Nigerian Hottest and Political News from DailyTrust [May ‘11 Series]

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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday said that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme should not be scrapped.

Source: Atiku wants NYSC reviewed, not scrapped

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Leaders of the ruling PDP's double speak on   the issue of zoning and their making a 180 degree turn to now insist on what   only a few months ago they were vociferously condemning could spell doom for   the country, former military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida said yesterday.

Source: IBB: PDP's double speak is ruinous

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The presidency and National Working Committee of the People's Democratic Party are angry that anti-zoning members of the House of Representatives are inching closer to embarrassing the party by acting contrary to its decision to zone the position of speaker to the South West.

Source: Presidency, PDP plot to defeat anti-zoning MPs

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Ten out of the   eleven state chairmen of the opposition Congress for Progressive Change [CPC] who recently dissociated themselves from the petition filed by the party's national leadership challenging the election of President Goodluck Jonathan in the   April 16 Presidential polls were expelled yesterday by the party's National   Executive Committee (NEC).

Source: CPC expels 10 state chairmen : Suspends two others

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President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday warned governors-elect against any form of interference in the governance of their respective states, saying serving governors have the constitutional mandate to run the affairs of the state till May 29 handover date.

Source: Jonathan to governors-elect: Don't start what may haunt you

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Just 24 hours after protesters, mainly women, besieged premises of the National Assembly to demand for passage of the National Health Bill, the Senate yesterday succumbed to pressure and passed the bill.

Source: Senate bows to pressure on health bill

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Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has commended Gombe State Governor Muhammad Danjuma Goje for building the ultra-modern Gombe Jewel Hotel in Abuja, saying the project would not only attract revenue for the state but open up the country as a preferred tourism destination in Africa.  

Source: Sambo commends Goje over Jewel Hotel

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Lack of collaboration on common issues of development was responsible for periodic clashes between the federal and state governments during the regime of President Olusegun Obasanjo, chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum Bukola Saraki has said.  

Source: Why govs  disagreed with Obasanjo –Saraki

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GOVERNOR Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was yesterday elected the new Chairman , Nigerian Governors' Forum(NGF) for a term of two years. Amechi succeeds Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who is completing his two terms in office as the governor of the state after an endorsement by the governors of the 36 states.

Source: Amaechi elected chairman of Governors' Forum

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Frontline members of the current Federal Executive Council including Petroleum Resources Minister Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, Finance Minister Dr. Segun Aganga and Defence Minister Chief Adetokunbo Kayode are on their way out because none of them featured among the 10 persons per state nominated by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party's [PDP] state chapters for appointment as ministers and other high officials, Daily Trust learnt yesterday.

Source: PDP ministerial list: Diezani, Aganga, Kayode out