By C. Todd Lopez Army News Service WASHINGTON – Prominent African-Americans from all walks of life have served as a bridge between the past and today, as well as a bridge to the future, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said on Friday February 6, 2015 at the 10th annual Stars and Stripes recognition dinner in Washington. The Air Force …
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* Speaks on the house Yar’Adua gave him, life in retirement ANTHONY Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie was born on June 16, 1936 to the royal family of Uromi in Edo State. His father was Esan and his mother Yoruba. Okogie was ordained as a Catholic priest on December 11, 1966. He was drafted into the Nigerian Army, and served there as …
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The United States Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, has expressed disappointment over the postponement of the Nigeria’s general elections. According to Kerry,“The United States is deeply disappointed by the decision to postpone Nigeria’s presidential election, which had been scheduled for February 14.” “Political interference with the Independent National Electoral Commission is unacceptable, and it is critical that the government …
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The 2015 general elections in Nasarawa State suddenly took a new dimension with the emergence of Labaran Maku, a former Minister of Information, who recently decamped from the PDP to All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, to pick the governorship ticket. The two major political parties – PDP and APC – and contenders least expected Maku to join the race after …
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STATEMENT ON THE TIMETABLE FOR 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS BY THE CHAIRMAN, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), PROFESSOR ATTAHIRU M. JEGA, AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FEBRUARY 07th, 2015. Ladies and Gentlemen, Introduction We invited you here today to make known the position of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the timetable for the 2015 general elections. Let me state …
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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has rescheduled the 2015 elections to March 28 and April 11, following advice from security chiefs in the country. Jega said the electoral body is ready to go ahead with the polls but the boko haram insurgency in the country neccessiated the postponement. He said, the Presidential and …
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The Police in Enugu State have arrested one Abuchi Afam, over his alleged involvement in the gruesome murder of a serving magistrate in the State. The deceased magistrate was murdered on September 01, 2014 by gunmen in front of his residence at Trans-Ekuli, Enugu. According to a press statement made available to DAILY POST by the spokesman of the Enugu …
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The University of British Columbia Okanagan, is now offering Cristiano Ronaldo’s fans a chance to take a course on the Real Madrid forward. It will be a fourth-year sociology module on the footballer, who has a massive fan base and influence on global society. “Sociology is nothing if not the delving into the processes of structuring identities and experiences and …
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Nigerians may have to wait much longer into the night to know if the 2015 general elections will hold as scheduled or they will be postponed, as the Resident Electoral Commissioners who rejected the idea of the postponement may have soft pedalled by giving commission’s chairman, Prof. Atahiru Jega, two conditions to be met before they support a shift in …
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Nigeria’s knife-edge presidential elections were thrown into increasing doubt on Saturday, as the country’s electoral commission met to discuss a minimum six-week delay to voting. Lawmakers who attended the meeting at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said the talks about postponement came after a recommendation from national security advisor Sambo Dasuki. PDM party chairman Bashir Yusuf said Dasuki had …
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