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May 25, 2013

• NGF Election: Amaechi Wins, Despite Odds
  
  Polls 19 To 16 To Retain NGF Chairman
  AGAINST all odds, Rivers State Governor Chibuike Amaechi Friday in Abuja defeated Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang to win a second term as Chairman of the Nigeria... Read more...

• ‘Excessive Litigations Hinder NDIC Settlement Capacity’
  NIGERIA Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), said Friday, that it is capable of fulfilling its statutory mandate as a financial net player to operate the deposit insurance scheme in Nigeria and to cu... Read more...
   

• FERMA Introduces Monitoring Units On Roads
  A NEW approach to fixing federal roads across the country “before the cracks turned to ditches,” to reduce the cost of maintenance and reduce carnage, has been devised by the Federal Road Maintenance ...Read more...
   

• Borno Reduces Water Supply To 40 Million Litres
  THE supply and distribution of potable water to the 2.8 million residents of Maiduguri metropolis in Borno State, has dropped to 40 million litres a day due to rehabilitation and maintenance of water ...Read more...
   

• Nigeria Gets AU Nod For Non-Permanent UN Security Council Seat
  THE African Union (AU) Executive Council has finally given Nigeria the nod to jostle for the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) non-permanent member seat.
  Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, is...Read more...
   

• Cynthia’s Mouth Stuffed With Hair Net, Says Pathologist
  THE trial of the alleged killers of facebook girl, Cynthia’s Osokogu resumed Friday at the Lagos High Court, Ikeja with the Chief Consultant pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital...Read more...
   

• More Tributes For Achebe, As Son Thanks Jonathan, Obi, Others
  AS literary giant, Prof Chinua Achebe joined his ancestors on Thursday, his son, Dr Ike Achebe has expressed profound gratitude to all that contributed in one way or the order to make the burial a suc...Read more...
   

• NGF Election: Amaechi floors Jonathan’s candidate
  •PDP Governors Forum rejects result •Presidency keeps mum •Akpabio, Mimiko, others break away from NGF •Yobe gov absent from voting The highly contentious and much ...Read more...
   

• ‘How can a Governor-General dress like a ...
  •‘How can a Governor-General dress like a woman to escape?’ •My state pardon was negotiated by Yar’Adua’s government. •I made the mistake of calling Obasanjo ...Read more...
   

• Kidnappers abduct 72-year-old palmwine tapper
  Luck ran against three kidnappers yesterday in Owerri, the Imo State capital as they were shot dead in a gun duel with the police while ...Read more...
   

• Supreme Court dismisses Oke’s appeal in Ondo ...
  The Supreme Court yesterday threw out an interlocutory appeal by the gubernatorial flag-bearer of the ruling People’s Democratic Party in Ondo State, Olusola Oke, seeking ...Read more...
   

• I was persecuted because Atiku chose me as running mate –Alamieyeseigha
  •Says details contained in coming memoirs Former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, has attributed his travails over allegations of corruption to the power tussle between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his vice, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar over the 2007 ... Read more...
   

• Democracy Day: Sambo appeals for peaceful co-existence
  Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo yesterday led Muslim faithful to a special Juma’at prayer in commemoration of the 14th Democracy Day celebration coming up on May 29. At the special prayer, Sambo appealed to Nigerians to continue to live in ... Read more...
   

• NGF election: Democracy at work
  In spite of intimidation deployed against him, Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi yesterday won his re-election as the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF. For Amaechi, it was a sweet and hard won victory. The opposition governors also produced ... Read more...
   

• Lagos 2015: George, Ogunlewe reconcile, resolve to work for PDP
  The plan by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to take over the reins of governance in the Centre of Excellence, seems to be gathering momentum, as the battle for the soul of the party in Lagos State, between former National ... Read more...

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• ‘Unfair Levies, Duties Crippling Indigenous Manufacturing’
  Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma is Chairman and C... Read more...

• ‘Paying Your Rent With A Loan Leaves You With Lump Sum To Invest’
  For the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of RSL Derivatives Global Services Limited, Mr. Lekan Abiola, tenants discomfort themselves but enrich their landlords when they pay their yearly rents in lump sums. In this interview, he...Read more...
   
• Stakeholders applaud GE acquisition of Salof, US
  Recent acquisition of Salof Industries Nigeria Limited, sole agent of Texas-based Salof Group of Companies, US, by global giant, General Electric (GE) Oiland Gas, has been applauded by stakeholders in the Nigerian company. The stakeholders expressed confidence that acquisition would ... Read more...
   
• Nigeria to export 62 crude cargoes in July
  The nation is set to export 62 cargoes of crude oil in July this year, loading programs obtained by Bloomberg News that cover 17 of 18 grades show. The nation will ship 13 consignments of Qua Iboe, seven each of ... Read more...
   
• FG mulls new tariff regime for industrial sector
  The Federal Government yesterday announced its plans to come up with a new tariff regime for the country’s industrial sector. When in force, the new tariff is expected to increase the capacity of local manufacturers and boost investments across all ... Read more...
   
• Why we’re commencing Doula route – Aero Airlines
  The oldest domestic carrier in Nigeria, Aero Airlines yesterday explained why it is commencing flight operations to the Central African country, Doula, Cameroon next Monday. Speaking to journalists at its headquarters at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, MMA, Lagos, the Accounting ... Read more...
   
• Labour lambasts northern governors over ex-workers’ unpaid entitlements
  The National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, (NUTGTWN), said the continuous delay in settlement of the entitlements of worker of Kaduna Textiles Limited, KTL, since 2002 by its owner-19 northern states is worrisome. In a statement ... Read more...
   
• NERC inaugurates working group on uniform account system
  As part of the process of developing a uniform accounting framework to facilitate the review and analysis of the licensees’ financial statements, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in collaboration with the Financial Reporting Council (formerly Nigerian Accounting Standards Board), ... Read more...
   
• Sacked workers threaten action against Ecobank
  Some disengaged workers of Ecobank Plc who were recently laid off by the bank, said they will sue the bank to court if their severance fee is not paid within two weeks. The aggrieved said most of them were recently ... Read more...
   
• HP boosts printing portfolio for Nigerian customers
  A global Information and Communication Technology, Hewlett Packard, said it was expanding its printing and imaging portfolio to help Small and Medium Businesses and enterprises improve efficiency and reduce costs without sacrificing quality. The new solutions, according to the company, ... Read more...

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• Dialogue with Boko Haram? Not So Fast!
  January 31, 2013
  Why are these spurious demands for dialogue being made now by people who should know better? The Boko Haram is being routed from their covert base in Mali, their world is on the verge of collapse. What is it to dialogue at this point? That Boko Haram's atrocities never happened? That those people cowardly murdered are not worthwhile member of their communities? That the president should negotiate with them to become a Muslim? NigerianNews Editorial

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• Frisky Larr's Current Column
  
  What do Hobby Bloggers say Today who made Obasanjo their Punching Bag?
  by Frisky Larr
  May 06 2013
  When I started taking on hate-filled critics of former President Olusegun Obasanjo during the days of his 8-year tenure, many hurled abuses at me and called me a sellout! Very few recognized my passion for putting facts in their correct perspective no matter how bitter we are. I knew deep in my heart though that I would have been the greatest “Obasanjo-hater” if there were mass praises for the man with an attempt to sweep the negatives beneath the carpet. Fortunately or unfortunately, the reverse was the case. I suffered abuses and denigration by people who believed in the expression of sentiments as a yardstick for measuring objectivity. NigerianNews Special

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• Atsar Terver's Current Column
  ECHOES:Commentary on burning public issues
  
  Much Ado About Tinted Glasses
  by Atsar Terver
  April 22 2013
  The Police in Nigeria have achieved a sinister notoriety of always being in the news exclusively for the wrong reasons. It is more common to read that the Police have released accidental bullets on innocent citizens than that they have arrested and successfully prosecuted a notorious criminal. It appears to be a more appealing task to the police to shoot live bullets at peaceful, unarmed citizens in time of public protest than to provide protection to them as is expected in societies where the people are held supreme. The only time police would provide cover to citizens on a public protest is when the crowd is hired by the President or his Wife to protest in support of some silly  idea like the proposed 4billion Naira African First Ladies  Mission Center in Abuja or to beg the President to contest election. NigerianNews Special

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•  Uyi Edogamhe's Current Column
  
  CORRUPTION AS A YARDSTICK.
  by Uyi Edogamhe
  January 22, 2013
  The spate and scale of corruption and the corrupt practices exposure Nigerians were inundated with in the immediate past year, was discomfortingly mind boggling, and sadly traumatising. Someone would definitely have to be living in outer space, and as such, totally cut off from these sad realities, or be afflicted with some kind of psycho-emotional disorder, not to be rudely shocked and unabashedly embarrassed at the sheer inhumanity of these schemes and the breath taking audacity of criminal will. NigerianNews Specialcenter"> | Read more articles by Edogamhe

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• AN INTERVIEW WITH Former Governor Donald Duke of Cross River
  NigerianNews Interview Series
  
  Fmr Gov Donald Duke
  "Those that are now fanning themselves out to serve on the platform of PDP, and now appear to be the solution to the problem of Nigeria, are indeed the problem of Nigeria. The problem cannot all of a sudden turn out to be the solution. I have problem with that. To me Nigeria is sacrosanct, PDP is not." NigerianNews Interview click here

• 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

• RIVERS JET: ATEKE WANTS AMAECHI OUT
  FORMER Niger Delta freedom fighter, Chief Ateke Tom, has called on Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State in Southern Nigeria, to quit his office. NNEWS Correspondent
   

• Leadership Failure: Nigerians Are Walking Prisoners In Austria
  Report by Uzoma Ahamefule
  Mr President Sir, members of the honourable national Assembly and House of Reps, the foreign Affairs Minister and fellow Nigerians, when one extends hands of friendship it is natural that one has exposed oneself to danger. Today not only that I have extended those hands of friendship but I have equally once more exposed my emotions and love to public ridicule and attack because of my affection for Nigeria. NNEWS Correspondent | Read more reports

• THE CORE QUESTIONS (PART 1)
  
  by Pastor Biodun Coker
  In the heart of every person in every nation are some questions seeking for answers. The searches for answers take people to covens, mountains and valleys. NigerianNews Religious Special | Read more articles by Coker

• Practice Forgiveness: A Powerful Tool to Open the Door of God's Blessings
  
  by Minister Ayodele Mobolurin
  The goal of forgiveness is restoration. Restoration of your peace of mind and restoration of a broken relationship. The second goal may not be possible, because the other party does not want to put away the contention. However, the first is achievable, since it depends only on one party to the contentious issue. Forgiveness is a powerful tool for restoring your peace of mind.  You are at peace even with those that consider you an enemy. The scripture commands forgiveness  NigerianNews Religious Special |  Read more articles by Prof Mobolurin

• THE POWER OF REDEMPTION: THE JOY OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS (Part 1)
  
  by Pastor Joseph Idowu
  Introduction
  In John 3: 16 and 17 we read “For God so love the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” . NigerianNews Religious Special | Read more articles by Pastor Idowu

• ACN: HOW NOT TO OPPOSE
  by Kali Gwegwe
  Political opposition is an essential component of every democratic society. Opposition parties help to make the leadership institution competitive, thereby contributing to the acceleration of the rate of development. As a practice, opposition parties are supposed to offer superior alternatives that will help improve the wellbeing of citizens in a defined society. No matter how acceptable a ruling political party may be, the important place of the opposition is neither discarded by parties outside power nor ignored by the incumbent administration. NigerianNews Guest Column

 
• Amnesty for Boko Haram: The Conundrum of Northern Political Leaders and a Lesson for Nigeria.
  by Prof. Ayodele Mobolurin
  May 15, 2013
  The current call by segments of the Northern Leadership, including the organization Ja’amatu Nasril Islam (JNI) that amnesty be granted to Boko Haram demands dispassionate analysis of the issues.Boko Haram is organization that is leading an insurgency against the government of Nigeria NigerianNews Guest Column

 
• AN OPEN LETTER TO GEN. MUHAMMADU BUHARI
  by Abubakar Alkali Sokoto
  May 09, 2013
  Sir, I salute your commitment, steadfastness and resilience in your efforts spanning over 30 years to bring about good leadership and by implication a desirable change in Nigeria. It could be said without any reservations that you are the shining star of Nigeria’s latest adventure as a democracy since 1999. My dear general, you stood out as the last man standing against corruption in Nigeria. Indeed you are an inspiration to me and all progressive youths in this great country Nigeria. NigerianNews Guest Column


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• Inimical and obnoxious increase in pump price
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• Nollywood: Nudity Is Ruining The Industry – Larry Koldsweat
  
  A few years back, Larry Koldsweat was a screen delight because of his roles. He has, however, been off the screen for sometime...Read more...
   

• CHARITY PICTURES SET TO A DROP MULTI-MILLION NAIRA MOVIE ON DEC 2ND
  
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  “IT IS WELL“ a popular slogan amidst Christians and other church goers was the catchy phrase and the title of the new movie employed by Mr. Adeola Adewunmi, the Managing Director of Charity Pictures Production and the producer of the film. The Producer’s intention and mission is to deliver a world-class film executed with strong local relevance and content to excite the Nigerian and African film watchers. Read more...

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• Amnesty for Boko Haram? Tragic Mistake for Jonathan & the Nigerian State
  In the past few weeks and maybe months, we have been inundated with the calls for Amnesty from key leaders and elements of Northern Nigeria. From the Sultan of Sokoto, who, as leader of Muslims and the Islamic faith in the Nigerian state, and without any shame, prefered to undermine himself and join the band of failed Northern leaders to demand for Amnesty for the blood sucking human-hating infidels who today parade Northern Nigeria under the label of Boko Haram.  Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) Press Release

• PRESS STATEMENT BY FESTUS KEYAMO ON THE OTEDOLA/LAWAN BRIBERY SAGA AND THEIR RECORDED CONVERSATIONS

• African Prosperity Reversed by EPA Action Against Palm Oil

• BOKO HARAM SUSPECT ESCAPE IS A FARCE

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• A CALL FOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CASE OF A NIGERIAN (COMRADE SUNNY OFEHE), PRESENTLY UNDERGOING TRIAL FOR ALLEGED TERRORIST ACTS IN THE NETHERLANDS - Keyamo

 

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