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January 01, 2011

• I’ve no reason to be grateful to Jonathan – Ribadu
  Former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has been speaking on his chances in the April polls, declaring himself God’s candidate.| The Sun

• Tension in Nasarawa over Jos bombing
  Following the bomb lasts in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Christmas eve, tension is high in Nasarawa State as people almost stay awake all night for fear of the least expected. Saturday Sun found that both Christians and Muslims in the state are living in fear as uncertainty has become an order of the day. In Lafia, the state capital | The Sun
   

• Abuja Blast Unsettles New Year Celebrations
  Preparations for the New Year celebration was yesterday cut short in Abuja after a bomb exploded at the Mammy Market located directly opposite the Mogadishu Cantonment formerly known as Sanni Abacha Barracks in Abuja, killing 10 people ThisDay
   

• Cote d’Ivoire: ECOWAS Defence Chiefs for Military Action
  After much diplomatic overtures to prevent the leadership impasse in Cote d’Ivoire from degenerating into a full blown military conflict ThisDay
   

• At New Year, Jonathan Restates Commitment to Credible Polls
  President Goodluck Jonathan in his New Year message to the nation said that stable power supply, employment generation, security, national infrastructure, education and healthcare would dominate his agenda in 2011 ThisDay
   

• Excess Crude Account Shrinks to $3m
  After an emergency meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee yesterday, the sum of $1billion was deducted from the Excess Crude Account and approved for distribution to the three tiers of government ThisDay
   

• Obasanjo: I Can’t Die Before My Time
  Former President Oluse-gun Obasanjo yesterday declared that he would not die before his due time, saying that the incident in Ekiti State on Wednesday in which he was speculated to have fainted and subsequently died yesterday was the seventh time his death would be rumoured ThisDay
   

• Another Bomb Explodes In Abuja
  THREE days after an explosion was recorded in Yenagoa, Balyesa state capital, the nation’s capital yesterday recorded another bomb explosion with several persons feared dead and scores injured. The exp...TheGuardian
   

• Jonathan, Mark Hopeful Of New Nigeria
  IN a blaze of promises of abundance, security and improved healthcare, President   Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and other leaders yesterday ushered Nigerians into the New Year. In his New Year mes..TheGuardian

• NURTW Plans Stiffer Sanction On Drunk Driving
  WORRIED by increasing cases of drunk  driving , the National Union of Roads Transport Workers (NURTW) will this new year impose  stiffer penalties on any of its members caught in the act. TheGuardian
   

• Eleweomo: Police Beef Up Security In Ibadan
  SECURITY was yesterday beefed up in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, by men of the State Police Command for fear of reprisal attack by supporters of the murdered National Union of Road Transport Workers...TheGuardian
   

• Abuja: Army barracks bomb blast kills over 20
  Over twenty people were yesterday killed when an explosive device went off in Mogadishu Barracks (formerly Abacha Barracks) in Abuja. The blast occurred at the busy Mogadishu ‘Mammy Market’ located beside the entrance of the barracks, at ex...Daily Trust
   

• Saraki dumps PDP
  The political godfather of Kwara State and second republic senate leader, Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki yesterday announce...Daily Trust
   

• Obasanjo denies death rumour, counsels Nigerians on elections
  For the seventh time in 11 years and for the second time in the just ended 2010, former President, Chief Olusegun Obasan.. Daily Trust
   

• Babangida writes party leaders
  Nigeria’s former military ruler submits a letter to signify his withdrawal from the presidential race. 234Next
   

• Again, Obasanjo denies death rumour
  Former president invites journalists to his home to debunk claims that he is dead. 234Next
   

• Jos: Bombers linked to Al-Qaeda
  There are strong indications that the Islamic fundamentalist group, Jama’atu Ahlus-Sunnah...Punch
   

• Presidential primaries: Politicians take over Abuja hotels
  All the major hotels in the Federal Capital Territory have been booked by politicians ahead...Punch
   

• ‘Lack of monitoring, substandard facilities, teachers cause of WASCE mass failure’
  The Director of General Studies, Lagos State University, Ojo, Prof. Demola Onifade, has...Punch
   

• President Jonathan’s New Year Message – Ima Niboro
  President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has promised Nigerians significant improvements in s...Leadership
   

• Atiku Challenges Jonathan
  –Says president got his facts wrong  ||  President Goodluck Jonathan has been challen...Leadership
   

• I Will Not Vote For Jonathan – Pastor Bakare
  Convener of the Save Nigeria Group Leadership
   

• INEC receives 80,000 DDC machines
  THE Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, Friday said that the commission had received more than 80,000 Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines out of the 132,000 it ordered for voter registration. The Nation
   

• Atiku faults Jonathan on presidential debate
  FORMER Vice-President Atiku Abubakar Friday asked President Goodluck Jonathan to present himself for intra-party presidential debate without setting any preconditions. The Nation

• 2011 Financial Outlook The CEOs Verdict
  2011 Financial Outlook The CEOs Verdict ThisDay

• Marketing Communications: A Preview Of 2011 Trends
  THE economic recession has compelled virtually eve...TheGuardian

• X-raying the economy in 2010: Experts score government low
  LIKE in the previous years, the outgoing year has ...TheGuardian

• NSE submits selected new DG’s name to SEC - As market closed the year at 0.33% growth
  The Nigerian Stock Exchange said on Friday that it has submitted and awaiting the approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a name of a candidate for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) position of the excha...Daily Trust

• AMCON acquires toxic assets of 21 banks
  The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria on Friday completed the process of...Punch
  
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• The North - South Zonal Asymmetry
  August 02, 2010
  The Representative from Nnewi North/Nnewi South and Ekwusigo Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, C.I.D Maduabum was quoted in the Tribune today that The South-East geo-political zone of the country has so far lost N200 billion for being one state short since 1999. NigerianNews Editorial
   

• Zoning and the incapacitation of a presidency
  It is clear that President Jonathan does not understand the import of his Special Assistant to the President Dr. Cairo Ojougboh declaration's at National Assembly that the President would run in 2011. Nigerian News Editorial | more editorial

• Tunde Adenodi's Current Column
  
  “Igbo Presidency”, the tortoise and the hare II.
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  The part one of this article was published yesterday. If however you did not read the first part yesterday, we have printed part I and part II today for your fullest consumption. You can also go to my home page to read  part I separately
  In Yoruba mythology, the tortoise is an ubiquitous animal, cunning and witty. And he is slow! But the hare is straight forward, naïve and fast. Their paths often crossed in day to day living and all of the time, the hare emerged at the short end of the stick. NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Adenodi

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• 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

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• Frisky Larr's Current Column
  
  The Zoning Poison and the Risk of Balkanizing Nigeria
  by Frisky Larr
  August 02, 2010
  Never in the history of Nigeria has a clause in the constitution of a single political party become such a lethal and volatile minefield that is strongly seeking to explode on the corporate existence of the already fragile union. Never in history has Nigeria been so exposed to the project of a desperate stranglehold on the nerves of its roots by a determined geographical mafia fighting for a sustained power status. Never too, has the identity of this desperate mafia and its desperate godfathers has been so hopelessly laid bare than it is today in the wake of the national debate on the zoning poison.NigerianNews Special |Read more articles by Larr

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• Atsar Terver's Current Column
  ECHOES:Commentary on burning public issues
  
  Why Jega May Fail.
  by Atsar Terver
  November 03, 2010
  The appointment of Prof. Atahiru Jega as the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has been widely acclaimed as putting a round peg in a round hole. It is one of the rare appointments to be commended by the civil society, prodemocracy activists, human rights groups as well as even the opposition.NigerianNews Special

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• Dotun Oyeniyi
  
  NEVER AGAIN! SHOULD WE ALLOW BABANGIDA TO RULE NIGERIA
  by Dotun Oyeniyi
  May 11, 2010
  There comes a moment in the lives and times of most clever men, when out of a self deluding believe in their supposed superior intellect over others and the assumed idiocy of others; they end up taking decisions which are anything but clever.  I strongly believe that that moment is here for General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) with his decision to return to power.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Oyeniyi

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• Joe Chikunie
  
  NIGERIA IS UNFAIR TO HER CITIZENS IN THE DIASPORA; LET THEM VOTE IN THE LIKELY RE-SCHEDULED 2011 ELECTIONS.
  by Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie
  Consider the following headliner reports pertaining to Nigerians living abroad in order to understand the great injustice being perpetrated against them by their own government:NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Chikunie

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• Uyi Edogamhe's Current Column
  
  THE DANGEROUS END GAME
  by Uyi Edogamhe
  October 22, 2010
  The Nigerian political landscape is on a very dangerous edge. There is a burgeoning fight for relevance, and the political power and perquisites of the highest political office in the land. This fight has been on, right from the sudden grave illness of the then President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and his eventual death.. NigerianNews Special | 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

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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

• Cross-Interests Patriotism: The consensus Nigeria needs
  by Sesan Bello
  December 2, 2010
  The rot within the political (elitist) class is now exposed more than ever before, and the need for total overhauling of the country's political leadership, in preparation for the emergence of a new Nigeria, has not only been put on the line but also calling for urgent action.. NigerianNews Guest Column
  
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• For NigerianNews Sports
  Nigerian football has "switched the price tags"... giving value to
  value-less while undervaluing the truly important.
  by Ifeanyi Abanum
  Allnigeriasoccer.com caught up with the USA - Argentine coach of Sunshine Stars (NPL), Rodolfo Zapata who has indicated to coach Nigeria National Team. Regarding his activities in Nigeria, Zapata said:
  
  Rolo Zapata
  NigerianNews Sport
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• Entertainment industry receives presidential boost
  There is cause for the Nigerian entertainment industry to jubilate. President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday announced that the sum of N200 million has been earmarked by the Finance Ministry for direct investment into the Nigerian entertainment industry. The Nation
   

• Richest Nigerian Actresses
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  From the 80's till half-way through the 90's, nearly every household in Africa watched Western and Asian movies, but with the arrival of Nollywood in the early 90's and the rising profile of some of Nollywood stars in the late 90's, everything changed. Nollywood has become the talk of the day amongst African youths and many across the seven continents. Leadership
   

• Why I love Nigerians –Yvonne Chaka Chaka
  South African music diva, Yvonne Chaka Chaka has every reason to be angry with Nigerians. This is because many of her live shows which she recorded on CD were massively pirated by some Nigerian | The Sun
   

• Nigeria’s movie market is dead
  Apostle Helen Ukpabio, has spent over a decade in the Nigerian motion picture industry, globally known as Nollywood, producing and funding quality and expository Christian oriented movies for millions of viewers within and outside our shores. | The Sun

• All Nigeria Periscopes the World
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• Press Statement EkitiPaG
  Congratulatory messages to Dr.Fayemi and Mrs Olayinka Press Statement
   
• JRC PRESS RELEASE
  Press Release - Dokpesi: Persona Non Grata in the Niger Delta Press Release

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