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Jonathan approves recruitment of 500 engineers, technicians

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Friday, October 21st, 2011

The Minister of Works, Mr Mike Onolememen says President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the recruitment of over 500 young engineers and technicians to increase performance in the ministry. He said on Thursday at the two-day retreat organised by the ministry in Uyo that the new recruitment would provide the enabling environment for the ministry to […]

AU lifts sanctions on Libya

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, October 21st, 2011

The 14-member states of the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) on Thursday lifted its sanctions on Libya. Mr Ramtane Lamamra, AU Commissioner for Peace and Security said in Addis Ababa on Thursday after the council’s meeting that all AU sanctions against Libya had been lifted with immediate effect. NAN reports that some of the […]

Gaddafi’s body has bullet hole, burial within 24 hrs

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, October 21st, 2011

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried according to Muslim rites within 24 hours, a Libyan transitional government force commander said on Friday. The announcement is coming just as witnesses said the body bore a visible bullet hole in the head. “He will get his right like any Muslim; his body will be washed […]

Minister bewails N2t spent annually on food importation

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, October 21st, 2011

Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the Minister of Agriculture, says Nigerian spends N2 trillion annually on food importation. Adesina, who disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at an interactive session with members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, said the country had become a dumping ground for imported food. “It is a shameful thing that Nigeria has […]

Boko Haram, Maitatsine and Sharia Law – By Chidi Eze

Posted by admin Articles, Boko Haram, Chidi Eze, Columnists, NNP Columnists Friday, October 21st, 2011

By Chidi Eze, Houston, TX, USA – October 21, 2011 – It seems there is a written or an implied constitutional provision either in the Quran or in the northern states of Nigeria’s assembly or in the Islamic code that the north was born to rule regardless of the ethnic diversity of Nigeria. The happenings […]

In Nigeria, Northerners are their Own Enemies – By Ndiameeh Babrik

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Ndiameeh Babrik, NNP Columnists Friday, October 21st, 2011

By Ndiameeh Babrik, NNP – October 21, 2011 – Any Northern Nigerian commentator accusing the South of driving a wedge between Northern Christians and Northern Muslims is a simply being dishonest and the truth is very far from his mouth. For the purpose of this article I am going to lump the far Northern states […]

Between FCC, Zoning and Nation- By Dr. Lanre Odetola

Posted by admin Articles, NNP Columnists Friday, October 21st, 2011

By Lanre Odetola, PhD, Leidan, Netherlands – October 21, 2011 – Alexis Tocqueville, the French political thinker and historian, developed the phrase ‘tyranny of the majority’ in his treatise on possible threats to representative democracy in America. For him, unfettered democracy has a tendency to degenerate into ‘soft despotism’ and ‘tyranny of the majority’. Since […]

Picture: Priest sees mystery snake in vision, days later, same reptile shows up in church member’s house

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, October 21st, 2011

• The snake lying at the premesis of St Peter’s Angelican Church, Alaba Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Till this moment, many are still trooping into St Peter’s Anglican Church in Alaba, near Alaba International Market in Ojo, Lagos. They want to see the remains of a mystery snake which was […]

Report: Gaddafi is Dead

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Top Stories Thursday, October 20th, 2011

His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen. “He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel […]

N1.3bn fraud: EFCC arraigns Fayose

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Ekiti, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Erstwhile Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose was on Wednesday arraigned at the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti by the officials of the Economic and Financial and Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged diversion of Ekiti State fund to the tune of N1.3 billion while in office. The case with number FHC/L/179c/2006, brought before Justice Emmanuel […]