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Elections 2011, General Politics, Raw Politics
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar on Tuesday described their screening by the Peoples Democratic Party Screening Panel as ‘rigorous and comprehensive’ The two men and the only female PDP presidential aspirant Sarah Jibril, were at the party’s headquarters in Abuja where they answered questions from the Alhaji Aminu Wali-led committee shortly after […]
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Headlines, Raw Politics
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
Chief Convener of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Pastor Tunde Bakare, has passed a vote of no confidence on President Goodluck Jonathan, saying he is an under performer. Bakare, who is also the Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, spoke with Daily Sun in Abuja. Excerpts: State of the nation We must give thanks to God that […]
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Raw Politics
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
The city of Jos, Plateau State, once again erupted on Saturday, following the disappearance of nine people believed to have been waylaid and killed while returning from a wedding in Mangu Local Government Area of the state. According to a statement issued by the Ulama/Elders Council Plateau State, signed by its secretary, Barrister Lawal Isaq, […]
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Raw Politics
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
This Thursday, at the Eagle square in Abuja, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) delegates will at its special national convention, elect the party’s presidential flag-bearer for this year’s presidential election in April. Barring any last minute developments, Thursday’s contest will be between incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar. Since the registration of […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Raw Politics
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Justice Isha Bello of an Abuja High Court yesterday set aside Monday to rule on a suit brought before him to bar President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the presidential election on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ambassador Yahaya Kwande, Hon. Dubem Onyia and Alhaji Lawal Kaita, all card-carrying members of the PDP who […]
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Raw Politics
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Former vice president and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has alerted Nigerians to President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged heightening desperation of making his political rivals the scapegoats of the latest bombing incidents in Jos and Abuja. A statement in Abuja by his Campaign Organisation in Abuja yesterday accused the president of […]
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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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Raw Politics
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday denied reports that he was dead. Obasanjo, in a telephone interview with SATURDAY PUNCH from his Abeokuta home, claimed that some people wanted him dead. The former President, who appeared to have been inundated with enquiries concerning the state of his health, said it had pleased God to […]
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Governors, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Plateau, Raw Politics, State News
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Plateau state governor Jonah Jang said Friday bombers’ objective was to stop the congresses that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state was planning to conduct. The governor stated this yesterday while receiving the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Alhaji Muhammad Sani Sidi, who was on a tour to the […]
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Headlines, Raw Politics
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
CHIEF Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, national leader of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), who has been on intensive care at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, since Sunday last week, has been transferred abroad for treatment. The ambulance conveying him moved from the intensive care of the UNTH at 11.00 a.m. on Thursday. The national […]
