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INC, CNPP warn against plot to instigate military coup

Posted by admin Latest Politics Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

The leadership of the Ijaw National Congress, INC, and the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP,Tuesday, expressed concern over the rising cases of violent protests in the Northern parts of the country over the alleged irregularities in the presidential poll. They said such protests were staged managed and a plot to instigate a military coup. […]

Open Letter to Catholic Priests on Gov. Ohakim’s Re-election Bid -By Elvis J. Agukwe

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Elvis J. Agukwe, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

By Elvis .J. Agukwe, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria – April 19, 2011 – As a member of the Catholic Church and a communicant at that, I have often been fascinated by the transformational, regenerative and cathartic effect of the sacrament of Eucharist. Preparation for the sacrament defines the essence of Catholicism for it is here […]

Goodbye to Bad Leaders – By Adewale Akande

Posted by admin Adewale T. Akande, Columnists, NNP Columnists Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

By Adewale T Akande, Barcelona, Spain, April 19, 2011 – The Nigerian most famous and respectable novelist, poet, professor and critic, Chinua Achebe rightly said in his book “The Trouble with Nigeria” that “It is totally false to suggest, as we are apt to do, that Nigerians are fundamentally different from any other people in the […]

Destruction of the Mythical North & Building of a New Nation – By Dr. Leonard Shilgba

Posted by admin Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba, Yola, Nigria – April 19, 2011 – To those who still believe in the continuance of the mythical North—the One North, One Destiny, I report the demise of the myth and the end of its fruits to the singular beneficiaries. Some have spoken in the past about the impossibility of […]

Caution – Very Disturbing Picture: Man arraigned for pouring acid on wife

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

A suspect, Samson Igbinomewahin, 47, was on Monday arraigned at an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly pouring acid on his wife, Mrs. Susan Jeremiah, 31. Jeremiah, a corporal in the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police in Ikoyi, Lagos, was brought to court with one side of her body disfigured […]

Jonathan suspends interior minister

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Ministries, National Politics, Top Stories Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Barely 24 hours after he was declared winner of the 2011 presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday suspended the Minister of Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho (retd.). A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Ima Niboro, said Iheanacho‘s ‘personal and official conduct‘ had led to lapses in the […]

Nigeria ranked 65th globally for malicious Internet activities

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, April 18th, 2011

Nigeria has been ranked 65th in malicious Internet activities in 2010 out of the 233 countries monitored globally by the Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network. Symantec Corporation, a major Internet security solution provider in the world, on Monday, said its Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 16, found Nigeria to have moved up by five steps […]

EFCC freezes N6.4bn account linked to ex-minister

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Monday, April 18th, 2011

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen an account of N6.4bn operated by a company linked to former Minister of Works, Dr. Hassan Lawal, over an alleged fraud. The account operated in a new generation bank by Digital Tolls Limited was frozen on Monday April 18, on the instruction of the EFCC Chairman, […]

Varsity lecturers call off strike in Rivers

Posted by admin Rivers, State News Monday, April 18th, 2011

Lecturers in the Rivers State University of Science and Technology on Monday called off its four-day old industrial action. The lecturers had on Wednesday embarked on an indefinite strike due to the state government’s non-implementation of the agreement between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities. ASUU Chairman, RSUST branch, Dr. […]

Post-election violence rocks Sokoto, Kano, eight others

Posted by admin Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Elections 2011, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Plateau, Sokoto, State News Monday, April 18th, 2011

Post-election violence swept through some Northern states on Sunday night and Monday as results of the presidential poll released by the Independent National Electoral Commission clearly showed Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the winner. States where violence flared were Kano, Kaduna, Adamawa, Katsina, Plateau, Yobe, Bauchi, Borno, Katsina and Sokoto. In states like Kano, Bauchi […]