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June 11, 2006


  • 13 years after, Tofa opens up: June 12 was a coup
    Remember Othman Bashir Tofa ? That was the man who contested against the late Chief MKO Abiola at the June 12, 1993 presidential election. Tofa, in this  interview, speaks on the annulment of the historic election and ................Vanguard

     

  • 2007: Why I won’t support IBB, Atiku —Buhari
    ALL Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, presidential candidate in the 2003 presidential election, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has said that both Vice  President Atiku Abubakar and General Ibrahim Babangida should not count on his support for the 2007 presidential election...................Vanguard
     

  • PDP crisis deepens
    THE crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) deepened yesterday as the police sealed off the national secretariat of the Chief Solomon Lar-led faction just  as one of the factional leaders, Chief Shuaib Oyedokun, was disowned by Osun State chapter of the ruling party..................
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  • PDP  factionalisation: Atiku’s joker against govs' agenda
    This is a yellow moment for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Unless the current moment is handled skilfully, the PDP as a  party is about to transform into  something which shape cannot be described right now. ...................
    Vanguard
     

  • Presidential race 2007: Who’ll succeed Obasanjo? ...as PDP govs shortlist
    THE race by eminent Nigerians to succeed President Olusegun Obasanjo on May 29, 2007 assumed a new dimension last Thursday as 20 governors elected on the  platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP unveiled 10 ...................
    Vanguard
     

  • Police Seal-off Rival PDP's Office
    The office of the Chief Solomon Lar-led faction of  the Peoples Demo-cratic Party (PDP), was yesterday cordoned off by a detachment of armed poli... ThisDay
     

  • Atiku: I Didn’t Ask for Gratification From Jefferson
    Vice-President Atiku Abubakar yesterday, for the umpteenth time, denied demanding financial gratification from US Congressman William Jefferson, and a... ThisDay
     

  • I Won't Endorse IBB for 2007, Says Buhari
    Presidential candidate of the All  Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) said at the weekend that even though he had... ThisDay
     

  • OBJ: I won’t handover to corrupt candidate
    PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo has reiterated again that he would not hand over to any corrupt candidate just as he said his government is not a lame duck. Speaking at the closing...Tribune
     

  • Presidency set to retire 189 military officers
    Close to 189 military personnel would soon be eased out of the nation’s security system. The step is coming on the heels of the recent shake-up in the upper hierarchy of the security forces Tribune

NIGERIA PERISCOPES THE WORLD

  • Nigeria's ruling party in split
    Riot police seal the offices of a splinter group of the ruling party, after it broke away on Friday. BBC

  • Iran Says It Might Offer Counter Proposal on Nuclear Program
    Iran's foreign minister says his country may make a counter-offer in response to an international package of incentives to limit sensitive nuclear work. VoiceOfAmerica

  • Hamas: Abbas referendum a 'coup'
    A Hamas legislator has accused the Palestinian president of engineering a coup by announcing a referendum on July 26 on the establishment of a Palestinian state side by side with Israel. Aljazeera

March 31, 2006


  • 3rd term not on the cards —OBASANJO
    ABUJA— PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo, in a rare public pronouncement on the third term issue, said, Wednesday, in New York that a third term in office “is not on the card” for now.......Vanguard
     

  • third term: Senators, PDP Stalwarts May Call Ali’s Bluff
    Anti-third termers in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), especially federal legislators, are yielding to pressure from their constituencies to call the bluff of the party and kick against the third term. Daily Independent
     

  • PDP woos senators with automatic 2007 tickets
    THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmadu Ali, has promised serving senators automatic return tickets in 2007 and membership of the party’s National Executive...Tribune
     

  • Man sentenced to death for stealing bicycle
    A 35-year-old man, Umaru Auta, has been sentenced to death by hanging for stealing a bicycle. Auta was arrested by the police in 1999 in a village near Toro, Bauchi State, and arraigned on a three-count charge of robbery, assault...Tribune
     

  • Obasanjo: For Now, 3rd Term Not on The Cards
    President Olusegun Oba-sanjo said yesterday that a third term of office was not on the card for now, explaining that his current preoccupation was to complete his tenure as stipulated by the 1999 Constitution. ThisDay
     

  • 'New Revenue Bill 'll End Niger-Delta Crisis'
    Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), yesterday said the passage of the new revenue formula bill, which has been before the National Assembly since November 2004, will end the protracted crisis in the oil-rich Niger-Delta region. ThisDay
     

  • Why PDP Is Embattled - Ali
    National Chairman of the Paeoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Ahmadu Ali, yesterday said the on-ging reforms by President Olusegun Obasanjo on the party's platform explains why the "party is embattled." ThisDay
     

  • THIRD TERM TENURESHIP LIMITS TRANSITION IN NIGERIA.
    by Austin chika
    The President of Nigeria Chief Obasanjo as far as I am concerned, is like an ordinary Nigerian, a retired General and indeed a fellow citizen of Nigeria as 120 million other Nigerians are. NigerianNews Special

NIGERIA PERISCOPES THE WORLD

  • Polio on the rise
    Why it is so difficult to wipe out the disease in northern Nigeria

    In a small house in Nasarawa, a district of the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a mother mops the brow of her 18-month old boy called Osman. BBC

  • Nigerian President Tells VOA Nigeria Has Been ‘Vindicated’ by Apprehension of Charles Taylor
    "We promised if a democratically elected government requested for him, we will let him go,” said Obasanjo VoiceOfAmerica

  • Iran rejects UN ultimatum
    Iran has rejected a UN Security Council demand that it halt uranium enrichment to reassure the world that its nuclear programme is peaceful. Aljazeera

March 30, 2006


  • ECLIPSE DRAMA - N.5m cows, rams killed to appease ‘gods’
    THE eclipse of the sun that occurred yesterday turned dramatic when the ‘gods’ were appeased with cows and rams to ensure that evil did not accompany the total eclipse in Saki, Oyo State...Tribune
     

  • Fleeing Charles Taylor captured, deported - Disguises as mallam
    FORMER Liberian President, Charles Taylor, who disappeared from his exile home in Calabar, Cross River State, was yesterday captured by men of the Customs Service and ordered deported...Tribune
     

  • Reps threaten Masari with impeachment
    MEMBERS of the House of Representatives on Wednesday expressed disappointment with the Speaker, Aminu Bello Masari’s handling the debate on the recent controversial motion of commendation of President Olusegun Obasanjo...Tribune
     

  • Support Third Term Or Quit PDP, Ali Tells Senators
    Leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met with senators on the third term on Wednesday, the second time in a week. Daily Independent
     

  • Nigerians witness 4th solar eclipse
    SAKI—THE moon blotted out the sun, turning day into night, in a total solar eclipse yesterday that carved a path from the tip of Brazil over northern Africa to the ......Vanguard

     

  • CBN pumps $30m into parallel market weekly
    LAGOS—FOLLOWING the new policy measures announced on Monday to liberalise the Foreign Exchange Market with a view to narrowing the gap between the official exchange rate ......Vangaurd

     

  • Ahead parallel executive meetings of  ANPP:Can the centre hold?
    IT is now a pattern. One party, two distint set of leaderships down the line. For the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP,  no one knows what to expect in the second quarters ......Vanguard

     

  • Ali to Senators: Back 3rd Term or Quit PDP
    People's Democratic Party (PDP) leadership yesterday met with senators elected on its platform and asked them to either support President Olusegun Obasanjo’s third term ambition or leave the party. ThisDay

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  • Bribery: US Court Dismisses Suit Against NNPC, Ajibola
    A United States District Court in Texas, presided over by Justice Ron Clark, has dismissed bribery and corruption suit filed against the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), former judge of the International Court of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, and six other defendants by an American oil company ThisDay

NIGERIA PERISCOPES THE WORLD

  • Taylor sent to war crimes court
    Liberia's former President Charles Taylor is transferred to the UN-backed war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone. BBC

  • Charles Taylor in Custody in Sierra Leone
    Former Liberian warlord and president, Charles Taylor has been put in a cell at the war crimes court in Sierra Leone, ending a whirlwind day since his capture in Nigeria. VoiceOfAmerica

  • US seeks trial in The Hague for Taylor
    The United States is seeking to move the war crimes trial of the former Liberian president from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands for security reasons. Aljazeera