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2015: No vacancy for Igbos –Abba-Aji

Posted by admin National Politics, Top Stories Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji has foreclosed the possibility of an Igbo man being elected as president in 2015. “It is very clear, Vice President Sambo will step in, as soon as Jonathan finishes,” he says in an interview. According to him, the nation needs an Institutional memory […]

An Urgent Letter to Nigerian Military by Dr. Cliff Edogun

Posted by admin Cliff I. Edogun, PhD, Columnists, NNP Columnists Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

By Cliff I. Edogun, PhD, NNP – Feb 28, 2001 – I thought we should commence this long overdue conversation now as we look forward hopelessly to the general elections holding in April. As you are now fully aware, the Egyptian military just introduced a credibly new paradigm for emergency military intervention in the politics […]

IYC crisis won’t threaten peace in N-Delta- Ijaw youths

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, February 28th, 2011

CHAIRMAN, Forum of Clan Chairmen, Ijaw Youth Council, Mr Dio Reuben, has assured that the crisis rocking the leadership of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, would not lead to tension or chaos in the Niger Delta region. Speaking at the meeting of Clan Chairmen of IYC in Port Harcourt, Mr Dio said that the purported suspension […]

Ebonyi moves to end doctors agitation for pay rise

Posted by admin Ebonyi, State News Monday, February 28th, 2011

ABAKALIKI – Ebonyi State government has set machinery in motion, to ensure that the long agitation by medical doctors in the state over Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS, and Consolidated Health Workers Salary Structure, CONHESS, were addressed once and for all. Commissioner for Health and Environment, Dr. Sunday Nwangele, who spoke during a one-day seminar […]

Obasanjo advocates transfer of performing govs to other states

Posted by admin Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency, Top Stories Monday, February 28th, 2011

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has advocated for the amendment of some sections of Nigeria’s constitution, so that performing governors in the country would be transferred to other states to ensure even development. Chief Obasanjo, who was in the state to participate in the flag-off campaign of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Uyo Senatorial […]

Facebook group calls for Swaziland King Mswati III Exit

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics Monday, February 28th, 2011

3tweetsretweet Swaziland’s King Mswati III Mbabane – A Facebook group is calling for the overthrow of Swaziland’s king, Africa’s last remaining absolute monarch, through protests inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Lybia. Known as “The April 12 Uprising!!!” it promises, “all hell will break loose in Swaziland” on April 12 2011 when “a hundred […]

(Picture) – Gadaffi Family Greed

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics Monday, February 28th, 2011

Al Saadi Gaddafi, in Sydney to play with the Libyan soccer team, leaves his news conference yesterday surrounded by bodyguards. Cairo – The children of Muammar Gaddafi were increasingly engaged in recent months in covering up scandals fit for a “Libyan soap opera,” including negative publicity from extravagant displays of wealth, such as a million-dollar […]

MOPOL officers kill Police Constable in Warri

Posted by admin Headlines, National Politics Monday, February 28th, 2011

FIVE men dressed in Moblie Police uniform, yesterday, morning shot dead one Police Constable, Felix Omale, attached to the “A” Division Police Headquarters, Warri, Delta State. A police patrol team from the “A” Division was at a nipping point along the Ekurede Itsekiri/NPA expressway when a black SUV with unknown plate number was flagged down […]

Presidential poll: Posers for Ribadu

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, February 28th, 2011

Politics as usual makes strange bedfellows. The Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN), has at least demonstrated its lack of depth by fielding Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as its presidential candidate. Few people would have imagined they would ever see the day when Ribadu and Czar […]

April polls: We ‘re not using manual register- INEC

Posted by admin Elections 2011 Monday, February 28th, 2011

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has dispelled speculations that it was discarding the recent electronically compiled voters register. INEC in a statement by Mr. Kayode Idowu, Chief Press Secretary to the National Chairman, said the clarification became necessary following reports that the commission was going to discard the recent register compiled through electronic means […]