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Adamawa, Bayelsa, Cross River, Headlines, Kogi, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Sokoto, State News
Monday, August 8th, 2011
Ahead of Wednesday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a web of intrigues has entangled the party as it prepares to take a definite stance on the propriety or otherwise of fresh governorship primaries in five states under its control where governorship election will be conducted between December this […]
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Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Elections 2011, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Plateau, Sokoto, State News
Monday, April 18th, 2011
Post-election violence swept through some Northern states on Sunday night and Monday as results of the presidential poll released by the Independent National Electoral Commission clearly showed Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the winner. States where violence flared were Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa, Katsina, Plateau, Yobe, Bauchi, Borno, Katsina and Sokoto. In states like Kano, Bauchi […]
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Abia, Abuja (FCT), Edo, Elections 2011, Enugu, INEC Politics, Jigawa, Kano, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Sokoto, State News
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Latest Presidential Results 17 Apr 2011 ABIA Goodluck 1,175,954 Buhari 3,608 Ribadu 4,156 EDO Goodluck 542,173 Buhari 17,795 ENUGU Goodluck 802,144 Buhari 3,753 Ribadu 1755 JIGAWA Goodluck 419,252 Buhari 663,994 KANO Goodluck 440, 666 Buhari 1,624, 354 Ribadu 42, 353 KOGI Goodluck 399,816 Buhari 132, 201 Ribadu 6516 KWARA Goodluck 268,243 Buhari 83,603 Ribadu 52, […]
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Abia, Abuja (FCT), Adamawa, Adebayo Adejare, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Elections 2011, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara
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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Headlines, Sokoto, State News
Saturday, April 9th, 2011
THE Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the fresh application brought by the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) gubernatorial standard-bearer in the 2007 Sokoto election, Alhaji Mahammad Maigari Dingyadi, against Governor Aliyu Wamakko. Dingyadi had, through his counsel, Chief Akin Olujimi (SAN), approached the apex court asking it to reverse itself on its November 26, 2010 judgment […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Sokoto, State News
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
Sokoto State deputy governor, Muktari Shagari, has said that the PDP must, within the confines of the law, win the 2011 elections. He told LAWAL SABO IBRAHIM in Abuja why he believes so. He also spoke on his relationship with his boss as well as other national issues. The PDP presidential primary election has come […]
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Headlines, Sokoto, State News
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Detained Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin and three others charged with the December 30 murder of the factional leader of the Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Salako, alias Eleweomo, yesterday began moves to regain their freedom with the filing of their bail application in an Ibadan High Court. The […]
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Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Gombe, Headlines, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Presidency, Rivers, Sokoto, State News, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara
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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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Sokoto
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko has said that in spite of what is said about the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP by some people across the country, the party still remains the backbone of the unity of this country. He spoke when he received 392,299 people that defected to the party from other parties, mostly from […]
