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Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency, South-East
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has thanked the people of the South East for massively voting for him during the just concluded Presidential election.Jonathan, at a one-day rally in Owerri on Friday, however, said the support and votes for him as President cannot be complete if the governors of the zone are not carried along in the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Judiciary, Latest Politics, Presidency
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Justice Aloysius Katsina-Alu, CJN The Presidential Election Tribunal will hold its inaugural sitting in Abuja next Tuesday, THISDAY has learnt. A senior counsel, who is one of the lawyers engaged by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said the inaugural sitting should have taken place Wednesday. The shift in the commencement of the tribunal’s sitting […]
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Armed Forces, Delta, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
WARRI – MORE troops were deployed in the riverine community of Ayakoromor, Burutu local government of Delta State, Thrusday, by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, following Wednesday’s unfinished gun battle with a militant group in the area. The deployment of more soldiers fuelled fears in the community and environs that soldiers might […]
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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), EFCC Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, Top Stories
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) moved swiftly to respond to claims of underhand occurrences in the last presidential election by raising four points which it believed would easily knock off the petition by the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had on Friday filed a notice at the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The flurry of messages congratulating President Goodluck Jonathan from all over the world may have finally persuaded northern elements who were once opposed to his emergence as the nation’s number one citizen into soft-pedalling. SUNDAY PUNCH investigations showed that this change of heart and the consequent thaw in the attitude of some key northern […]
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CPC (Congress 4 Progressive Change), Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Says presidential poll not credible || True to its promise, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) on Friday dragged President Goodluck Jonathan to the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, claiming that the election that returned him as the Nigerian president-elect was not credible. In its ex-parte application filed by […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Ministries, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised President Goodluck Jonathan to be cautious in choosing people that will work in his cabinet during his four-year tenure. “I have no advice to anybody on making a government but all I will say is that a leader will be judged on the type of people he builds around […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – May 4, 2011 – Just when Nigerians were beginning to bask in the euphoria of a possible dawn of a new era following the relative success of the National Assembly elections on April 9, the aftermath of the presidential polls that followed a week later is turning out […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The inflammatory outbursts of some Niger Deltans such as Asari Dokubo are a threat to the stability of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency and the president would do well to call them to order and distance himself from them forthwith. That was the candid warning of former Petroleum Minister, Professor Tam David West, a fellow Ijaw as […]
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Elections 2011, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Elections 2011 Updates, Presidency
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
FOLLOWING the violent protests that trailed Nigeria’s presidential polls in some parts of the North, the United States (U.S.) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to constitute a federal cabinet that would bridge perceived political divisions in the country. Speaking with reporters on Thursday afternoon in Washington DC, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Ambassador […]
