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Govt will not condone impunity of any sort – Abati
By Ben Agande *Says Jonathan is focused on development In this interview, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Reuben Abati, speaks on the administration's successes, but, more importantly, on the security situation in the country. ...
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RIVERS Labour asks police to obey court order vacate council premises
Rivers State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council (JPSNC) have asked the Inspector General of Police and the state commissioner of police to obey the judgment of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt, by vacating the premises of Obi/Akpor local government area of the state. Justice ...
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INSECURITY This govt is confused – CAN chief
By Caleb Ayansina Since 2009, there have been bloodletting in the North on the grounds of Islamizing the country by Jama-’a Ahl al-sunnah li-da’wa wa al-jiha-d, also known as Boko Haram. In this interview, the Bishop, Diocese of Kubwa, Anglican Communion, and National Treasurer of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, the Right Reverend Duke Akamisoko, speaks on the national ...
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CORRUPTION Nigeria has so much to learn from Finland – Dr. Akinroye
BY JOSEPHINE IGBINOVIA Renowned cardiologist, Dr.Kingsley Kolapo Akinroye, was, in November 2012, appointed the Honourary Consul of Finland, following the opening of the Honourary Consulate of Finland in Lagos by the Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Her Excellency Mrs Riitta Korpivaara. Prior to his appointment, he had pursued medical studies and a research fellowship in Finland and notably ...
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FIDDLING AND INSURGENCY ‘Deliver us from evil’
What is evil? Where is evil? Who is evil? When does evil strike? How does evil strike? We may ask these questions, not necessarily as rhetoric. But more as a function of a sense of hopelessness and helplessness! And not because we do not have an idea of what it is; but much more because the mere thought of it evokes a feeling that would make you shriek in fear. All men have evil constantly ...
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HEAVY RAINS ALERT Our plan to combat killer-floods – NEMA chief
By Abel Daniel As the rainy season picks up, the North Central Zonal Office of the National Emergency Agency (NEMA) has embarked on a disaster risk management campaign in order to mitigate the effect of the flood predicted by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) this year. In this interview, the NEMA Coordinator in the zone, Mr. Mohammed Abdulsalam, speaks on the preparedness of the ...
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Ondo Election Petition Verdict The losers and winners
File photo: Chief Judge of Ondo State, Justice Sehinde Kumuyi; Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko; and his wife; Oluwakemi, during the swearing-in of Mimiko as the state governor in Akure on Sunday. The straw that the ACN and PDP held to gave way after the appeal failed to rule in their favour and, by the time the tribunal went into full hearing of the petitions, it became crystal clear that ...
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Support the President and JTF In our own interest –1
By Dele Sobowale NOTE: The two columns below were started on Sunday, May 12, 2013 - before the President's declaration of Emergency Rule in three states of Nigeria. More than ever, and despite the risks and dangers which could result from the measure taken by the President, I still believe that he needs our support to bring this war to an end. If for no other reason than that the ...
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Facts and fallacies about marriage
By Douglas Anele All this indicates that those who look up to religion for guidance on the issue of marriage are liable to make serious mistakes. There is strong evidence from psychology most especially psychoanalysis that obsessive and irrational condemnation of sexual freedom by most founders of religion is due to a combination of superstitious beliefs about sex and thwarting of natural ...
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Berlusconi goes to prison
By Denrele Animasaun "Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man" -Bertrand Russell. It seems the Teflon Don is finally getting his judicial just desserts or so it seems. On Monday when the Italian prosecutors demanded that the former Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, should be handed a prison sentence as well as a ...
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Battle of The ‘Evil Forest’ Edo police boss versus kidnappers armed robbers
By SIMON EBEGBULEM, Benin City For some time now, armed robbers and kidnappers have taken over an area referred to as "Evil Forest" located along the Benin-City bypass, and seen as a haven for criminal activities. Luxury buses plying the East-Lagos routes have on many occasions been attacked, passengers robbed and women raped in the area. Those who resist are killed. Families of many ...
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Corruption is direct cause of poverty —Lardner
By OLAYINKA AJAYI Following the high rate of poverty ravaging the country, Tunji Lardner, a social commentator and a convener for good governance had lamented how corrupt leaders had caused abject poverty for Nigerians. Lardner however added that what Nigerians are facing is as a result of corrupt leaders that had mismanaged public funds. Speaking at a seminar organised by the West African ...
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Olayinka Oladunjoye Revamping education in Lagos State
BY JOSEPHINE IGBINOVIA Barr. (Mrs.) Olayinka Oladunjoye, the Honourable Commissioner for Education in Lagos State, is the visionary behind the mind-blowing reforms on-going across the state's education sector. In this exclusive chat with Vista Woman, she talks abouther ministry's strides since 2011, and also its plans for the future. ...
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When is it good to be poor
By Tonnie Iredia Different write-ups attract different readers. While some people prefer light-hearted articles that relax the mind, other persons that are often described as 'serious' readers are hardly interested in storylines. Rather, they want the point to be quickly but logically made. What such persons tend to overlook however, is the ease with which stories enhance the quality ...
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Coming up for air
By Debbie Olujobi Swimming is a sport that looks deceptively easy; it employs hitherto lazy muscles to labour and the water tricks the joints into acrobatics that is impossible other wise. I find moving underwater the most fun and I stay under as long as possible but I come up for air because I don’t belong there. I am a creature whose primary domain is land. I walk and swimming is but a ...
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Governing Katsina is not a tea party affair – Gwajo-Gwajo
Honorable Yau Gwajo-Gwajo is serving his second term as Speaker, Katsina State House of Assembly. In this interview, he says the parliament is not a rubber stamp to the executive even as he speaks on how the lawmakers are collaborating with the Ibrahim Shehu Shema administration to move the state ...
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SportsGuard When journalists are no longer stakeholders
By Patrick Omorodion I didn't want to bog readers with the news that yours sincerely was appointed into the Board of the Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF as one of the Stakeholders of the game but something has necessitated it hence I am writing on it today. The National Sports Commission, NSC, at the expiration of the tenure of the Sports Association Boards decided to reconstitute ...
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Asiodu On institutional memory
By Obi Nwakanma Philip Chukwuedo Asiodu is one of those Nigerians you might rightly call an old civil service mandarin. These were of the cadre known in the Yakubu Gowon administration in Nigeria as "super perm secretaries." I think the "super"in the Permanent Secretary came from "supernumerary" and it does locate the stature and situation of the office at its ...
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Clark vs Orubebe Associates aides in proxy war
BY EMMA AMAIZE SINCE South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, exploded, May 9, against the Minister of Niger-Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, over the alleged ambition of the latter to become the governor of Delta State in 2015, associates and aides of the two prominent politicians have withdrawn to the trenches in different parts of the state from where they have been firing sporadic shots. A ...
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Secrets of Delta State’s leadership in sports – Pinnick
Amaju Melvin Pinnick, chairman of the Delta State Sports Commission, here spoke with ISAAC OLAMIKAN on the secret behind the string of successes the state has achieved in recent National Sports Festivals and other ...
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APC ‘How merging parties will harmonise positions’
ONE of the brains behind the merger that produced All Progressive Congress, APC and a former deputy governor of Jigawa State, Ibrahim Hadejia (who at a time was the state attorney general secretary to the state government), says nobody can stop an idea whose time has come adding that, by the end of November, the party would have been fully operational. Hadeja a lawyer and banker, is a member of ...
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Beyond emergency rule in Borno Yobe Adamawa
By Dele Agekameh The declaration of a state of emergency by the President in the three states of Yobe, Borno and Adamawa is a welcome development. Although, in actual fact, it is overdue, but it is never too late. Considering the number of people who have died in the hands of the Boko Haram insurgents, nothing is too much to bring peace to these affected states, and for that matter, the whole ...
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NPA restricts movement into Lagos ports
The Nigerian Ports Authority has said as from Tuesday next week only people with electronic port pass or means of identification issued by the approved authorities will be allowed into the ports in ...
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Nigeria military declares 24-hour curfew in Maiduguri
curfew on Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents. A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas ...
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Lorry crushes FRSC official in Imo
By Chidi Nkwopara A female official (names withheld) of Imo State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, was, at the weekend, crushed by a tipper lorry, just as Governor Rochas Okorocha expressed deep shock over the tragedy that befell Umudagu, Ihitte Isi Mbieri community in Mbaitoli local council area, on Thursday night. The Mbieri tragedy followed a torrential rain that was ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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