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Amnesty: FG sends 74 ex-militants to Malaysia for varsity education

Posted by admin Niger Delta, Top Stories Sunday, March 6th, 2011

The Federal Government on Sunday sent 74 ex- militants from the Niger Delta region to University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for a three-year degree programme. The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Matters, Kingsley Kuku, while speaking prior to the departure of the transformed ex-militants said the 74 men, in line with the […]

Tinubu sent me to jail – Bode George

Posted by admin National Politics, Top Stories Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain and a strong pillar of the rulling party in Lagos State, Chief Bode George, seems to have put his recent jail experience behind him. He has returned to the political turf and resumed the battle for the soul of Lagos. In this interview with Magazine Editor, SOLA OSHUNKEYE, he talks […]

Libyan soldiers kill 6 Nigerians

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Top Stories Sunday, March 6th, 2011

INDICATIONS emerged, weekend, that no fewer than six Nigerians had been killed in the ongoing political crisis in Libya while more than 12,440 others were trapped in Tripoli and Benghazi. This came as 1,243 Nigerians who had been stranded in Tripoli were evacuated, yesterday, with the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, using three aircraft for […]

Bode George’s Reception: Celebration of Criminality • ‘I Was Tricked To Attend’

Posted by admin Raw Politics, Top Stories Friday, March 4th, 2011

FORMER President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday said that he was tricked to attend a reception organised for former chairman of the Nigeria Port Authority (NPA), Chief Olabode George, who was recently released from prison. Obasanjo, who is the chairman, Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), added that his attendance at the reception was in […]

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 […]