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FG urged to prosecute those that destroyed and murdered Odi residents

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Latest Politics, State News Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

BY Dotun Ibiwoye Access to Justice, a civil society group, has said that the perpetrators of the genocide committed against the people of Odi in Bayelsa State in 1999 should be brought to justice, in spite of the recent court judgment. It will be recalled that Justice Lambo Akanbi of a Federal High Court, Port […]

Female hostel at Rivers State University of Science & Tech destroyed by fire

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

advertisement By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT— Some female students of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, Port Harcourt, have been displaced, following a dawn fire, which razed one of the female hostels on campus. The fire consumed the entire Hostel A2 bungalow, displacing official residents and several squatters in over 30 rooms with […]

My sack letter was ready 4 months ago – Keshi

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

My sack letter was ready 4 months ago – Keshi Written by Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has revealed that his sack letter was ready by October and it was not from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). Keshi said on Supersport Monday Night Football programme that his dismissal letter was already prepared […]

Anenih re-elected as PDP BoT chairman

Posted by admin General Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

Former Minister of Works, Chief Tony Anenih, has emerged as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was elected at a meeting of the board at the Presidential Villa which ended at about 12.45am on Tuesday. Anenih was former Chairman of the party’s BoT until 2007. Anenih told […]

How Jonathan threatened PDP governors

Posted by admin Governors, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Presidency Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

President insists Amaechi must go Akpabio: we’ll kick out ‘Judases’ Fresh facts emerged yesterday on the President’s stormy meeting with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors at the Villa. President Goodluck Jonathan, who pointedly told the governors to ensure Rivers State Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi’s removal as the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) chairman, threatened to deploy […]

France won’t negotiate with Boko Haram

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Wednesday, February 27th, 2013

France will not negotiate with Boko Haram gunmen who have taken a French family of seven hostage, the country’s Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said yesterday. The three adults and four children were kidnapped in Cameroon’s far north, near the Nigerian border in Borno State, last week. In a video posted online on Monday, the […]

Jonathan signs budget sixty days after passage

Posted by admin Budget, Governors, Top Stories Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Sixty eight days after the National Assembly passed the 2013 Appropriation Bill, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday signed the bill into law, in a major twist to the controversy over the financial plan. Before the Presidential action, there was tension as the House of Representatives. The lawmakers went into a two-hour closed-session where they decided to […]

Nigeria, others, fulfil 70 percent of troop pledge in Mali

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

•Evidence of Boko Haram’s link with al-Qaeda found About 70 percent of troops pledged by Nigeria and others to the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) have been deployed, it was learnt yesterday. Foreign Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Charles Koffi Diby made the disclosure at the opening of an extraordinary meeting of the Mediation […]

Bill Clinton: Poverty fuels violence in the north

Posted by admin American Politics, Latest Politics Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Former United States President Bill Clinton yesterday gave an insight into how Nigeria, given its abundant natural and human resources, can attain her full potential and bring development to the citizens. Clinton said Nigeria must strive to overcome her “three big challenges” – poor utilisation of oil money, bridging the widening gulf between the urban […]

50 Reasons Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is Not an Agent of the West – By Omoade Adelani

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Omoade Adelani, Uncategorized, Women Politics Monday, February 25th, 2013

By Omoade Adelani | NNP | Feb. 25, 2013 – For too long, we have been fed with lies, innuendos and sarcasm garnished with semblance of truth by desperate hustlers at the Nigerian political scene. We have been made to believe that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the chief driver of the Nigerian economy, gets her orders […]