RMAFC slashes Yar’Adua’s, Jonathan’s
allowances - Senators, Reps also affected - Wants all Personal
Assistants sacked
AFTER about six months of painstaking efforts, the Revenue
Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC)...Tribune
Govs are looting LG funds - Workers cry out -
Want autonomy for LGs
THE Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), on Thursday,
accused state governors of hijacking the funds meant for...Tribune
2011: PDP senators demand automatic tickets
AHEAD of the 2011 general election, the Senate President, David Mark, on
Wednesday night in Abuja, demanded an automatic return ticket for...Tribune
Reps prepares agenda for constitutional amendment
The House of Representatives on Thursday, set the tone for the amendment
of the 1999 Constitution as it unanimously adopted a special procedure for
considering the proposals for constitution amemdment forwarded to the
National Assembly by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adau. The Special Procedure
was in form of a...Tribune
Saddam: Why I Turned Back UN Inspectors
Former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, who was executed for crimes
against humanity, refused to allow United Nations’ weapons inspectors into
Iraq in 2002 in order to stop Iran from knowing how weak it had become.
ThisDay
At Last, Pay Cut for Public Officers Begins
The pay cut for public and political office holders proposed by President
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in February will take effect at the end of this month.
ThisDay
FG Asks FERMA to Repair Apapa-Oshodi ‘Horror’ Way
The Federal Government has asked the management of the Federal Road
Maintenance Agency (FERMA) to immediately take measures to commence
“limited maintenance work” on the damaged portions of the Apapa-Oshodi
Expressway to ease the present difficulties motorists are currently
facing.
ThisDay
NECO Boss Dismisses Fraud Allegations
Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Professor Promise
Okpala, has denied an alleged N5 billion fund currently being investigated
by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
ThisDay
PDP cedes Presidency
•South -East to produce president after Yar’Adua
In what may appear as a major political upset in 2011, the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] may have ceded the presidential slot to the
South East in the next general election|
The Sun
President, VP lose 300% severance pay*Hardship
allowance reduced from 50% to 30%
President and his vice will no longer enjoy the severance gratuity of 300
percent of their annual basic salary after the...Daily
Trust
2011:Senators demand automatic tickets
All serving Senators of the Federal Republic who are members of the ruling
Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] should be granted automatic tickets to
stand for re-election in 2011, Senate President David Mark demanded
yesterd...Daily
Trust
Local govts seek financial autonomy from FG, States
Towards a sustainable grassroots development in line with the federal
governments Vision 20-20-20 initiative, the local governments in Nigeria
have began moves to wrest financial autonomy from both the4 federal
Government and the States.
Vanguard
A New Beginning With Muslims by President Barack
Obama, Cairo University
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by
two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has
stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo
University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. Together, you
represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful
for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am
also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a
greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu
alaykum.
Conscience Daily International
Business
Nigeria business Today
Name for New Nigerian-Russian
Firm Sparks Racism Debate
A marketing blunder in Nigeria has got online communities all of a
twitter, after a joint oil and gas venture with Russia was named Nigaz,
the BBC reported on its website yesterday.
ThisDay
Will 2009 be a Happy New Year for Nigeria?
January 06, 2008
NigerianNews takes this opportunity
to felicitate with everyone as the year 2009 rolls in. Indeed, our
felicitation this New year bothers on the prophetic, so replace
any reference to Jerusalem in the passage below with Nigeria OR
Abuja. Please also understand that this editorial is not about
religion. However, if you must take it as a religious editorial,
also understand that religion is the way we live our lives. A good
and honest human being is also a good Christian and a good Muslim
all at the same time!
NigerianNews
Editorial
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
Tunde Adenodi's
Current Column
The Ultimate Succession Crisis
by Tunde Adenodi. February 26, 2009
No one but former President Olusegun Obasanjo knows why he chose
Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to replace him after his tenure in office.
But I suspect that he believed that Yar’Adua was the least harmless of
all the potential candidates. He had possibly transferred his
admiration for Shehu Musa Yar’Adua, his military Chief of Staff, who
died mysteriously in Abacha’s gulag to the younger brother.
NigerianNews Special
Vacationing in Nigeria with pain
by Tunde Adenodi. January 05, 2009
Going home is always fun. There is always an air of anticipation of
what you are going to meet: Your relatives, your friends, your
neighbors. There is also always an air of serious apprehension on what
you will not want to meet: Armed robbers, NEPA and serious traffic
jams that discourage the avid fun loving vacationer from having some
fun out of your immediate environment. Certainly, no one wants to have
anything to do with the police, customs immigration, the local
government, the state and Federal Governments. Not that you can do
without them. But the most minimal contact you have to have with those
bodies, the better for you.
NigerianNews Special
Ribadu: Fighting Corruption Nigerian Style
by Tunde Adenodi. December 08, 2008
In 1966, the army took over the reign of governance and listed
corruption as one of the reasons for their action. But what they
called corruption in those early days was nothing compared with what
they handed over to Shagari in 1979 after 13 years at the helm. And
each successive government after Gowon lamented the degree of
corruption they inherited from their predecessors and swore to fight
it to a standstill. They said they did. But corruption has always won.
The result of their fight is that Nigeria has emerged the 38th
most corrupt nation on earth in a list of 41 countries. Put in another
way, we are the third most corrupt nation on earth. And if President
Yar’Adua continues the way he is going, we will catch up with the last
two countries and emerge as the most corrupt nation on earth!
NigerianNews Special
Obama’s bumpy ride to the White House
by Tunde Adenodi.
November 20, 2008
Let us allow our imagination to run wild for only a fleeting moment:
Suppose Barack Obama won the presidential election hands down like he
just did and suppose the incumbent, the lame-duck US President George
W. Bush announced with an unsigned statement that he was annulling the
election because of fear of “judicial anarchy”, what reaction do you
expect from Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar or Sani Abacha,
were he to be alive? What would Obasanjo say? Or Buhari? Or all the
anti-democracy leaders who have led us to the cul-de-sac we have found
ourselves in since independence? Can you imagine the stress the US
would have to go through? Can anyone imagine the stress the whole
democratic world would have to go through?
NigerianNews Special
Obama: No victory song until November 5
by Tunde Adenodi.
October 13, 2008
Pollsters have been dead right in most elections held in the US in the
last 20 years especially as it concerns the presidential elections.
But in 1982, Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles ran for the office of
Governor of California and lost! And so what? And so what?! Polls had
indicated that he was heading for a landslide victory over his white
rival in an election period not too different from the current
socio-political and economic environment engineered by the Republican
brand of unbridled capitalism. Bradley was a democrat and have I told
you that he was also black?
NigerianNews Special
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Frisky Larr's
Current Column
The so-called El-Rufai’s
ranting: Setting the Records straight
by Frisky Larr
June 11, 2009
One good thing about
the mass media as a system and tool of public communication is its
ability to contradict itself into high-profiled exposure when it
is least required. Issues that are conveyed into public domain by
the mass media as a vehicle often end up with one of two outcomes.
They are either popular and captivating or are drowned in a pond
of media products with hardly any meaningful attention. Indeed
there are many like me who failed to notice the new kid on the
block in this pit of recent media products. I did not notice the
write-up credited to El-Rufai that has become the subject of
furious reactions and overblown praises or criticisms these past
few days in the spirit of obvious partisan sentiments on both
sides of the divide.
NigerianNews
Special
The Niger-Delta Crackdown:
My very first Kudos to H.E. The President
by Frisky Larr
June 09, 2009
I used to have an Idol. A feminine Idol. Her name is
Tracy Chapman. She is a songwriter, a singer and above-all, a
talented poet. One phrase that she wrote summed up the pervading
psyche in the western end of the cold war divide. That was about two
decades ago. “Why are missiles called peacekeepers when they are
aimed to kill? War is peace. Love is hate!”
NigerianNews
Special
Re-branding Oshiomole: A
Tale of Face-saving!
by Frisky Larr
May 26,2009
Re-branding a product is always a matter of change. A change from
the obvious that has become commonplace. A change from the loss of
value in the face of routine acquaintance and loss of vital
nimbus! Only a product that has a face in the eyes of the mind; a
product which mention rings bell in the brain and galvanizes the
imaginative power of picturesque association: Only such products
require re-branding.
NigerianNews
Special
Umaru Musa Yar’Adua: The
Boomerang of Insincerity
by Frisky Larr May 11,
2009
As many
local Nigerians of today, I use to regard the word Boomerang as
one exotic English word in the stock of vocabularies reserved only
for intellectuals and highly educated wannabes. Today, I do not
blame myself because there is no way I would have known that a
Boomerang was a simple playing object until I saw it for myself.
Today therefore, I can hardly stop wondering what creative minds
in the region of Oceania thought up the invention of this thin,
flat and broadly V-shaped wooden or plastic rod that one would
throw far into a distance like a piece of straight wooden rod
thrown for a dog to catch.
NigerianNews
Special
What if we staged a Revolution?
by Frisky Larr
April 06, 2009
I have just returned from Nigeria fuming and furious. “So what?”
You may want to ask. That is what we experience each year when we
go through the hustle and bustle of Nigeria’s hard life. You start
from the airport with the friendly immigration officer asking you
“What did you bring for us?” You pass through the customs
checkpoint. It’s a hustling task when they figure out that you are
not frequently in Nigeria trading on contrabands. The rest is
routine when you finally end up in the heat of the day away from
the feeble air-conditioning system of Murtala Muhammed Airport.
NigerianNews
Special
Atiku’s move is wise but will he be the tragic figure of our modern
days?
by Frisky Larr
February 02, 2009
In the heat of the battle between President Olusegun Obasanjo and Vice
President Atiku Abubakar, I minced no words in observing that Atiku
was a harakiri fighter with a failed strategy of fighting a
camouflaged cause. For the sake of clarity, a harakiri fighter is an
ancient Samurai sword fighter of Japanese tradition. It was a fighter
for whom honor meant a lot. Upon losing a fight, the sense of disgrace
and dishonor perceived by a Samurai was immense and overwhelming. The
restoration of honor was largely seen in driving one’s own sword into
one’s own stomach with artful twists and turns to exert maximum pain
and standing the test of vigor with the ultimate price of dropping
dead. In a nutshell, I told the Vice President then that he was
committing political suicide.
NigerianNews
Special
Mixed signals from Oshiomole in Edo State
by Frisky Larr January 15, 2009
Information emerging from Benin City in the past two days reports a
jolly good mood amongst journalists at the State Press Center. Once
amongst themselves for a well deserved glass of beer to chill off the
heat of the burning dry season, it is not unusual for reporters to
exchange a few laughs from various experiences gathered in the course
of a hard day’s work. These recent days are however, like no other
casual days.
NigerianNews
Special
Is Oshiomole at a cross road? What is going on in Edo politics?
by Frisky Larr January 12, 2009
It’s been quite sometime since the landmark judgment was passed in
Edo State by the Election Appeal Court. Comments and analyses have
come and gone. Jubilations have done their round through the streets
of Benin City and towns and villages making up the state. Many wise
voices have spoken out. Fault-finders have spoken out too. But one
element stands out as usual in all such cases. It is “Speculations” by
bystanders and onlookers reading tea leaves in every frantic attempt
to get to the bottom of veracity.
NigerianNews
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Kay Soyemi's
Current Column
That CIA Report on Nigeria – Fact or Fiction? by Kay Soyemi
December 01, 2008
Dr. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
(NIC), recently presented and discussed his report titled the “Global
Trends 2025” and among many other things, has predicted a bleak future
for Nigeria if certain identified indicators were not addressed before
2025.
NigerianNews
Special
$500 Million Loan – For Whose Benefit? by Kay Soyemi
November 21, 2008
“Yar’Adua
spoke softly, slowly and made no facial expressions when he observed
that Nigeria would have to make hard but necessary steps to reform the
system.
NigerianNews
Special
NIGERIANS ARE NO LONGER LAUGHING by Kay Soyemi
November 17, 2008 “This time around, the jaded citizens are not singing hosanna;
neither do we feel there is a messiah come to deliver us from the
shackles of poverty, malnourishment, unemployment, a total lack of
infrastructural development in terms of uninterrupted power supply,
potable drinking water, decent roads, functional health centres and
hospitals, qualitative educational facilities and a composite
transport network system, neither do the citizens rejoice because we
have seen it all before.
NigerianNews
Special
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
The Enemies of Electoral
Reform and El-Rufai’s Silly Outburst.
by Atsar Terver
June 09, 2009
When former President Obasanjo recently declared in his
characteristically reckless manner that he was not aware of any
ongoing electoral reforms in the country, not many may have read the
evil intentions pregnant in those words. Coming at a time the Uwais
Report on Electoral Reforms was being widely debated by the public,
such a declaration from a former President meant either of two
things, namely that he was truly ignorant of political happenings
around him or that he was just expressing cynical apathy. The later
seems more plausible for a former head of state that he is. NigerianNews
Special
Obama Not a Snub.
by Atsar Terver
May 21, 2009
Efforts have been made by many
Nigerians to interpret the planned visit to Ghana by American
President Barack Obama as a snub on Nigeria for failing to
demonstrate commitment to free and fair election-a feat which
Ghana has managed to achieve in three consecutive times since
Jerry Rawlling’s revolution.NigerianNews
Special
Elumelu: Coming To Equity
with Unclean Hands? by Atsar Terver
May 18, 2009
Just when you think you have exhausted
available topical national issues to write about, an Elumelu and
company are docked in a Federal High Court at Abuja over allegations of
corruption to a staggering tune of over six Billion Naira. Then you
realise you must stay awake one more night.NigerianNews
Special
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Dotun Oyeniyi
STILL ON OBAMA’S PLANNED VISIT TO GHANA:
MATTERS ARISING by Dotun Oyeniyi
June 22, 2009
President Obama
is visiting Africa in July and his points of call are Egypt and
Ghana, not Nigeria. NigerianNews
Special
IAN TOMLINSON AND SOME LESSONS FOR THE NIGERIAN POLICE
by Dotun Oyeniyi
April 25, 2009
I am not sure of how many of my readers would
find the name Ian Tomlinson strange. He was the fateful guy who
remained anonymous till his last day on earth but whose
circumstances of death turned into a household name overnight.
NigerianNews
Special
NIGERIA: A DEMOCRACY LIKE NO OTHER
by Dotun Oyeniyi
March 10, 2009
We all owe a great deal of appreciation to those Greek philosophers
who propounded the system of governance called democracy and those
subsequent philosophers of varied descent who helped to develop,
nurture and encapsulate several other theories that serve as the
pedestal upon which democracy stands. These men: Plato, Aristotle,
Isocrates, Socrates, Montesquieu, Aeschines, Cicero, to mention but
just a few have bequeathed on our world a system
rightly described as ‘the last form of government’, to which we have
not found and possibly could not find a better alternative.
NigerianNews
Special
CONGRATULATIONS PRESIDENT YAR’ADUA: BUT ARE YOU
THE PRESIDENT THAT NIGERIA DESERVES?
by Dotun Oyeniyi
December 17,
2008
The supreme court of Nigeria has declared with unappealable finality
that Alhaji Musa Yar´Adua is the duly elected president of Nigeria
and, barring any unforeseen act of God, he shall remain in office till
2011. The judgement is most welcome for two reasons.
NigerianNews
Special
RIBADU V THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: THROWING AWAY THE BABY WITH THE
BATHWATER
by Dotun Oyeniyi
December 09,
2008
What a country! A country that is so notorious for humiliating the
righteous and glorifying the scoundrels. That is exactly what
Nigeria does best. Be it known to all that those who love
Nigeria, wholeheartedly and serve her honestly, faithfully and with
all their strengths, behold one of three types of reward await them:
end up in the prison; or in the grave; or a combination of both in the
order of a brief passage through prison into a final destination –
grave.
NigerianNews
Special
ADMIRAL AROGUNDADE, THE SLAVES, THE MASTERS AND THE END OF MILITARY´S
BRUTALITY?
by Dotun Oyeniyi
November 19, 2008
No one should truly be amazed at the recent happening on Muri Okunola
Street, Victoria Island, Lagos where some armed escorts attached to
one Rear Admiral Harry Arogundade allegedly went completely berserk,
beating an harmless lady, Uzoma Okere, like a goat that strayed into
the beans stall, and stripping her naked in full public glare.
NigerianNews
Special
NIGERIA AT 48: A GOVERNMENT AT WAR WITH ITS OWN PEOPLE
by Dotun Oyeniyi
October 02, 2008
Nigeria is 48 and as usual, governments at the Federal, State and
Local levels have rolled out the drums. The heads of governments at
different levels came out; their fresh, well nourished and mostly
hefty bodies planted in immaculate dresses and their rotund cheeks
sprouting forth a smile of derision to the wailing crowds of mostly
hangers-on and beneficiaries of their administrations, sprinkled with
innocent school children. These leaders are the current gladiators,
the veritable commanders of the victorious troops in a protracted war
against the people.
NigerianNews
Special
A SICK PRESIDENT OF AN UNHEALTHY NATION: PARADOX OF YAR’ADUA’S HEALTH
AND NIGERIA’S HYPOCRISY.
by Dotun Oyeniyi
September 22, 2008
In the last of couple of weeks, the press has been awash with
screaming headlines about the President’s health. “Where is our
president? Nigerians ask”! “Dead or Alive?”! “Yar’Adua in critical
condition”! “The President may not return early”, are some of the
endless variant of the screaming headlines.
NigerianNews
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Joe Chikunie
EKITI STATE ELECTION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE
END FOR THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP).
by
Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie May 11, 2009
s a student of History in my secondary school
days, there was a sequence of events that I found most fascinating
in that subject: The Rise and Fall of Empires. It analyzes how
empires as the Songhai, Mali, Fulani et cetera rose as all
conquering and powerful kingdoms before they fell respectively.NigerianNews
Special
LET NUHU RIBADU’S TRAVAILS BECOME YAR’ADUA’S
NEMESIS FOR HE MUST NOT GO TO JAIL
by
Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie December 12, 2008
Where the hell is my former friend, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi? This special
adviser to the President on media matters heaped effusive praise on Nuhu
Ribadu when he was out of government but is now mum on the persecution of
the man he loves so much.NigerianNews
Special
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BARACK OBAMA’S VICTORY AT US POLLS AND NIGERIA’S
‘OBAMA’ OSHIOMHOLE’S AT NIGERIAN COURTS.
by
Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie
December 10, 2008
Messrs Barack Obama and Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole have so many things in
common: Both command tremendous respect even among their bitterest
critics. They are very fluent and persuasive public speakers and once you
meet them, you are immediately infected with an admiration for their
charm, charisma and pleasantries. Both men are very powerful and this
inner strength, self confidence and internal serenity oozes out so
conspicuously that one can listen to them all day.
NigerianNews
Special
THE GROWTH OF A NEW BUT DANGEROUS AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC MODEL (THE THABO
MBEKI-KOFI ANNAN DOCTRINE)
by
Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie October
14, 2008
There is absolutely no doubt that democracy is problematic in Africa when
compared to its practice in Europe and America for instance. Different
reasons can be adduced for this but the debate is for another day.
NigerianNews
Special
WHAT PRESIDENT UMARU YAR ‘ADUA’S GOVERNMENT SHOULD DO IN THE NIGER DELTA
REGION.
by
Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie
June
13, 2008
In proffering a much needed solution to the problem of the Niger
Delta, it is very imperative to draw an analogy that best explains the
frayed nerves, circumstances and deep feelings of the Niger delta people.
NigerianNews
Special
A POLITICAL ASSUMPTION: BARACK OBAMA AS A
NIGERIAN POLITICIAN
by
Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie
May 27, 2008
Barack Obama is about to cause one of the greatest political upsets in
the democratic world. This first time junior Illinois Senator, who many
pundits never gave a chance against Hillary Clinton, a former wife of a USA
President and Senator will soon be officially crowned as the nominee of the
Democratic Party.
NigerianNews
Special
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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
Guest Columns
EKITI: NOT A LAUGHING MATTER
by Dr. Wole Ameyan, Jr.
May 21,2009
The above statement, ‘NOT A LAUGHING MATTER’, is a
typically Nigerian one, albeit with evident grammatical blotches. The
average Nigerian is warm, friendly and loves a good laugh. He can go
out of his way to render the sort of help that leaves the beneficiary
speechless, charmed and enchanted.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
Epidemic Corruption in our Educational Systems
and the Future of Nigeria (IV)
by Dr. Yushau Balarabe
I have narrated in the last three articles some corrupt practices in
our educational system. With these practices so rampant, it is noted
that our educational system is now playing a negative role. Rather
than training our children to become good citizen of this country, the
training is now towards inculcating bad behaviors to them. The main
message I am trying to pass on to all is that these bad behaviors that
our students are learning in our schools will certainly have a very
serious ramification to their behavior after school.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
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(I)
(II)
(III)
Kaduna State Governor offers no apology for
adviser's inciting remarks
by Dauda Sulaiman
December 31, 2008
The governor of Kaduna state Namadi Sambo has been silent and
unapologetic to his state constituents in the south about the remarks
made by his political adviser Hussaini Jallo on the December 9th
issue of This Day paper. Jallo was quoted as saying "there is no
vacancy in Kaduna State Government House come 2011 for a Southern
Kaduna candidate" adding "even their ancestors know that they cannot
ascend that post"
NigerianNews Guest
Column
ON THE PUBLISHED NATIONAL HONOUR OF OFFICER OF
THE ORDER OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC (OFR) ON ME: MY REACTION
by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN December 16, 2008
"I find it extremely difficult to accept that President Yar’
Adua’s government has the honour to dispense honour."
.....In view of the foregoing, I reject the award of Officer of the
Order of the Federal Republic (OFR)
NigerianNews Guest
Column
THE PHYSICAL REMOVAL OF NUHU RIBADU FROM THE
GRADUATION CEREMONY AT NIPSS, KURU
by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN
November 23, 2008 The
event that took place at the
National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru
near Jos on
Saturday, 22nd November,
2008 is most
disheartening, absolute bizarre and unprecedentedly barbaric.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
PRESS STATEMENT ON THE CAR SCANDAL OF THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN
Festus Keyamo’s allegations against the House of Representatives of
the National Assembly regarding the purchase of cars from Peugeot
Automobile Nigeria Limited (PAN) are very serious and they demand very
quick investigation by all security agencies in the country including
the Police, State Security Service, Independent Corrupt Practices and
Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), etc, etc.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
Oshiomole: Able governor.
by
Sesan Bello November 15, 2008
Once again we have cause to celebrate. Here is another landmark on a
nation’s journey to the promise land. Kudos to Oshiomole who
persisted, his supporters who voted, and of course,
the fearless judge, whose bravery is worth celebrating, who refused
to sing from the same hymn sheet from which we’ve been singing in
the past, to deliver the landmark judgement that would
remain historic in Edo state’s decades of party politicking. This is
one giant leap for Nigeria in attaining political maturity.
NigerianNews Guest Column
America re-ascertains her
Equality creed.
by
Sesan Bello November 7, 2008
It erupted like a volcano in the morning. Seconds after, it swept
across the world. It was the jubilation of a defining moment - an
exciting moment. ‘The moment so many have waited so long’ (Bush) – the
moment a black man achieved a feat never deemed possible before, in
American politics; even in another decade to come. It was when
Americans showed the World that they were truly the biggest and the
most matured Democracy that knows what Democracy is all about. The day
American people united and spoke with their votes and changed a
detested way of life forced on them by what bookers described as ‘an
unprecedented failure of an imbecilic leadership’ which had ultimately
grinded our world to a halt.
NigerianNews Guest Column
Total Collapse of Health
System: A time bomb waiting to go off.
by Charles Oguntade
Every time I think about the health system in Nigeria and compare it
with what operates in other parts of the world, my heart bleeds.
Over the years, I have thought over why our situation is so
different but I am unable to find any good reason, sometimes you
will even want to think may be it’s a kind of a curse or perhaps is
just our way of life. Even countries that are less privileged in
both human and material resources are able to get it right to some
extent.
NigerianNews Guest Column
GOV.ROTIMI AMAECHI:IN THE DESERT OF GOOD
GOVERNANCE
by Chiso Obiandu When I learnt that Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State
set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) chaired by the
retired revered Justice Kayode Eso, I feigned indifference of the
highest order.
NigerianNews Guest Column
What a crab?
by Sesan Bello What an impractical way to tackle a problem when
a problem isn’t identified as a problem? This is a direct response
to government’s remarks about the hunger facing us in Nigeria. While
the relatively more comfortable and wealthier nations astutely
square up with the present global food crisis by officially
acknowledging it; adopting strategic plans to mitigate its
unpleasant effects on its people, poor and disadvantaged Nigeria is
still denying it, with ministers and officials claiming there is no
food shortage; that what we have in Nigeria is mere increase in
prices. This is totally ridiculous.
NigerianNews Guest Column
Suit: Gani Fawehinmi v. President of
Nigeria and Ors.
by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN
A DECLARATION that the appointment of Chief (Mrs) Farida Waziri as
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission by the 1st
defendant, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in May, 2008
is illegal, null and void and of no effect whatsoever as the Office
of Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission was not
vacant in that at the time of the appointment, the incumbent
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam
Nuhu Ribadu has not been removed from office by the 1st defendant,
the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as he is required
so to do by Section 3(2) of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission Act No. 1 of 2004.
NigerianNews Guest Column
Open Letter to the President of the Senate
by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN June 01, 2008
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alhaji Umaru Musa
Yar’Adua, has referred the name of Chief (Mrs) Farida Waziri to the
Senate for confirmation as the Chairman of Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC).
NigerianNews Guest Column
MORMON CHURCH KEEPING ITS RACIST PAST SECRET
FROM AFRICAN MORMONS
by
Darrick T. Evenson
May 15, 2008
Today there are about 200,000 Mormons in the countries of Ghana and
Nigeria. All but perhaps 2,000 of them are natives of those countries.
The rest are mostly white missionaries. You can recognize them because
they dress in suits, often ride bikes, and white shirts and dark ties
with black name-tags saying "Elder" or "Sister" and "The Church of
JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints". These are Mormon missionaries. I
was one myself many years ago.
NigerianNews Guest Column
MY DREAMS AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD
by
Ogungbade Oyeyemi
A journey of thousand miles will begin with a single step. Life is
an empty dream. Dream is something having great beauty or charm.
Dream means a vision of fantasy. It means a picture existing only in
the mind. A focused man should, will and must definitely have a
dream. The dream must not be an ordinary one, but for the future.
NigerianNews Guest Column
The 'wasted generation' syndrome
by Sesan Bello A mere weepy-mushy statement, some will say, but the
truth, it is. A very bitter pill to shove down the throat, by those
concerned and of course, one that takes only the fearless to
swallow. This is how I view Danjuma’s recent proclamation that the
generation to which he belongs had failed and ‘should quit the stage
for the younger generation.’
NigerianNews Guest Column
Can Good Governance Bestow Legitimacy on Yar’Adua’s Government?
by Onye Nnodim On Tuesday the 26th
of February 2008, the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal in
Nigeria ruled in favor of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. It upheld
the results of the 2007 presidential election in Nigeria, which
brought Yar’Adua to power. The election was widely criticized by the
European Union and international observers as fundamentally flawed
in various respects. Today, the international observers are gone and
the European Union is comfortably silent. NigerianNews
Guest Column
MEND asks President Bush to Mediate Dispute
by Scott A Morgan
The Current President of the United States is a Lame Duck. This is a
term that means He will be taking actions that will shore up his
Legacy. Or even take steps that will change how both the World at
Large and the Citizens of the United States view how he lead the last
8 years.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
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