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Aviation, Headlines, Lagos, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, October 3rd, 2013
A plane carrying 20 people has crashed shortly after take-off from Lagos airport in Nigeria, officials say. A rescue operation is ongoing. At least 13 people are known to have died and several more of those on board were injured. The Associated Airlines plane was bound for Akure, which lies about 140 miles […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Anambra, Lagos, Latest Politics, National Politics, Party Politics, South-East, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, September 28th, 2013
Deportation: S-East APC begs Ndigbo to forgive Fashola By TONY EDIKE, Enugu Following the unqualified and unreserved apology tendered by Governor Babatunde Fashola for the controversial deportation of 14 Anambra indigenes from Lagos State to Onitsha, the All Progressives Congress (APC), South-East zone has appealed to Ndigbo and Anambrarians in particular to forgive and […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
As CAN declares 7-day fasting By SAM EYOBOKA & CALEB AYANSINA ABUJA—A REGIONAL socio-political group that promotes the interests of the people of the Middle Belt region, the Middle-Belt Forum, MBF, yesterday, admonished former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, to display every sense of responsibility and patriotism in his comments on […]
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National Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Saturday, September 14th, 2013
IT appears President Goodluck Jonathan is not done yet with the cabinet shake-up he began on Wednesday, as indications emerged on Friday he could name more ministers for replacement shortly. Saturday Tribune gathered that the assessment team, which x-rayed the sacked ministers’ performance, has already turned in another report, which will be used in relieving […]
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EFCC Politics, National Politics, North-West, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Top Stories
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
…says his real age blurs his memory Defending her integrity, the Former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Mrs. Farida Waziri on Wednesday blasted ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo describing him as a blatant liar and a peddler of “arrant falsehood.” Obasanjo had in an interview attacked the integrity and the tenure of Mrs […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has sacked nine cabinet ministers amid serious divisions in the governing party. Two weeks ago, seven of the country’s powerful state governors and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar formed a splinter-group in the PDP. They were angry after their allies were disqualified from party elections. BBC Nigeria analyst Naziru Mikailu says the […]
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General Politics, National Politics, Nigerian Police, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Sunday, September 8th, 2013
The Police, on Saturday, sealed off the secretariat of the Abubakar Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party located at Plot 4, Oyi River Crescent, Maitama, Abuja. One of our correspondent, who visited the secretariat on Saturday, reports that riot policemen have taken over the two roads leading to the building. The riot policemen, who […]
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Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, September 5th, 2013
A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has withdrawn the statement credited to him that he had an intimate relationship with the wife of the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Spain, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu. Fani-Kayode, also a former Minister of Culture, in a statement by his lawyer, Mr. […]
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EFCC Politics, Governors, Latest Politics, National Politics
Monday, September 2nd, 2013
As PDP moves to wield big stick against splinter group From FRED ITUA, Abuja and DESMOND MGBOH, KanoTwenty-four hours after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held its mini national convention which produced a splinter group, the Federal Government is set to punish the arrowheads. These are the seven governors who led other chieftains of the […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Sunday, September 1st, 2013
The special convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held on Saturday in Abuja has split the party into two factions, with the new one, under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, emerging. Former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, emerged as the new faction’s national secretary. The national chairman of the party, Alhaji […]
