A jailbreak occurred yesterday at the Port Harcourt Prisons in which unspecified number of inmates may have escaped. However, a joint effort of prison warders and policemen foiled attempt by 23 other inmates to escape from the prisons. Two inmates, including a kidnap convict identified by the police as Egbe Gboh, who had escaped from […]
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – August 7, 2011 – The recent call by Nobel laureate Professor Wole Soyinka for President Goodluck Jonathan to test the workability of the recently passed Freedom of Information (FoI) Act generated deserved headlines. Speaking at the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) Town Hall Meeting on the FoI […]
Complete title of this article is – Jonathan, Now That You Have a Shoe, Where are You Going? By Prince Charles Dickson, Jos, Nigeria – August 7, 2011 – This is a second instalment of an essay I wrote some weeks back…in that admonishment, I had asked that President Jonathan should start walking with or […]
By Dr. Olu Ojedokun, London, UK – August 7, 2011 – The recent silence from the front has been based on one consideration, the appropriateness of providing space for the President to consider the road map we have previously published. We consider a honeymoon period allows the newly elected President time to establish the courage […]
John Obuh’s Flying Eagles set a Nigerian tournament record in posting a 2-0 win over Saudi Arabia which confirmed them as Group D winners. Goals by Ahmed Musa and Olanrewaju Kayode meant Obuh’s squad became the first Nigerian side to qualify with three wins from the group stages of the Under-20 World Cup. Their […]
By Anthony A. Kila, London, UK – August 6, 2011 – Once upon a time, there was a land wherein it was common practice for everyone to be happily affected by, and even actively participate in any kind of religious festival or event around them. It did not really matter whether it was a Christian, […]
What they told Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar Although late in the day, the revelations of Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the once dreaded Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late maximum dictator, General Sani Abacha, in a Lagos courtroom last week created what some are describing as comic distraction to other pressing national issues. Mustapha’s revelations eclipsed the […]
Nigeria’s external reserve was not threatened by the liquidity crisis facing the United States (US) where the Congress reached a last-minute deal to raise America’s debt ceiling last week and saved America’s credit rating. But the specter of global economic slowdown loomed beyond the shores of the US as Nigerians wre worried that there was […]
The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) is seeking an undertaking from President Goodluck Jonathan to Nigerians afresh, that neither him nor any of his associates will be a first line beneficiary of any amendment to the constitution that will create a single term of six years for the president and state governors. In a […]
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, according to an Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, offered money to the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) leaders who visited him just immediately after the demise of General Sani Abacha, the maximum dictator, to whom Major al-Mustapha was the chief security officer, CSO. But the offer was politely turned […]
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