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Articles, Columnists, muhammad Ajah, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 21st, 2011

By Muhammad Ajah, Abuja, Nigeria, April 2011 – If the Igbo race thinks that a Nigerian president of an Igbo extraction can come through by mere promises made by the present presidential candidates of the major political parties for the April 2011 general elections, they may just continue in their hallucinations of decades. I am […]
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Anthony A. Kila, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK – April 21, 2011 – Before and beyond the obvious irritating and expensive ridicule that Nigerians at home and abroad were exposed to last week, thanks to the postponement of the parliamentary elections (or NASS as they say in the Nigerian parlance), it should now be clear to all […]
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Bauchi, Elections 2011, INEC Politics, Kaduna, State News
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
ABUJA—AS exclusively reported by Vanguard, yesterday, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has announced the postponement of the governorship elections in Kaduna and Bauchi states because of the precarious security situations in the two states. 2010 General Election INEC Chairman Prof. Attairu Jega addressing Pressmen on 2011 General Election while INEC Commissioner Ismaile Igbani (middle) […]
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Rivers, State News
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
A total of 683 in-mates, including two minors, of the Port Harcourt prisons, were on Wednesday granted their freedom by the Rivers State government in this year’s jail delivery. The jail delivery is an annual practice of the Rivers State government on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) to free prison inmates […]
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General Politics, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Thursday, April 21st, 2011

The Nigerian motion picture industry globally known as Hollywood, lost one of its leading lights, Mr. Ashley Nwosu, early yesterday morning to the cold hands of death. The Umuahia, Abia State-born hero of numerous hit movies died at the Yaba Military Hospital, Lagos, after several months of battling a protracted liver related ailment. He was […]
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Latest Politics, North-East, Religion
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Authorities are blaming members of a radical Muslim sect for the killing of an Islamic cleric in the country’s northeast. Police chief Mike Zuokumor said that when police responded to the scene of the attack Wednesday night in Maiduguri, a police patrol was ambushed by a blast that wounded three officers. The […]
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Akwa Ibom, Governors, State News
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio has spoken on the raging issues of sponsorship of murders and kidnappings in the state.Answering questions on the issues, Akpabio said: ‘I raise my hand in the sky, if I have ever had anything to do with kidnap or murder in my life, let it not be […]
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Elections 2011, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
As law abiding and responsible citizens, Lagos-based leading Nollywood actors and producers, Paul Obazele and Zack Orji, travelled to Owerri, the capital of Imo State to cast their votes for Goodluck Jonathan in the recently held presidential elections. The duo didn’t go alone, they went in the company of other top players in Nollywwod, including, […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Elections 2011, Party Politics
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described last Saturday’s presidential election as the most systematically rigged in Nigeria’s electoral history, warning against a repeat of such malfeasance in Tuesday’s governorship/state assembly poll. “The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been boasting that it will clinch the governorship election in Lagos and elsewhere on the strength […]
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NNP Spotlight
Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Barely five days to the gubernatorial election, the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has vowed to beat the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Tuesday’s polls, even as he raised fresh alarm over plots by the ruling party to rig the election and cause mayhem in the state. Governor Fashola, while addressing the party supporters […]