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Headlines
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday in Ewekoro, Ogun State, assured Nigerians that importation of cement into the country would not exceed the third quarter of 2012. He said going by the capacity build up within the local cement manufacturing circle, there was much hope that cement importation as a way of augmenting the shortfall in […]
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Lagos, Legislature, Raw Politics, Senate, Women Politics
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

IN what amounted to a wholesale approval of the report of its ad hoc committee that probed the Federal Government’s privatisation programme since 1999 till date, the Senate on Tuesday voted unanimously to recommend the removal of the Director General of Bureau of Public Enterprises, Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa, from office. The Senate […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Chief Olu Falae File copy Former Minister of Finance and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has said the term ‘Islamic banking’, negates the secularity of Nigeria. Falae spoke during an inter-faith public dialogue on the controversial banking system in Lagos on Tuesday. He said, “Both the Bible […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Prof. Wole Soyinka File copy The Prelate of the Methodist Church Nigeria, Dr. Sunday Makinde, has described the criticism of the same-sex marriage bill passed by the Senate by Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, as unfortunate and regrettable. In a statement in Lagos on Tuesday by the church’s Media and Public Relations […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Charles Okah File copy The ongoing trial of Charles Okah and three others accused of terrorism acts against the Federal Government, took a dramatic turn on Tuesday as the suspects accused prison authorities in the Kuje prison, Abuja, of torturing them. Okah and others are on trial for their alleged involvement in […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
President Goodluck Jonathan’s N1bn budget for himself and Vice-President Namadi Sambo in the 2012 national expenditure attracted condemnation from prominent Nigerians on Tuesday. Opposition parties also described the top two citizens’ proposed feeding allowance as the “height of insensivity” in a country where the majority of the citizens grapple daily with hunger and unemployment. A […]
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Articles, Columnists, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

By Kenneth Uwadi, Imo State, Nigeria – Dec 20, 2011 – Owerri the capital of Imo State in Nigeria has been named the dirtiest city in Nigeria in a report published on Tuesday by Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria. Excrement in the street, graffiti, indiscriminate dumping of refuse and lack of sanitation exercises are […]
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Armed Forces, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Dec. 20, 2011 – The ‘white wedding’ between Chinedu Ikedieze, (a.k.a Aki), and his heartthrob Nneoma Nwajah on December 9, 2011 was front page news for a number of newspapers, including the Sun and the Vanguard. True, some newspapers made it front page news for the wrong reason: to […]
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Africa & World Politics
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Malawi’s Vice-President Joyce Banda on Sunday led Anglicans at the Saint Matthews Anglican Church [Chichiri, Blantyre] in a Big Fund-raising paper Sunday where the church raised K2.6 million (about $15,556). Speaking before the fundraising, Banda appealed to Malawians that although the country is going through big financial restraints, it is the responsibilities of religious […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – Dec. 20, 2011 – ‘A man that cannot cry, and cannot laugh, will find it difficult to find empathy’ If there is any time to address the ethnic question in Nigeria again, it is now. A nation held hostage to preventable events of tragic nature. At the […]