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General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, May 23rd, 2015
Last night’s secretive and rather abrupt trip to London by Nigeria President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari caught several of his political associates unawares, several of them learning about it only when we broke the story. Asked if the President-Elect had any health issues that may have required urgent travel overnight, they insisted he appears to be healthy. […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Governors, Latest Politics, National Politics, Party Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, May 17th, 2015
Buhari and Tinubu A gigantic test of wills is rocking the All Progressives Congress just 12 days to the inauguration of President-elect Mohammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s substantive President. Impeccable sources within the party told SUNDAY PUNCH over the weekend that some ex-governors, Buhari’s associates and mutinous party members from the South-West are trying […]
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General Politics, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, Top Stories
Friday, May 15th, 2015
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari President-elect Muhammadu Buhari has accused the outgoing Goodluck Jonathan government of not giving him “tips” on how to kick-start his administration on May 29. He spoke on Thursday when a committee from the Centre for Human Security of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, presented a five-point policy document to him at the […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories, Women Politics
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, co-ordinating minister for the economy and minister of finance, shocked her audience on Thursday night with a revelation that she was diagnosed with cancer in 1997. Paying tribute to Oronto Douglas, former presidential adviser who died from cancer-related complications on April 9, 2015, the finance minister said: “Oronto and I had something in […]
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Headlines, National Politics, Oil Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
By Michael Eboh with agency reports Nigeria’s dwindling revenue is set to worsen, as international crude oil traders have shunned the country’s export of Bonga crude oil grade for the months of May and June 2015, making it difficult for the country to find buyers for the product and putting the price of the commodity […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, May 13th, 2015
RECENT successes recorded by the Nigerian Army in the fight against Boko Haram insurgency are not unconnected with the clandestine strides of a group of South African bush warfare experts, hired in secrecy by the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government, it has been revealed. The group, known as Specialised Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection (STTEP), led […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines, Top Stories
Sunday, May 10th, 2015
Abubakar Shekau The United States is still maintaining the $7 million (N1.4 billion) bounty it placed on the leader of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The US Department of State on Wednesday issued a list of 71 most-wanted terrorists in the world with bounties totalling $375m (N74.6bn) as “rewards for information that leads […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, May 9th, 2015
Top left: Osamor; top bottom: Onwurah; middle: Cameron; top right: Grant; top bottom: Umunna. In one of the most keenly contested general elections in British history, four Nigerians won seats to the revered parliament, making it the first time such feat would be recorded Against all odds, David Cameron has won his re-election bid in […]
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Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
This handout picture released by the Nigerian army on April 30, 2015 and taken this week in an undisclosed location in the Sambisa Forest, Borno state, purportedly shows a member of the Nigerian Army standing next to a group of girls rescued in an operation against the Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram hostages were […]
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Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
The Federal Government has warned the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, against utterances and actions capable of portraying him as running a parallel government at a time President Goodluck Jonathan is still fully in charge. The Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Sulaiman, disclosed this at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja on […]
