Month: July 2016
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Fresh Convention: PDP Govs Spoil For War Over Venue
Makarfi’s Refusal To Resign Stalls Peace Talks We Are Fighting Impunity By A Few In PDP – Sheriff Attempts by Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to resolve the leadership impasse between Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi may have been stalled following the refusal by Ahmed Makarfi to resign and pave…
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Retirements: Rumbles In The Army/Police
By Sam ADEGBE, Abuja Retirees Go For The Broke, Unleash Anger on Buratai/Idris PSC Withholds Severance Letters Of Retired DIGs/AIGs As Accelerated Promotions Excite New DIGs, AIGs Recent developments in the Armed Forces, particularly the Nigerian Army are pointers to the fact that certain individuals are poised at extracting their pounds of flesh from Chief…
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Buhari’s Failure To Visit Borno Angers Gov
Apparently making a veiled reference to President Muhammadu Buhari who has so far failed to visit Borno State since he assumed office as President, even in the face of the security challenges and the attendant travails, Governor Kashim Shettima said on Monday that those who judge him from outside were being uncharitable. A BBC Hausa…
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Modu Sheriff’s Emergence As PDP Chair Divine – Ojugbo
Doctor Cairo Ojugbo is the National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, he was a member of the House of Representatives where he served as the Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Resources as well as Presidential Liaison Officer to the Senate. In this interview with National Trail Editor, Peter OSSAI, he spoke on…
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We Don’t Talk Politics In Plateau Assembly – Deputy Speaker
He looks unassuming, and pass as an ordinary party man. But, Yusuf Gagdi, the Deputy Speaker Plateau State House of Assembly and also the Chairman, Conference of State Legislature of Nigeria, has a passion for his constituents as a dogged fighter for justice. In this interview with Raymond GUKAS in Jos the Plateau State capital,…
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NFF Clinches $1.5m Bond From NNPC For Foreign Coach
Broke Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) can now appoint a new foreign coach for the country after they successfully secured a $1.5 million bond from the government- owned oil corporation NNPC, AfricanFootball.com can specially report. The government has made it clear it will not assist financially the NFF’s quest to hire an expatriate coach for the…
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PDP Crisis: CJ Auta Stops Further Court Orders To Parties
As INEC Rejects Makarfi’s Nominee For Edo Elections Sheriff Seeks To Compel INEC Via Contempt Charges Warns PDP Govs On Consequences Of Insisting On His Ouster Apparently embarrassed by conflicting court orders emanating from Federal High Courts, which are of coordinate jurisdiction, the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court Justice The Lies And Half…
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The Big Cover Up Over Deaths In IDP Camps
The Lies And Half Truths Govt Officials Tell More Revelations On Borno Rice Scandal Buhari Angry, Shuns Gov Shettima’s Entreaties By James BWALA, Deputy Editor and Yahaya WAKILI Maiduguri If what the Borno State Government claims to be spending on the feeding and welfare of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs monthly is anything to go by,…
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Peace Of The Graveyard In APC
Big Wigs Mull Mass Defection Into New Party As Govs Annex Party Structures Ahead Of 2019 Salient War Raging Between, Buhari, Atiku and Tinubu By Lateef BAMGBOSHE, Abuja While clapping as gladiators in the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, battle themselves over leadership positions, the ruling All Progressives congress, APC, may have inadvertently forgotten to…