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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded bills to the Senate to change the names of three federal universities. They are University of Lagos, to be renamed Moshood Abiola University, Lagos, Federal University of Technology Yola to be changed to Modibbo Adama University of Technology,Yola and Federal University of Agriculture, Umudike to be named after […]
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Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Monday, June 4th, 2012
FORMER Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday expressed shock over the Sunday’s DANA air crash. Undoubtedly, Buhari said the corruption in the aviation sector is seen in the fact that: “two former Ministers of Aviation are undergoing prosecution for corruption. “This pervasive corruption […]
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Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Friday, June 1st, 2012
June 1, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja A former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has said the appalling state of Nigeria and the hardship of the citizens in the midst of abundance compelled him to weep openly for the nation in 2011. Buhari said this while addressing journalists during his visit to the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Thursday, May 31st, 2012
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | May 31, 2012 | If there is one individual whose name has continously carried a regretable heavy burden in history, that of ‘Judas Iscariot’ easily comes to mind. As an ardent observer of the Christian faith, this writer was made to understand the role Judas played in the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
May 29, 2012 by Jide Ojo “The time for lamentation is over. This is the era of transformation.” – President Goodluck Jonathan at inauguration on May 29, 2011 Hearty congratulations to all the elected and appointed political office holders as they mark one year in office today. In the last couple of weeks, Nigerian ministers […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), House, Legislature, Presidency
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, on Monday openly disagreed on the concept of separation of powers and budget preparation. The President said although there was a theoretical separation, the Executive and the Legislature must work together if democracy must be meaningful. But the Speaker accused the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, P, Presidency
Monday, May 28th, 2012
By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo | NNP | May 28, 2012 – Once again, General Muhammadu Buhari, the perpetual presidential candidate and born again ethnic jingoist has generously spewed his usual hatred and venom in a deliberate attempt to heat up the polity and cause disaffection in the ranks. As is often said, an idle mind […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Monday, May 28th, 2012
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, Henry Umoru, Abdulsalam Muhammad & Luka BinNIyat ABUJA—Prominent political stakeholders from the North were at the weekend divided in their response to the renewed bid by elder-statesman Chief Edwin Clark to position President Goodluck Jonathan for another term in office in 2015. While nearly all of them including those who […]
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General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Governors, Presidency, Top Stories
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan’s loyalists have begun moves to neutralise the plot by northern governors to stop the President’s alleged 2015 ambition. The Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, had in an interview with journalists at the Northern Governors’ Forum’s meeting in Kaduna on May 17 vowed that the North would ensure that it got the […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Sunday, May 27th, 2012
Nigeria marks her 13th year of straight democratic governance without interference. So far, it has been an eventful period for everyone, not only by virtue of being the longest stretch of uninterrupted democratic governance we have ever had since we achieved independence in 1960, but by what we all have learnt in terms of the […]
