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General Politics, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, Top Stories
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

After more than a week of pressure from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders it was announced today that the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, was sacked by President Jonathan. In a curt press release Ruben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President for Media and Publicity, said that “President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has relieved […]
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General Politics, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, Top Stories
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

Solomon Arase replacing Suleiman Abba President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday sacked the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba. Abba, who became IG less than nine months ago, was replaced by a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, in acting capacity A statement by Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, gave […]
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Latest Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015

President-elect, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd), who was named in the Time Magazine annual 100 influential people in the world list, did not attend the Gala held at Lincoln Center in New York. The gala is put together to celebrate the 100 influential people in the world. The TIME 100 is an annual list of […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye| Lagos, Nigeria | April 21, 2105 – During the governorship and states’ houses of assembly elections that took place in Nigeria last Saturday (April 11, 2015), several persons reportedly died across the nation. As I write now, a day after the elections, there are reports of raging battles in a couple of […]
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Articles, Columnists, Election 2015, Elections, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe | London, UK | April 21, 2015 – Given the tensions that overheated the polity during the campaigns, we are all relieved it is now all over. Thankfully the predicted Armageddon failed to happen, proving once again that perching on the precipice is the country’s comfort zone. The winners are revelling; […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 21, 2015 – Years back, men of God in Nigeria, for the most part, preached hell and heaven. They urged their congregants to live godly lives, so, as to inherit eternal life, in the hereafter. These days, the pastors, generally, preach prosperity. They exhort us to empty […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

By Leonard Karshima Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | April 21, 2015 – First, let me congratulate all Nigerians for making the right choice and voting for General Buhari for the office of President of Nigeria. The choice is right because it is the most appropriate response by the electors to impunity, incompetence and corruption that […]
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Columnists, Enugu, Headlines, State News, Walter Duru
Monday, April 20th, 2015

By Walter Duru | NNP | April 20, 2015 – Since the return of Democracy in Nigeria in 1999, Enugu state, one of the five states of the South Eastern part of Nigeria has been in the firm control of the Peoples Democratic Party-PDP. In fact, Enugu is one of the major strongholds of the […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Mrs. Udensi lied over Rivers elections – Peterside campaign outfit Recent views expressed on Africa Independent Television, AIT, by Mrs. Eno Udensi, President of a South African-based Non-Governmental Organisation, NGO, that elections in Rivers State were free and fair, have been dismissed and described as an afterthought from a biased observer. Mrs. Udensi, who, also, […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, John Egbeazien Oshodi, NNP Columnists
Monday, April 20th, 2015

By Dr. John E. Oshodi | NNP | April 20, 2015 – Nigerians have not stopped celebrating since March 2015 which marked the point when the Jonathan Administration, where trust was very hard to establish, where the leadership behaved as if Nigeria was their personal kitchen, and where the use of political power through the […]