The Nation: Dialy Nigerian News [March ‘11 Diet]

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Governor Theodore Orji

A Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday affirmed the candidature of Governor Theodore Orji as the Abia State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flagbearer in next month's elections.

Justice Gabriel Kolawole dismissed the suit filed by a governorship aspirant,  Chief Ikechi Emenike, for lacking in merit.

But, in a swift reaction, counsel to the plaintiff Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN) said his client would appeal the judgment.

Source: Court affirms Orji's candidature as Abia PDP flagbearer

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Bola Tinubu

One of the facilitators of the alliance talks between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Senator Abu Ibrahim, yesterday said debunked the claim that former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu was responsible for the collapse of the negotiation.

Former Governor Attahiru Bafarawa has alleged that Tinubu caused the collapse of the talks. Abu has asked ex-Sokoto helmsman to search his conscience.

Ibrahim, at a briefing in Abuja, said the talks were 99 per cent successful before extraneous influences came in.

Source: Bafarawa lied against Tinubu, says ACN/ CPC alliance facilitator

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Immediately the ebullient Lagos socialite, Chief Olabode George, was released from prison last Saturday, he gushed that the coming campaign of President Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos was going to shake the earth and give the opposition the jitters. Analysts, particularly those sympathetic to the heavily maligned opposition resented George's enthusiasm and openly wondered whether prison had not dulled his imagination and clouded his reasoning. There would be no crowd explosion, said the resentful analysts, and no one would get the jitters, they mocked. Either because George had lost touch or the Lagos crowd was irritated by the paradoxically heroic reception given to him, the expectations for the Jonathan/Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rally were mercilessly dashed.

There was a crowd quite alright, but it was nothing near what the PDP craved nor what the opposition feared. The Tafawa Balewa Square venue of the rally was not filled to capacity, let alone spill into the streets. The speeches were the usual stale mockeries of such low amperage that they could neither wake the dead nor stir the living.

Source: Dashed expectations

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The last may not have been heard of the Sokoto State governorship election tussle.

The Supreme Court will on April 8, review its judgment delivered  in favour of Governor Aliyu Wamakko  on November 26, last year.

This followed an application filed by the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) governorship candidate in the April 2007 election, Alhaji Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi.

Dingyadi urged the apex court to review its judgment which dismissed his appeal pending for Judgment in the Court of Appeal sitting in Sokoto.

Source: Supreme Court to review Sokoto  governorship tussle April 8

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Aviation, Minister Mrs. Fidelia Njeze yesterday explained why the ministry had to review agreements with concessionaires in the sector.

Mrs. Njeze said that when she came on board it was discovered that none of the concessionaires added value to the sector. According to her, many of the concessionaires were skewed against the government and were not structured to assist the sector.

Source: Minister : Why govt is reviewing  agreements with  concessionaires

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Re: judicial civil war... Dear Mohammed, Yours on the above is sound and balanced, unlike the flurry of undigested emotional outbursts directed against the CJN, by those

Source: Re: judicial civil war...

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The Senate yesterday passed the anti Money Laundering Bill prescribing a maximum jail term of 10 years but not less than five years. The new anti-money

Source: Senate passes Money Laundering Bill

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As President Goodluck Jonathan's power reform road map unfolds, there is a distinct danger that the reform itself will suffer from the lack of transparency that has since turned the long running saga of Nitel's privatisation into a socio-economic nightmare.

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Aspat between Governor Babatunde Fashola and Chief JK Randle was the highlight of the debate by Lagos State governorship candidates organised by Channels Television last night.

Accusation of disobedience of the court order which bars Dr. Ade Dosunmu from parading himself as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate was also raised at the debate co hosted by Thisday and held at the Muson Centre in Onikan, Lagos Island, before a live audience.I'm surprised that Dr. Dosunmu is here because I know there is a court order restraining him from parading himself," Fashola said but Dosunmu said neither he nor his party had been served any court order to that effect.

Source: Fashola tackles Dosunmu, Randle at debate