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Nigeria to supply 22.76 per cent of Africa’s oil needs by 2015’

Posted by admin Ministries, National Politics Monday, January 10th, 2011

A LATEST report from Business Monitor International (BMI) has shown that Nigeria oil and gas sector will account for 8.97 per cent of African regional oil demand by 2015, while providing 22.76 per cent of supply. Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) predicted an increase of one million barrels per day (bpd) in 2011, while […]

Jos: House Burning Escalate

Posted by admin National Politics, Plateau, State News Sunday, January 9th, 2011

As efforts are being made by the security agency to contain the crisis that broke up in Jos city following the congress of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Angwa Doki area of Bukuru in Jos south local government went on fire leading to shoot out between security men and hoodlums. Secret killings and burning […]

Atiku Exposed by Daughter

Posted by admin National Politics Sunday, January 9th, 2011

Dr Fatima Atiku Abubakar is the first child of Alhaji and Hajiya Titi Atiku Abubakar, Turakin Adamawa and PDP presidential aspirant. She trained as a medical doctor and works in one of the private hospitals in Abuja. Fatima is worried about the dimension the campaign for election is going and the direct attack on the […]

S’Africa Court Dismisses Okah’s Bail Bid

Posted by admin National Politics Friday, January 7th, 2011

NIGERIAN-BORN accused terrorist, Henry Okah’s appeal for bail was yesterday dismissed by a Randburg court yesterday, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in South Africa said. According to news24 “The judge was of the view that there was no sufficient reasons justifying interference with the magistrate’s decision,” spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga said. “He (the judge) also alluded […]

Primaries: I’ll resist rigging -Atiku

Posted by admin 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 […]

Buhari’s Candidacy Challenged in Court

Posted by admin 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 […]

Obasanjo, Lar, others protest at PDP headquarters

Posted by admin 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 […]

Eleweomo: Senate leader arraigned, detained in prison

Posted by admin 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, […]

Ojukwu no longer in danger

Posted by admin 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 […]

Anambra Central: Dicey Contest Awaits Akunyili

Posted by admin 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 […]