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August 11, 2012

• Worshippers Stay Away From Churches In Kaduna
  
  Bishop Wants FG To Implement Post-Election Violence Report
  FOLLOWING the recent violence in parts of Kaduna State, in which some churches were adversely affected, worshippers now stay in the comfort of...Read more...

• Ghanaians , African Leaders Bid Atta Mills Goodbye
  
  AFRICAN leaders, including President Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’ Ivoire, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia and President Faure Gnassingbe of Togo in Accra yesterday joined Ghanaians in the capital’s I...Read more...
   

• Gunmen Burn Borno Church, Kill Banker
  
  AS violence and assassination of residents continue to rage in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, a gang of suspected Boko Haram gunmen have attacked the Ekilisiyar Yan’uwa Nigeria (EYN) Church, Gaji...Read more...
   

• WAEC Releases 1,672,224 Results, Withholds 150,874
  
  WEST African Examination Council (WAEC) has announced release of result of the May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and appointment of Dr. Iyi Uwadiae as the new regist...Read more...
   

• Eze Decries Absence Of Dna Facilities, Condoles With Ike Abugu’s Family
  
  AS  families  of victims of the June 3, 2012 Dana Plane crash in Lagos begin to collect the bodies of their relations, Senate Committee Chairman on Works, Ayogu Eze  has lamented the ab...Read more...
   

• ‘Families Not Coming For DANA Crash Victims Bodies’
  
  THE Lagos State government is to keep bodies of most DANA plane crash victims for some weeks, as their families are yet to redeem them.
  Contrary to expectation, almost all of the now identifiable 107 b...Read more...
   

• Ogunsola: Naked But North Ashamed…
  
  SHOULD a man’s trousers slip down his legs in the ...Read more...
   

• Outrage Trails Assault On Leadership Journalist
  
  A horrified nation yesterday rose in unison to condemn Thursday’s savage assault on Mr. Benedict Uwalaka, a photojournalist in the Lagos...Read more...
   

• Stay Action On Mpape, Agbakoba, Ahamba, Others Warn FCT Minister
  
  Some of the nation’s leading lights in the legal profession have warned the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Bala Mohammed,...Read more...
   

• Appointment of defence minister: Jonathan consults OBJ, IBB
  
  OBJ, IBB
  Nearly two months after the Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed was sacked as the nation’s Minister of Defence, the Presidency may have relaxed the urgency in appointing another one until the consultation between President Goodluck Jonathan and two former leaders, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida is concluded.  Read more...
   

• Fraudsters have hacked my phone –Fashola
  
  • Orders investigation of battered photojournalist. Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday raised alarm that his phone number has been hacked by some fraudsters to extort money from members of the state cabinet and permanent secretary. He said the fraudsters had opened an account in Skye Bank and used his phone number to send text messages to members of his cabinet to pay some specified amount of money into it. Read more...
   

• Ghanaian president, Atta-Mills, buried • Immortalise him –
  (John Evans Fifi Atta-Mills: 1944 - 2012) The Late President John Atta Mills, who was the Commander- in -Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), was on Friday buried with full military honours at the Geese Park, now called Asomdwe (Peace) Park, adjacent to the Independence Square in Accra. Read more...
   

• ANPP may disappear before 2015 –Tofa
  
  Former chairman of the elders committee of the All Nigerian People’s Party ( ANPP), Alhaji Bashir Tofa has expressed doubt over the possible survival of his party beyond 2015, citing exodus of key members and factional crisis rocking the opposition party as reasons. He told Saturday Mirror in an interview that the once leading opposition party in the country is now in a serious problem with leadership crisis tearing it apart. Read more...
   

• 2015: Strategising ahead of battle
  
  From the look of things, the political battle in 2015 promises to be tough. The major opposition parties, particularly, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), seem not to be leaving anything to chance. They are already working underground on how best to wrest power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) come 2015.Read more...
   

• PDP wants tribunal to withdraw petition against Oshiomhole
  
  The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has formally approached the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal for Edo State on Friday seeking to withdraw from the petition that the party’s candidate, Major-General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd), filed against the winner and re-elected Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole. Read more...
   

• INEC Promises One Man, One Vote in Future Elections
  
  Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega
  The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has reiterated the commitment of the commission to ensure the principles of one man, one vote in subsequent elections in the country. Read more...
   

• Imminent Mass Transfer: Police Officers Fear Boko Haram States
  THE high rate of insecurity in parts of the North is threatening the planned mass transfer of police personnel across police formations nationwide as ordered by the Police top hierarchy. Read more...
   

• Revealed: Those Behind Illegal Oil Bunkering
  THREE main cabals, comprising civilians and top military brass in collaboration with some foreigners  appear to be the forces behind the rising upsurge in oil theft in which the country is losing  more than N7 billion yearly,  a Saturday Tribune investi-gation, has revealed. Read more...
   

• Tinubu, Buhari Move Talks To Ghana
  THE leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and its counterpart in the opposition, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) are increasingly consolidating on their plans for merger ahead of the 2015 election, the two parties having found solace in the neighbouring Ghana, as a new meeting place. Read more...

• CBN’s Policy To Protect Naira Will Not Last – AD
  
  The Alliance for Democracy (AD), one of the opposition parties in Nigeria has said the recent Central Bank of Nigeria’s policy (CBN) to increase monetary rate and cash reserve requirement to  Read more...

• Projects in aviation to be contractor-financed –Minister
  The Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, has said that all projects in the country’s sector will henceforth be under contractor-financed business model. The minister stated this yesterday in China during her business meeting with the Chinese business community. Read more...
   

• Inadequate Manpower in Aviation at Crisis Point
  
  Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah
  High price of aviation fuel, high charges and taxes are some of the problems of Nigerian airline operators but the most critical which can lead to the demise of the sector or its takeover by foreigners is lack of indigenous manpower Read more...
   

• NAICOM, A&G Insurance Group Differ on Suspension
  
  Fola Daniel, Commissioner for Insurance
  The recent suspension of Alliance and General Insurance Company Limited, A & G Life Assurance Plc and Fidelity Bond Insurance Brokers Limited by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) has pitched the management of the companies against their regulator. Read more...
   

• ‘Infrastructure Deficit Provides Investment Opportunities
  
  GMD, Access Bank,  Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede
  The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Access Bank Plc, Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, has advised both local and foreign investors to take advantage of the infrastructural gap by investing in the country. 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 |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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• ₪a wa o. Anoda ds signal: I just received confirmation that this is true!
  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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