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Senate Set to Approve 5 Special Advisers for Jonathan - thisday online

Senate?s approval for the appointment of five Special Advisers by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan is under way. A formal request by the Acting President, which was forwarded to the Upper House on Monday, was announced yesterday on the floor by ...

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Jonathan seeks Senate’s approval to appoint advisers - Punch

Acting President, Dr. Goodluck JonathanActing President Goodluck Jonathan has requested for Senate’s approval to enable him to appoint five special advisers.Jonathan’s request, which came in the form of a letter, was read by the President of the S...

Jonathan seeks Senate nod to appoint five advisers, fear grips ministers - BusinessDay

•SNG holds rally to make him substantive president By seeking the endorsement of the Senate to appoint five senior advisers, indications are that more aides appointed by ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua may lose their jobs as Acting Preside...

Jonathan to appoint five new advisers - 234Next

Senate wants perpetrators of Jos crisis prosecuted, commend Jonathan - Punch

Jonathan removes Mukhtar as National Security Adviser - 234Next

UPDATE 1-Nigeria's Jonathan sacks national security adviser - www.reuters.com

Governor blames military for Jos killings - 234Next

The leadership of the Nigerian Army in Plateau State should be blamed for last Sunday’s massacre of hundreds of villagers in Jos, the Plateau State governor, Jonah Jang, said yesterday in Abuja.Mr. Jang, a retired Air Force officer, accusing the m...

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US, rights group urge FG to investigate Jos killings - BusinessDay

…ask Plateau government to ensure citizens feel respected, protected The U.S. government and human rights activists called Tuesday for Nigeria to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the deaths of more than 500 unarmed people in...

Hold military responsible for Jos mayhem, says Jang - Punch

Plateau State Governor, Jonah JangPlateau State Governor Air Commodore Jonah Jang (Rtd) on Monday alleged that the army was guilty of complicity in the recent attack on a village in Jos, the state capital, which led to the death of about 500 peopl...

Groups blame federal government for the Jos massacre - 234Next

Sack uncooperative ministers, N’Delta leaders urge Jonathan - Punch

The Niger Delta Leaders, Elders and Stakeholders Forum on Monday asked Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately sack ministers allegedly disloyal and disobedient to him.Specifically, the group asked Jonathan to remove 12 ministers, who al...

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Jonathan sacks NSA - Punch

Acting President, Goodluck JonathanActing President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday sacked the National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Sarki Mukhtar (rtd), and replaced him with Lt. Gen. Aliyu Gusau (rtd), who held the same position during the Olusegun O...

Jonathan sacks Muhktar, reinstates Gusau as NSA - BusinessDay

•Security chiefs ordered to take personal charge of security in Jos Less than a week after the Governors’ Forum ostensibly laid down the ground rules for a limited exercise of presidential powers for the acting president, Goodluck Jonathan...

12 ‘wisemen’: Sack Lukman, Osotimehin, Egwu now, Jonathan told - BusinessDay

Nigeria acting leader sacks national security adviser - www.reuters.com

Governors call for fuel subsidy removal - BusinessDay

•Probe of NNPC N1.15trn subsidy claims In this season of unusual happenings, governors of the nation’s 36 states voted yesterday to bring an end to the trillion Naira waste better known as fuel subsidy. Believed to be one of the best char...

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Govs demand probe of N1.15trn fuel subsidy claims - daily trust

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Nigeria's $6 bln fuel subsidy bill a "huge waste" - finmin - www.reuters.com

ABUJA, March 9 (Reuters) - Nigeria's fuel importers claim the government owes 880 billion naira ($6 billion) in subsidies accrued over the past five years, highlighting the urgent need for deregulation, the finance minister said on Tuesday.

Court orders agency to prove Elumelu’s guilt - 234Next

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to provide proof that the chairman of the House committee on power, Ndudi Elumelu, and eight others who are standing trial over allegations...

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Court Orders Destruction Of Canned Coke - pm news nigeria

A Federal High Court in Lagos this morning ordered that 6586 packs of 24×340 miligrammes of Coca-Cola canned products currently stored in the warehouse of NAFDAC be forfeited to the Minister of Health, for destruction because it is not good f...

Buhari: Yar?Adua?s Impeachment Only Viable Option - thisday online

Former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has joined the growing number of Nigerians calling for the removal of President Umaru Musa Yar?Adua, maintaining that the only viable option out of the present political logjam in the country is for the...

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Impeach Yar’Adua now, Buhari tells N’Assembly - Punch

IMPEACH YAR’ADUA NOW, BUHARI TELLS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY - Punch

Ogun govt raises alarm over training of militants in Ijebu - Punch

Gbenga Daniel Gov. Ogun StateThe Ogun State Government on Monday raised the alarm that some unnamed persons were training suspected militants in the Ijebu axis of the state.The State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Sina Kawonise,...

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UPDATE 1-Accused Somali-trained militant to be tried in NY - www.reuters.com

Accused Somali-trained militant to be tried in NY - www.reuters.com

Lukman links fuel scarcity to legislative deficiencies - BusinessDay

…says deregulation is panacea Rilwanu Lukman, minister of petroleum resources, on Tuesday, disclosed that previous efforts by the immediate past administration to address the problem of fuel scarcity in the country by issuing 18 licenses f...

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‘Deregulation only answer to fuel scarcity’ - daily trust

Senate, Reps urge probe of renewed Jos crisis - BusinessDay

•Lawmakers shut down imposition of emergency •AC blames FG over insincerity The Sunday mayhem in Jos, Plateau State that claimed hundreds of lives on Tuesday attracted the attention of the National Assembly with the House of Representative...

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Jos: Reps demand truth commission - daily trust

Central Bank focuses on power sector - 234Next

The recent moves by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to bailout the power sector is worrisome, some finance experts say.The CBN, at the conclusion of its Monetary Policy Committee meeting last week Tuesday, resolved to raise a N500billion Special...

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