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July 30, 2010

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• Confusion over Ota bridge inauguration
  THERE was confusion, on Thursday afternoon, in Sango Ota area of Ogun State, between the Ogun State governor, Chief Gbenga Daniel and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Dimeji Bankole, Tribune
   

• 2011: Jega rules out electronic voting
  Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has ruled out the use of electronic voting machine during the 2011 general election. Tribune
   

• New Electoral Law Bans Consensus Candidature
  All candidates for future elections in the country must emerge through properly conducted primaries, as the new section 87 of the 2010 Electoral Act has outlawed the use of affirmation for endorsing candidates by consensus. ThisDay
   

• Zoning Crisis Rocks ANPP
  It’s not only in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that zoning has become a big issue. The zoning of offices by All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) is also tearing the party apart. ThisDay
   

• Bankole, Daniel in Public Scuffle over New Bridge
  There has been no love lost between Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel and House of Represen-tatives Speaker Dimeji Bankole from the same state. ThisDay
   

• 2011: Expect Crisis without Jonathan, Gana Warns
  Northern politicians championing that President Goodluck Jonathan should contest the 2011 presidential election said yesterday that Nigeria would be thrown into a “deep political crisis” should the proponents of zoning succeed in stopping the president from running. ThisDay
   

• Buhari Asks Nigerians to Search for Credible Leaders
  Former Head of State and presidential aspirant of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the forthcoming 2011 elections, Maj-Gen.Muhammadu Buhar... ThisDay
   

• Yerima: Interpol Writes NHRC
  The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has contacted the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to furnish it with information concerning Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima's marriage to a 13-year old Egyptian girl. ThisDay
   

• Daniel, Bankole in open feud over Ota bridge
  DECORUM was thrown away yesterday (Thursday) as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole and the Ogun State Governor, Gbenga Daniel, engaged in hot verbal brick-bats at the commissi..TheGuardian
   

• MEND threatens fresh attacks on oil facilities
  THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has threatened fresh attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta over what it believes is the slow pace of action by the administration of ...TheGuardian
   

• Showdown at Ota bridge commissioning
  ...Bankole, Daniel’s supporters clash
  The power play between Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, robbed the shine off the commissioning of the long-abandoned Sango-Ota bridge, in Ogun State yesterday, | The Sun
   

• Senate passes harmonised Electoral Act
  All legal provisions being worked on for the successful conduct of 2011 elections were completed yesterday when the Senate finally passed the harmonized version of the 2010 Electoral Act. The law, among other things, outlaws the use of affirmative action by parties for the selection of candidates for elections. In other words, no adoption of candidates as all contestants are expected to scale primaries before becoming party candidates. | The Sun
   

• Jega meets police chiefs
  Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega yesterday met with the Inspector General of Police, Ogbonna Onovo and senior police officers from the ranks of commissioner and above
  The visit, according to report, was to seek the assistance of the police in his quest to ensure credible elections in 2011. Prof. Jega noted that the role of the police in ensuring credible elections cannot be over emphasized. The INEC boss called on the police to work together with the commission. | The Sun

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• CBN to probe own-officials’ role in banking crisis
  TO avert a repeat of the banking crisis witnessed in the country between 2003 and 2009, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday announced that it has concluded plans to investigate the role played...TheGuardian

• Labour opposes Sanusi on deregulation, electricity tariffs
  •Utomi, others want power sector decentralised
  RECENT policy pronouncements by the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, are drawing the ire of the Nigeria Labour Congress (N...TheGuardian
   

• 138 feared killed in Congo boat mishap
  TRAGEDY struck on Wednesday in Democratic Republic of Congo, as 138 people were feared killed when an overloaded boat carrying passengers and goods capsized in bad weather, the police have said. Accord...TheGuardian
   

• Investors lost N1.5trn in rescued banks –Sanusi
  Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido, Thursday gave further insight into reasons behind the apex bank’s sack of some bank chiefs in a sweeping reform that hit the industry last year. Sanusi, who was speaking at the 15th edition of the annual workshop for Business Editors and Finance Correspondents in Benin, stated that above all considerations, the N1.5 trillion negative capital structure recorded by the institutions prior to August 14, 2009, was a clear signal that the industry would | The Sun
   

• CBN: 10 Banks Have N1.5tr Negative Capital
  Ten banks that failed a joint examination conducted last year for 24 of them by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) currently have a negative capital of N1.5 trillion, the apex bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said. ThisDay
  
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Editorial

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• Zoning and the incapacitation of a presidency
  It is clear that President Jonathan does not understand the import of his Special Assistant to the President Dr. Cairo Ojougboh declaration's at National Assembly that the President would run in 2011. Nigerian News Editorial | more editorial

Special Columns

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• Tunde Adenodi's Current Column
  
  Zoning: Only when we are not in power!
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  July 06, 2010
  Zoning of political offices in Nigeria has been part of political calculation for as long as the nation has been in existence. You can even call it “federal character”. It has not just crept into political lexicon. At independence, Tafawa Balewa (Hausa) was the Prime Minister of the Federation while the Speaker of the House of Representative was Nwafor Orizu (Igbo). Obafemi Awolowo was the leader of opposition. He was Yoruba. But while there is no question of northern** support for this political device for political offices, they refuse to allow for the office of the President of Nigeria to be zoned especially when and as long as they are in power! NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Adenodi

• Madaki O. Ameh's Current Column
  
  THE SAD POLITICS OF YAR’ADUA’S ILL HEALTH
  by Madaki O Ameh
  February 10, 2010
  With the passage of concurrent motions by the two chambers of the Nigerian National Assembly on Tuesday 9^th February 2010, finally empowering the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, to assume the elusive title of ‘Acting President’, it is hoped that one of the darkest phases of Nigeria’s democratic history will finally be on its way out, with what is left being the healing of the deep wounds created in the process. NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Ameh

• Frisky Larr's Current Column
  
  Farida Waziri: Bitterness Against Ribadu?
  by Frisky Larr
  A lot has happened since the removal of Nuhu Ribadu from the Chairmanship of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). His demotion in rank and subsequent dismissal from the Police Force not by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua or by Perry Osayande or Michael Okiro but by the one and only James Ibori who openly boasted about the sequential order of the predicament that was to befall Nuhu Ribadu, are now history. A lot has happened indeed. NigerianNews Special |Read more articles by Larr

• Kay Soyemi's Current Column
  
  That CIA Report on Nigeria – Fact or Fiction?
  by Kay Soyemi
  December 01, 2008
  Dr. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), recently presented and discussed his report titled the “Global Trends 2025” and among many other things, has predicted a bleak future for Nigeria if certain identified indicators were not addressed before 2025.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Soyemi

• Atsar Terver's Current Column
  ECHOES:Commentary on burning public issues
  
  This House Has Fallen.
  by Atsar Terver
  June 28, 2010
  Almost three years after Hon. Aminu Safana was ‘killed’ right inside the chambers of the lower house of the Nigerian Legislature, a repeat of the ugly incident was nearly witnessed in the House Tuesday when attempts were made to forcefully remove some members purportedly suspended from the House because they attempted to commence impeachment proceedings against the Speaker. Luckily no one died this time but one is reported to have left with a broken arm.NigerianNews Special
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• Dotun Oyeniyi
  
  NEVER AGAIN! SHOULD WE ALLOW BABANGIDA TO RULE NIGERIA
  by Dotun Oyeniyi
  May 11, 2010
  There comes a moment in the lives and times of most clever men, when out of a self deluding believe in their supposed superior intellect over others and the assumed idiocy of others; they end up taking decisions which are anything but clever.  I strongly believe that that moment is here for General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) with his decision to return to power.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Oyeniyi

• Uyi Edogamhe's Current Column
  
  A FIGHT TO FINISH
  by Uyi Edogamhe
  July 27, 2010
  These are turbulent, trying times no doubt in Nigeria’s political sphere. The attack dogs are on the prowl and the political environment is unduly being heated. The powers that be are in a self preserving fight to reassert their relevance again. Fear, which is a potent weapon of oppression, is the singular most deployed armoury in this fight to finish.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Edogamhe
   

Interview

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AN INTERVIEW WITH Former Governor Donald Duke of Cross River NigerianNews Interview Series
	"Those that are now fanning themselves out to serve on the platform of PDP, and now appear to be the solution to the problem of Nigeria, are indeed the problem of Nigeria. The problem cannot all of a sudden turn out to be the solution. I have problem with that. To me Nigeria is sacrosanct, PDP is not."
Fmr Gov Donald Duke	NigerianNews Interview click here

• AN INTERVIEW WITH CHIEF OJO MADUEKWE, THE EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER IN PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA’S CABINET
  
  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ojo Maduekwe, was recently in the United States as a participant in the 'Nigeria Meets The World Conference' organized by ThisDay, and the United Nations General Assembly session. He spoke exclusively with NNews at the New York Millennium Plaza. NigerianNews Interview

Guest Columns

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• The Politics of Zoning Vs The Politics of Compensation
  by George Kerley
  July 16,2010
  Was political power zoned to the South-West in 1999 or was the South-West compensated for the death of MKO Abiola who had won the presidential elections of 1993? NigerianNews Guest Column | Read more Guest Columns articles

L E T T E RS  T O  T H E  E D I T O R

• July 28, 2010 NEWS FLASH - by Sandra K Talsma
   
• July 18, 2010: Prof Sam Aluko, "south should forget presidency for 50yrs if Jonathan ....." The sun
   
• May 28, 2010: The Story of my abduction.
   
• Mat 07, 2010: ODE TO PAST NIGERIAN PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YAR ADUA: HE WAS JUST A MAN
   
• May 03, 2010: “Ibori vs. EFCC: Standing Logic on its head!”

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• Why I love Nigerians –Yvonne Chaka Chaka
  South African music diva, Yvonne Chaka Chaka has every reason to be angry with Nigerians. This is because many of her live shows which she recorded on CD were massively pirated by some Nigerian | The Sun
   

• Nigeria’s movie market is dead
  Apostle Helen Ukpabio, has spent over a decade in the Nigerian motion picture industry, globally known as Nollywood, producing and funding quality and expository Christian oriented movies for millions of viewers within and outside our shores. | The Sun

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