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Flying Eagles beat S/Africa, qualify for 2013 AYC

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, October 8th, 2012

Nigeria have qualified for the 19th African Youth Championship to be hosted in Algeria next year following the Flying Eagles 3-1 victory over Amajita of South Africa in Ilorin, Kwara State on Sunday. Nigeria, the defending champions and six-time winners of the tournament, picked the ticket to Algeria 4-2 on aggregate. The Flying Eagles took […]

Jonathan pays secret visit to wife in Germany

Posted by admin First Ladies, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Patience Jonathan, Presidency Monday, October 8th, 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan paid a secret visit to his sick wife, Patience, in Germany on Saturday. A short news item aired on the Nigerian Television Authority at 9pm showed the President’s visit to his wife, who is reported to be sick of an undisclosed ailment in Germany. The news item was accompanied by a short […]

Opinion: China in Africa: Africans, beware!

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, October 8th, 2012

The PUNCH editorial of Thursday, September 27, 2012 is the motivation for sending this previously written article for publication in the same newspaper. The editorial details how there is little to show for the billions of dollars in contracts which have been awarded to a Chinese firm for the rehabilitation and construction of several rail […]

Awo replies Achebe from the grave

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, October 8th, 2012

Although Chief Obafemi Awolowo is not alive to respond to allegations levelled against him by renown novelist, Chinua Achebe, an interview he granted during a town hall meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun State in 1983 could as well pass for a defence. Fielding questions from members of a panel and the audience, Awolowo explained his policies […]

Arrest, outrage over videotaped lynching of UNIPORT students undergraduates

Posted by admin National Politics, Rivers, Top Stories Monday, October 8th, 2012

FOLLOWING the lynching of four students of the University of Port Harcourt, River State, the police have arrested Aluu community leader, Alhaji Hassan Walewa. The police on Sunday morning stormed Aluu in Ikwerre Local Government Area, where the students were beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob. Our correspodents report that both the […]

Nigeria: Slumbering or in Induced Coma? – By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Kunle Ojeleye, NNP Columnists Sunday, October 7th, 2012

By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye | Calgary, Canada | Oct. 7, 2012 – Precisely a week ago, I was unable to attend an event that I had so much looked forward to in the last few years. This was the inaugural lecture, as a Professor of Public Administration, of someone who twenty years ago ceased to […]

Attack on Awo: Babatope takes on Achebe

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, October 6th, 2012

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Literary giant Chinua Achebe’s depiction of Chief Obafemi Awolowo as a man driven by an overriding ambition for power at the expense of Ibos was Friday described as nonsensical and a twist of facts. In a rebuttal of Achebe’s representation of Awolowo in a new book, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, a […]

Mimiko accuses ACN of plan to ‘import’ Tokyo for Ondo poll

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Ondo, Party Politics, State News Saturday, October 6th, 2012

The Mimiko Campaign Organisation (MCO), Saturday, alleged the plan by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to bring Tokyo, the factional leader of the Oyo State National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) into Ondo state ahead of the gubernatorial election slated for October 20. In a statement by the MCO’s Director of Publicity and Media […]

Ex-militant leader rallies support for Mimiko

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta, Ondo, State News Saturday, October 6th, 2012

By Dayo Johnson THE leader of ex-militants in the riverine communities of Ondo State, High Chief Bibopiri Ajube, has endorsed Governor Olusegun Mimiko for second term. Ajube, popularly known as “shoot at sight”, also expressed concern over the alleged politicising of the amnesty programme in the state. Speaking with newsmen in Akure, the ex-militant leader […]

Bakassi Appeal: Top govt officials move to defy Jonathan (for selfish reasons)

Posted by admin Latest Politics Saturday, October 6th, 2012

By Soni Daniel, Assistant Editor & Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja The spontaneous excitement that trailed the announcement of the formation of a team by President Goodluck Jonathan to work towards the review of the International Court of Justice ruling on the Bakassi peninsula is being cut short following alleged frantic attempt by a top government functionary […]