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March 12, 2010
Farida, Iwu may go soon •As Jonathan plans to
overhaul EFCC, INEC •Col Umar, law professor may emerge new heads
BARRING a last minute change of mind, Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has
concluded plans to carry out “a clinical operation” in both the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC)
Tribune
COUP PLOT: Gowon, IBB, others to lose
benefits THE Senate, on Thursday, approved the retirement benefits
for all former Nigerian presidents, except those who came to power
through the barrel of the gun.
Tribune
Jos crisis: Plateau govt lied - GOC
•Says, ‘no official called me’ •US calls for comprehensive solution
•Women protest in Jos, Abuja
AS controversy continues to rage over the manner the military
handled the recent Fulani invasion of villages in Jos South Local
Government Area of Plateau State, the General Officer Commanding (GOC)
3rd Armoured Division, General Saleh Maina, has denied the allegation
Tribune
Senate approves five Advisers for
Jonathan The Senate, on Thursday, approved the request by Acting
President Goodluck Jonathan for the appointment of five special
advisers.
Tribune
Yar’Adua: We Acted to Save Our Democracy,
Say Govs Governors have reacted to mounting criticisms against their
position on the status of ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua,
maintaining that their decision to oppose his removal from office was
taken in the interest of the nation's democracy.
ThisDay
I Got Only Text Messages before Jos
Massacre, Says GOC The General Officer Comman-ding (GOC) 3rd Armoured
Division, Jos, Plateau State, Major-General Saleh Maina, has denied
getting any calls from Governor David Jonah Jang before last Sunday’s
massacre in Dogon-Nahawa, but confirmed that he got text messages
forewarning him on the attacks.
ThisDay
Sokoto Guber: CJN Queries A’Court
President, 5 Others The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Aloysius
Katsina-Alu, has queried the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice
Ayo Salami, and five other Justices of the court handling various
cases involving the 2007 governorship election in Sokoto State.
ThisDay
Dangote Retains Ranking in Forbes Rich
List With a net worth of $2.1 billion, billionaire businessman
Alhaji Aliko Dangote is the only Nigerian that made it to this year’s
listing of 500 richest men by Forbes Magazine.
ThisDay
Women in black protest Jos
violence
Dressed in black and wielding wooden crosses, thousands of
women marched in Jos yesterday to express grief at a new bout of
sectarian carnage and anger at the failure to stop it. The
demonstration in the flashpoint city, capital of Plateau State,
coincided with the start |
The Sun
Jos crisis: Why we struck –Fulani
Settlers Five days after the massacre in Jos, the Fulani
settlers alleged to have carried out the attack have given a detailed
explanation as to why the sad incident occurred.
Speaking to journalists yesterday in Abuja, the Fulani leader and
secretary Sultan’s Farmer/Cattle Rearers Conflict Committee, Sale
Bayari, |
The Sun
No retirement pay for Gowon, Buhari,
IBB, Abdulsalami, Shonekan –Senate The Senate yesterday passed a Bill barring all former
military heads of state and presidents that got to power through
undemocratic means from benefiting in a new remuneration package for
former |
The Sun
Yayale, SGF, in trouble
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Alhaji
Mahmud Yayale Ahmed is now sailing on troubled waters. He may thus end
up as another casualty in the ongoing purge within the Federal
Government whose last victim was the former National Security Adviser,
Major-General Sarki Mukhtar .|
The Sun
Plateau women storm Abuja, protest
killings HUNDREDS of Plateau women, yesterday, staged peaceful
demonstrations in Jos and Abuja against Sunday’s mayhem at Dogon
Nahawa where hundreds, mostly women and children, were murdered.
Vanguard
Business
Nigeria business Today
Forum to boost Nigeria-US business, FG MINISTER of Commerce and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa
has said that the forthcoming USA-Nigeria Business Forum will not
only boost business between the two countries but also improve
diplomatic relations between them.
Vanguard
Superbrand Nigeria launches 2010/2011 edition programme Superbrands Nigeria, an independent authority and arbiter on branding,
has commenced the identification of the strongest brands in the country
for the year 2010/2011.
Vanguard
Unilever re-assures investors, projects 10 % earnings Unilever Nigeria Plc. has re-assured its shareholders of
substantial returns for the second quarter of 2010. The food and
confectionery giant, in a performance document released at the Nigerian
Stock Exchange (NSE) on Wednesday, projected 10 per cent earnings across
board. According to the projection for the second quarter, which ends on
June 30, 2010, the company estimated its profit after tax to hit N2.74
billion or 10.03 per cent growth.
Vanguard
How Nigeria’s economy can grow, Varsity don Renowned economist,Professor Nnaemeka Ikpeze has warned that
unless a serious approach was adopted in ddressing some critical
challenges facing the nation’s economy, nothing would be achieved even
after the year 2020.
Vanguard
Nestle restates commitment to youth’s economic empowerment Nestle Nigeria Plc, has reiterated its commitment to youth
empowerment and economic development, as it announced the launch of the
second edition of its talent-hunt show that is designed to engage the
youths in the country in meaningful productive activities and grow its
businesses
Vanguard
Falasinmu becomes AP’s Chief Executive, Otedola, now Chairman
Tunde Falasinmu has been appointed Managing Director/Chief Executive
Officer (MD/CEO) of African Petroleum Plc (AP), a position formerly
occupied by Mr. Femi Otedola.
Vanguard
Asset Management Corporation Bill passes second reading A bill for an act to establish the Asset Management Corporation
of Nigeria (AMCN) passed through second reading at the Senate on
Wednesday. Leading the debate on the bill, Senate leader, Teslim Folarin,
said the AMCN was conceived by the Federal Government as part of the
on-going reforms of the banking sector
Vanguard
AfDB earmarks $2b for agric in Africa for 5 years The African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Wednesday in Abuja
that it had earmarked $2 billion for the development of agriculture in
Africa in the next five years.
Vanguard
Non-oil exports key to economic development, NEPC FOR the nation to be long to the league of 20 largest economies
in the world by the year 2020, Nigeria must as a matter of urgency
diversify her economic base by developing and promoting its non-oil
exports, the Executive Director/CEO of the Nigerian Export Promotion
Council (NEPC), Mr. David I. Adulugba has said
Vanguard
More companies to leave Nigeria — NESG
The Director-General of Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), Mr.
Frank Nweke Junior, has predicted that, more multinationals would relocate
from the country, as a result of high level of insecurity and dearth of
infrastructure.
Tribune
Oil Licence Renewal: FG Insists on Investment in
Refineries The Federal Government has insisted that international oil
companies seeking renewal of their acreages must first demonstrate serious
commitment to investing in private refineries.
ThisDay Click here for
more business links
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
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 President
Goodluck Jonathan: "The fierce urgency of now"
by Tunde Adenodi.
March 02, 2010
In 1963, Dr Martin Luther King made his famous “I have a dream speech”
on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. He talked
about the ‘fierce urgency of now” in the context of segregation,
discrimination and economic emancipation of the black race. I do not
expect Jonathan to be a Martin Luther King. His antecedents do not
support such a conjecture. But he cannot afford to be a … uhm… a Shehu
Shagari or Tafawa Balewa or indeed, Umar Musa Yar‘Adua.
NigerianNews Special
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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 9th 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
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Ameh
Frisky Larr's
Current Column
The Fuss and Fight over Turai: Is
she the real Problem?
by Frisky Larr
March 4, 2010
Abuja is in the grip of fear. The naked fear of a military coup!
So reminiscent it is of the comedy of the Philippines in the late
1980s that I am forced to sing déjà vu! It is a perfect
duplication of history. The history of pre-announced military coup
d’etat that keeps a nation in suspense and awe!.NigerianNews
Special|
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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
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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
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Dotun Oyeniyi
ARE OUR LEADERS LISTENING
TO THE PEOPLE’S SULTAN?
by Dotun Oyeniyi
I have a fervent admiration for the Sultan of Sokoto, His
Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar. We have not seen any
Sultan like him in our recent history. Unlike most of our
traditional rulers, the Sultan is not one to frequent the
corridors of power or churn out chieftaincy titles to the men in
power in pursuit of vain glory or monetary rewards in return. His
utterances, since asscending the Sultanate, have always been
incisive, frank, non-patronising of those in government and clearly
pro-masses.NigerianNews
Special |
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Oyeniyi
Joe Chikunie
SOCIO-POLITICAL CRAVINGS, EFFORTS AND
REALIZATIONS AS PANACEAS TO BAD GOVERNANCE.
by
Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie
E. C. Ejiogu is a political sociologist, Saharareporters online
blog columnist and public commentator. He recently wrote a good
piece entitled, “My happiest day”. Essentially, he revels in the
Save Nigeria Group’s success at meeting with the Acting President,
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan where they tabled the position of the body
on very sensitive political matters. 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
Jos Crises: An Old Problem taking a New
Dimension
by Dr. Yushau Balarabe
Any
sensible person that has anything to do with Nigeria must have been
disturbed with high level of animalistic barbarism, and display of
total hatred among the people that were hitherto living peacefully for
hundreds of years. In particular, for those of us from Jos, and
Plateau state in general, it has been a depressing, frustrating and
confusing time.NigerianNews Guest
Column
The
Bond Between Tinubu & Fashola
by Suage Badey
Contrary to the rumours that were circulating in the newspapers after
Barr Babatunde
Fashola won the
Lagos State 2007 gubernatorial elections (under
the
Action Congress (AC) platform) that his
predecessor Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu
would be a thorn in his flesh, dictating and calling the shots
irrespective of the incumbent’s feelings and ideas, events have proven
them wrong as Asiwaju who saw in Fashola the qualities of good
leadership has remained on the sidelines watching with delightful
satisfaction that he didn’t go wrong afterall.NigerianNews Guest
Column
Top Nollywood actress, Monalisa Chinda
reveals: Violence drove me out of marriage
Celebrated Nollywood star actress, Monalisa
Chinda has consistently maintained a deafening silence since her five-year
marriage to ex husband, Segun Dejo Richards crashed in July. In fact,
while her ex was busy granting interviews on the split union|The
Sun
Ede Mi Out At Last
After much expectation, the latest effort from the stables of Okiki Films
- Ede Mi, has finally been released.
Daily Independent
We Don't Sleep Around In Nollywood -Kemi Alagbara
Kemi Alagbara may be viewed by many people as a pretty up and coming
Nollywood face, but there is more to her than that
Daily Independent
No more foreign-based lover
January 11, 2009
The last time we spoke to Mercy Johnson was in August. She was so
enthusiastic about her boyfriend abroad and like every 25 year old, Mercy
learnt that love does not always seem the way it appears. |
The Sun
Trouble in Nollywood
December 27, 2008 Until few years ago, the world knew only two flourishing film
blocks. Then it was Hollywood of the United States and Bollywood of
Indian. The Nigerian Nollywood joined the fray 16 years ago and showed
much promise|
The Sun
Ghanaians eclipse Nollywood stars
Just like many alien invasion movies we’ve watched, the film industry in
Nigeria, better known as Nollywood, is fast experiencing its own kind of
‘alien’ invasion |
The Sun
In Abuja, stakeholders chart new course for
Nollywood At the recently concluded fifth edition of the yearly Abuja
International Film Festival, organized by NAFIFO group, the future of
Nollywood, was the dominant topic of discussion among the participants|
The Sun
Nigerian Movie Industry Has Improved Tremendously
Steve Gukas has made a name both in broadcasting and film production. For
twenty years running, Gukas has directed and produced films that have won
the
Daily Independent
'Why I left banking for Nollywood'
With almost a decade experience and romance with Nollywood, consummate
movie producer and linguist Vivian Ejike, is still not relenting on her
oars, especially in the areas of churning out movies|
The Sun
Nollywood actress, Winifred… She belongs to the new generation actresses whose entry into
Nolly wood had brought some breath of fresh air into the industry.She is
every man’s desire and what her fellow women aspire to be. |The
Sun
The Press, Responsible For Our downfall - Toyin
Aimakhu
Some in the Nollywood circle, especially actresses, prefer acting nude but
this is not applicable to Toyin Aimakhu. Speaking with GBENGA OLUMIDE at
LTV8 recently, she explained why she can’t act nude...Tribune
Aromire To Get Befitting
Burial News of the death of popular
actor and producer, Muyideen Alade Aromire, seems to have escalated the
injury the Nigerian entertainment industry has experienced following the
death of many artistes.
Daily Independent
Alade Aromire is
dead The curtain fell
suddenly, finally, on one of the leading lights and pioneer of Yoruba home
video industry, Muyideen Alade Aromire. Aromire was the first Nigerian to
own a vernacular pay television channel, Yotomi TV. |The
Sun
Nollywood is not improving –
Zack Orji Zack orji is one of Nollywood’s biggest
talents, and is considered the movie biz’s most prominent celebs. Trust
Entertainment caught up with the star.
Daily Trust
I Left Banking For
Nollywood -- Blessing Effiong-Egbe Life as a model was fast and fun, short-lived but got to a reasonable and
fulfilling stage. I started out in Nigeria in 2001 with the Silverbird
International Fashion show
Daily Independent
I'm Old Enough To Get Money Anywhere Fathia, estranged wife of popular actor, Saheed Balogun, is a notable
actress and producer in Nollywood.She spoke to Patrick Uwalaka about her
career and new work Asa,
Daily Independent
Nollywood Will Crash Soon, Says Oba Funso Adeolu Not many would have forgotten Funso
Adeolu, Chief Eleyimi,...Daily
Independent
Scandal in Nollywood
Though the gladiators are artistes, what is currently playing out in
Nollywood is by no means a movie. So, it is no make-believe. It is a
scandal of worrisome dimension and it is real life. |The Sun
Don’t be fooled, there’s sexual
harassment in NOLLYWOOD — Arinze
How long have you been in the movie, music industry?Ehmm, this is
about the 24th year I’m in the industry...Vanguard
It’s stupid to sleep with a producer,
expect a role
Believe it or not, Ijeoma Imo is one of the most beautiful girls that
pass through the industry called Nollywood....Vanguard
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