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Latest Politics, Oil Politics, Raw Politics
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
By Okey Ndiribe and Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA – The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has dismissed calls by critics for her to step down from office to allow proper investigation into allegations of abuse in the management of petroleum subsidies. Alison-Madueke, who spoke to journalists yesterday after the inauguration of the Special Petroleum […]
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Headlines, Oil Politics, Raw Politics
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Toronto – Dozens came out to the freezing cold temperatures in Toronto Saturday as part of the international Occupy Nigeria movement. Since the violent protests began in the West African nation, thousands of Nigerians have showed their support for the protesters. Nigeria’s Oil Subsidy & Upheaval Samuel Okocha of Digital Journal has reported throughout January […]
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Lagos, Latest Politics, Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate, State News
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
SENATOR Oluremi Tinubu, wife of the leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Bola Tinubu, and four other senators narrowly escaped death in Ibadan on Wednesday after protesters attacked their convoy. The senators, who said they were travelling by road to Abuja, were allegedly led by police escorts, following the grounding of flights in airports […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, Nigerian Police, Raw Politics, State News
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
The Nigerian Police Force has dismissed three officers indicted for the murder of 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor, at a checkpoint in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Investigations by THE PUNCH revealed that an Inspector, Mr. Lucky Obomerelu, was among those discharged from police service for the alleged killing which attracted criticism from the media and human rights community. […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics, Raw Politics
Friday, January 6th, 2012
The wife of late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, Ganiyat, on Friday in Osogbo, said that the spirit of her husband was behind Nigerians in the fight against the removal of fuel subsidy. The widow said that ineptitude and corruption on the part of the Federal Government was the reason behind removal of fuel subsidy. Ganiyat called […]
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Oil Politics, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
The first in the series of rallies against the removal of the subsidy on petrol held across the country on Tuesday. The rallies were organised by Labour, which had threatened that the government decision would be met by a “mother of all rallies”. In Lagos, Abuja, Ilorin, Ibadan and other parts of the country, angry […]
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Boko Haram, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Monday, December 26th, 2011
“Many families have gone, many families have gone. They came to worship their God, but all of them killed”. This was how Rev. Fr Isaac Achii, the Parish Priest of St Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, near Suleja, Niger State, captured the bomb explosions that rocked the church on Christmas Day. Not less than five explosions […]
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Lagos, Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate, Women Politics
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
IN what amounted to a wholesale approval of the report of its ad hoc committee that probed the Federal Government’s privatisation programme since 1999 till date, the Senate on Tuesday voted unanimously to recommend the removal of the Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises, Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa, from office. The Senate […]
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National Politics, Osun, Raw Politics, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola has said the Peoples Democratic Party plotted to kill him in 2007 in order to put the state in perpetual bondage. Aregbesola made this assertion at the Oroki Day celebration held at the Osogbo Township Stadium, on Saturday. He recalled that his personal vehicle was riddled with bullets when he […]
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Sunday, December 4th, 2011
By Emma Ujah, Abuja A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed a suit filed against the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, challenging her appointment by President Goodluck Jonathan over alleged fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate. Justice Gabriel Kolawole, on Friday, dismissed the suit in its entirety, and awarded N150,000 […]
