country was being irrational. The ACF specifically pointed fingers at President Goodluck Jonathan and alleged that “Federal […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, January 7th, 2011

The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead the 2011 elections might have crept into Adamawa State as former Lagos and Borno states military administrator, Brigadier General Buba Marwa, has threatened to quit the party to realise his governorship ambition. While addressing a press conference, on Friday, Marwa did not hide his disdain at […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, January 7th, 2011
FOR the second time, the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday raised an alarm over plan by the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was planning to incarcerate its national leader and former governor of Lagos state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the general elections. The party also decried what it called the growing […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Friday, January 7th, 2011
As part of the efforts aimed at checking the current spate of bombings in parts of the country, about 2,000 officers and men of the Nigeria Police will commence anti-terrorism training in Kaduna on Monday. The anti-terrorism training which will last for three months will be conducted at the Police College, Kaduna. The Commandant of […]
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Governors, Latest Politics
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
The national leadership of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) has asked the Attorney-General of the Federation to urgently institute an investigation into the allegation that six state governors donated N500 million each in support of President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign effort. The party’s National Chairman, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who addressed newsmen on the issue yesterday […]
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Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
AFTER several months of absence from the headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday stormed the place with a mission, asking the leadership of the party to either urgently resolve the crisis rocking the South West zone or be prepared to witness exodus of members including himself. Meanwhile, former Vice President, […]