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Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, South-East
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The controversy trailing the last presidential election took another dimension yesterday when members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) disowned the party’s standard-bearer, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. They said that the election was the freest ever conducted in Nigeria. After the results of the presidential election were announced, Buhari had rejected results in the South […]
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Articles, Elections 2011, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
In this information age, every editor’s worst nightmare is how to discern the wheat from the chaff that they are fed with from different sources on a big news day. Starting from the social networks, electronic mail, BlackBerry instant messenger, regular SMS and phone calls, to good old television, coupled with all the wireless gadgets […]
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Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) on Thursday, challenged the defeated presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to proceed to the election petition tribunal to prove his claim that last Saturday’s presidential election was rigged in favour of its presidential candidate,Goodluck Jonathan, or shut […]
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Elections 2011, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) says he will challenge last Saturday’s presidential election in court even as he appealed to his supporters to remain calm. Gen. Buhari’s decision to go to court, however contradicts his pre-election statement declaring that he would not challenge the outcome of […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Kano, Presidency, State News
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
The Kano State Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, has denied the allegation that the sum of N20 billion was given to him by the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Jonathan Goodluck. The special assistant (media) to the governor, who was also the presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Mallam Sule […]
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Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
With the successful conduct of the parliamentary and presidential polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has aptly demonstrated that it can truly conduct credible elections if given the chance to do so. We commend the chairman of the commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, for his performance so far. It is good that President Goodluck Jonathan […]
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
President Blaise Campaore of Burkina Faso has joined other world leaders to congratulate President Goodluck Jonathan for his victory in the last Presidential election which he described as open and transparent as attested to by local and international observers. In the felicitation letter personally signed by Compaore, he said the people of Nigeria voted massively […]
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Articles, Columnists, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency, Reuben Abati
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Leadership is what will make Nigeria, it is also what will break it; leadership failure is precisely what is responsible for the crisis that the country is now witnessing after a Presidential election that was adjudged successful by local and international observers and which has received high praise from the United States, Germany, France, Britain, […]
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Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Niger, Presidency, Top Stories, Yakubu Gowon (1966-75)
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) was yesterday prevented from entering Suleja by security agents. The motorcade of the former military leader was stopped at Madalla and he was told he could not proceed to Suleja. Buhari was on his way to Suleja to pay a condolence over […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed security agencies in the country to confront those responsible for the post-election violence in some northern states with “all lawful means, including justifiable force.” Jonathan, in a nationwide broadcast early on Thursday (today), said he had directed the deployment of security personnel in all the troubled areas to bring […]
