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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
•Atiku Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The chairman of Katsina State PDP Concerned Elders’ Forum, Aliyu Sani, says the decision of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar not to challenge the outcome of the party’s convention reflects the ugly reality of the situation in the party. He lamented that the usurpers in […]
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General Politics, Top Stories
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Senator Joseph Kennedy Waku is a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who represented Benue North/West senatorial district between 1999 and 2003 in the Senate. In this thought-provoking interview with Saturday Sun, Waku takes a look at the just-concluded primary elections of the PDP and concluded that President Goodluck Jonathan stole victory at […]
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Top Stories
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Tension over the state of health of the first Nigerian graduate soldier and ex-Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was yesterday doused by Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State who said the Ikemba Nnewi was doing very well at a United Kingdom hospital. Obi, who just returned to the state from the UK told newsmen […]
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Bauchi, Katsina, State News, Top Stories
Thursday, January 20th, 2011
Hundred of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Katsina State took to the streets protesting the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the PDP presidential candidate during the just concluded party presidential primary. The protesting members of the party also burnt over 40, 0000 PDP membership cards, stating that they have dumped the party because […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan has said the resignation of Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo as National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was a good development that would move the party forward. The President who spoke with aviation correspondents yesterday at the Lagos Airport on arrival from Abuja said the party was working very hard to move […]
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Raw Politics, Top Stories
Monday, January 17th, 2011
His quest to relocate abroad and drop the shackles of poverty pushed him to the extreme of desperation. Rasheed Adekola was arrested on Tuesday at the Canadian embassy for submitting 17 fake documents in order to obtain a student visa to Canada, TOYOSI OGUNSEYE reports. His quest to relocate abroad and drop the shackles of […]
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All Nigerian Peoples' Party (ANPP), Elections 2011, General Politics, Kano, Party Politics, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
The Kano State Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau has emerged the Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) for the April general election. The Chairman of the ANPP convention committee, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, while clearing the air on the contravention of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) deadline, said the party had been […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Party Politics, Top Stories
Friday, January 14th, 2011
AT last the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has adopted former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as its consensus presidential candidate for the April 2011 polls. Ribadu emerged form the CAN special congress yesterday in Lagos, a day after the Democratic Party (PDP) picked President Goodluck Jonathan as its standard bearer […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Friday, January 14th, 2011
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan early this morning emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, defeating former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Mrs Sarah Jibril at the party’s national convention, which took place at the Eagle Square in Abuja. The build-up to the election suggested that it would be a keenly contested primary but it turned […]
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Party Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
1am Taraba State: Jonathan coast home 62 vote while Atiku gets 16 votes and non for Sarah Jubril Sorry for the break. 11.16pm Anambra State: Goodluck Jonathan got 47 votes, Atiku 8 while Sara Jubril got nothing 11.35pm The whole 141 delegates from Akwa-Ibom State voted for Dr. Goodluck Jonathan 11.20pm Counting commence on the […]
