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National Politics, Top Stories, Women Politics
Friday, November 11th, 2011
The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Levi Ajuonuma Friday refuted allegation in some online news media that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke purchased a 20m euro mansion at an undisclosed location in the Austrian capital of Vienna. The NNPC spokesman noted that […]
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Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories, United Nations
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
IN an apparent reaction to a statement by the Nigerian authorities asking Nigerians not to lose any sleep over the United States’ warning on Sunday that there were plans by the Boko Haram sect to bomb some hotels in Abuja, the US declared on Tuesday that its warning was based on a piece of specific […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Islamic sect, Boko Haram has threatened to carry out more attacks, a day after a series of blasts and gun battles claimed by the group killed more than 100 people in the country’s northeast, the Nigerian Red Cross has said. Ibrahim Bulama, an official from the humanitarian organisation, said on Sunday that the death toll […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
In what is considered a retaliatory move, the Federal Government has slashed British Airways’ (BA) flights to Lagos from seven times a week to three, with effect from Tuesday, November 8. Before the flight reduction, the United Kingdom national carrier, which has operated into Nigeria for over 75 years, was flying seven times weekly to […]
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National Politics, State News, Taraba, Top Stories
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
A Permanent Secretary in the Taraba State Ministry of Finance, Asabe Maiangwa, on Monday told an Abuja High Court that she complained to the then Taraba state Governor, Rev Jolly Nyame, about the way the state government disbursed various sums of money to contractors for jobs not done. At the resumed hearing of the case […]
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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), National Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, Top Stories
Monday, October 31st, 2011
THE Supreme Court will today decide whether to strike out the appeals filed by President Goodluck Jonathan, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against a ruling delivered by the presidential election petitions tribunal on July 14, which held that the petition filed on a Sunday by the Congress for […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Age and time might have slowed down the pace of the maverick Senator Arthur Nzeribe, but the vehemence of his conviction remains ablaze as usual. From the way he fumes, not minding the situation of things, about the prevailing developments in Nigeria, he remains himself, unfazed, undiluted in sharp criticisms and unrelenting in what he […]
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Lagos, National Politics, Raw Politics, State News
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
ABUJA— Embattled former Governor of Lagos State and leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, declined to either mount the dock or enter his plea to the 3-count criminal charge preferred against him before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja. The ex-governor who was charged by […]
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Lagos, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would on November 30, 2011 know whether the Code of Conduct Tribunal can prosecute him for allegedly operating 16 foreign accounts while in office. The tribunal would also make a pronouncement on the former governor’s application to […]
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EFCC Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was on the offensive last week and penultimate week arraigning former governors it accused of embezzling their states’ funds while in power. Former governors who waded through the anti-graft agency’s familiar stream of arrest, questioning, brief detention (in EFCC’s custody or prison), […]
