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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said more could be done to reach out to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram to find out what leads it to carry out acts of violence. Obasanjo who spoke in an interview with CNN, suggested the current government should adopt a dual-track approach rather than just cracking down on […]
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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday said the President Goodluck Jonathan administration had not been reaching out enough to the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and canvassed what he described as a “carrot-and-stick” strategy to address the sect’s menace. Obasanjo told the CNN in an interview that Jonathan had been applying less of dialogue and […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
By Arnold A. Alalibo / NNP / Jan. 5, 2013 – James Cardinal Gibbons once said” “the trouble with being a leader today is that you cannot be sure whether people are following you or chasing you”. There are respective forms of government, but on close examination of them it is apparent that democracy is […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, Presidency
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba / Yola, Nigeria / Jan. 5, 2013 – In 2013, the sum of N 4.987 trillion shall be spent by the federal government of Nigeria. The capital expenditure is a paltry N 1.6 trillion, which is 32 per cent of the entire budget. But more worrisome is the established tradition […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, State News
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
BY HENRY AKUBUIRO Long before his foray into mainstream politics and becoming the governor of Niger State, Muazu Babangida Aliyu’s peculiar leadership was already an attraction for political scientists. In 1983 when he first held an elective post as a member of House of Representatives, he had set the pace for a journey into the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Saturday, January 5th, 2013
The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to improve his performance on a number of key national issues, including security, employment generation, and economic management. The ARG also challenged the president to tackle corruption, profligacy of government officials and the sacred cow syndrome, saying only such a move would make his leadership […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday said providence saved him from the fire which recently burnt a part of his Hilltop Mansion in Abeokuta, Ogun State. If the fire which consumed his secretary’s office had occurred during the night, the former President said he would have been suffocated by fumes from the inferno. He spoke […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North ABUJA—Giant campaign posters, announcing President Goodluck Jonathan’s readiness to contest the 2015 presidential election, greeted Nigerians in Abuja, the nation’s capital, as they woke up to savour the dawn of the New Year. The all-glossy posters, which were strategically posted in the high brow areas of the Federal Capital […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Oil Politics, Presidency
Sunday, December 30th, 2012
The ground appears to have been prepared for another New Year confrontation between President Goodluck Jonathan and civil rights activists with a stiff opposition by the latter to a suit asking Jonathan to remove totally the subsidy on fuel. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Anambra State, Chief Stanley Okeke, has filed a […]
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Armed Forces, Bayelsa, General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, December 30th, 2012
DECEMBER 31, 2012 BY MIKE ODIEGWU Bishop of Bomadi Catholic Diocese, Vicarage Hyacinth Egbebor, in his homily on Saturday, blamed the helicopter crash that killed the former National Security Adviser, Andrew Azazi; former Kaduna State Governor Patrick Yakowa, and four others, on corruption. At the state funeral of Azazi in Peace Park, Yenagoa, attended by […]
