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APGA holds rally, adopts Jonathan for 2015

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) yesterday held its rally, where it adopted President Goodluck Jonathan for 2015 election. Speaking during the event at Dr Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka, the APGA national chairman, Chief Victor Umeh, announced the adoption, saying that APGA had previously adopted Jonathan in the 2011 presidential election and had since remained […]

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Finally, PDP Grants Waivers to Ribadu, Marwa and Gundiri

Respite came the way of former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu; former military administrator of Lagos State, Buba Marwa and Markus Gundiri as the National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party yesterday granted them waivers to contest the September 6 Adamawa State governorship primary election. Also, the […]

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Ribadu has no political value, Clark tells PDP

A First Republic Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, has told the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party not to grant waiver to a former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, to contest the party’s primary for Adamawa governorship election. Clark, who spoke at a press conference at his residence […]

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“Support Jonathan, he is God sent”

A group, De Servant yesterday called on the leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and other political parties to support the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, saying Jonathan is God sent. According to the De-Servant, though the performance of President Goodluck is convincing enough to return him in 2015, the barrage of sponsored and […]

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U.S Government Should Arrest Pres. Jonathan As A Boko Haram Collaborator (Video)

In an exclusive interview with Sahara Reporters, former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Farouk Adamu Aliyu reveals the aim behind his trip to Washington DC at the time when US president Barack Obama is meeting some 50 African leaders. He wants to petition President Obama to arrest Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan… Watch video:

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Deputy Governor Of Enugu State Impeached For Running A Poultry At The Government House

The Enugu State House of Assembly has removed the State’s Deputy Governor, Sunday Onyebuchi, from office. The Assembly voted Tuesday morning to sack Mr. Onyebuchi from office. Details of the impeachment session is still sketchy, but the deputy governor’s removal is believed to have been masterminded by Governor Sullivan Chime. The Assembly accused Mr. Onyebuchi […]

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Impeachment: Chime operated poultry as I did, says Enugu dep gov

  Embattled Enugu State Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, continued with his evidence before the impeachment panel, yesterday, revealing that Governor Sullivan Chime also operated poultry and piggery farms at Government House. He told the panel that the government had since 2011 made annual budget for the maintenance of the poultry, adding that the funds […]

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2015: We won’t allow hooded security operatives, says Jega

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, said on Wednesday that the commission would not allow security operatives to be masked during the 2015 general elections. Jega said this in Abuja during an interactive session with both local and international civil society organisations involved in monitoring elections in the country. He […]

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Ribadu defends defection to PDP

A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, on Sunday justified his defection from the opposition All Progressives Congress to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, saying the APC was not better than the PDP. Ribadu, who was the 2011 presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, forerunner of […]

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PDP : Obi resigns as APGA BoT chairman

The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi has resigned as the Chairman, Board of Trustees and leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance. In a resignation letter addressed to the National Secretary of the party and submitted in the party’s Abuja office on Friday, Obi said he was resigning as the leader and […]

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Father shoots son over party differences

One person was  allegedly shot while eight others sustained injuries in a fracas between members of the All Progressive Congress APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  at the ever busy Rumuoprikom community end of Ikwerre road yesterday morning. One of those reportedly shot, Mr Ndidi Owabie alleged that  his father,  the Paramount ruler  of […]

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Political party offered us N14m bribe — DSS

Marilyn Ogar, spokesperson of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Tuesday, said one of the political parties is after the Service for turning down N14 million bribe offered its officials in Osun State, during the governorship election that took place on Saturday. Ogar, at the National Briefing Centre, while responding to questions from journalists, […]

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Jonathan, Osun PDP disagree on election result

President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday differed with the Osun State chapter of the party on the outcome of Saturday’s governorship election won by Governor Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress of Nigeria. While Jonathan and the national leadership of the PDP conceded defeat to   Aregbesola , the PDP in […]

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Sad: Bayelsa Medical Students Decry Neglect In Russia, say, They Have Not Received Stipends In 14th Months (Video)

Bayelsa medical students cry out to Bayelsa state government to please pay their stipends in Russia, according to them, they are being neglected and have not received their scholarship allowances in 14 months. With all their phone calls, letters to the scholarship board, The Bayelsa State House of Assembly, The Governor of Bayelsa state, The Ministry of Education, […]

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PDP’s end will be ugly – Tinubu

A former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has predicted that the end of the Peoples Democratic Party will be disgraceful. He alleged that the impeachment of some All Progressive Congress governors was an attempt to turn Nigeria into a one-party state but vowed that the PDP’s joy over the impeachment would be short-lived. […]

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Lawmakers may impeach Okorocha

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Imo lawmakers may commence impeachment proceedings against Governor Rochas Okorocha next Thursday, if he fails to clear their outstanding salaries and allowances which he had allegedly withheld since 2011, among other grievances. Vanguard had earlier reported that the lawmakers are particularly irked that despite spirited attempt to make Okorocha clear the […]

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There would’ve been crisis if Buhari was killed – Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday admitted that Nigeria would have erupted in turmoil, if a former Head of State, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, had died during separate attacks on them in Kaduna on Wednesday. He said Nigerians would not have celebrated the Eid-el-Fitri because a major calamity would […]

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Impeachment: Jonathan intervenes…

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday met behind closed-doors with six members of the Nasarawa State House of Assembly. The meeting was believed to be the President’s way of intervening in the impeachment process that the lawmakers had instituted against the state Governor, Tanko Al-Makura. Al-Makura had met with the President over the weekend in his […]

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