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PDP rally bombing: one suspect nabbed

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

One suspect has already been arrested in connection with the bomb attack at a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally in Suleja, Niger State yesterday. President Goodluck Jonathan who made this known in a condolence mercy signed by his media aide, Ima Niboro assured that government would deal decisively with any persons found culpable for pre-electoral […]

SSS quizzes Tinubu •Tribunal may begin his trial next week

Posted by admin Raw Politics, Top Stories, Uncategorized Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

OPERATIVES of the Department of the State Security Service (SSS), on Tuesday, quizzed former governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu. According to a high security source, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftain was reportedly quizzed at the SSS headquarters, otherwise known as Yellow House, Abuja. Though no official reason was given by the […]

2015: No vacancy for Igbos –Abba-Aji

Posted by admin National Politics, Top Stories Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji has foreclosed the possibility of an Igbo man being elected as president in 2015. “It is very clear, Vice President Sambo will step in, as soon as Jonathan finishes,” he says in an interview. According to him, the nation needs an Institutional memory […]

Obasanjo advocates transfer of performing govs to other states

Posted by admin Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Top Stories Monday, February 28th, 2011

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has advocated for the amendment of some sections of Nigeria’s constitution, so that performing governors in the country would be transferred to other states to ensure even development. Chief Obasanjo, who was in the state to participate in the flag-off campaign of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Uyo Senatorial […]

Okah roars from jail – Nigeria ripe for revolution

Posted by admin National Politics, Top Stories Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Even in jail, purported leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, remains unrepentant and unfazed. From his South African prison cell, he spoke at the weekend and called for the “flushing out” of the political class in Nigeria through the kind of mass revolt and popular resistance sweeping […]

Presidential race: IBB back with ANPP

Posted by admin Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency, Top Stories Friday, February 25th, 2011

There are very strong and reliable indications that the last may not have been heard of the presidential ambition of ex-military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, Saturday Sun can reveal. The adoption of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) may after all not have ended […]

FG threatens to stop ex-militants’ allowances if…

Posted by admin Niger Delta, Top Stories Thursday, February 24th, 2011

The Federal Government yesterday threatened to stop the allowances of ex-militants in the Niger Delta region if they fail to abide by the code of conduct they entered into at the Obubra Camp. The code of conduct was meant to keep the ex-militants in check when they leave the country for vocational training overseas. The […]

Buhari accuses Jonathan’s camp of plot to assassinate Bakare

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Top Stories Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

The Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday accused the Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation of planning to assassinate his running mate, Pastor Tunde Bakare. A Second Republic Senator and Deputy Coordinator of the now rested Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation, North-Central Zone, Walid Jibrin, had allegedly said in a newspaper report […]

I’m open to talks with Jonathan, others – IBB

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

FORMER Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, said, yesterday, that he was yet to seal a deal to support President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential election, affirming that he was still open to supporting the President or any of his major rivals. The former Head of State who was an aspirant on the platform of […]

FG Offers $600m Dividend to Oil Communities

Posted by admin Niger Delta, Top Stories Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

The Federal Government has said oil-producing communities will earn about N1.1 billion as annual dividend payments from oil revenues as part of incentives in the much-anticipated Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which is expected to be passed by the National Assembly by Thursday, next week. This is intended to end the perennial crisis and violence in […]