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General Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has forwarded names of 27 new ambassadorial nominees including former foreign affairs minister, Ojo Uma Maduekwe, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, widow of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and immediate past deputy governor of Oyo State, Taofeek Arapaja to the Senate for confirmation. Mrs. Ojukwu is still Presidential Adviser on Diaspora Matters. […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA—THE Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, yesterday, quashed the entire 3-count criminal charge that was preferred against the erstwhile governor of Lagos state and leader of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu by the federal government. The former governor was charged to court on […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
STATESMEN are usually given state burial but former Biafran Leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, will get more than that. His body will be flown to three African countries and one American country before the final burial in his Nnewi country home, according to his will. Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, who gave the indication, yesterday, […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, November 27th, 2011
The Movement for Revolutionary Change (MRC) a non-government organization (NGO) has advised the Federal Government to immortalize the late Biafran warlord and national leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Odumegwu Ojukwu by renaming the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) as Odumegwu Ojukwu University (OON). The group said renaming a university of the UNN’s […]
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Breaking News, National Politics, South-East, Top Stories
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Ojukwu, who was the National Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, died on Saturday morning at the Hospital between 1am and 2am local time. Prior to that trip, he was on admission at the Intensive Care Unit of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu following a cerebra-vascular accident otherwise called stroke. There had been rumours […]
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EFCC Politics, National Politics, Top Stories, Women Politics
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
The removed Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes, Mrs. Farida Waziri, on Wednesday said she heard the news of her sacking on the television. In a brief telephone chat with one of our correspondents late on Wednesday, Waziri also said she was yet to be formally communicated. She, however, added that she would determine […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, National Politics, State News, Top Stories
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
A serving Nigerian senator, Ali Ndume has been arrested following confessions of a Boko Haram extremist currently in custody of the State Security Services (SSS). The Boko Haram suspect Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, confessed yesterday to agents that a certain serving Senator, ex-governor and some politicians in the North were sponsors of the radical Islamic […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
The Chairman and Publisher of the Guardian, Chief Alex Uruemu Ibru is dead. According to a statement by the paper, Ibru gave up the ghost at about 2.30pm today. He had been sick for a while and was aged 66. Ibru was born on March1, 1945, the youngest of the famous Ibru brothers who hailed […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
By CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy Political Editor – THERE are many definitions of politics. One of them is the art or science of determining who gets what, where and when. In any government, there are men and women who have the ears of the ruler and can influence allocation of resources, appointments, projects and day-to-day decisions […]
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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
LAGOS- (AFP) – The Nigerian Airport Authorities have fined British Airways $135 million and Virgin Atlantic $100 million amid a dispute over ticket prices, the head of the Nigerian Airport Authorities said Thursday. Harold Demuren told AFP the fines were “$135 million against BA, $100 million against Virgin Atlantic …,” alleging overcharging in ticket prices. […]
