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Aviation, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah The Ministry of Aviation has confirmed that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority bought two bulletproof vehicles worth $1.6m (N255m) for the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah. An online news medium, SaharaReporters, had reported on Tuesday that the armoured vehicles were delivered to the minister in August. The […]
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Anambra, Lagos, Latest Politics, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
By OKONKWO EZE ONITSHA — The Federal High Court 4 sitting in Lagos, presided over by Justice Anumogobia is expected to commence hearing on January 29, 2014 in a N1 billion civil suit instituted against Lagos State Government, by the 76 victims who were deported from the state and abandoned in Onitsha, Anambra State […]
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Africa & World Politics, Education, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Saturday, October 12th, 2013
The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mr. Muhajid Asari-Dokubo has joined the swelling rank of private university proprietors with his establishment of a university in the neighbouring Republic of Benin, PREMIUM TIMES reported on Friday. Asari-Dokubo, who already owns a soccer academy in the West African country and another one […]
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Columnists, Latest Politics, Reuben Abati, Top Stories
Saturday, October 12th, 2013
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, has been roundly criticised for working for a government that he has been critical of as a newspaper columnist. He clears air on some of the controversial statements credited to him […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Plateau, State News, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Chief Solomon Lar | credits: File copy First civilian governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, is dead. Lar passed on in a US hospital of what family sources described as old-age related ailment on Wednesday. He was aged 80. Commissioner for Information, Mr. Abraham Yiljap, who confirmed his death, told our correspondent that […]
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Aviation, Legislature, National Politics, Ondo, Senate, Top Stories
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
The Senate on Tuesday summoned the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah, and heads of agencies under her ministry, to explain the real state of the nation’s aviation industry. The invitation followed Thursday’s Associated Airlines plane crash in which about 15 out of the 20 passengers and crew on board, had been confirmed dead. […]
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Aviation, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, October 7th, 2013
Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Odua Three days after a tragic crash involving an Associated Airlines plane killed 14 people in Lagos, the Federal Government, through the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority on Sunday night, announced the suspension of Dana Air’s operations nationwide. The decision to suspend Dana’s operations came 24 hours after the NCAA […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Monday, October 7th, 2013
BY DAPO AKINREFON CHIEF Olabode George, former deputy national chairman, of the Peoples Democratic, PDP, in this interview in Lagos, opens up on the intrigues he claims that led to his imprisonment and on his relationship with former President Olusegun Obasanjo among other issues. Excerpts: How did your trial and imprisonment affect you? Looking back, […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), National Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency, Top Stories
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
Former Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu | credits: File copy Former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has criticised the proposed national conference, describing it as deceptive and ill-timed. Tinubu, who is a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, on arrival in the country on Saturday after being away for about three months […]
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Legislature, National Politics, Senate, Top Stories
Sunday, October 6th, 2013
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Goodluck Jonathan, in his national day broadcast, expressed his resolve to convoke a National Conference. Consequently, the President set up an Advisory Committee made up of eminent Nigerians to work out the modalities for the National Dialogue as he called it. Members of the Advisory Committee are Senator Femi Okurounmu (Chairman), […]
