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July 08, 2012

• Boko Haram: US Congress Invites Obama, Oritsejafor
  
  THE United States government is readying plans to get tougher with Nigeria on the issue of terrorism as its legislative arm is now considering enacting bill and piling more pressure on the Obama admin...Read more...

• Gunmen Kill Two Residents In Borno
  
  BARELY 24 hours after the assassination of General Manager of Borno Housing Corporation (BOHC) in Maiduguri, gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect, yesterday attacked two houses of res...Read more...
   

• Vice Chancellor Decries Waning Interest In Sciences
  
  THE Federal Government’s directive that 60 per cent of admission spaces in Nigerian universities be reserved for prospective science students — and the remaining 40 per cent for Arts — may be a tall o...Read more...
   

• 23 Killed In Fresh Attack
  
  NO Fewer than 23 people were reported killed yesterday at Kankuru, Kushin and Gashish villages of Barkin Ladi local council of Plateau State by armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. The attackers,...Read more...
   

• Pro-Democracy Groups Extol Abiola’s Virtues
  
  Soyinka Calls For Recognition Of June 12, 1993 Polls Winner As President
  IT was a deluge of impassioned speeches, tears and tributes in Lagos yesterday, as civil society groups gathered at the gravesid...Read more...
   

• Reinstatement Of Local Council Chairmen Stirs Controversy
  
  Okorocha Goes To Supreme Court
  FRIDAY’S ruling of the Appeal Court in Owerri recalling the sacked 27 local council chairmen is generating mixed reactions, as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and...Read more...
   

• Plateau: Gunmen kill 30, burn many houses •As NSA’s peace mission fails •1,750 corps members protest, seek redeployment
  Barely four days after the peace mission of the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, to Plateau State, where various stakeholders came together to fashion out a lasting peace for the area, Read more...
   

• 2015: Jitters in ‘core’ North over Jonathan/Mark accord •Atiku woos S/West PDP
  There are jitters among the Northern political establishment over the sort of political accord between President Goodluck Jonathan and Senate President David Mark as far as determination of the 2015 Presidency is concerned, Sunday Tribune can reveal. Read more...
   

• Redeployment: We Won’t Let Corps Members Go – Bauchi, Plateau, Others
  
  Despite the directive by the national headquarters of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) stopping the posting of the ‘Batch B’ corps...Read more...
   

• Bomb Scare At Federal Secretariat, Police Say It's Not True
  
  A bomb scare at the Bullet wing of the federal secretariat yesterday made many people scamper for safety. Read more...
   

• How ‘Continuity’ Aids Development In Kwara
  
  Though, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led-government in Kwara State, has been roundly...Read more...
   

• Alleged $620,000 bribery scandal: Christian lawyers move against Reps.
  
  House of representative in session...
  Christian lawyers across the country yesterday moved against the House of Representatives in its handling of the $620,000 bribery scandal presently rocking the National Assembly. The lawyers accused the House of violating the 1999 Constitution in the way and manner it is handling the bribery scandal involving the Chairman of Zenon Petroleum, Femi Otedola, and the former Chairman, House Committee on Oil Subsidy, Farouk Lawan. Read more...
   

• Again, violence in Jos claims 23
  
  Corps members
  Gunmen yesterday invaded six Plateau villages killing over 23 people. Also, over 50 people were injured in the attack carried out by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Read more...
   

• We’ll recover subsidy overpayment, Okonjo-Iweala vows
  
  Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said yesterday that the Fed-eral Government would recover the excess payments made to petroleum marketers, as soon as the Aigboje  Aig-Imoukhuede committee completes its assignment. Read more...
   

• ACN governors, leaders storm Benin for Oshiomhole
  
  The grand campaign rally of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) for the 2012 Edo State Governorship Election held on Saturday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City. In the rally that attracted many members, supporters and eligible voters occupying the 45,000-seat capacity terraces with many more on the synthetic soccer pitch, stadium premises and adjoining roads, the party leaders also warned strongly against any attempt to rig the governorship election by rival parties....Read more...
   

• Bomb scare at Lagos Airport
  
  Hundreds of users and workers within the Murtala Mohammed Airport Two, Lagos were thrown into harrowing experience yesterday following a tip-off of possible bomb explosion at the terminal.Sunday Mirror observed that various security officials stood at strategic positions and mounted road block to search incoming vehicles, which eventually led to huge traffic jam with-in the Lagos airport....Read more...
   

• Soyinka, Bakare, others restate call for Abiola’s immortalisation
  
  Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Convener of Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Pastor Tunde Bakare, President of Campaign for Democracy (CD) and Women Arise, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin and the National Coordinator of the pan-Yoruba Group, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Otunba Gani Adams, among others yesterday reiterated the need for a post-humous honour of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Abiola (MKO) as a democratically elected President....Read more...
   

• Why I shunned meeting at Ojukwu’s residence, by Umeh
  
  The embattled National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh, has given the reason for not attending the party’s stakeholders meeting held recently in Enugu.The politician gave this position in an exclusive interview with Sunday Mirror last week in Abuja....Read more...

• NAFDAC impounds N2.5m chemicals from hawkers
  
  In a move to curb the menace of hawking of chemicals in the open markets and streets in Ondo State, operatives of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) have begun a major raid and enforcement activities across the state. They impounded chemicals and related substances worth over N2.5 million. ...Read more...

• Obasanjo calls for investments in international agricultural research
  
  Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has called on the Nigerian government and African nations to invest in international agricultural research by supporting the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in order to tap into the opportunities offered by the vast arable lands in the continent Read more...
   

• Naira gains 0.75% as foreign funds jostle for T’ bills
  
  • Interbank rates rise on cash shortage...Read more...
   

• Why Banks’ Lending Profile Is Low
  
  Attractive Treasury Yields, Pricing Pressure As Key Factors
  AS the 2012 First Half (1H12) financial reporting season sets in, a new report on Tier 1 Nigerian banks points to a more subdued loan growth ...Read more...
   

• PPPRA Launches Key Reforms To Eliminate Fraud
  
  IN what looks like a self-acclamation, the Petrole...Read more...

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• From The University of Lagos to Moshood Abiola University: An Unforced Error by an error-prone President!
  The changing of the University of Lagos name to Moshood Abiola University seems to us an unforced error by a President who is willing to use all means to secure a second term, and he thinks the way to securing it is through the people of the South West! It seems to us that this president has no clue about the psyche of an average South Westerner, and we predict this latest act is also the reason why we think he has destroyed his chance to a second term in this zone.  NigerianNews Editorial | more editorial

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• Frisky Larr's Current Column
  
  Is Oshiomole getting too desperate in Edo State?
  by Frisky Larr
  Within the past two months, Nigerians have witnessed not less than ten media headlines reporting the alarm raised by Governor Adams Oshiomole over impending electoral manipulations in Edo state. Each time, he is accusing the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) of planning to rig the forthcoming gubernatorial election in that state coming up in July 2012. He raised the alarm the loudest, when he narrowly escaped death from a traffic mishap, in which a tractor reportedly ran into a vehicle in his convoy traveling to Benin en route from a political event. NigerianNews Special

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• Atsar Terver's Current Column
  ECHOES:Commentary on burning public issues
  
  Mrs. Johnson’s Gaffe on President Jonathan
  by Atsar Terver
  One of the biggest jokes of the year is the recent publication by Times Magazine in which Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was named among the 100 most influential persons in the world. One thing I must admit upfront is that being, the President over a country of over 160million people, who are directly affected by decisions taken by him and Nigeria being an oil producing country whose policies affect the global energy market, every Nigerian President automatically qualifies to be named an influential person. But that is just where Jonathan’s qualification ends. Any further criteria that relates to leadership performance, Integrity, anti-corruption, good governance, transparency, promotion of social welfare and respect for human rights and the rule of law must be watered down below the barest minimum standards for him to qualify NigerianNews Special

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• Theo I Ogune's Special Column
  
  Theo I Ogune's Current Column
  The Sorrows of the Nigerian Supreme Court
  by Theo Ikes Ogune, Esquire
  Today, while everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of discussing the change of Unilag’s name, I prefer to revisit an old and now very familiar friend: the Nigerian judiciary.  For one thing, the Unilag name change is only a superficial expression of the larger issue of executive power, which is more substantively linked to judicial malfeasance.  I really understand the beef with the change, believe me, but people should care more about the poor state of the education at the university than its name. So I prefer to talk about the Nigerian judiciary.  Just this April, James Ibori went to prison in Britain because he stole money from Delta State.  We all hewed and hawed for about a minute and then went about our business.  What got lost in translation was the opportunity to address a very nagging problem in Nigeria, which is the absolute failure of the country’s judiciary. NigerianNews Special |Read more articles by Ogune

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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

• 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

• BECOMING A RESPONSIBLE, CONFIDENT AND SAFE DRIVER
  by Adewale T. Akande
  Driving is a serious responsibility with physical and mental abilities impacting on the driving activities of a driver. It is more than moving a vehicle and knowing how to use the accelerator, brake pedals and steering. Driving is at best when you have knowledge and required skills to drive competently in accordance with those rules and regulations guiding the public roads. A safe and responsible driver has responsibility which makes him a good citizen. Driving is a learned skill acquired with much practice. It is also more important to drive with due regards for safety and convenience of other road users. Driving entails concentration, calmness, and with consideration and respect for others. And at the same time, a driver should ensure proper and total control of his vehicle at all times. That means a driver must not allow anything to take their attention from the road, therefore good anticipation and concentration will help to prevent these usual incident becoming accidents on our roads. The safety of others depends on you when you are on the wheel. NigerianNews Guest Column

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  Lana Onafuye.
  Pls read: Is there any way of getting confirmation about news I'm just getting that the Dana plane was distressed for a while but could not make an emergency landing because the airspace was closed for 2 hours for - the Presidential Jet carrying Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan. Read more...

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• Kannywood Is Key To Nigeria Entertainment Industry – Dila
  Mohammad Rabi’u Rikadawa, aka Dila, is one of the big names in Kannywood. In this exclusive chat with AL-AMIN CIROMA, the movie star spoke...Read more...
   

• Genevieve fetes Chimamanda
  
  Nollywood top actress, Genevieve Nnaji, will feature in the film adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie’s  novel, ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’. Read more...
   

• Around and about Nollywood
  
  Seminar on copyright in audiovisual industry ends ...Read more...
   

• Nollywood has derailed –Okey Bakassi
  
  Okechukwu Anthony Oyegbule is a motivational comedian and movie actor, who has dabbled in politics in his home state of Imo. Friday Flavour occupied his space in this interview where he told TERH AGBEDEH about his future plans since his return to showbiz.... Read more...
   

• You need patience to make it in acting –Orhorha
  
  Is he really deaf and dumb? For people who admire Jude Orhorha, that is what readily comes to their minds when they meet the Warri, Delta state-born actor cum comedian; but he is not. It is just a character (Gbenro), which he has so well interpreted in a sitcom, Fuji House of Commotion, from the stable of Amaka Igwe Productions... Read more...
   

• Nollywood pays better than Kannywood – Hauwa Maina
  She’s appeared in a couple of Nollywood movies after attaining superstar status in Kannywood, but Hauwa Maina says the English-speaking Nigerian movies attract a bigger payday. Weekend Magazine cornered her for a chat on her iconic role as Queen Amina of Zazzau, family life and many others. Excerpts: Read more...
   

• ‘Only a real man can approach me’
  
  Amina Ndim may not ring bell in the minds of movie lovers. However, she is one of the upcoming actresses who knows her onions and has created a niche for herself by the way she interprets her roles. Amina, who says she is a Nigerian, is the fourth child among six siblings. In this interview with Saturday Sun, she talks about her life and challenges in the industry. | Read more...
   

• Star actress, Monalisa Chinda lands N30m endorsement deal
  
  Multi million Naira endorsement deals are currently flying left, right and centre in Nollywood with most of the stars involved smiling heavily to the banks with mouth watering offers. | Read more...
   

• AGN commences Nollywood mega city projcet
  
  For doubting Thomases who may think that nothing good can come out of Actors Guild of Nigeria, they have to brace up to the fact that the proposed Nollywood City project have commenced. | Read more...
   

• Day Soyinka led Nollywood’s invasion of Kenya
  It was an invasion that will not be forgotten in a hurry. The street of Nairobi, capital city of Kenya, was literally taken over by Nigerian movie stars, who had come in droves to showcase the magic of | Read more...
   

• I love Nigerian men but ... - Yvonne Nelson
  
  I’m not dating Jim Iyke BENJAMIN NJOKU With a superb  body and sexy long legs, Yvonne Nelson is one actress to behold. A popular face in Ghollywood, ...Read more...
   

• NDLEA places 9 Nollywood stars on watch-list
  It is no longer news that celebrated comic act, Babatunde Omidina popularly known as Baba Suwe was arrested on Wednesday while allegedly attempting to smuggle cocaine out of the country. What is, however, of interest to many now is that cocaine is yet to be found in his system. The actor, whose career spans over two decades was arrested on his way to France | Read more...
   

• Heralding a Nollywood Project
  
  Nigeria and Nollywood are strange bed-fellows. Perhaps, not so strange since Nollywood is a product of the Nigerian media content. It only follows that a multitude of genetic traits travel from mother Nigeria through the cinematic veins of Nollywood Read more...
   

• Nollywood gave Nigeria identity –Keppy Bassey
  
  Popular actor, Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey, is one of the pioneer stars in Nollywood. The Akwa Ibom State-born actor is also a talk-show host and producer. He studied Linguistics and holds a second degree | Read more
   

• Shan George blasts Silverbird
  
  Veteran Nollywood screen goddess, Shan George, is fuming and blowing hot. She is angry with president of Silverbird Group, Ben Murray-Bruce, ver his alleged comment that any movie not premiered | Read more...
   

• My man, my marriage –Ini Edo
  
  Ini Edo is tired. Very tired. The actress, who lit the screen with her presence, confessed she’s tired of doing same of the same movies. “I am taking a stand against bad jobs,” she said. | Read more...
   

• Presidency, Filmmakers Dialogue On Fortune Of Nollywood
  THE Presidency at the weekend, in Lagos, appealed to practitioners in the Nigerian film sector to use their craft and resources to help redefine the image of the country, especially at this time that ...TheGuardian

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