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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Monday, August 20th, 2012
Five riot policemen have been arrested for “unethical practices.” They were arrested along various highways on the orders of the Commissioner of Police in charge of Police Mobile Force, Joseph Mbu, for improper dressing and other unethical practices. Three of the errant officers were arrested in Enugu State (MOPOL 3); one in Umuahia, Abia State […]
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Abuja (FCT), State News
Monday, August 20th, 2012
BY Favour Nnabugwu ABUJA—A nine- year-old son of Alhaji Sani Abubakar, Abuja Bureau Chief of Newsday Newspaper, was, yesterday morning, electrocuted. Vanguard learnt that the boy left his family house in Jukwei area of Abuja to State Security Service, SSS, quarters, also in Jukwei, in the early hours of Monday to feed his Pigeon, when […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Monday, August 20th, 2012
The US congress is considering a special legislation that will enable an indigent Nigerian student in that country, Sopuruchi Chukwueke, have a pemanent US residency, after his visa expired 10 years ago. Chukwueke’s bill, sponsored by U.S. Senator, Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, applies solely to him. It would grant permanent residency to the Nigerian, […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Monday, August 20th, 2012

By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | August 20, 2012 – “A good fortune may forebode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune…” – Anonymous. In local parlance there is a word called ‘wash’. It actually has a relationship with some of its original dictionary meaning, especially in informal terms. […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, August 19th, 2012

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | August 19, 2012 – In spite of the introduction of the automated teller machine (ATM), as a way of decongesting banking halls, long queues are still experienced in most Nigerian banks. The predicament of bank customers at the various banks is indeed irritating. Each time I have to […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Ikechukwu Enyiagu, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Sunday, August 19th, 2012

By Ikechukwu Enyiagu |NNP | August 19, 2012 – The Irish man, Edmund Burke, a onetime statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party, was quoted as having said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Emmanuel Omoh Esiemokhai, NNP Columnists, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Sunday, August 19th, 2012
By Prof Emmanuel O. Esiemokhai | Abuja, Nigeria | August 19, 2012 – The success of the 2012 London Olympics is ineluctably linked with good organisation and the application of human intelligence at the highest level. There is evidence that there is no end to the ingenuity of men and women. Under favourable conditions, the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, August 19th, 2012
Back to news home Julian Assange wikileaks founder Ecuador has granted asylum to the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, while fighting extradition from the United Kingdom. Mr. Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy after the UK’s Supreme Court dismissed a bid to reopen his appeal against extradition and gave him two-weeks grace […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Sunday, August 19th, 2012
To ensure a peaceful and incident free Sallah celebration, the Inspector-General of Police in Nigeria, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, has directed all zonal Assistant Inspector-Generals to take adequate measures to ensure security across the country. He also mandated State Police Commissioners to personally ensure that places of worship, recreation centres, resorts and other public places were adequately […]
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Africa & World Politics, Delta, Headlines, National Politics, Raw Politics, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, August 19th, 2012

The former governor of Delta state, southern Nigeria, James Ibori, convicted for fraud by a court in Britain, has been transferred to the Worcestershire Long Lartin Prison outside London. The maximum-security prison houses terrorists, rapists, drug barons and other violent criminals. A recent report in The Guardian, a United Kingdom newspaper, portrayed the prison as […]