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Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State on Sunday
denied that he floated an airline with public fund. Kalu, who was reacting to insinuations by President Olusegun
Obasanjo on Saturday that some governors established private businesses with public funds, explained that Slok
Airline was incorporated in 1994 while the aircraft were leased in 2003 by the Jetian Airline of United States
of America. Obasanjo, during a Radio Nigeria phone-in-programme called “The President Explains”, did not mention
the Abia Governor or the banned Slok Airline belonging to him in his assertion but declared that some governors
loot public funds and use same to establish private airlines, radio stations and schools. Kalu described the President’s
insinuation as not only malicious and unsubstantiated... 
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Oputa Panel: Abubakar wins
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 About three
years after the Human Rights Violations and Investigation Commission (HRVIC), popularly called Oputa panel completed
its assignment and handed over its report to the Fed. Gov't, former...
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Forget 2007: Anenih
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 To put yet
more pressure on the Southern Presidency Project, acting Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Tony Anenih, has ordered the agitators in the...
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Soyinka Backs
Achebe
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 Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka has
defended the rights of his counterpart, Professor Chinua Achebe to reject the Federal Government's offer of a national
award. He wondered how Achebe could have accepted...
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OBJ, Declare Assets
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 Plateau State House of Assembly yesterday
formally replied the Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Akin Olujinmi, on his report detailing allegation
of corrupt practices against Governor Joshua Dariye and challenged...
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