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Boko Haram, First Ladies, General Politics, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Top Stories
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan The First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan on Friday inaugurated the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme Maternal and Child Health otherwise known as MAMA Project with a declaration that henceforth she should no longer be called Patience but “Mama Peace.” According to her, the peace evangelism was […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philip Amiola
Friday, December 13th, 2013
By Philip Amiola | NNP | Dec. 13, 2013 – Recently, I met a bright American chap who is not favourably disposed to watching CNN because as far as he’s concerned, CNN is an acronym for Constant Negative News. I didn’t find it difficult to understand his viewpoint as I have often thought along those […]
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Africa & World Politics, Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, December 13th, 2013
By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Dec.13, 2013 – After suffering from a series of severe lung infections for more than two years, Nelson Rolihlahia Madiba Mandela, the anti-apartheid hero and former South African president, had a date with death at home and right in the company of some of his family members. Mandela, […]
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American Politics, Latest Politics
Thursday, December 12th, 2013
Former President of the United States, George Bush, on Thursday told the leadership of the country and its people to fight corruption, saying it had become the obvious challenge against its development. Bush, who is in Lagos as a guest speaker at the Access Leadership Conference 2013, said corrupt people, no matter how highly paced, […]
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Headlines, South-East
Thursday, December 12th, 2013
| credits: Bennett Omeke For the umpteenth time this year, police investigators raided another baby factory in Owerri, Imo State, freeing 16 pregnant teenagers whose babies were allegedly going to be sold. The Owerri bedlam, though shocking, is no longer news. There is a now familiar pattern that always ends the same way: the raid […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, December 12th, 2013
Fellow Liberians: As I speak to you today, I am most gratified by the calibre of the delegations of our own African Governments, Foreign Governments, partners and local partners as well, who have come to join us to celebrate this triumph of democracy in our country. I am particularly touched by those you see – […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Thursday, December 12th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo President Goodluck Jonathan is under a fresh attack . This time, it is a stinker from a former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. The Balogun of Owu, Abeokuta, did not make an impromptu speech at a public forum, he took his time to pen what he felt to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, December 12th, 2013
December 11, 2013 Pretoria, South Africa In honour of Nelson Mandela, Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced support for several new scholarships that will allow gifted Canadian students as well as early career public sector professionals from Africa to pursue further studies in Canada. “Nelson Mandela believed that education, more than anything else, improved the […]
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Legislature, Oil Politics, Senate
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
THE Senate has empowered its committee on finance to commence a full-scale investigation into the alleged missing $49.8 billion from the Federation Account. The committee is expected to conclude its findings and submit report in less than seven days. The missing money was said to be the value of crude oil export and proceeds from […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Military authorities in Borno State has said that the Boko Haram sect has resorted to forcefully conscripting young and able bodied men into the group following the deadly attacks by troops in the last few days at the Sambisa forest and other camps where the sect lost hundreds of their fighters. Colonel Muhammadu Dole, […]
