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Buhari Considers Bakare as Running Mate

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

As a back-up plan to the current alliance talks between the opposition parties, the presidential flagbearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, is seriously considering picking Pastor Tunde Bakare as his running mate in the April elections. The is even as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) continues with its talks […]

Wikileak Cables: ‘Aides hid Yar’Adua’s illness with stuffed clothes, makeup’

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Presidency, Top Stories, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10) Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

Controversial whistleblower website, WikiLeaks, has claimed that aides of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua stuffed his clothes to hide his weight loss during the peak of illness. WikiLeaks, in some United States diplomatic cables it released on Saturday night, also disclosed that makeup was used to cover the signs and symptoms of illness on his […]

Ribadu, Buhari Meet

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

As consultations by politicians of the progressive bent continue across the country ahead of the April general election, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)’s presidential candidate in the poll, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Wednesday held a closed-door meeting with his Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) counterpart, Maj-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) The meeting, which took place […]

Abati: The Jonathan Presidency (10)

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Thursday, January 20th, 2011

ON Saturday, September 18, 2010, President Goodluck Jonathan formally declared his interest in the 2011 Presidential race on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. The event which was held at the Eagle Square, Abuja, was attended by a cross section of Nigerians including politicians, students, teachers, Niger Delta youths, market women, “Naija Artistes for […]

My Children Are At Home Too – Jonathan

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Thursday, January 20th, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday spurned allegations that his children were currently back in school after holiday in utter violation of the directive made by the Federal Ministry of Education and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that primary and secondary schools in the country should remain closed. According to the president, it became necessary to […]

President’s victory: Atiku, others rule out court option

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Former Military President Ibrahim, Babangida; ex-Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, and former National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Aliyu Gusau (retd.), have decided not to challenge the victory of President Goodluck Jonathan at the Peoples Democratic Party presidential primaries in court. Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday showed that the three politicians took the decision at a […]

Abati: The Jonathan Presidency (9)

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Reuben Abati Monday, January 17th, 2011

By Reuben Abati, Lagos, Nigeria – Jan. 17, 2011 – The 1966-70 civil war was among other things, a response by the Igbo nation to the excesses of the political North. Between 1993 and 1999, the opposition to the North’s continued stay in power was also part of the sub-text of the pro-democracy struggle by […]

Abati: The Jonathan Presidency (8)

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Reuben Abati Saturday, January 15th, 2011

IN his inaugural speech on May 6, 2010, President Goodluck Jonathan had formally outlined the major concerns of his administration, in addition to paying tribute to the departed President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. He addressed Nigerians as “my dear brothers and sisters.” In a matter of months, the new President will also start addressing Nigerians as […]

PDP Primary: Why IBB Didn’t Attend • Congratulates Jonathan

Posted by admin Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), National Politics, Presidency Friday, January 14th, 2011

Contrary to expectations, former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, on Thursday failed to attend the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary where President Goodluck Jonathan was picked as the standard-bearer of the party for April presidential election. The Chanchaga Local Government chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in Niger State had 24 hours […]

Obasanjo’s superman syndrome

Posted by admin Headlines, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency Monday, January 10th, 2011

THERE is no doubt that the political career of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has been one of the longest and most successful in Nigeria. Right from when he first entered national consciousness as the soldier who received the instrument of surrender from the defeated Biafran forces at the end of Nigeria’s Civil War, his rise […]