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Pay-as-you-go Church Where Prayer is Monetised

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, March 6th, 2011

The consequences of the quest for quick results and the gullible nature of some Nigerians to believe any word spoken by self-proclaimed prophets and preachers came to the fore recently in Onitsha, Anambra State. Sunday Sun discovered a church where members are hypnotised into parting with their hard-earned money in exchange for “miracles”. Located at […]

My Bribe to the Nigerian Police (Parts 1 & 2) – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

Posted by admin Columnists, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma Saturday, March 5th, 2011

By Tochukwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – Mar. 5, 2011 – Driving from Ojodu, en route, to Ikeja, I turned right from Bank Shonabare Street into Kosoko Road. I did not know that Kosoko Road is a one way street from 2pm to 10 pm, because from where I turned in, there was no sign indicating […]

Endorsing Buhari & Bakare by Chinedu Akuta

Posted by admin Columnists, NNP Columnists Saturday, March 5th, 2011

By Chinedu Vincent Akuta, London, UK – Mar 5, 2011 – Support Option A4 Group Leicester-UK, has endorsed Buhari and Bakare, for Presidential and Vice Presidential positions, for the April 2011 election. This decision was taken, based on the following(s): (1) Immunity Clause(s) Removal. Buhari has promised to facilitate the removal of immunity clauses […]

The lure of protest politics by Dr. Jideofor Adibe

Posted by admin Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists Saturday, March 5th, 2011

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Mar. 5, 2011 – Why do candidates who know they have absolutely no chance of winning an election insist on contesting? Why do some repeatedly choose to punch above their natural political weight? Chris Okotie, who became a music icon while a law student in the 1980s before […]

Nigeria and the Middle East Crisis – By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba

Posted by admin Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists Saturday, March 5th, 2011

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria – Mar 5, 2011 – In Tunisia the people said they had had enough of their president, and so they gave him the boot. Egypt saw it and said, “Why can’t we do it? This is our time,” so they poured out in the streets and after a […]

Free, Fair Elections:Military on Trial

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, March 5th, 2011

In contemporary state system, ultimate power lies with the military, not so much for its famed discipline and cohesive structure, but because it monopolises access to organised, purposeful and legitimate violence. Among other defining characteristics of the modern state, which includes definitive and delineable territories, the military is the most decisive guarantor of the state, […]

Helicopter Mishap: Bankole Denies Report

Posted by admin House, Latest Politics, Legislature Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has denied that he was involved in a near-fatal helicopter crash in Abule-Odo village in Obafemi Owode local government area of Ogun State. Responding to a question on the issue at the presidential lounge of the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos yesterday, the speaker simply shrugged his […]

Campaigns: Parties violating INEC code of conduct

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Less than a month to the general elections, major political parties are violating the Independent National Electoral Commission’s rules on campaigns. Investigations by our correspondent on Friday in Abuja showed that political parties had been violating INEC’s rules on the conduct of political parties at campaigns. But the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, […]

Jonathan plots Buhari’s defeat in N’West

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party have begun moves to neutralise the strength of the Congress for Progressive Change presidential candidate, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari, in the North-West ahead of the April presidential poll. SATURDAY PUNCH investigations on Friday showed that the President and the party had intensified pressure on […]

Obasanjo condemns heroic reception for Bode George

Posted by admin National Politics Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Friday, condemned the recent heroic welcome organised for a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George. George was, last Saturday, released from the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons after he completed a two-year jail term. The lavish reception that was organised for him by the PDP and which was attended […]