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September 05, 2008

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• Yar’Adua not returning yet
  *Kidney-compatible daughter, Maryam, by his bedside,*Aged mum flew to S-Arabia two days ago*PDP Chairman, Secretary and VP’s wife fly out AILING President Umaru Ya’Adua is not returning home from Saudi Arabia immediately, contrary to public expectation in the last few days. Vanguard sources said the President’s aged mum also left for Saudi Arabia two days ago, although it was not clear whether she too was going for the lesser hajj or to see the son. Vanguard

• How village hunters located missing Beechcraft 1900D
  At Busi 2 in Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River, the crash site of the Beechcraft 1900D, it was difficult to believe that the beautiful far flung Sankwalla mountains had been hiding a tragic story not only from Nigerians but from the international community for the past six months. Vanguard
   

• What Yar’Adua’s 15-day absence costs Nigeria - He is safe abroad - PDP
  THE 15-day absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from Nigeria may have taken its toll on the administration of the country. This is because...Tribune
   

• Missing Plane Update: NEMA officials evacuate skulls, bones of pilots, hostess
  NATIONAL Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has removed the remains of the occupants of the Beechcraft 1900D aircraft...Tribune
   

• FG sets up committee on Niger Delta
  THE Federal Government has set up a 40-member committee headed by former Finance Minister, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu to tackle the crisis in the Niger Delta region. The committee was saddled with the responsibility of working out practical solutions to the lingering...Tribune
   

• Crashed Aircraft’s Black Box Missing
  The authorities of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) yesterday said the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and the Cockpit Recorder (CPR) also known as the “black box” of the crashed Wings Aviation aircraft are yet to be located by the search team. ThisDay
   

• N’Delta Summit: Idika Kalu Replaces Gambari
  Two months after United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, stepped down as Chairman, Steering Committee of the proposed Niger Delta Summit, the Federal Government yesterday nominated former Minister of Finance, Dr. Kalu Idika Kalu, to replace him. ThisDay
   

• LNG: American Admits Bribing Nigerian Officials
  A former executive of Houston-based Global Engineering, Constr-uction and Services company, Albert Stanley, has pleaded guilty to bribing Nigerian officials in order to secure contracts to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in Bonny Island, THISDAY has learnt. ThisDay
   

• Marwa to Replace Ali as Ambassador to S’Africa
  Former governor of Lagos State, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa (rtd), is set to replace former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, Senator Ahmadu Ali, as Nigeria's High Commissioner to South Africa, 10 months after his nomination as an ambassador. ThisDay
   

• Yar'Adua Sets Up Niger Delta Panel
  President Umaru Yar'Adua, who is still in Saudi Arabia, has raised a Technical Committee of 40 members to review all previous reports on the Niger Delta and recommend how to implement them. Daily Independent
   

• Marwa Replaces Ali As Ambassador To South Africa
  Buba Marwa is set to replace Ahmadu Ali as Nigeria's High Commissioner to South Africa, 10 months after the latter's nomination. Daily Independent
   

• WEMA Bank crisis: Omoyeni arrested
  Group Managing Director of troubled Wema Bank Plc, Mr Jeremiah Adebisi Omoyeni was arrested in Lagos on Thursday on the orders of the Inspector General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro. Omoyeni’s arrest, the second within the year, was effected at about 1.00 p.m. at the bank’s headquarters in Marina| The Sun
   
• Niger-Delta: FG names 40-man technical committee
  The Federal Government on Thursday named a 40-man technical committee to replace the abandoned Professor Ibrahim Gambari-led steering committee for the defunct Niger-Delta Summit| The Sun
   
• Andy Uba faction shuns Ogbulafor’s reconciliation meeting
  It appears that the end to the lingering crisis rocking the Anambra Peoples Democratic Party is not yet insight as one of the major factions in the battle of control of the party hierachy in the state led by Dr Andy Uba | The Sun
   
• Marwa to replace Ali as envoy to S/Africa
  Retired Brigadier-General Buba Marwa is set to replace Senator Ahmadu Ali as Nigeria’s High Commissioner to South ...Daily Trust

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• Amaechi vs. Omehia: And the Reasoning please?
  Anyone who read our article on the Amaechi vs. Omehia titled The Supreme Court: Supreme in all things but Remedy! will in no doubt notice that our bone of contention with the Supreme Court was never about the conclusion they reached. Our problem has always been the remedy they fashioned to compensate the winning side in this case, Amaechi. NigerianNews 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
  
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• Tunde Adenodi's Current Column
  
  Backing the Delta People to the Wall
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  August 12, 2008
  Normally, a sheep does not bite. But when you chase it around and back it to the wall, it would bite! This is a Yoruba adage. Collectively, we, all of us Nigerians, have backed the people of the Delta to the wall, and bite, they will. And if they bite, we shall all suffer the consequences.  NigerianNews Special
  
  Northernizing the Nigerian military… yet again
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  July 28, 2008
  By selecting what he thought was an urbane intellectual from deep north^*, also known as the Sharia States or “Gideon Orkar excised states” (my own coinage), former President Olusegun Obasanjo had hoped that his work of 8 years might not necessarily be overturned.  NigerianNews Special
  
  Northern Plot to Subvert the Constitution
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  June 26, 2008
  The northern power brokers are at it again doing what they know best: plotting and scheming on their method for retaining power, fair or foul. Forty years of failure has not dissuaded them from this line of action, the mafia style.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Adenodi
   

• Frisky Larr's Current Column
  
  Northern domination: The Start of a long-drawn End
  by Frisky Larr
  August 11, 2008
  “What the hell do I need beer for? After all the taste is bitter and sour!” That’s the sound of a man, who (according to a saying in one southern language) is unable to afford beer. This rhythm was echoed lately in the words of the spokesperson of the Northern Governors’ conference. It was the sound of frustration. The sound of desperation. “What the hell does the North need oil for? After all the color is dark and it pollutes the air!” NigerianNews Special
  
  The vicious circle of the Niger Delta: Shame of a Nation!
  by Frisky Larr
  It started like a child’s play. It was a struggle in the interest of the suffering masses. The highlight of the struggle was characterized by environmental pollution. A serious development that ended up denying the local folks their erstwhile fertile farming land and healthy fishing water. The environment was badly polluted by oil drilling business magnates of multinational identity. The symbol of the struggle in the days of its holy peak was Ken Saro-Wiwa. The folks rose to their feet and stood up against the profit hyena of multinational acclaim. Resources were exploited much to the detriment of the local folks. NigerianNews Special
  
  Babangida for President
  by Frisky Larr
  He has the guts. He has the brains. The personality too! Indeed, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has the looks of an elder statesman with the smartness and intelligence that is rare amongst politicians of his breed since the birth of our good old Nigeria. There were times, in which I wondered if Ibrahim Babaginda did not choose the wrong profession enlisting in the army by whatever means he chose. Alas therein lies again the unique intelligence of the man with the gift of tricks and strategies. NigerianNews Special
  
  The Northern Conspiracy: Provoking grassroots’ reaction!
  by Frisky Larr
  June 12, 2008
  “I pity Nigeria” were the three words of frustration and resignation that were recently expressed by Nigeria’s public enemy number one. Crocodile tears or authentic exasperation in the face of perceived betrayal? We may never know. But one thing is sure. Since the sudden clean bill of health unwittingly issued by Muhammadu Buhari and Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida to their northern successor of sinister fame Sani Abacha however, Olusegun Obasanjo is no longer alone in shaking his (publicly hated) head in pity for Nigeria. NigerianNews Special | Related Issue| Read more articles by Larr
   

• 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 | Read more articles by Soyemi
   

• Atsar Terver's Current Column
  ECHOES:Commentary on burning public issues
  
  Sam Edem Did Not Take After His Parents.
  by Atsar Terver
  August 22, 2008
  Ambassador Sam Edem, was on Monday arraigned before an Abuja High court for stealing N800 million belonging to the Federal Government. Nothing could be a better misfit than for one man to bear the prestigious title of an Ambassador and the debasing one of a thief at the same time. NigerianNews Special
  
  Handover of Bakassi: Government Was Right…But Wrong.
  by Atsar Terver
  August 20, 2008
  It is now five days since The Bakassi Peninsula was officially handed over to Cameroon in compliance to the ICJ judgement which held that the region, which has come to be better described by what is presumed to be under it (i.e oil) than the visible, belonged to the French-speaking central African country.NigerianNews Special
  
  Bode George: What A Man Could Not Do...
  by Atsar Terver
  August 16, 2008
  With the arrest and arraignment of Chief Olabode George before an Ikeja High Court over charges of corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),  the ancient adage that says ‘what a man can do, a woman can do even better’  has been given a new dimension.  Indeed, we are seeing a revolutionary dispensation in which what even a man could not do; a woman has succeeded in doing almost effortlessly. NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Terver
   

• Dotun Oyeniyi
  
  IYABO OBASANJO-BELLO: AN HONOURABLE LAWMAKER AS A FUGITIVE LAWBREAKER.
  by Dotun Oyeniyi
  April 28, 2008
  Running away from justice should normally not be an issue for endless debates.  All criminals like to evade justice.  However when the fugitive happens to be an ‘Honourable Lawmaker’ of a nation, the probing sensibility of the masses will be greatly aroused. NigerianNews Special
  
  FREEDOM FOR LT-COLONEL ISHAYA BAMAIYI: MUCH ADO ABOUT NIGERIA JUDICIAL SYSTEM
  by Dotun Oyeniyi
  No.  I am not making a mistake.  I mean Lieutenant-Colonel Ishaya Bamaiyi and not Lieutenant-General Ishaya Bamaiyi.  This is because I sincerely think that Nigeria should extend the attempted ‘decimalisation’ of the Naira, propounded by the CBN governor, Charles Soludo to our military ranks.  Soludo, we would recall, attempted to slash the value of the naira by one-tenth or so, so that if you had N1000 in the bank, it becomes N100, this according to him was because the naira is overvalued.  That novel proposition has now been rested on the presidency’s instruction. NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Oyeniyi
   

• WHAT PRESIDENT UMARU YAR ‘ADUA’S GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION.
  by Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie