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Headlines, National Politics
Friday, January 7th, 2011
A former vice-president and a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, vowed to resist any attempt to manipulate the forthcoming presidential primaries of the party by its leadership in favour of any aspirant. Addressing newsmen in Abuja, the former vice-president also rolled out conditions to be met by […]
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Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), National Politics, Presidency
Thursday, January 6th, 2011

The euphoria of the successful conclusion of the national convention of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has hardly died down when the former publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Dennis Aghanya, went to court seeking to annul the process leading to the election of new national officers of the party. After two days of […]
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National Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07)
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and some notable leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party were at the party’s headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday over the crises trailing the ongoing primaries of the party. The other PDP leaders that were at the party’s headquarters in Abuja included governors Sullivan Chime (Enugu) and Adebayo Alao-Akala (Oyo) as well […]
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Legislature, National Politics, Senate
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

The Senate Leader, Mr. Teslim Folarin, and three others were on Tuesday arraigned before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, in connection with Thursday’s killing of a factional leader of the state council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.k.a Eleweomo). They were remanded at the Agodi Prisons, […]
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National Politics
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Idi Hong, said on Sunday, that Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, currently in a London hospital, was no longer “in grievous danger”. “With the state in which I have seen him, not as a minister now, but also as somebody with a background of medicine, I think he is […]
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Anambra, Legislature, National Politics, Senate, State News
Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

Now, it is a whistle blow going by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) timetable which has made it mandatory for parties to ensure that their primaries are concluded at least by the second week of January, 2011. And with that, it has become a race against time for almost all the parties and the […]
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Legislature, National Politics, Senate
Saturday, January 1st, 2011

“ON Wednesday, at the commencement of the ward congress, I learnt Eleweomo and his people in about 20 buses had stormed my ward 5, Idi Ose area of the local government. They were armed with guns, and on getting there, I inquired from supporters what the business of Eleweomo was. Shortly after, he (Eleweomo) went […]
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Legislature, National Politics, Presidency, Senate
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
IN a blaze of promises of abundance, security and improved healthcare, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and other leaders yesterday ushered Nigerians into the New Year. In his New Year message to the nation, President Jonathan pledged that his administration would work even harder in the coming months to ensure that ordinary Nigerians begin to feel […]
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Nasarawa, National Politics, Plateau, State News
Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Following the bomb lasts in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Christmas eve, tension is high in Nasarawa State as people almost stay awake all night for fear of the least expected. Saturday Sun found that both Christians and Muslims in the state are living in fear as uncertainty has become an order of the […]
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Lagos, National Politics, State News
Friday, December 31st, 2010

Those who thought the 50th birthday shindig of Remi, the slim built and beautiful wife of ex-governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would turn out as an ‘owambe’ party were highly disappointed. Instead, Remi Tinubu made it a praise event to the glory of GOD. Those who have been planning since last year […]