Alao-Akala And Awo's Statue
Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala,
civilian governor of Oyo State, has triggered a new round of
controversy for his government as well as provoked Awoists everywhere
with his latest act of:re-erecting an earlier-demolished statue of the
'Unknown Soldier' in front of Government House in Ibadan.
The Guardian Editorial
NigerianNews
Side bar: Alao-Akala does not know a General when he sees
one, talk less of an unknown soldier! However, the good people of Oyo
State do know their General, and the Election Tribunal yet to declare
its verdict in Oyo State should also take note. Get this rascal out,
and let him compete in a new unrigged election. That way, he will find
out who the real unknown soldier is. The new election, if unrigged by
his Molete god-father thug, will show this ignorant governor that the
soldier unknown to him is actually Chief Obafemi Awolowo!!
Abacha loot: Police discover house loaded
with foreign currencies; Commissioner of Police, three others quizzed;
N30 million, cars seized; Presidency wades in; It is not our money –
Abacha’s son Another angle has crept into the alleged mind-boggling looting of
the nation’s treasury by late Head of State,General Sani Abacha...Tribune
Rivers seizes Ateke’s property Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State has said that property
belonging to the wanted militant leader, Ateke Tom, whose...Tribune
Ambassadorial postings out this week,
Obanikoro makes list, Ali for UK Contrary to media reports that the Lagos State governorship flag
bearer for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the April 2007...Tribune
Commissioner spends N700,000 on marabouts
weekly
News of a possible cabinet reshuffle in Zamfara State has forced some
commissioners to seek for the services of marabouts in order to
survive the impending...Tribune
Reps clash over guns for civil corps
As the Federal Government prepares to equip the personnel of the
Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) with guns, among
other firearms, committee chairmen of the House of Representatives
have disagreed on the necessity for the 45, 000-strong corps to bear
arms.
Vanguard
Govt to take over Ateke Tom’s properties:
Please don’t live in fear, Gov Amaechi tells Rivers resid
RIVERS State government yesterday moved to cut Tom Ateke to size when
Governor Rotimi Amaechi said that the militant leader’s properties
would be converted to
Vanguard
4 die in P-Harcourt tanker fire
*13 shops, 14 vehicles razed *Securitymen chasing vehicle when
accident occurred’ NO fewer than four persons were killed, dozens
wounded and 14 vehicles...Vanguard
Rivers Takes on Militants
Rivers State government is poised to overrun militants in the state,
according to its governor Chibuike Amechi, who also said that Ateke
Tom, now the ...
ThisDay
Immunity Aids Corruption, Says Belgore
Former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Salihu Alfa Modibbo
Belgore says corruption among public officials can only cease if the
immunity claus...
ThisDay
PDP Chairmanship Aspirants on Hunger Strike
Three chairmanship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) in Kaduna State who lost out in the just concluded
primaries are on...
ThisDay
Adedibu to Move Awo’s Statue to Molete
Stormy Petrel of Ibadan politics, Chief Lamidi Adedibu has vowed to
move the statue of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo to his Molete
territory in...
ThisDay
ICPC Won’t
Merge With EFCC, Others —Ayoola
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC),
Emmanuel Ayoola, says the body would oppose a merger with the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Code of Conduct Bureau
(CCB).
Daily Independent
Fasehun wants Afenifere out of AC
FOUNDER of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun has
said that Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba social-cultural organisation,
should be totally separated from the Action Congress (AC) to ensure
peace in the South-West and to let the organisation speak with one
voice again.>>Champion
Business
Odua Investment not for sale —GMD
There is no plan whatsoever to auction any of the subsidiaries of Odua
Investment Company Limited to the owner state governors, the Group
Managing Director of the multi-million naira conglomerate, Mr. Adebayo
Jimoh declared in Ibadan last week.>>Champion
Oceanic Bank plans 20,000 homes for low-income
earners
As part of its commitment to the development of a middle-class in Nigeria,
Oceanic Bank International is planning about 20, 000 affordable homes for
low income earners in various parts of the country.
>>Champion
Airline Operators
Desert Sam Mbakwe Airport
Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport (SAICA), which enjoyed prominence
when the Port Harcourt International Airport was shut for rehabilitation
work, has become a ghost of itself since Monday when majority of the
airlines that operated from there relocated to Rivers State.
Daily Independent
Editorial
Happy New Year and Welcome 2008! January 01, 2008
NigerianNews
takes this opportunity to felicitate with everyone as the year 2008
rolls in. Indeed, Nigeria is a country which God has bestowed with
enough resilience to weather any storm! 2007 was such a
turbulent year which some would have either wished it never existed or
certain events never occurred. All the same, all our experience is
supposed to strengthen us with sufficient energy so that we can witness
the fulfillment of things yet to be revealed to us as a Nation by the
Almighty God.
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
Tunde Adenodi's
Current Column Saudi Arabia: Where rape victim is jailed and lashed!
by Tunde Adenodi. January 05, 2008
It happened not long ago in Kano? Hawa, I
believe the name was, had a fling. She became pregnant. A regular
secular court would think that a man would not be too far from the
scene of this “crime”. Not so for Sharia court! She was prosecuted
for adultery and was to suffer jail term; but for the intervention
of the international community and some Nigerian human rights
lawyers. As for Hawa’s baby’s father, he was left off the hook.NigerianNews Special |
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Frisky Larr's
Current Column
What if Ribadu’s Reputation
has been compromised like Obasanjo’s?
by Frisky Larr January
10, 2008
The
saying “What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over” is an
old saying of the wise in English language. In routine usage it is in
common circulation amongst lovers in the nest of emotional
interaction. As long as a lover is not aware that he or she is being
cheated upon by the counterpart, the heart would not grieve.
Therefore, most lovers would just not want to know as long as the
feeling of love remains true to its nature of barren purity.
NigerianNews
Special
The Ribadu Controversy:
Early steps at Damage Control?
by Frisky Larr January
04, 2008
The
worldwide web today has no doubt enhanced the dawn of a new awareness
in the flow of information. Everyone now has his say, who can pick a
keyboard to piece his/her thoughts together in a prosy narrative.
Hobby commentators and self-styled political observers abound and most
often than not, add their spices to the brewing potion of public
controversies. This is precisely the case in the Nuhu Ribadu
controversy. Armchair quarterbackers will always be up against public
outcry and the basic call to wisdom.
NigerianNews
Special
|
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Kay Soyemi's
Current Column
Ribadu's
removal: Not in the Interest of the General Public
by Kay Soyemi December 29, 2007
Keeping abreast of news and development back home takes some
dedication and a hardiness of the soul and certain immunity to the
shocking revelations that comes out of the political establishment and
the fourth realm.
NigerianNews
Special |
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Atsar Terver's
Current Column ECHOES:Commentary
on burning public issues
WEEP NOT OVER RIBADU
by Atsar Terver
January
04, 2008 One of the hazards of writing especially over public issues is
that at any point in time you stand between the devil and the deep
blue sea. A good chunk of your readers are bound to disagree with
your viewpoint while others agree. And sometimes it takes courage
to swim against the tide as I am going to do on Ribadu.
NigerianNews
Special
Ibori is Arrested, Lets Apologize to the AGF
by Atsar Terver December 18, 2007
That Chief Michael Aondoakaa(SAN) continues to
take the center stage of almost everything in our country today is
a product of both hate and vendetta is becoming very apparent in
view of the silence from the camp of his opponents after the
arrest of Ibori.
NigerianNews
Special
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Dotun Oyeniyi
OBASANJO, ADEDIBU AND THE LEGACY OF THE
PEOPLE’S DEMO-THUGGERY PARTY ((PDP) by Dotun Oyeniyi January 07, 2008 Let us sweep under the carpet, if just for this once, for the sake of
objectivity, the seemingly unrestrained vituperation, both verbal and
written, which our immediate past president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo had
consistently and ceaselessly been receiving since his departure from office.
NigerianNews
Special|
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Oyeniyi
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
This bell tolls for all of us
by Patience Akpan-Obong
January
08, 2008
A chief in one of the villages in Abak, Akwa
Ibom State, was murdered by hired gunmen on Nov. 28, 2007. His
name was Chief Timothy Titus Akpan, aged 63. He was my father.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
A Surpise Attack in
Cameroon: New Crisis to emerge?
by
Scott A Morgan
November
21, 2007
The news over this past weekend that 21 Members
of the Cameroonian Military were killed in an Ambush in the
controversial Bakassi region did nothing more but to highlight the
ever increasing tensions in the region. Initial Reports indicated
that the Nigerian Military may have been involved due to the
proximity to the border of the attack. But the Attack was carried
out by a group known as the "Liberators of the Southern Cameroon
People."
NigerianNews Guest
Column
KEBBI Election:
Tribunal Went Beyond Its Mandate?
by Sani Onyedikachi Obi
November 06, 2007
If the title of my piece is perceived as inappropriate or most
uncharitable in certain quarters, then I must begin by tendering my
most sincere regrets as it is certainly not aimed at casting aspersion
on the competencies, integrity or judicial discretion of the learned
counsels or distinguished members of the Kebbi State election
Tribunal. I must also confess my utter ‘unlearnedness’ in comparison
to the eminent jurists who delivered the rather incredible ruling of
20th October, 2007 that annuled the April 2007 Kebbi State
Gubernatorial elections.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
AMAECHI’S CONTROVERSIAL ADOPTION OF MR. TELE IKURU AS DEPUTY GOVERNOR
OF RIVERS STATE
by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN November 01, 2007 Another controversy has been thrown up by the decision of the
Supreme Court on Thursday, 25th October, 2007 declaring Rotimi Amaechi
as the Governor of Rivers State.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
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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