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Katsina, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, State News
Friday, May 17th, 2013
By News Express, www.newsexpressngr.com, on 17/05/2013 Breaking news from Katsina State in Nigeria’s North-West indicates that the state may be the next target of Boko Haram Islamic insurgents. As Nigeria’s military forces asserted control over the troubled North-East following Tuesday’s emergency rule imposed on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states by President Goodluck Jonathan, reports came […]
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Akwa Ibom, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Legislature, Presidency, Rivers, Senate, State News
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
The Peoples Democratic Party caucus in the Senate has resolved to wade into the prolonged confrontation between President Goodluck Jonathan and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi. It will also mediate in the conflict between Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, and Senator Aloysius Etok. Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, said the PDP caucus […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Niger Delta, Presidency
Monday, May 13th, 2013
FORMER leaders of Niger Delta militants have warned that they will go back to the creeks if the 2015 presidential election is manipulated to edge out President Goodluck Jonathan. The ex-militant leaders, who issued the warning while speaking with newsmen in Port Harcourt on Sunday, expressed sadness over an alleged plot to scheme Jonathan out […]
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Presidency
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Vice-President Namadi Sambo has said apart from the efforts by security agencies to tackle insecurity in the country, the Federal Government is also adopting what ‘community efforts and cooperation.’ A statement by his spokesman, Umar Sanni, on Saturday quoted Sambo as saying this during a dinner in honour of the VP at the Nigerian High […]
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Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
APC ‘ll pick most credible candidate — Shekarau By WOLE MOSADONI Minna—Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said he “will surely seek the mandate” of Nigerians in the 2015 presidential election under the platform of the All Progressive Congress, APC. Buhari who lost the 2011election on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change, […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
By HENRY UMORU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA—A Report of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, presented to the Senate, yesterday, revealed how the Federal Government under three successive administrations from 2002 to 2012, grossly abused funds from the nation’s Special Funds Accounts to the tune of N1.2 trillion. According to the report presented by Senator […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), National Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
By Chris Ochayi ABUJA – The National Chairman of Labour Party, Chief Dan Nwanyanwu has criticised Nigerians, especially, those in political circle for being disrespectful to President Goodluck Jonathan, noting that the president was the most abused ever in the history of the country. Chief Nwanyanwu who made the remarks while receiving the leadership of […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
By Muhammad Bello In an apparent reaction to the state of siege on Baga town in Borno State after the Friday clash between soldiers of the Multi-national Task Force (MTF) and Boko Haram Islamist insurgents, President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday while inaugurating the Boko Haram Committee, warned soldiers on duty in troubled areas of the north […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
A former associate of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr. Richard Odusanya, on Saturday alleged that the former chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees was in charge of a killer squad that was formed under the military regime of late Gen. Sani Abacha. Odusanya reportedly worked behind the scenes when Obasanjo was in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
• Okonjo-Iweala Allays Fears Over N160b Revenue Loss PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr. Tony Blair, Saturday expressed the hope that Nigeria could solve all of its problems through patriotic commitment to unity and progress. The two leaders, who spoke in Lagos during the inauguration and opening ceremony of […]
