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Presidency: A Haram for Igbo race? – By Muhammad Ajah

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 […]

Towards a Normal Nigeria – By Anthony A. Kila

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 […]

INEC shifts Kaduna, Bauchi guber poll

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) […]

Rivers: Amaechi pardons 683 prison inmates

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 […]

Picture: Famous Nollywood star, Ashley Nwosu, dies

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 […]

Islamic cleric slain in northeast

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 […]

AKWA IBOM: GUBER POLL: How they planned to kill me –Akpabio

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 […]

Obazele, Orji, others shine in Owerri for Jonathan

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, […]

How presidential poll was rigged -ACN

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 […]

THE WONDERS OF FASHOLA -DOES PDP STAND A CHANCE?: Barely five days to the gubernatorial election, the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has vowed to beat the PDP in Tuesday’s polls…

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 […]

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