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National Politics, Oil Politics, Top Stories, Women Politics
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
THE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has alerted President Goodluck Jonathan to a looming acute fuel shortage if the Federal Government fails to pay N1.13trn subsidy owed it (NNPC), The PUNCH learnt. The NNPC top management, led by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, and the corporation’s Group Managing Director, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, reportedly […]
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Bayelsa, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has disputed the claim by President Goodluck Jonathan in his Sunday’s presidential chat that the military operation in Odi, Bayelsa State in 1999 failed to stop the killings of security agents in the Niger Delta. Fani-Kayode said in a statement on Monday that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who ordered […]
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Boko Haram, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), National Politics, Presidency, Raw Politics
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
The National Leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has said he does not know any member of Boko Haram sect. Buhari said this in an interview with journalists at his party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday during the party’s Board of Trustees meeting. He also said he did not […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Borno, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
THE violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, on Thursday indicated its readiness to end its campaign of violence but on the conditions that ex-Borno State Governor Modu Sheriff was arrested and peace talks held in Saudi Arabia. Also, the sect is asking for compensation for families of its members killed in the course of its terrorist […]
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National Politics, South-East, Top Stories
Friday, October 26th, 2012
Former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has said that there is need to elect an Igbo man as president in 2015 if the country must make progress, just as he dispelled insinuation that he scuttled Dr. Alex Ekwueme’s presidential ambition in 1999. Kalu, who is the founder of Njiko Igbo, a socio-political […]
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Abdulsalaami Abubakar (1998-99), National Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing Limited, a firm in which the former Head of State, Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar, is the chairman, is in the lead to acquire three of the juiciest electricity distribution companies in the country. The electricity distribution companies are Eko, Ikeja and Ibadan. Integrated Energy Distribution and Marketing was prequalified to take […]
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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, October 12th, 2012
By AKEEB ALARAPE A Kabo aircraft conveying Nigerian pilgrims had to make a forced landing in Sudan capital, Khartoum on Wednesday after being denied entry into Saudi Arabia. The aircraft with Reg. No. N9-1143, was conveying pilgrims from Kaduna State but denied landing by the authorities of the King Abdul-Aziz International Airport, Jeddah, due to […]
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National Politics, Rivers, Top Stories
Monday, October 8th, 2012
FOLLOWING the lynching of four students of the University of Port Harcourt, River State, the police have arrested Aluu community leader, Alhaji Hassan Walewa. The police on Sunday morning stormed Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area, where the students were beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob. Our correspodents report that both the […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
A few days after excerpts from Prof. Chinua Achebe’s latest memoirs, entitled ‘There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra,’ was published in the Guardian of London, the book is still the subject of what promises to be a long-drawn debate on the Internet and social media, particularly on the Facebook. In the book, […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), National Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Saturday, September 22nd, 2012
Igbo must produce President—Kalu, Ezeife, others Power must come back to North— Lawal Kaita Is it a time bomb waiting to explode? Will it strengthen the nation or mar it? Obviously whichever way it is viewed, 2015 is a year with so, much uncertainties just as it is very critical to the future of Nigeria. […]
