Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

By Kenneth Uwadi / Imo, Nigeria / Dec. 24, 2013 – In my last article I talked about Ali Baba the character from the medieval Arabic literature Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.In the literature story Ali Baba encountered 40 thieves and later became their leader. In my last article, I also talked about the […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

By Raheem Oluwafunmniyi / Ibadan / Dec. 24, 2013 -DO WE NEED A NATIONAL CONFERENCE? NO, WE DO! …it is imperative that we arm ourselves and our people with a genuine revolutionary culture and a discipline and invincible revolutionary organisation, unshakeably committed to the principles of social justice and equity, to the liberations of our […]
Posted by admin
Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
Her Excellency, Unoma Akpabio was recently reported in one of the local tabloids to have attended the Child Dedication Ceremony of one of her husband’s aides. At the event which held at Insight Bible Church, Uyo, she is claimed to have made certain statements which are as undemocratic as they are inane. Apparently taking a […]
Posted by admin
Akwa Ibom, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, State News
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

By Thomas Thomas / NNP / Dec. 24, 2013 – Her Excellency, Unoma Akpabio was recently reported in one of the local tabloids to have attended the Child Dedication Ceremony of one of her husband’s aides. At the event which held at Insight Bible Church, Uyo, she is claimed to have made certain statements which […]
Posted by admin
General Politics, Headlines
Monday, December 23rd, 2013

The Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Eminent Communications Limited, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the country, Mr. Sesan Ogunro, was shot and killed in the Alausa area of Lagos State on Sunday. Ogunro was also the Chairman of the Board of Broadcasting Services of Ekiti State before his untimely death. His […]
Posted by admin
Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Odimegwu Onwumere, State News
Monday, December 23rd, 2013

By Odimegwe Onwumere / Rivers State, Nigeria / December 24, 2013By Odimegwu Onwumere At the Enugu State Correspondents’ Chapel Press Week held on November 10 2013, Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State raised hope of recalling the non-indigenes who were working in the state’s ministry that his government blatantly sacked and beat its chest […]
Posted by admin
Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Monday, December 23rd, 2013
The allegation of training snipers to assassinate political opponents is particularly incomprehensible to me – President President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday formally replied the 18-page letter written to him by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying it was a threat national security. Unlike Obasanjo’s letter which was dated December 2 but leaked to the press on […]
Posted by admin
Africa & World Politics, Headlines, National Politics, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Top Stories
Monday, December 23rd, 2013

By Emma Emeozor The harassment of Ghanaians by officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service at the country’s border posts has become a major concern to the Ghanaian community in Nigeria. In a chat with Daily Sun on the sideline of the 2013 celebration of the National Association of Ghanaian Communities in Nigeria (NAGHACON) held in […]
Posted by admin
Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
A UN official in South Sudan has spoken of an atmosphere of fear and desperation as violence escalates. Humanitarian Co-ordinator Toby Lanzer told the BBC about summary executions in Bor, in the restive state of Jonglei that has fallen to rebels. He said that as well as people seeking refuge at the UN base there […]
Posted by admin
Latest Politics
Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
Ours is a pseudo-democracy BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE, Deputy political editor LEADING human rights crusader and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) spoke to Vanguard on the structure of Nigeria as a country, the worthiness of the forthcoming centenary celebrations, the crusade against graft among other issues. Excerpts: On Speaker […]