Tag Archives: Kebbi State

Nigeria: Tambuwal Reshuffles Committee Chairmen, Removes Farouk Lawan

March 22, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Leadership Months after the embattled former chairman of the House Committee on Education and chairman of the ad-hoc committee on fuel subsidy, Farouk Lawan, was suspended as chairman of both committees for alleged involvement in bribery, Speaker of the House … read more »

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2015: Yar’Adua Associates Deny Plotting against Jonathan

December 26, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Chuks Okocha in Abuja
THisday Former Kebbi State Governor, Senator Adamu Aleiro, has denied that himself and former associates of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, are plotting to stop President Goodluck Jonathan from securing a second term ticket in 2015. A … read more »

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Nigeria: President should stop to appoint INEC’s Chairman – Group

November 12, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Kwali – Mr Ezenwa Nwagwu, the Chairman of Partners for Electoral Reform, an NGO, has called for the removal of the authority vested in the President to appoint INEC’s Chairman and Commissioners. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that … read more »

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Northern Politicians created Boko Haram

April 1, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Mustapha Jokolo The deposed emir of Gwandu, Alhaji Al-Mustapha Jokolo, has sensationally confirmed the suspicions of many in Nigeria that Boko Haram is a tool in the hands of those politicians and their cronies who promised that “the North is … read more »

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Briton, Italian al-Qaeda hostages video

August 3, 2011 by benim

Abidjan – A British man and an Italian kidnapped in May in northern Nigeria appear for the first time since their capture in a video sent to AFP Wednesday in which they say their abductors are from al-Qaeda. The roughly … read more »

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75m Nigerians living in poverty – report

December 9, 2010 by benim

ABUJA—Citing the 2004 statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, Tuesday said 75 million Nigerians, representing 50 percent of the population, still live below a dollar per day. The agency also disclosed that … read more »

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