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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
BY EMEKA MAMAH LAGOS— President Goodluck Jonathan assured yesterday that his government will end the menace of Islamic sect, Boko Haram in some areas of the north by the middle of the year. He said the nation’s security forces will take total control of the situation. Jonathan who spoke in an interview with the South […]
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Anambra, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, State News
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Anambra is set to become the cleanest state in Nigeria. This was disclosed by Governor Peter Obi yesterday during the commissioning of refuse disposal vehicles, compactors receptacles, ANIDS school buses, totaling over 500 million naira at the premises of Innoson Motor Manufacturing Company, Nnewi. Obi commended President Goodluck Jonathan for his interest in private enterprises […]
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will today leave Abuja for Seoul South Korea, as the head of Nigeria’s delegation to the World Nuclear Security Summit, which opens on Monday, March 26, 2012. A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said President Jonathan and 52 other heads of […]
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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 […]