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Abuja (FCT), Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), National Politics, Presidency, State News, Top Stories
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
By SONI DANIEL ABUJA—As the spate of violence escalates, particularly in the North, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to quit if he could not solve the growing security threats to lives and property in the country. In an exclusive interview with Vanguard yesterday, el-Rufai […]
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Delta, EFCC Politics, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
There were indications on Tuesday that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will go to court to challenge moves to claim for Delta State, the controversial $15m cash said to have been received from an undisclosed agent of a former governor of the state, Chief James Ibori, in 2007. EFCC lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, informed […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines, Kogi, State News
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
WHILE the Deeper Life Bible Church was still counting its heavy losses to the ruthless Monday night attack on its church in Otite, Okene, Kogi State, four persons again died in an attack on the Central Mosque in the city on Tuesday. Reports from Kogi on Tuesday indicated that the death toll in the attack […]
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Headlines, Imo, Letters, State News
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
One thing nobody can take away from Imo State is the fact that she boast of quality democrats in the South-East Geo-political zone. When one talks of Professionals, Intellectuals of repute, Lawyers, accomplished Politicians etc, Imo State rank high in supply of men and women in these cadres. Happenings in the State today appear to […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Monday, August 6th, 2012
AT least, 33 out of the 36 states of the federation have men of the Nigerian Army complementing the police, in order to protect the citizens. The statistics was given on Monday by the General Officer Commanding the Second Mechanised Division, Ibadan, Major-General Muhammad Abubakar, in Osun State. Abubakar made the declaration during the launch […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, August 6th, 2012
AT least, 33 out of the 36 states of the federation have men of the Nigerian Army complementing the police, in order to protect the citizens. The statistics was given on Monday by the General Officer Commanding the Second Mechanised Division, Ibadan, Major-General Muhammad Abubakar, in Osun State. Abubakar made the declaration during the launch […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines, State News, Yobe
Monday, August 6th, 2012
A suicide car bomber on Sunday attacked a military checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu, killing six soldiers and two civilians, police said. Suspicion will fall on Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging an insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan’s government across the north with the aim of carving out an Islamic state in […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, August 6th, 2012
OGONI farmers on Sunday, rose in stout support of their quest for self-rule, saying they are not prepared to beat a retreat. In an online statement to AkanimoReports, they said, ”we expect that the Ogoni Self-Government can end further attempt to subject Ogoni culture to forced assimilation and destruction of our means of livelihood without […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, August 6th, 2012
KINSMEN of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni environmentalist who was executed by a military dictatorship in Nigeria, have taken on the Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, for describing the Ogoni quest for autonomy as a ”treasonable felony”. President of the Ogoni mass organisation, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Dr. Goodluck Diigbo, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Governors, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Saturday, August 4th, 2012
By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo State, Nigeria | August 4, 2012 – Ralph Miliband was a key twentieth century political thinker. Ralph Miliband once said that the hottest place in hell will be reserved for those who sit on the fence in the face of great moral crisis. No one will want to go to […]
