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Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN CITY—THE Niger Delta Democratic Coalition, NDDC, weekend, warned the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to stay away from the Niger Delta in its planned strike, saying that the group would mobilise over one million youths to resist any attempt to enforce the proposed strike action in the region. Meanwhile, […]
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Headlines
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
THE wind of change blowing across the public sector has swept away the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). In its stead, 18 successor firms have emerged. The Federal Government, which has stepped up the implementation of the Electric Power Sector Reform (EPSR) Act of 2005, says PHCN workers will be absorbed by the 18 […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines, Press Releases
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
PRESS RELEASE 4th January 2012 THE BOKO HARAM ULTIMATUM TO NIGERIA Champions For Nigeria Organisation (CFN) is very much apprehensive, as well as view with a degree of disdain, the recent three-day ultimatum allegedly issued by the religious terrorist group called Boko Haram to Nigeria and Nigerians to the effect that Christians in Northern […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
FROM some eminent Nigerians, including governors, ministers and leaders of civil society groups has come an appeal that the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) shelve its nationwide strike planned to begin today over removal of petrol subsidy, urging Nigerians to support efforts at repositioning the country. Those who craved support for the Federal Government’s deregulation in […]
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Adewale T. Akande, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, January 8th, 2012

By Adewale T. Akande, Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 6, 2012 – My dear countrymen and women, I am using this urgent and important open letter to congratulate all Nigerians from all ethnic and religious individuals, groups, associations, and communities living outside the shore of Nigeria for a Happy New Year, 2012. I pray that this new […]
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Ebonyi, Headlines, State News
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
ATTEMPTS by political stakeholders on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to reverse the impeachment of Mr. Ikechukwu Nwankwo, Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, have failed. His colleagues in the state Assembly maintain that bringing back the impeached Speaker would amount to “rewarding impropriety and malfeasance”. The state Governor Martin Elechi […]
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Headlines, Osun, Oyo, State News
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
Group faults alarm AHEAD of today’s protests and strike over the fuel subsidy removal, Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has urged the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) to check the multifarious crises facing the country. Aregbesola also cautioned ambitious power seekers who might attempt to hide under the fuel subsidy protest to subvert […]
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Boko Haram, Enugu, South-East, State News
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
A FRESH dimension may have been added to the parlous security situation in the country, as non-indigenes especially from the Northern parts of the country have begun fleeing the South-East in droves. At Lokpanta on the Enugu-Port-Harcourt highway, Ugwuoba and Artisan village, all in Enugu State occupied by Hausa communities, several lorries were noticed over the […]
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Arewa House, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
NORTHERN elders under the umbrella of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), at the weekend, urged Nigerians to jettison threat by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, which demanded that southerners and Christians leave the north. The elders said the threat reflects a minority view that should be ignored and not taken seriously by patriotic Nigerians. In […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
EDO State Governor, Adams Oshiomhiole, yesterday, assured the Hausa community in the state of safety while denouncing speculation on plan to unleash violence on them. The governor gave the assurance when leaders of the Hausa community in the state, led by the Sarkin Hausawa, Alhaji Isa Adamu, met with him. In the meeting, which had […]