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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
United Nations – President Goodluck Jonathan and the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg are to serve as founding co-chairs of the Commission on Life-saving Commodities for Women and Children. UNICEF and UNEPA stated this in a joint statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in New York. Launched by UN […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday said he was committed to electoral reforms which would ensure an enduring democracy in the country. Similarly, Vice-President Namadi Sambo, commended the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members from the North-west for their peaceful conduct right from the ward congresses to the zonal level, saying this was a manifestation of the fact […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, South-West
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
THE chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Wednesday, declared that the party would regain the states it lost in the South-West. Speaking at the South-West zonal congress of the party held in Osogbo, the former president said though “we have lost some states in crooked ways. We […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Latest Politics, Presidency
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
THE Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has fixed April 27 for judgment in a suit seeking to compel the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Attorney-General of the Federation to disclose how the $12.4 billion oil windfall that accrued to the Federal Government between 1988 and 1994 was spent. The suit was instituted […]
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Abdulsalaami Abubakar (1998-99), Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
The North appears unrelenting in the search for an enduring solution to the Boko Haram insurgency. Eminent leaders across the region, at yet another meeting to check the spate of insecurity in that part of the country, said they are all out for the rediscovery of Nigeria’s unity and the cohesion of northern communities. The […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday sought the support of religious leaders and politicians as the country grapples with the problems of insecurity. Jonathan made the call while receiving the report of the Federal Government delegation to the 2011 Christian Pilgrimage to Israel, Rome and Greece at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The report was presented to […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
The Coalition of Northern Leaders has said the Presidency is using the Justice Alfa Belgore Committee on Constitution Review to pursue a tenure elongation agenda for President Goodluck Jonathan. The group, in a communiqué after its meeting in Abuja, on Thursday, called for the immediate review of the current revenue allocation formula and the status […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday he would take some of the responsibility for a failed hostage rescue attempt in which an Italian and a British man died in Sokoto. Kidnappers killed Franco Lamolinara and Chris McManus on Thursday last week while a raid to free them was under way, according to British government sources […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
A storm is gathering in the Peoples Democratic Party as some governors elected on the platform of the party are poised to rally against a plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to run for an alleged second term in 2015. Just last week, the former President of the Ijaw Youth Council, and Leader of the Niger […]
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General Politics, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
Elders from the North yesterday held a closed-door meeting at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, to deliberate on the state of the nation. Although no communiqué was issued, Sunday Sun learnt that they met to strategise on how to get back power in 2015. The state of insecurity in the country occasioned by the activities […]
