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August 12, 2012

• Ondo 2012: Adebanjo, Falae, others blast Akande •He is ignorant, ill-informed - Adebanjo •He has penchant for rudeness - Falae •Nothing can be more absurd - Akinola
  
  Leaders of Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chiefs Ayo Adebanjo and Olu Falae, were among a number of Nigerians that berated the national chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande, for allegedly insulting some notable Yoruba leaders, among whom were Adebanjo and Falae themselves. Read more...

• 2015: Power sharing formula threatens opposition grand alliance
  The planned merger between the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) and the Congress for Progressive Change(CPC) headed by General Muhammadu Buhari appeared to have run into a fresh hitch following the  failure of the negotiators on both sides to agree on power sharing formula. Read more...
   

• US Urges Jonathan To ‘Reform’ Security Apparatus
  
  PRESIDENT Jonathan may have to redesign the office of the National Security Adviser in the Presidency in the fight against Boko Haram, in line with new suggestions for a clearinghouse for intelligence...Read more...
   

• WASSCE: Why Students’ Performance Is Poor
  
  • Parents Angry, Blame Teachers, Learning Environment
  • FG Awaits Details Of Results
  A DELUGE of claims and counter claims, yesterday, trailed release of the 2012 May/June West African Senior School Cer...Read more...
   

• Grains, Sugar, Drive Six Percent Food Index Increase, Says FAO
  
  • Wants Urgent Action On Humans, Planet Health
  • Lowers Global Rice Forecast For 2012
  THE United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), yesterday, said surge in grain and sugar prices led to...Read more...
   

• Stakeholders In Health Sector Bemoan Poor Hygiene
  
  STAKEHOLDERS in the health sector have condemned low level of hygiene in the country’s health sector, warning that it could jeopardise the chances of attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ...Read more...
   

• How Tight Jeans, Childhood Obesity Fuel Infertility, By Medical Experts
  
  TIGHT, trendy jeans are in vogue. Men and women, boys and girls, even the elderly are embracing it. Most Nigerian families also erroneously celebrate obese children as pointers to affluence. But medic...Read more...
   

• JTF Recovers Arms Cache, Applaud Citizens’ Cooperation
  
  THE military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said, following intelligence reports, it recovered arms and ammunition from an undisclosed location in the metropolis. Read more...
   

• Kano, Borno Top List Of Six Global ‘Sanctuaries’ For Polio Virus
  
  Concerns Over 12 High-risk States
  WITH four months to the World Health Assembly’s target of stopping global polio transmission by end of 2012, stakeholders are worried that the eradication initiative ...Read more...
   

• Odumakin: One Party Would Breed Dictatorship And Complacency In Southwest
  
  As parties battle for the soul of Ondo State, Read more...
   

• Corruption: EFCC Blames Judiciary For Delay In Ex-govs’ Trial
  
  They have been charged to court for allegedly looting the common till as governors of their states. For once, a livid nation expected the...Read more...
   

• Christian Leaders Should Speak Up On Corruption – Nda-Isaiah
  
  Chairman and editor-in-chief of LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group Limited, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, has challenged leaders of the Christian faith in...Read more...
   

• 13 Die As Lightning Strikes Mosque
  
  At least 13 Muslim worshippers were killed and 15 hurt when lightning struck a mosque in a remote... Read more...
   

• Adebanjo slams Akande: You are a political neophyte
  
  Adebanjo
  A chieftain of the pan- Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has chastised the national chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) , Chief Bisi Akande, for calling him a fake Awoist, saying Akande is not in any way qualified to define who a true Awoist is. Read more...
   

• Forget 2015 presidency, Kaita, Tofa tell Ndigbo
  
  Alhaji Bashir Tofa, former presidential candidate of the National Republican Convention (NRC) in the 1993 election.
  The aspiration of the South East geo-political zone to produce the president in the country in 2015 might not be an easy task after all, going by statements emanating from leaders in the North. Read more...
   

• JTF discovers bomb factory in Kano
  
  Arms, ammunition and army uniforms discovered by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano yesterday
  Men of the Kano State military-led Joint Task Force in an early morning raid yesterday in a Kano suburb of Tamburawa town, discovered a bomb-making factory. Three suspects were also arrested by the military men who also uncovered assorted dangerous weapons in the arms factory which were later demolished by the JTF. Read more...
   

• Insecurity: OPC cautions IBB, Clark
  
  Founder and President of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Fredrick Fasehun, at the weekend warned on the recent altercation between former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida and a former Minister of Information and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark. Fasehun said the feud between them did not augur well for the unity of the country. Speaking with Sunday Mirror in Lagos, Fasehun said the two elder statesmen are respected opinion leaders who should be cautious of what they say, especially at a time the country was battling with problems of insecurity. ... Read more...

• ‘Currency War’: Banks ‘Licensed’ To Lend Less, As CBN Further Tightens Liquidity
  
  THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is not hiding it...Read more...

• SMEDAN Moves to Grow Businesses in Abia
  
  SMEDAN Director General, Alhaji Muhammad Nadada Umar
  Abia State is poised to experience explosion of new businesses following a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDAN) and Abia State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ASOPADEC) for the development of small and medium enterprises, especially in the oil communities Read more...
   

• Seplat Shuts Down Oben Gas Plant for Upgrade
  
  Gas plant
  Seplat Petroleum Development Company Limited, operator of the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC)/SEPLAT Joint Venture (JV) blocks on Oil Mining License (OMLs) 4, 38 and 41, has announced that its Oben gas plant will be shut down intermittently for two weeks to enable it undergo a scheduled upgrade operation. Read more...
   

• Rescue Bid for Naira Triggers Surge in Lending Rates
  
  CBN  Governor, Sanusi  Lamido Sanusi
  As the naira begins to respond to the tightening measures put in place by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at its last Monetary Policy Committee meeting, members of the banking community have raised the alarm over the corresponding surge in lending rates which they said is not likely to abate anytime soon. Read more...
   

• FG May Record 20% Rise in Oil Revenue
  
  CBN Headquarters
  Still basking in the euphoria of an unprecedented improvement in its oil production last week, the federal government has been tipped to record a 20 percent rise in its total oil receipts at the end of the year. Read more...
   

• Slow Growth in US, Eurozone Threatens Nigeria’s Exports
  
  Minister of Finance, Dr.Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
  The linkage that exists in international trade has put Nigeria at the receiving end of the current economic misfortunes of her trade partners in US and Eurozone, but a shift of attention to emerging markets could save the day, reports Festus Akanbi 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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