Happy New Year and Welcome 2008! January 01, 2008
NigerianNews
takes this opportunity to felicitate with everyone as the year 2008
rolls in. Indeed, Nigeria is a country which God has bestowed with
enough resilience to weather any storm! 2007 was such a
turbulent year which some would have either wished it never existed or
certain events never occurred. All the same, all our experience is
supposed to strengthen us with sufficient energy so that we can witness
the fulfillment of things yet to be revealed to us as a Nation by the
Almighty God.
NigerianNews
Editorial
2007: Year Of
Drama, Political Intrigues
The
year 2007 was, all things considered, full of political drama, high
wire political intrigues and suspense. The combined result left many
a...Daily
Independent
It’s too late to defer Ribadu’s course -
Police; We can’t save him, says Dep Speaker; Police, EFCC trade words
over Ribadu’s course
THE Nigeria Police may have sealed the hope of the chairman of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...Tribune
New salary for Yar’Adua, VP, others ; The New
Pay: Yar’Adua, N3.5m; Jonathan, N3m; Chief Justice, N3.3m; Ministers,
SGF, HOS, N2.2m
THE Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has
proposed a new salary structure for the president, the vice...Tribune
Yar’Adua, Atiku, Mark, Bankole, Fashola,
leaders charge Nigerians on New Year
PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua has declared that 2008 will be eventful and
witness a new dawn for Nigerians as his...Tribune
Ex-milad in contract crisis with Israeli firm
An Israeli security firm, Aeronautics Systems, has raised the alarm
over an attempt by a former military administrator (names withheld)
who had sworn to use his political influence to scuttle contracts
genuinely awarded to them. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the former
military administrator of Bayelsa State was in the forefront of a
group that brought the Israeli...Tribune
2007: The Best and The Worst
Nigeria’s current romance with democracy is often dubbed “fledgling”
partly because of the way previous experiments were abridged
unceremoniously by the military.
ThisDay
Police: Lamorde Remains at EFCC
The Director of Operations of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Com-mission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, remains with the anti-graft
body and is not going on any course, at least for now.
ThisDay
N’Assembly to Jerk up 2008 Budget Benchmark
The two chambers of the National Assembly have agreed to jerk up the
benchmark for the 2008 Appropriation Bill from the $53 per barrel
proposed by the Executive to $59.
ThisDay
Brace up for Devt, Yar’Adua, Mark, Urge
Nigerians
President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Senate President, David Mark, have
urged Nigerians to brace up for development in 2008.
ThisDay
Ogunbadejo, Ace Cartoonist, Joins THISDAY
Ace cartoonist, Bisi Ogunbadejo, has joined THISDAY Newspapers as
Director of Art and Cartoons. Today, his new series, “Double Talk”,
begins to run on the back page of the newspaper.
ThisDay
Ribadu, EFCC top shots in crucial talks
CHAIRMAN of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday, met in Abuja for several hours, with
top officials of the commission, in what one source said might be the
first in the series of his valedictory meetings.
Vanguard
Yar'Adua, others canvass new beginning
PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua and other eminent political and religious
leaders have canvassed a new beginning in the country if the dream of
joining the comity...Vanguard
EFCC: PRONACO, ANPP, Oshiomhole, others
differ on Ribadu’s exit
The police high command said on Monday that Ibrahim Lamorde, an
Assistant Commissioner of police and director of operations of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), is not among officers
scheduled to attend the Senior Command Course at the Police Staff
College in Jos.|
The Sun
Tyranny of Needs
by
Pastor Biodun Coker
Needs are fundamental and essential for our
living. A need is something desired or deemed necessary. It is a
necessity arising from a circumstance or a situational demand for
example: the need for air, food and clothing. While a healthy,
living human body needs oxygen, water, nutrients that come in form
of mineral resources; a cadaver or dead body has no need for them.
It is however amazing to discover that our needs have been
provided within our geographical space by the creator Himself.
However, because human needs are enormous, we are sometimes
beclouded by its enormity.
NigerianNews
Religious Special
Business
Shell West Nigeria output drops by extra 80,000
b/d
THE west base operations of the Anglo Dutch Shell Petroleum Development
Company (SPDC) which covers Delta State has suffered a drop of about
80,000 barrels per day in its maximum output, just as the company
announces cost cutting measures to enable it remain afloat as the Niger
Delta crisis takes toll on its operations.
Vanguard
Market indices defy holiday spending, rise by 4%
Driven by gains on the share prices of highly capitalised stocks, the
All-share index and market capitalisation both appreciated last week by
4.0 per cent each. This was in spite of the festivities, the Christmas,
Boxing and Muslim holidays. It was expected that the market indices would
record a downturn, as investors are expected to trade off their shares for
money to celebrate the festivities, however, the reverse turned out to be
the case.
Vanguard
TransCorp boss tasks FG on Nigeria’s
competitiveness
Managing Director of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (TransCorp) Plc,
Mr. Tom Iseghoghi has called on the Federal Government to identify areas
where Nigeria has competitive advantage over the rest of the world, and
benefit from it by mobilising its human and material resources towards the
production of world class products or services that are unparalleled in
the global economy
Vanguard
First Bank Offers 5% Interest On
Returned Monies
FirstBank Plc, Nigeria's premier commercial bank, in a gesture of goodwill
to its numerous investors whose applications during the recently
concluded...Daily
Independent
Editorial
Removal of Ribadu: The Triumph of Aondoakaa and his Ruse of Law
December 31, 2007
While the plot was being hatched, those who now
cry foul on the removal of Nuhu Ribadu were busy celebrating the demise
of the previous government. While the celebration went on, the
evil geniuses in our midst were busy perfecting their next move of
their escape
from Alcatraz!
NigerianNews
Editorial
The Supreme Court:
Supreme in all things but Remedy! October 29, 2007
We must first congratulate this Supreme Court for they have done it
again! We congratulate you for your consistent inconsistencies. We
congratulate you for consistently turning the face of logic upside
down to the applause of those who should know better. If your
inconsistencies are not embarrassing, we would have also
congratulated you on your undemocratic imposition of Rotimi Amaechi
who was never voted for by the people of Rivers State. This is a first
in the annals of representative democracy!!
NigerianNews
Editorial
Tunde Adenodi's
Current Column
Pauperization of Zimbabwe October 02, 2007 My generation got inspiration from the likes of Robert
Mugabe, Abel Muzorewa and Joshua Nkomo, the Zimbabwe trio that fought
Ian Smith to a standstill. Before these was Nigeria’s trio: Obafemi
Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ahmadu Bello. Not to talk of Nelson
Mandela, the greatest of them all! There was the dare-devil Wole
Soyinka who would confront a sub-machine gun with a mere pen. He dared
the usurpers in an adventurous confrontation at the WNBS studios in
Ibadan in 1965.
NigerianNews Special |
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Frisky Larr's
Current Column
Yar’Adua’s government: A
complex knot is tangling up!
by Frisky Larr
December 31, 2007
I just don’t know where to start. The complication is building up in
gradual succession. The President is gradually being forced to drop
the good guy mask. His government is running the gauntlet amid public
disbelief and astonishment at the direction in which some powerful
minority policy architects have steered the boat of public leadership.
NigerianNews
Special
The Maurice Iwu debate: Some
fairness please!
by Frisky Larr December
24, 2007
The aftermath of the April 2007 elections in Nigeria has so far, been
one of a perfect blame game seeking to identify in black and white,
the culprits to be held responsible for a single show of shame that
soiled the image of our dear nation before the eyes of the watching
universe. As in every case of identifying clear-cut perpetrators
though, the principle of black or white (and nothing between) is
always doomed to failure amid emotional exacerbation and subjective
aggrandizement.
NigerianNews
Special
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Kay Soyemi's
Current Column
Ribadu's
removal: Not in the Interest of the General Public
by Kay Soyemi December 29, 2007
Keeping abreast of news and development back home takes some
dedication and a hardiness of the soul and certain immunity to the
shocking revelations that comes out of the political establishment and
the fourth realm. NigerianNews
Special |
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Atsar Terver's
Current Column ECHOES:Commentary
on burning public issues Ibori is Arrested, Lets Apologize to the AGF
by Atsar Terver December 18, 2007
That Chief Michael Aondoakaa(SAN) continues to
take the center stage of almost everything in our country today is
a product of both hate and vendetta is becoming very apparent in
view of the silence from the camp of his opponents after the
arrest of Ibori.
NigerianNews
Special
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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
A Surpise Attack in
Cameroon: New Crisis to emerge?
by
Scott A Morgan
November
21, 2007
The news over this past weekend that 21 Members
of the Cameroonian Military were killed in an Ambush in the
controversial Bakassi region did nothing more but to highlight the
ever increasing tensions in the region. Initial Reports indicated
that the Nigerian Military may have been involved due to the
proximity to the border of the attack. But the Attack was carried
out by a group known as the "Liberators of the Southern Cameroon
People."
NigerianNews Guest
Column
KEBBI Election:
Tribunal Went Beyond Its Mandate?
by Sani Onyedikachi Obi
November 06, 2007
If the title of my piece is perceived as inappropriate or most
uncharitable in certain quarters, then I must begin by tendering my
most sincere regrets as it is certainly not aimed at casting aspersion
on the competencies, integrity or judicial discretion of the learned
counsels or distinguished members of the Kebbi State election
Tribunal. I must also confess my utter ‘unlearnedness’ in comparison
to the eminent jurists who delivered the rather incredible ruling of
20th October, 2007 that annuled the April 2007 Kebbi State
Gubernatorial elections.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
AMAECHI’S CONTROVERSIAL ADOPTION OF MR. TELE IKURU AS DEPUTY GOVERNOR
OF RIVERS STATE
by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN November 01, 2007 Another controversy has been thrown up by the decision of the
Supreme Court on Thursday, 25th October, 2007 declaring Rotimi Amaechi
as the Governor of Rivers State.
NigerianNews Guest
Column
US ad agency lists Nollywood in top 80
for 2008
EFFORTS by Nigerians to tell their stories through the video medium
have reverberated in the United States where the Nigerian film
industry, popularly called Nollywood,...Vanguard
Honour
Well Deserved For Okey... So much may have been written about the
awardees at the Coliseum’s Nollywood Nite 2007, which held last
Sunday....Daily
Independent
Movie
Stars To Set Niteshift Aglow •As New Adandiigbo
Emerges
We have had films in Nigeria but…we don’t
have film infrastructures—Sola Fosudo Sola Fosudo, popular actor and Head of theDepartment of Theatre
Arts at the Lagos State University, in today’s Vanguard Arts'...Daily
Independent
PRESS STATEMENT ON THE MORAL
IMPERATIVES FOR THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (MRS.
PATRICIA ETTEH) TO RESIGN OR BE REMOVED
by Chief Gani Fawehinmi, LLD, SAN
Press Release
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