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Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) <a target="main" href="http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=66106" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700"> ThisDay</a><br>  </li> <li> <p align="justify"><b><font color="#0000FF">Odili Pledges Support For Yar'Adua, Jonathan</font></b><br> Rivers State Governor, Dr Peter Odili returned to Port Harcourt yesterday after attending last Saturday’s PDP Convention in Abuja that produced Alhaji Umar Musa Yar' Adua as the party's flag bearer for the 2007 Presidential election with a declaration that he and the people of Rivers State will fully support the candidature of Governor Yar' Adua and Goodluck Jonathan. <span style="font-weight: 700"><a style="text-decoration: none" target="main" href="http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=66101">ThisDay</a></span><br>  </li> <li> <p align="justify"><b><font color="#0000FF">Militants Bomb Shell, Agip in Port Harcourt</font></b><br> True to their threats of a massive onslaught on multi-national oil companies in the Niger Delta, suspected militants yesterday beat the water tight security by Shell Petroleum Development Company and bombed the residential area. <a target="main" href="http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=66104" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700"> Thisday</a><br>  </li> <li> <p align="justify"><b><font color="#0000FF">Another PDP Chieftain Assassinated in Lagos</font></b><br> Barely five months after a Lagos Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant, Eng. Funso Williams was assassinated in Lagos, another PDP chieftain, Alhaji Ibrahim Bakare was felled by the assassin's bullets yesterday, <a target="main" href="http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=66103" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700"> Thisday</a><br>  </li> <li> <p align="justify"><b><font color="#0000FF">N20bn PTDF money spent on 3rd term Atiku reveals - Says OBJ spent N250m to register one firm, Another N200m loan to buy Transcorp shares</font></b><br> VICE PRESIDENT Atiku Abubakar on Monday appeared before the Senate ad hoc committee probing the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) where he made startling...<a target="main" href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/19122006/news/news1.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: 700">Tribune</a><br>  </li> <li> <p align="justify"><b><font color="#0000FF">Buhari is ANPP’s presidential candidate</font></b><br> FORMER Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday in Abuja emerged the presidential candidate...<b><a target="main" style="text-decoration: none" href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/19122006/news/news2.html">Tribune</a></b><br>  </li> <li> <p align="justify"><b><font color="#0000FF">FG misused N65bn Abacha loot - World Bank</font></b><br> A report presented by the World Bank has accused the Federal Government of misappropriating about N65 billion out of the $458 million repatriated to Nigeria by the Swiss government being the money stashed in Swiss banks by the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha. <span style="font-weight: 700"> <a style="text-decoration: none" target="main" href="http://www.tribune.com.ng/19122006/news/news6.html"> Tribune</a></span><br>  </li> <li> <p align="justify"><font color="#0000FF"><strong>OBJ spent N10bn PTDF fund on 3rd term project — ATIKU</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br> </font>ABUJA — VICE-PRESIDENT Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, told the Senate ad-hoc Committee investigating the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)  how the Fund released N10 billion ostensibly to fund the  ......................<strong><a style="text-decoration: none" target="main" href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/headline/f119122006.html">Vanguard</a></strong><br>  <O:P><hr> </li> <li> <p align="justify"><font color="#0000FF"><span style="font-weight: 700"> LETTERS TO THE EDITOR<br> </span></font>Read all the NigerianNews letters to the editor <br> <span style="font-weight: 700"> <a target="main" href="letters/letters.htm" style="text-decoration: none"> <font color="#008000">Nigerian</font>News Letters</a></span></li> </ul> </blockquote> <p align="justify"><font color="#336699" size="2"><b>NIGERIA</b></font><font size="3" font < today. consideration for down stood was the of on one number as listed which report, by breaches constitutional alleged compilation committee its report yesterday Presentation Senate, Paper Order Obasanjo. 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