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Friday, April 15th, 2011
Today, the die is cast and all the anxiety of who becomes the country’s president in the next four years would give way within the next 48 hours, when the results would be announced. Some of the presidential candidates are seen as contestants to the throne, while some are mere pretenders. Indeed, most of them […]
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Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Governors, Kogi, Sokoto, State News, Top Stories
Friday, April 15th, 2011
The Court of Appeal Friday upheld the verdict of a Federal High Court barring the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting governorship election in Kogi, Cross River, Sokoto, Adamawa and Bayelsa next week. The appellate court which dismissed the consolidated appeal lodged before it by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as substantially lacking […]
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Adamawa, Elections 2011, State News
Friday, February 11th, 2011
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), governorship candidate in Adamawa state, Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has accused Adamawa state government officials of buying and burning voters’ registration cards in hundreds in the state. The state government has however described the allegation as baseless, false and untenable. Marwa said this at a press conference yesterday in […]
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Adamawa, State News
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
At least 10 prison officials narrowly escaped being lynched on early today when some prisoners attempting jailbreak started a riot at the Jimeta Prisons, Adamawa State. The prisoners suspected to be members of the religious fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, had attacked some officials of the prison, including the officer in charge, immediately after the early […]
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Adamawa, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Intrigues and manipulation still pervaded the outcome of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ad hoc and national delegates election across the states, as one of the governorship aspirants in Adamawa State, Brig-Gen Buba Marwa has asked the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to rescind its decision to cancel the congress and conduct a fresh one […]
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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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Adamawa, Kwara, Osun, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
Some aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State on Thursday protested what they described as the allocation of votes in the state congresses conducted on Tuesday. The PDP supporters also alleged that in some places, like Kwara Central, elections never took place but results were written by certain individuals in their private […]
