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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Raw Politics, Uncategorized
Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Embattled lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, has finally promised to surrender the $500,000 bribe to the Special Task Force before the end of the week following serious psychological and physical pressures mounted on him by investigators. It was learnt that Lawan succumbed to the pressure mounted him by the STF Commissioner of Police, Ali Ahmodu, on Wednesday […]
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House, Legislature, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

Angry members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday insisted that one of their high-ranking members, Mr. Farouk Lawan, currently enmeshed in a $3m bribery allegation must carry his own cross. A key member of the House confided in The PUNCH in Abuja that most members had reportedly analysed Lawan and Femi Otedola’s accounts of […]
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Headlines, Raw Politics, Wole Soyinka
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

May 31, 2012 by Agency Reporter Professor Wole Soyinka | credits: File copy This is one gift horse which, contrary to traditional saying, must be inspected thoroughly in the mouth. Primary from all of us must be a plea to the MKO Abiola family not to misconstrue the protests against the naming of the University […]
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INEC Politics, Jigawa, Latest Politics, Raw Politics, State News
Sunday, May 20th, 2012

By Aliyu Dangida Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Mohammed Jega, reportedly escaped death, yesterday, when some youths attacked him at the palace of the Emir of Kazaure, Alhaji Najib Hussaini Adamu, in Jigawa State. Jega was said to be in the town to attend the wedding of the daughter of […]
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General Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Former Head of State and presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change, Major-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), said on Monday that unless there was fairness and justice in the conduct of the 2015 presidential elections, there would be violence in the country. Speaking while receiving party supporters from Niger State in his Kaduna office, Buhari […]
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Bayelsa, Enugu, Latest Politics, National Politics, Plateau, Raw Politics, State News
Sunday, April 29th, 2012

More ex-gover-nors who allegedly looted public funds and laundered them in the United Kingdom, are in trouble, as the authorities there are buoyed by their success in the trial of a former governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, to activate their files. Ibori was on April 17, sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for money […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Oil Politics, Presidency, Raw Politics
Thursday, April 26th, 2012

By BEN AGANDE, Henry Umoru, EMMAN OVUAKPORIE & Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA- PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan said yesterday that those indicted in the report of the House of Representatives Committee that investigated the implementation of the subsidy regime in Nigeria will be punished. He vowed that no one will be spared. The House which called for the […]
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Delta, National Politics, Raw Politics, State News
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Former governor of Delta State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), James Ibori, who was standing trial for allegations of money laundering and multiple frauds, has been jailed for 13 years by a United Kingdom (UK) court sitting in Southwark, London. In his verdict on the matter yesterday, Judge Anthony Pitt of London […]
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Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, Raw Politics
Sunday, April 15th, 2012

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), has cautioned former military president and presidential aspirant on the party platform, General Ibrahim Babangida, against incessant attacks on happenings within the party. Reacting to a statement credited to the Media Assistant to the former military president, Prince Kassim Afegbua, which was published in […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Raw Politics
Friday, April 13th, 2012

Almost three years away from the 2015 presidential election, political tempers are already rising across the country over suspected moves by President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the poll. Towards this end, prominent Niger Delta leaders, including First Republic information minister, Chief Edwin Clark have been making comments, warning that nothing will stop their kinsman from […]