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Nigeria’s troubles beyond emergency rule – Muslims
By Bashir Adefaka A network of Islamic organizations led by Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has urged the Federal Government to look beyond declaration of state of emergency in tackling the security challenges facing the country. It said holistic measure at resolving some other grey areas regarding the socio-economic segments of Nigerian public life was more imperative. The network, whose text ...
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Dokubo is a coward who will flee in event of war – Northern elders
By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North …Say Jonathan 'll account for ‘ourwomen and children someday’ Northern Elders Thursday spurned the benevolence of President Goodluck Jonathan in ordering the release of terror suspects from prisons across the region, saying that he would one day made to account for the woman and children seized by security agents based on ...
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State of Emergency ACN accuses Jonathan of deceit
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of engaging in total deceit by saying the democratic structure in the states where he has declared a state of emergency will be kept intact, when in fact he has grabbed power in the states and castrated democracy there. deceit In a statement issued in Kaduna on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai ...
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LASG uncovers 5.5m tax evaders in informal sector
Lagos – Mr Tokunbo Abiru, the Lagos State Commissioner for Finance, on Thursday said that over 5.5 million taxable individuals in the informal sector had not been paying taxes to the state. Abiru said this in Lagos at the 3rd Annual Lecture and Inauguration of the Public Service Chapter of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) in Lagos. He said that there were eight ...
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Lagarde probe IMF voices ‘confidence’
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund expressed ';confidence'; in its chief, Christine Lagarde, Thursday as she appeared in a French court to answer questions about her role in a 2007 payout scandal. ';The executive board has been briefed on that matter, including recently, and continues to express its confidence in the managing director’s ability to ...
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Chinua Achebe remembered as fearless writer in uncertain times in Nigeria feted in hometown
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ...
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Woolwich attack Were the suspected killers influenced by Nigerian terrorists
The two men who suspected of murdering a soldier in Woolwich were both British citizens, but their origins were in the troubled West African country of ...
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Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ...
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Nigeria to Release Detained Boko Haram Members in Phases
Nigeria will release members of the Boko Haram Islamist group held on suspicion of terrorism in phases, starting with women and children, ...
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Nigeria Gazettes 24 New NESREA Regulations - DG
The Federal Government has gazetted 24 new regulations formulated by the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA. The Director-General of the agency, Ngeri Benebo, made this known in an interview in Abuja on Thursday. Mr. Benebo said the agency had fully begun the enforcement of the new regulations by clamping down on environmental offenders and meting ...
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African Press Review 22 May 2013
SA mining companies reel in shock over workers' pay demands. The rand hits a four-year low. but FW de Clerk is upbeat. Nigeria pays tribute to Chinua Achebe. Hundreds of Kenyan politicians and civil servants may face prosecution. And Ugandan papers under siege by the police. A mixed front page to this morning's South African financial paper, BusinessDay. The main headline reads ...
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Achebe - Going Home the Igbo Way
Dignitaries from across the world are gathering in Ogidi, in Nigeria's Anambra state, to witness the interment of renowned author Chinua Achebe on Thursday. Yet after they have paid their last respects, said their final farewells and departed, a vital aspect of Mr Achebe's burial will still be pending. According to Igbo tradition, death is not an end to life. It is simply a ...
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Rivers Crisis Not in President Jonathans Interest Says Abe
The President as the Commander in Chief gets his briefing and is privy to information that the rest of us actually will not have. So, I don't think it will be proper for anybody to second guess how he takes his decision based on advice he gets from security chiefs. Giving the level of information available to him, he took the decision at the time he felt that the situation called for it and ...
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Who Are the Yoruba People
In his 2000 page book titled "Ile-Ife-The Source of Yoruba Civilisation", Prince Adelegan Adegbola wrote the following about the Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria- "the Yoruba are the progeny of great kingship, efficient kingdom-builders and astute rulers. They have been enjoying for centuries a well-organized pattern of society, a pattern which persists, in spite of all the ...
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Tourism and Rural Development in Ogun - A Call to Rescue
Ogun State is regarded as a leading municipal in the country. This is in recognition of its pioneering role in education, medicine, law, divinity among others. On the other hand, it is famous for its strategic location as an integral transport route that connects with the rest of the country. It borders Lagos State to the south, Oyo and Osun states to the north, Ondo State to the east and the ...
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Alkali - Jonathan Has Made the Difference in Government
Well, let me start by saying, long before I joined partisan politics, I had been in academics. I had been a teacher in the university, and as you know, I rose to the rank of professor about twelve years ago. So as an academic, there is no dull moment for me. And I suppose that is the case with all true academics. Surely as you know, the period between 2008 and 2011 was one of the most historic ...
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GLO Soccer Academy Boys Excite Ex-Madrid Star
Spanish international and former Real Madrid defender, Michael Solgado, has described the Glo Soccer Academy boys currently on training tour of Football Academy of Dubai Sports City as "a bunch of talented young footballers. Solgado, a top executive of the academy stated that with proper training and commitment, the players will go far in the game of football. "Having seen them in ...
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Criticism of Lagos Govt Lacks Logic Says Ibirogba
It may interest you to know that 62 parties went to 21 million people in Lagos State to canvass for their mandate and by the confidence in our ability to perform, they gave us their mandate. To us, the definition is for us to direct the affairs and restructure this community; at least for the period that we have the mandate and it is pertinent to bear in our minds that we are not a government of ...
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Al-Qaida ally takes responsibility for Niger attack
Security officials in Niger are on the lookout for assailants tied to the bombing Thursday of a military camp, Niger Defense Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said. Karidjo said a car bomb was detonated at a military base in Agadez in central Niger, near the site of a French mining operation. Authorities in Niger told the BBC that several attackers died in the attack, though a fifth insurgent was ...
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London street slayer references British wars not Nigerian insurgency
Reports say the suspects in yesterday's butchering of a British soldier have Nigerian ancestry. However, they appeared to be driven by UK involvement in other Muslim ...
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London attackers were British of Nigerian origin report says
LONDON: British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Local media named one of the two suspects as British-born, 28-year-old ...
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At Least 19 Soldiers Killed in Niger Attack
Niger's government said at least 19 soldiers were killed Thursday in a gunbattle that followed twin bombings at a military base and a French-owned uranium mine. Security officials said the car bomb attack occurred outside a military barracks in the town of Agadez, located about 800 kilometers northwest of the capital, Niamey. A government spokesman said several attackers emerged from ...
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20 soldiers die in Niger car blast
23 May 2013 Twenty soldiers have been killed and another 16 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives inside a military installation in the city of Agadez ...
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Nigerias NNPC and Exxon unit to tap bond market by 2016
joint venture with a capacity of more than 550,000 barrels per day of crude oil, condensate and gas liquids. "From the years 2013 to 2015, we will continue to use the external financing option, but by the year 2016 we would switch to the bond market as an alternative source of ...
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Suicide attacker takes Niger cadets hostage
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Niger's interior minister says that a suicide attacker, who penetrated a military garrison in the city of Agadez, has taken several cadets ...
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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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