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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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Presidency, Top Stories, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Today marks one year anniversary of the death of former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. The Katsina-born statesman was committed to good governance. He enunciated a seven point agenda that encapsulated his administration’s policy thrust including electoral reform and resolving the Niger Delta crisis. He initiated the amnesty programme as part of efforts to find […]
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Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Cape Town (S-Africa) – Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised sit-tight leaders across Africa that time is running out and should take a cue and bow out peacefully. Obasanjo, who spoke at the presentation of the Africa Progress Panel (APP) report in Cape Town, yesterday, urged African leaders to realise that there is life after […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Niger, Presidency, State News
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Buhari Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April general elections, General Muhammadu Buhari, has said that Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State is unfit to hold a responsible office in Nigeria. Governor Aliyu had lashed out at the former head of […]
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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 […]
