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August 21, 2012

• Jostling for 2015 presidency begins •As OBJ group clamours for Lamido/Amaechi joint ticket
  
  AS major political groups in the country continue to strategise Read more...

• Nigeria owes $5bn external debt - Maku •Says no cause for alarm
  
  THE Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, on Monday, dispelled fears that Nigeria’s foreign debt profile of five billion US  Read more...
   

• Pay oil subsidy arrears or... •NUPENG threatens FG •It’ll be resolved this week - Presidency
  
  OIL workers under the umbrella of the National Union of Petroleum  Read more...
   

• 4 more bodies washed ashore at Lagos bar beach
  
  FOUR unidentified bodies were, on Monday, washed ashore the Kuramo Beach in Lagos, even as controversy still trails the Read more...
   

• Call for Jonathan’s resignation laughable -Babatope
  A former Minister of Transport, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, on Monday, challenged individuals and groups calling for the resignation of President Goodluck Jonathan to come out with tangible reason for such agitation, describing such call as laughable Read more...
   

• Gunmen kill 2 in Yobe
  SOME gunmen killed two persons in Mubi on Sunday in an attack which left one person wounded. Mr Mark Idakwo, the Commissioner of Police in Adamawa, confirmed in Yola, on Monday, that two people were killed, while one was hospitalised following the attack in Sabon-Layi area of Mubi. Read more...
   

• Ex-IG blames IBB, military for destroying police
  
  Ibrahim Babangida
  Former Inspector- General of Police, Alhaji Muhammadu Gambo Jimeta, has condemned the recent agitation for the establishment of a state police, taking a swipe at its proponents, especially his former boss and ex-military president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. Read more...
   

• Kuramo evictees blame surge on Eko Atlantic City
  
  Policemen at the entrance of Kuramo Beach in Lagos, yesterday
  Evicted owners of demolished structures at Kuramo Beach in Lagos have blamed Saturday’s surge on the coastline on the multi-billion naira Eko Atlantic City project Read more...
   

• Shell spent N59.3bn on police, security –Report
  
  Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar
  Anglo-Dutch oil firm, Shell, paid Nigerian police officers and other security agents $383m (N59.3bn) to guard its installations in three years, according to a report by an oil industry watchdog. Read more...
   

• Benue to recover money over Okupe’s contract, others
  
  Lawyer admits deal, says no crime by Okupe
  ACN, PDP continue war of words
  CORRUPTION, real and alleged, remains the most topical issue in Nigeria.
  The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Peoples Dem...Read more...
   

• How ocean surge swept away our livelihoods, by victims
  
  Seek compensation, six more bodies recovered
  THE death toll from the Lagos Ocean surge rose to six yesterday as   the tragedy continued to generate   controversy   with the victims insis...Read more...
   

• Ex-IGPs lobby N’ Assembly to reject state police
  
  AS the call for the establishment of state police gathers momentum, particularly among states governors, former Inspectors General of Police (IGPs) have begun moves to get members of the National Asse...Read more...
   

• Lawmakers, others ask govt to appeal ruling on Bakassi
  
  LAWMAKERS in the Cross River State and National assemblies in Cross River South, the people of Bakassi and Non-Governmental Organisations in the state have called on the Federal Government to immediat...Read more...
   

• 2015 Presidency: Obasanjo Cannot Choose For The North — Kure
  
  Former governor of Niger State, Engr. Abdulkadir Kure, has asserted that former President Olusegun Obasanjo is not in a position to choose...Read more...

• Subsidy Payment Controversy: NUPENG Threatens Nationwide Strike
  
  The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has threatened to embark on nationwide strike tomorrow if the federal...Read more...

• How Traders Cheat Consumers Through Re-packaging Of Goods
  The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has threatened to embark on nationwide strike tomorrow if the federal...Read more...
   

• Nigerian bond market to get $1bn boost -DLM
  The Nigerian bond market is set to be on the upbeat as JP Morgan has concluded plans to include the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) bonds in its emerging markets government bond index from the fourth quarter of 2012. Read more...
   

• Rice production: Farmers to earn $2bn by 2015
  
  The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has said the Federal Government is projecting that rice farmers in the country would be able to earn about $2bn by year 2015. Read more...
   

• Capital market probe: Misdirected venoms on regulators
  In the last few7 days, one has made a strenuous but futile effort to attach a serious meaning to the report of the House of Representatives’ committee on the “near collapse” of the nation’s capital market. Read more...
   

• Rumblings in oil sector over non-payment of subsidy
  
  Marketers, workers accuse govt of paying portfolio importers
  NUPENG threatens national strike Thursday, TUC disagrees
  AS the face-off between the Federal Government and oil marketers deepens, activities...Read more...
   

• ‘Shell spends $383m to guard personnel, facilities in Nigeria’
  
  SHELL may have spent over $383 million (N61.3 bill...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
  
  Countdown in Edo State: Will Oshiomole cruise to victory?
  by Frisky Larr
  The paradox in Edo state: The very first Governor since the days of retired General Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia of the defunct Bendel State, who has given Edo State a bunch of visible, quantifiable and palpable uplift, is now faced with the grim reality of possibly losing his bid for re-election. Governor Adams Oshiomole came into office on the heels of people’s expectations and had to tread the thorny path of armchair brigandry, stolen mandate, tribunals, godfatherism etc. before being finally manipulated into his rightful position. His facilitators and collaborators then were no other than those who fought running battles in the camp of his opponent, to assert their supremacy. NigerianNews Special

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• Atsar Terver's Current Column
  ECHOES:Commentary on burning public issues
  
  Why The Orchestrated Falsehood Against NEXIM Bank MD Must Stop!
  Atsar Terver
  My attention has been drawn to the laughable, fictitious and desperate sponsored report in the National Daily of 9th July 2012 targeted at the person of the Managing Director of Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM Bank), Mr. Roberts Orya. Among several spurious claims, the report alleges that the dismissed NSA uncovered massive losses in the Bank's operations which were craftily covered up to reflect profit as declared in the Bank's 2010 Annual Report; and further speculates that the Bank gave out loans to shadow clients and cronies without applications and other such fallacies!. NigerianNews Special

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• Theo I Ogune's Special Column
  
  Theo I Ogune's Current Column
  My Welcome Address to the Honorable Chief Justice of Nigeria
  Theo Ikes Ogune, Esquire
  They say that the world would be a better place if women ruled it.  Let me not bore you with the science of it all or even focus on whether women use a different part of the brain from the part that men use.  Either way, today, I am going to wish it were true -- that women made better managers than men.  If I were to go by the likes of Farida Waziri, however, I would be in for a long haul!  I also was going to be bothered by your answer to the question of corruption in the judiciary, whereupon you were quoted as simply responding that “there is corruption at every level,” but I am brushing that aside as quoted out of context.  I am also brushing aside the recent report of you saying in a BBC interview that the reinstatement of Justice Salami, a clear victim of corrupt politics, “is not [your] matter.”  Today, I am remaining hopeful. NigerianNews Special