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Nigeria: And the Curtain Falls

                   
allafrica.com
Nov 2, 2009
 
Story Timeline:  26 days

How are the mighty fallen. Finally, the trap has caught a very big one. It was long in coming but justice was finally done as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strongman of South West politics, Chief Olabode George was... [read full story]                    

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Nigeria: Progress Towards Rule of Law

 cfr.org Nov 4, 2009
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And the Curtain Falls

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Nigeria: Progress Towards Rule of Law

cfr.org
Nov 4, 2009
 

The arrest, conviction and jailing of ruling party chieftain Olabode George for corruption is good news for a country that is a by-word for poor governance. It signals the higher court's increasing independence from the "big...

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Amb. John Campbell: Nigeria: Progress Toward the Rule of Law?

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Nov 4, 2009
 

The arrest, conviction and jailing of ruling party chieftain Olabode George for corruption is good news for a country that is a by-word for poor governance. It may also restore some credibility to Nigeria's tarnished Economic...

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Nigeria: Bode George's Leeway to Golgotha - Who's Next?

allafrica.com
Nov 4, 2009
 

In a marked departure from the norm, former military governor of the old Ondo State and former Deputy National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as the de facto leader of the PDP in Lagos State,...

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Bode George's Leeway to Golgotha - Who's Next?

allafrica.com
Nov 4, 2009
 

In a marked departure from the norm, former military governor of the old Ondo State and former Deputy National Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as the de facto leader of the PDP in Lagos State,...

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Nigeria: Beyond "Lagos Boy" George's Conviction

allafrica.com
Nov 4, 2009
 

These are hardly the best of times for Nigeria's ruling party, the self-styled biggest party in Africa. First, its attempt to conduct the primaries for the election of its candidate for the governorship election due in Anambra...

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Bode George in Endless Wait for PDP Chieftains

allafrica.com
Nov 4, 2009
 

The planned visit by the national executive officers of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday to Chief Bode George, at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos, did not materialise even as he waited endlessly for them.

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Bode George - From Garrison Commander to Prisoner

allafrica.com
Nov 3, 2009
 

analysis Abuja — It is a classical case of degradation, one that is akin to the popular saying that someone has fallen from grace to grass. Chief Bode George, a prominent Nigerian, one of the feared "garrison commanders" of the...

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Nigeria: Bode George - From Garrison Commander to Prisoner

allafrica.com
Nov 3, 2009
 

analysis Abuja — It is a classical case of degradation, one that is akin to the popular saying that someone has fallen from grace to grass. Chief Bode George, a prominent Nigerian, one of the feared "garrison commanders" of the...

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Nigeria: Bode George - Media Houses Opt to Amend Statements

allafrica.com
Nov 3, 2009
 

Following the conviction of former Deputy National Chairman(South) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of an Ikeja High Court, the two media houses he had sued for libel for...

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Nigeria: George, Matters Arising

allafrica.com
Nov 2, 2009
 

On Tuesday, a Lagos State High Court sitting at Ikeja, in what is apparently becoming a celebrated judgment, handed down to former chairman of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Chief Bode George, a sentence of two and half...

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