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Headlines, National Politics
Monday, February 28th, 2011

FIVE men dressed in Moblie Police uniform, yesterday, morning shot dead one Police Constable, Felix Omale, attached to the “A” Division Police Headquarters, Warri, Delta State. A police patrol team from the “A” Division was at a nipping point along the Ekurede Itsekiri/NPA expressway when a black SUV with unknown plate number was flagged down […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Even in jail, purported leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, remains unrepentant and unfazed. From his South African prison cell, he spoke at the weekend and called for the “flushing out” of the political class in Nigeria through the kind of mass revolt and popular resistance sweeping […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics
Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The recent appointment of a former beauty queen, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, as an aide of President Goodluck Jonathan, has attracted diverse opinions. But EMMANUEL OBE writes that it might be the fillip Bianca needs to launch herself into the nation’s political firmament These might not be the best of times for Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, a former […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Should the Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation have its way, the Attorney-General and Justice Minister, Mohammed Bello Adoke, will be kicked out of his job immediately. Reason: his obvious lack of commitment to the fight against corruption – according to the organisation. Its Director (Media and Communications), Ibrahim Modibbo, in a statement, said: “President Goodluck Jonathan […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission Mrs. Farida Waziri, yesterday said the case against a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has not been withdrawn. She said within two and a half years, the EFCC has recovered $6.5b (N975b) and secured 150 convictions. She also said over 1,500 cases […]
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Judiciary, Legislature, National Politics, Raw Politics, Senate
Monday, February 21st, 2011

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Justice handling the probe of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, and the President of the Appeal Court, Justice Ayo Salami, has said that it will decide on Tuesday (tomorrow) whether to summon both the CJN and PAC or not. The Committee said it might also summon […]
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Anambra, Legislature, National Politics, Senate, State News
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Speculations that had been rife in Anambra State since primaries of the various political parties were conducted came to pass yesterday as the former governor of the state, Dr. Chris Ngige, finally filed his papers to contest the senate seat for Anambra Central on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN. Ngige contested the […]
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National Politics, South-West
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
DESPITE President Goodluck Jonathan’s clarifications of the statement he made about the South-West geopolitical zone, on Monday, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftain, Senator Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, fired back at the president, saying with his statement, that he had only insulted the South-West. While Jonathan had mentioned on the Facebook that people from the […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics
Monday, February 14th, 2011

The presidential campaign organisation of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) presidential candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has denied media reports of speculated rift between him and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The report had alleged that the ACN presidential candidate had rejected the choice of former finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as his […]
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Edo, National Politics, State News
Sunday, February 13th, 2011

A former Minister of State for Defence, Mike Oziegbe Onolememen, has urged the Federal Government to immortalize foremost nationalist, Pa Anthony Enahoro, by upgrading the Federal Technical College in Uromi, Edo State, to a University of Science and Technology and rename it “Anthony Enahoro University of Science and Technology.” Enahoro, who passed on in December […]