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General Politics, Kano, Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Monday, June 9th, 2014
The Buhari Vanguard has blamed President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party for the Kano riots that greeted the declaration of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the new emir of the ancient city. Chairman of the group, Jasper Azuatalam, said this in Abuja on Monday. Azuatalam said it was apparent that the PDP-led government had […]
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Edo, Headlines, House, Legislature, State News
Monday, June 9th, 2014
The Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, said on Monday that some members of the state House of Assembly, who recently defected to the Peoples Democratic Party from the All Progressives Congress, were given N50m each to sell their mandates. The governor, who said this while addressing different groups of youths on peaceful protest to the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Kano, Rivers, State News, Top Stories
Monday, June 9th, 2014
THE Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, was locked inside the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport on Sunday for an undisclosed number of minutes after his chartered aircraft was grounded by the airport authorities. The State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, who spoke on Amaechi’s behalf, while briefing newsmen on Monday, said […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Sunday, June 8th, 2014
sanusi-lamido Protests broke out in parts of Kano on Sunday shortly after a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Lamido Sanusi was named the new Emir of Kano. Sanusi, who by his appointment becomes the 14th Emir of Kano, takes over from Ado Ibrahim,who died on Friday. Before the Secretary to the Kano State Government, […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Friday, June 6th, 2014
Mallam Lamido Sanusi The race to succeed the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, has begun. Bayero, longest-serving emir in Kano’s history, passed on in the early hours of Friday after an undisclosed ailment. He ascended the throne in 1963 and ruled for 50 years until his death and was buried in Kano […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
There was confusion in Enugu on Thursday over the death of two persons, including a policeman, during a failed attempt by the Biafra Zionist Federation to allegedly announce the secession of the ‘Republic of Biafra’ in the studio of the Enugu State Broadcasting Service. The BZF had earlier attracted attention on March 8 when members […]
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EFCC Politics, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
At the resumed trial of the Lagos State House of Assembly’s Speaker, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, and his aide, Mr. Oyebode Atoyebi, for alleged of money laundering, the defence counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun(SAN) and Mr. Tunde Akinrinmisi, described the EFCC’s investigation and prosecution of the two accused persons as a witch-hunt. The two defence counsel made […]
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Borno, Headlines, State News
Thursday, June 5th, 2014
| credits: File copy About 100 persons were reportedly killed by insurgents during Tuesday’s attack on three border communities with Cameroon. The Tuesday’s attack, it was learnt, was a retaliatory one on the three villages of Attagara, Agapalawa and Aganjara in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State. Though a security source revealed to journalists […]
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Borno, Headlines, State News
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, has promised to relocate the abducted Chibok schoolgirls to other parts of the country on their release to conclude their secondary school education. The governor said the state government would shoulder the responsibility of sponsoring all the girls to schools in Abuja, Kano, Lagos, Kaduna or any other states […]
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Headlines, State News
Monday, June 2nd, 2014
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has challenged state governors to tell Nigerians what they do with the huge allocations they receive regularly from the Federal Government. According to the minister, many of the states get monetary allocations that far outweigh the annual budget of some neigbouring countries to Nigeria. Okonjo-Iweala spoke on Sunday […]
