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I’m not in Rivers to fight Gov Amaechi – Patience Jonathan

Posted by admin First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Rivers, State News Friday, June 21st, 2013

Port Harcourt —The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, yesterday, said she was not in Rivers to fight Governor Rotimi Amaechi. Jonathan said this in Port Harcourt when 135 chiefs from Kalabari Kingdom called on her. She said: “I am not here to fight the Governor of Rivers State because he is my brother. We should […]

Court issues criminal summons against 8 Russians

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories Friday, June 21st, 2013

By INNOCENT ANABA A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, issued criminal summons against eight Russians charged with unlawful importation of arms to Nigeria. The accused: Chichkanov Vasily, Varlygin Igor, Komilov Alexander, Mishin Pavel, Korotchenko Andrey, Vorobev Mikhail, Stepan Oleksiuk and their vessel, “MV Myre Seadiver” are standing trial on a four-count charge bordering […]

2015: No party can uproot PDP – Jonathan (Because you have perfected rigging?)

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Friday, June 21st, 2013

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, sent out a message to opposition political parties intent on dislodging the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in 2015, saying that whatever the opposition may do, no party can uproot the ruling party. Speaking at the 61st National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the PDP in Abuja, he observed […]

Juju failed me, poly student arrested for rape laments (Make sure you get a refund)

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, June 21st, 2013

ONE of the seven suspects paraded by the Ekiti State police command for alleged rape has lamented that his juju failed him, a reason he said the police were able to arrest him. The police had paraded the student, Kunle Arelepo and an alleged accomplice, Oluwaseun Komolafe, both ND II students of Crown Polytechnic, Ado […]

Why we grounded Kenyan plane – FG

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, June 21st, 2013

The Federal Government has confirmed that it has grounded a Kenyan aircraft that brought in three Nigerian deportees to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos for non-adherence to security procedures. The aircraft has been detained by security agencies since June 3, 2013 under the directive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Coordinating General […]

I’m fine with my baby, I can never kill him, says OAU student-mother

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, June 21st, 2013

OYINLOLA Diana Rotimi, an undergraduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, who was reported to have allegedly attempted to flush her new born baby down the toilet at the Moremi Hall of the university has dsiclosed that she knew she was pregnant and never attempted to kill her baby. Nigerian Tribune gathered that Oyinlola is […]

Generator fumes kill family of 7 in Delta

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Friday, June 21st, 2013

A family of seven have died in a mysterious circumstance at Agbor, Delta State. The victims, a retiree of the Nigerian Army, Mr Jacob Ikenchukwu Obuteh, five of his children and a young man believed to be a boyfriend of one of the daughters were found lifeless in their Ime Obi village in Agbor, last […]

I was not behind Achebe’s accident – Soyinka

Posted by admin General Politics, Raw Politics, Top Stories, Wole Soyinka Friday, June 21st, 2013

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has berated critics, who attributed the cause of late Chinua Achebe’s accident that eventually confined him to a wheel chair until he recently breathed his last, to the “spotless ram” he presented to him as a gift for his sixtieth birthday. Soyinka, in a release entitled “The Village Mourners Association,” […]

O’ Ye Foolish Nigerians – By Prince Charles Dickson

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | June 19, 2013 – Ndi igbos say “Nwunye anyi, nwunye anyi”: ka ndeli bia ka anyi mara onye o bu nwunye ya.[“Our wife, our wife”: come midnight and we will know whose wife she really is.] This week my admonition bothers on one of those many topics […]

I am Not a “Politician” – By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists Wednesday, June 19th, 2013

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | June 19, 2013 – Politics is defined as activities associated with governance of a country or area. From etymological enquiry, the word politics derives from the Greek word “politikos”, which means “of, for, or relating to citizens.” Thus, Wikipedia defines politics as “an art or science […]