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Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) at an emergency meeting yesterday in Abuja, shared $1billion from the Excess Crude Account. With the disbursement of the amount, the balance in the ECA account now stands at $3million. The meeting, which was held behind closed doors, lasted for only 29 minutes (11:10am and ended at about 11:39am). […]
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Presidency, Raw Politics
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Convener of the Save Nigeria Group and senior pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly Pastor Tunde Bakare has said President Goodluck Jonathan failed Nigerians by not performing creditably well in the outgoing year (2010) President Jonathan had on Monday given his administration a pass mark, saying Nigerians could boast of progress in some sectors, unlike […]
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Headlines, Presidency
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has promised Nigerians significant improvements in security, power supply, national infrastructure, education, healthcare and employment generation in 2011. In his new-year message to the nation, President Jonathan pledged that his administration will work even harder in the coming months to ensure that ordinary Nigerians begin to feel the tangible benefits of […]
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Headlines, Presidency
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
All the major hotels in the Federal Capital Territory have been booked by politicians ahead of the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party scheduled for January 13, 2011 in Abuja. The PDP candidate will emerge after the party’s primaries expected to hold at the Eagle Square. Our correspondent, who went round the city […]
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Presidency, Top Stories
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The presidency reacted angrily to a foreign media report that President Goodluck Jonathan has blamed Friday’s bombing at the Mogadishu barracks on the Islamic Sect, Boko Haram saying he couldn’t have said so since security agencies have not pin pointed any group as investigations was still on going. It described the report as an outright […]
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Headlines, Presidency
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has promised Nigerians significant improvements in security, power supply, national infrastructure, education, healthcare and employment generation in 2011. A statement signed by Mr. Ima Niboro, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) said: “In his new-year message to the nation, President Jonathan pledged that his administration will work even harder […]
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Legislature, National Politics, Presidency, Senate
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
IN a blaze of promises of abundance, security and improved healthcare, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and other leaders yesterday ushered Nigerians into the New Year. In his New Year message to the nation, President Jonathan pledged that his administration would work even harder in the coming months to ensure that ordinary Nigerians begin to feel […]
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Headlines, Presidency
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said he would be ready to take on any presidential candidate in a public debate after emerging as the the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. Jonathan, who made the pledge in Port Harcourt while addressing delegates from five PDP states in the South-South, explained that it would […]
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Latest Politics, Niger Delta, Presidency
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Mr Emmanuel Egbagbe, as his senior special assistant on Infrastructure Development Matters and Alhaji Saidu Yusuf Dutsi, as his senior special assistant on political matters. The appointments came as Jonathan accepted the resignation of his Senior Special Assistant on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Timi Alaibe, who is seeking nomination to […]
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Elections 2011, Headlines, Presidency
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Preparations for 2011 general elections started yesterday on a scary note in Ogun State as a presidential campaign bus of President Goodluck Jonathan allocated for the state was allegedly seized with some arms and ammunition. The bus, said to have been allocated to the Government Liaison Officer in Ijebu North Local Government, was as at […]
