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March 15, 2010

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• Yar’Adua can’t recognise anyone, can’t speak •Mother goes on hunger strike •Turai inaccessible by phone •President may resurface in April
  IT emerged in Abuja, at the weekend, that ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua had remained  incommunicado three weeks after his return to the country, because his condition was yet to appreciably improve. Tribune

• Sack Dambazzau, Onovo now - NBA President
  THE president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), on Sunday, called for the removal of Inspector General of Police, Mr Ogbonna Onovo, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Abdulrahaman Dambazzau, and other top security men for their alleged ineptitude  over the handling of the recent ethno-religious crisis that left Tribune
   
• 2011: Govs divided over Yar’Adua’s successor
  THE Nigeria Governors’ Forum  is currently divided over who succeeds ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua in 2011, the Nigerian Tribune can authoritatively reveal. Tribune
   
• 2011: The Race Begins
  With the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) set to unveil the programme for the 2011 general election tomorrow, political activities – both subtle and open – have been revved up ThisDay
   
• Be Focused, Onabule Tells Jonathan
  Former spokesman to military President Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Duro Onabule, has asked Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to be focused and continue with the responsibilities placed on his shoulders ThisDay
   
• How Lamido Musdafa Met and Adopted Atiku As His Son
  One important tradition at Adamawa Provincial Secondary School in Yola in the 1960s was the Friday visit to the Lamido of Adamawa ThisDay
   
• AC: Iwu Can’t Conduct 2011 Polls
  As the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) prepares to release the 2011 general election timetable tomorrow, the Action Congress (AC) has warned that INEC Chairman Maurice Iwu should not be involved in any way in the elections if they are to be credible ThisDay
   
• Sokoto Guber: A’Court Delivers Judgment Tomorrow
  Notwithstanding the decision of the Supreme Court to hear the Motion on Notice in which the Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Wagatakarda Wamako is asking the court to pronounce on the governorship election in the state More...
   
• 2011: Operation‘Stop IBB’
  •Northern elders plot ex-military president’s fall
  ...Buhari shops for running mate
  After series of meetings in Kaduna, Abuja, Sokoto and lately Lagos, members of the opposition parties, who are likely to name their new party any time soon, may have settled for two-time former presidential candidate of the All Nigeria | The Sun
   
• Soyinka, Falana want EFCC boss removed –Waku
  Senator Joseph Waku has alleged that some individuals behind the SNG are canvassing the removal of EFCC boss, Mrs Farida Waziri.
  Some national dailies had carried reports of moves to prevail on the Acting President, Goodluck Jonathan, to remove Mrs Waziri as the head of the anti-corruption agency. | The Sun
   
• Post Amnesty : Govs, Clark, Mitee, others task FG … As talks kick off today
  GOVERNORS of the nine Niger Delta states and other stakeholders, including South-South elder, Edwin Clark, MOSOP leader, Barrister Ledum Mitee and others are already in the oil city of Warri, Delta State, to proffer solutions to the multifarious problems facing the Niger Delta region. Vanguard

Business
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• Research firm to launch book on Nigeria’s telecom dev
   ABUJA — Global researcher, Pyramid Research, will tomorrow present a book on its research findings on Nigeria’s telecommunications industry. The event which holds at the Nicon Luxury in Abuja, will throw light on Nigeria’s telecom industry which has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the world. Vanguard

• ExxonMobil donates Geoscience workroom to UNILORIN
  ABUJA — Global researcher, Pyramid Research, will tomorrow present a book on its research findings on Nigeria’s telecommunications industry. The event which holds at the Nicon Luxury in Abuja, will throw light on Nigeria’s telecom industry which has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the world. Vanguard
   

• Oil Reforms: NNPC Opens Talks with Foreign Banks
  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has begun talks with foreign investment banks on funding options ThisDay
  
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Editorial

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• Amaechi vs. Omehia: And the Reasoning please?
  Anyone who read our article on the Amaechi vs. Omehia titled The Supreme Court: Supreme in all things but Remedy! will in no doubt notice that our bone of contention with the Supreme Court was never about the conclusion they reached. Our problem has always been the remedy they fashioned to compensate the winning side in this case, Amaechi. NigerianNews Editorial
   

• Removal of Ribadu: The Triumph of Aondoakaa and his Ruse of Law
  December 31, 2007
  While the plot was being hatched, those who now cry foul on the removal of Nuhu Ribadu were busy celebrating the demise of the previous government. While the celebration went on, the evil geniuses in our midst were busy perfecting their next move of their escape from Alcatraz! NigerianNews Editorial
   

• The Supreme Court: Supreme in all things but Remedy!
  October 29, 2007
  We must first congratulate this Supreme Court for they have done it again! We congratulate you for your consistent inconsistencies. We congratulate you for consistently turning the face of logic upside down to the applause of those who should know better. If your inconsistencies are not embarrassing, we would  have also congratulated you on your undemocratic imposition of Rotimi Amaechi who was never voted for by the people of Rivers State. This is a first in the annals of representative democracy!! NigerianNews Editorial
  
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Special Columns

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• Tunde Adenodi's Current Column
  
  President Goodluck Jonathan: "The fierce urgency of now"
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  March 02, 2010
  In 1963, Dr Martin Luther King made his famous “I have a dream speech” on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. He talked about the ‘fierce urgency of now” in the context of segregation, discrimination and economic emancipation of the black race. I do not expect Jonathan to be a Martin Luther King. His antecedents do not support such a conjecture. But he cannot afford to be a … uhm… a Shehu Shagari or Tafawa Balewa or indeed, Umar Musa Yar‘Adua.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Adenodi
   

• Madaki O. Ameh's Current Column
  
  THE SAD POLITICS OF YAR’ADUA’S ILL HEALTH
  by Madaki O Ameh
  February 10, 2010
  With the passage of concurrent motions by the two chambers of the Nigerian National Assembly on Tuesday 9^th February 2010, finally empowering the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to assume the elusive title of ‘Acting President’, it is hoped that one of the darkest phases of Nigeria’s democratic history will finally be on its way out, with what is left being the healing of the deep wounds created in the process. NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Ameh
   

• Frisky Larr's Current Column
  
  The Fuss and Fight over Turai: Is she the real Problem?
  by Frisky Larr
  March 4, 2010
  Abuja is in the grip of fear. The naked fear of a military coup! So reminiscent it is of the comedy of the Philippines in the late 1980s that I am forced to sing déjà vu! It is a perfect duplication of history. The history of pre-announced military coup d’etat that keeps a nation in suspense and awe!.NigerianNews Special | |Read more articles by Larr
   

• Kay Soyemi's Current Column
  
  That CIA Report on Nigeria – Fact or Fiction?
  by Kay Soyemi
  December 01, 2008
  Dr. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), recently presented and discussed his report titled the “Global Trends 2025” and among many other things, has predicted a bleak future for Nigeria if certain identified indicators were not addressed before 2025.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Soyemi
   

• Atsar Terver's Current Column
  ECHOES:Commentary on burning public issues
  
  The Enemies of Electoral Reform and El-Rufai’s Silly Outburst.
  by Atsar Terver
  June 09, 2009
  When former President Obasanjo recently declared in his characteristically reckless manner that he was not aware of any ongoing electoral reforms in the country, not many may have read the evil intentions pregnant in those words. Coming at a time the Uwais Report on Electoral Reforms was being widely debated by the public, such a declaration from a former President meant either of two things, namely that he was truly ignorant of political happenings around him or that he was just expressing cynical apathy. The later seems more plausible for a former head of state that he is.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Terver
   

• Dotun Oyeniyi
  
  ARE OUR LEADERS LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE’S SULTAN?
  by Dotun Oyeniyi
  I have a fervent admiration for the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar.  We have not seen any Sultan like him in our recent history.  Unlike most of our traditional rulers, the Sultan is not one to frequent the corridors of power or churn out chieftaincy titles to the men in power in pursuit of vain glory or monetary rewards in return.  His utterances, since asscending the Sultanate, have always been incisive, frank, non-patronising of those in government and clearly pro-masses.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Oyeniyi
   

• Joe Chikunie
  
  SOCIO-POLITICAL CRAVINGS, EFFORTS AND REALIZATIONS AS PANACEAS TO BAD GOVERNANCE.
  by Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie
  E. C. Ejiogu is a political sociologist, Saharareporters online blog columnist and public commentator. He recently wrote a good piece entitled, “My happiest day”. Essentially, he revels in the Save Nigeria Group’s success at meeting with the Acting President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan where they tabled the position of the body on very sensitive political matters. NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Chikunie

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Interview

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• AN INTERVIEW WITH CHIEF OJO MADUEKWE, THE EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER IN PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA’S CABINET
  
  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ojo Maduekwe, was recently in the United States as a participant in the 'Nigeria Meets The World Conference' organized by ThisDay, and the United Nations General Assembly session. He spoke exclusively with NNews at the New York Millennium Plaza. NigerianNews Interview

Guest Columns

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• Jos Crises: An Old Problem taking a New Dimension
  by Dr. Yushau Balarabe
  Any sensible person that has anything to do with Nigeria must have been disturbed with high level of animalistic barbarism, and display of total hatred among the people that were hitherto living peacefully for hundreds of years. In particular, for those of us from Jos, and Plateau state in general, it has been a depressing, frustrating and confusing time. NigerianNews Guest Column
   
• The Bond Between Tinubu & Fashola
  by Suage Badey
  Contrary to the rumours that were circulating in the newspapers after Barr Babatunde Fashola won the Lagos State 2007 gubernatorial elections (under the Action Congress (AC) platform) that his predecessor Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu would be a thorn in his flesh, dictating and calling the shots irrespective of the incumbent’s feelings and ideas, events have proven them wrong as Asiwaju who saw in Fashola the qualities of good leadership has remained on the sidelines watching with delightful satisfaction that he didn’t go wrong afterall. NigerianNews Guest Column
  
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Nollywood
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• Top Nollywood actress, Monalisa Chinda reveals: Violence drove me out of marriage
  Celebrated Nollywood star actress, Monalisa Chinda has consistently maintained a deafening silence since her five-year marriage to ex husband, Segun Dejo Richards crashed in July. In fact, while her ex was busy granting interviews on the split union|The Sun
   

• Ede Mi Out At Last
  After much expectation, the latest effort from the stables of Okiki Films - Ede Mi, has finally been released. Daily Independent
   

• We Don't Sleep Around In Nollywood -Kemi Alagbara
  Kemi Alagbara may be viewed by many people as a pretty up and coming Nollywood face, but there is more to her than that Daily Independent
   

• No more foreign-based lover
  January 11, 2009
  The last time we spoke to Mercy Johnson was in August. She was so enthusiastic about her boyfriend abroad and like every 25 year old, Mercy learnt that love does not always seem the way it appears. | The Sun
   

• Trouble in Nollywood
  December 27, 2008
  Until few years ago, the world knew only two flourishing film blocks. Then it was Hollywood of the United States and Bollywood of Indian. The Nigerian Nollywood joined the fray 16 years ago and showed much promise| The Sun
   

• Ghanaians eclipse Nollywood stars
  Just like many alien invasion movies we’ve watched, the film industry in Nigeria, better known as Nollywood, is fast experiencing its own kind of ‘alien’ invasion | The Sun
   

• In Abuja, stakeholders chart new course for Nollywood
  At the recently concluded fifth edition of the yearly Abuja International Film Festival, organized by NAFIFO group, the future of Nollywood, was the dominant topic of discussion among the participants| The Sun
   

• Nigerian Movie Industry Has Improved Tremendously
  Steve Gukas has made a name both in broadcasting and film production. For twenty years running, Gukas has directed and produced films that have won the Daily Independent
   

• 'Why I left banking for Nollywood'
  With almost a decade experience and romance with Nollywood, consummate movie producer and linguist Vivian Ejike, is still not relenting on her oars, especially in the areas of churning out movies| The Sun
   

• Nollywood actress, Winifred…
  She belongs to the new generation actresses whose entry into Nolly wood had brought some breath of fresh air into the industry.She is every man’s desire and what her fellow women aspire to be. |The Sun
   

• The Press, Responsible For Our downfall - Toyin Aimakhu
  Some in the Nollywood circle, especially actresses, prefer acting nude but this is not applicable to Toyin Aimakhu. Speaking with GBENGA OLUMIDE at LTV8 recently, she explained why she can’t act nude...Tribune
   

• Aromire To Get Befitting Burial
  News of the death of popular actor and producer, Muyideen Alade Aromire, seems to have escalated the injury the Nigerian entertainment industry has experienced following the death of many artistes. Daily Independent

• Alade Aromire is dead
  The curtain fell suddenly, finally, on one of the leading lights and pioneer of Yoruba home video industry, Muyideen Alade Aromire. Aromire was the first Nigerian to own a vernacular pay television channel, Yotomi TV. |The Sun

• Nollywood is not improving – Zack Orji
  Zack orji is one of Nollywood’s biggest talents, and is considered the movie biz’s most prominent celebs. Trust Entertainment caught up with the star. Daily Trust

• I Left Banking For Nollywood -- Blessing Effiong-Egbe
  Life as a model was fast and fun, short-lived but got to a reasonable and fulfilling stage. I started out in Nigeria in 2001 with the Silverbird International Fashion show Daily Independent
   

• I'm Old Enough To Get Money Anywhere
  Fathia, estranged wife of popular actor, Saheed Balogun, is a notable actress and producer in Nollywood.She spoke to Patrick Uwalaka about her career and new work Asa, Daily Independent
   
• Nollywood Will Crash Soon, Says Oba Funso Adeolu
  Not many would have forgotten Funso Adeolu, Chief Eleyimi,...Daily Independent
   
• Scandal in Nollywood
  Though the gladiators are artistes, what is currently playing out in Nollywood is by no means a movie. So, it is no make-believe. It is a scandal of worrisome dimension and it is real life. | The Sun
   
• Don’t be fooled, there’s sexual harassment in NOLLYWOOD — Arinze
  How long have you been in the movie, music industry?Ehmm, this is about the 24th year I’m in the industry...Vanguard
   
• It’s stupid to sleep with a producer, expect a role
  Believe it or not, Ijeoma Imo is one of the most beautiful girls that pass through the industry called Nollywood....Vanguard
  
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