AN overhaul of Nigeria’s security architecture was approved yesterday by the National Council of State in an emergency meeting in Abuja. The nation’s top advisory body indeed put the issue of security on the front burner. National Security Adviser, Gen. Owoye Andrew Azazi, who briefed the meeting said that the issue of terrorism has not […]
FOLLOWING renewed tension and killings of black Libyans and foreign nationals in Libya, Nigeria has secured an understanding with the Transitional National Council (TNC) in Tripoli to protect the remaining Nigerians in the crisis-torn north African country. The accord, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, will subsist well beyond the lifespan […]
By Kenneth Uwadi, Imo State, Nigeria – Sept 6, 2011 – Some Nigerian politicians play the ostrich game; hard to hear, hard to see and hard to smell trouble brewing in the air. Days ago, Invitation started spreading round for a 50,000 man march In Owerri in solidarity for the 10,000 disengaged Imo State graduate […]
By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – Sept 6, 2011 – Bí a bá ńjà, bí í kákú là ńwí? …Even though we are quarrelling, should we wish each other dead? Some seven years ago I had written on a very similar topic and my introduction is not exactly different, it is sad and so […]
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – Sept 6, 2011 – We don’t lack solutions for our myriad problems. The tragedy on our hands is the deaf rulers in power, who have vowed to have mufflers in their ears as long as we the people allow them to. And we Nigerians are often angered […]
Fresh revelations have emerged on how the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, mounted undue pressure on the Supreme Court justice to get his way in the 2003 presidential election. A just released Wikileaks cable revealed how the then Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Muhammed Uwais, confided in the then US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. […]
Political tension is mounting in Gombe State as members and followers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have accused Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of sidelining them in his planned appointment of commissioners and other public officers. One of the leaders of the party in the state, Alhaji Garba Abdullahi Gombe, stated this in a press statement […]
A magical Lionel Messi relished his new role as the Argentina captain as he set up two fine goals to help beat Nigeria 3–1 in a friendly encounter in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka yesterday and Nigeria’s Coach, Samson Siasia could not agree more that he is just the best. Siasia, speaking after the encounter admitted […]
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has received the report by the Emeka Anyaoku-led Presidential Advisory Council on International Relations which carried out a comprehensive review of Nigeria’s foreign policy, declaring that a stable domestic political and economic environment was essential for a successful and robust foreign policy. The review was handed to the president in State House, Abuja on […]
The Federal Government, on Tuesday, described the demonstration of some Niger Delta ex-militants in Yenagoa, who obstructed traffic for more than five hours on the East-West Road as unwarranted, insisting that the Presidential Amnesty programme had no third phase. Reacting to protests by some ex-militants, numbering over 7,000, to kick against their non-inclusion in the […]
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