Security fears kept Nigeria's president from attending his party's gubernatorial primary on Saturday in his home state that has been tainted by an escalating row over the incumbent
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No Silver Lining for Sylva
November 14, 2011 Comment Off 202 ViewsAll hopes that Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State will be given last-minute clearance to participate in the governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party holding next Saturday appear
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Nigeria’s EFCC arrests ex-governors for alleged fraud
October 7, 2011 Comment Off 68 ViewsThe men are alleged to have defrauded the government of hundreds of millions of dollars Nigeria's anti-corruption agency has arrested three former state governors for allegedly
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WikiLeaks: Yar’Adua Died Of Lung Cancer And Churg Strauss Syndrome, US Cables Confirm
September 7, 2011 Comment Off 254 ViewsA deadly combination of lung cancer and the auto-immune disease, Churg Strauss Syndrome, accounted for the death of Umaru Yar’Adua in May 2010, according to a new Wikileaks cable released
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EFCC Grills Lagos Speaker, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, Over N7 Billion Fraud
September 7, 2011 Comment Off 80 ViewsSpeaker of the Lagos state House of Assembly, Adeyemi Sabitun Ikuforiji has been arrested by Nigeria’s anti-graft police, the EFCC over allegations of perjury and stealing over N7 billion of
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Nigeria freed U.N. building bomb suspect
September 7, 2011 Comment Off 75 ViewsABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria detained and released several radical Muslims suspected of being terrorists in 2007 -- including a man who officials now say helped organize last week's deadly car
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Judicial Scandal: How Andy Uba Bought Anambra’s National Assembly Tribunal
August 10, 2011 Comment Off 89 ViewsSaharareporters has ascertained that Andy Uba, a former domestic aide to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was at the center of a bribery scandal that led to Saturday’s dissolution of an
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Nigeria : Senate Begins BPE Probe Today
August 10, 2011 Comment Off 30 ViewsTuraki A. Hassan, 8 August 2011 Senate President David Mark is expected to formally open investigation into the activities of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BEP) on the privatisation and
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Abdulsalami Tricked Ige, Adesanya To Scuttle June 12
August 7, 2011 Comment Off 544 ViewsMajor Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, on Wednesday continued his testimony at the Lagos High Court, explaining in graphic detail, how
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Single Tenure Bill: CNPP Says Jonathan Is A Dictator In The Making, Launches Anti-Tenure Elongation Campaign
August 2, 2011 Comment Off 57 ViewsAs criticisms continue to trail the proposal by President Goodluck Jonathan for a six year single tenure for the president and governors, Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), has
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