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South African Police storm Nigeria Embassy over bribery allegation

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

A diplomatic storm is brewing after police allegedly tried to storm the Consulate General of Nigeria in Johannesburg this week. The drama played out on Tuesday when 68 members of Twelve Apostles Church in Christ who were to travel to Nigeria on Wednesday demanded their passports back after being denied visas over claims they “refused […]

Digging into the Palimpsest: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Nigerian tradition in literature

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Saturday, December 03, 2011 Chimamanda Photo: Sun News Publishing Juxtaposed with Chinua Achebe’s Aristotle-like praise of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s accomplishment as a historical/war novelist, Joyce Carol Oates’ description of Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun as “a major successor to such twentieth-century classics as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart” (Half blurb) is significant enough to […]

What Ojukwu told me before, during and after the war —Sam Aluko

Posted by admin Biafra, Latest Politics Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

•Ojukwu Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section This interview is the most intimate account of the thoughts and actions of Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu before, during and after the Nigerian civil war. The account is coming from Professor Sam Aluko, the respected Nigerian economist, who has revealed that he was the most trusted […]

SSS raids computer village over missing INEC DDC machines

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Detectives from the State Security Service (SSS) have stormed the famous computer village located at Ikeja area of Lagos over stolen materials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos office of the commission INEC Lagos office declared, shortly after the April general elections, that some materials, such as Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines […]

Senators goofed on Ojukwu –CRC president

Posted by admin Legislature, Senate Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Barely 24 hours after the Senate turned down calls for the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, to get a state burial, President of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a coalition of human rights and civil society groups in the 19 northern states, Comrade Shehu Sani, has condemned the decision. After torrents of eulogies, […]

Boko Haram: 140 killed in 138 attacks –Army chief

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

The Army High Command yesterday disclosed that the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalists group killed 140 people in 138 attacks carried out between the year 2010 and 2011. This is coming at a time the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, said that the sect was a product of bad governance and […]

Jonathan fires sports minister

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan has relieved the Minister of Sports, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman of his post with immediate effect. This is to afford him the opportunity to focus fully on the pursuit of his declared political ambition. In a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, President Jonathan […]

Riot: Provost, registrar sacked in Katsina

Posted by admin Headlines, Katsina, State News Friday, December 2nd, 2011

The Katsina State government has announced the immediate sack of the provost and the registrar of Yusuf Bala Usman College of Legal and General Studies, Daura. The government also announced the dissolution of the Governing Council of the college with immediate effect. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Muntari Ibrahim, stated this in Katsina on Thursday […]

We will start paying contractors soon -New NDDC MD

Posted by admin Niger Delta Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Projects hitherto suspended by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), many of which had, in the past few months, incurred bitter protests from the youth of the oil-rich region, will be re-started soon. The new Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr Chris Oboh, who disclosed to journalists on his first day in office […]

Rescind decision on gay marriage or else… •Britain gives Nigeria condition for partnership •No country can dictate to us -Senate president

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Legislature, Senate Friday, December 2nd, 2011

THE Federal Government on Thursday disagreed with the British Government over the recently passed same-sex marriage bill as the Senate president, David Mark insisted that the law is irrevocable in spite of the threat by the foreign nations to withdraw assistance to Nigeria on account of that law. While the British Government said that Nigerian […]