At least 100 people have been reported killed in suspected religious clashes near the central Nigerian city of Jos. Witnesses said several villages just outside of the city were attacked simultaneously overnight. Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has put security forces in central Nigeria on full alert.
The Jos crisis which led to the death of about 400 people on Sunday, has led to the sacking of the National Security Adviser, Sarki Mukhtar, by the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. To replace him is Aliyu Gusau, a one time National Security Adviser to former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. Meantime, about 400 corpses of the victims of ...
The prosecution of Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, Senator Nicolas Ugbane, Hon. Jibo Mohammed and six others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for dipping their hands into the N5.2 billion Rural Electrification Agency, REA, fund, got a boost on Thursday, March 4, when Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the FCT High Court, Gudu, Abuja, dismissed the application by two of the accused to quash the corruption charges against them.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has detained a 24 year old American lady, Sharon Denis Thorpe, over her involvement in a counterfeit cheque scam valued at $760, 668.
Today, the international Board of Editors of Xclusivenigeria.com, Nigeria’s global online newspaper, urge Nigeria’s ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua to step down. For everyone’s sake, please go, Mr. Yar’Adua. It is our considered position that Mr. Yar’Adua has given very serious cause for Nigerians to doubt both his judgment and mental capacity to lead the country.
Politics
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At the fourth week of February 2010, the publicity secretary of Rivers State branch of Action Congress, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze drew the attention of the public to a grand scheme, which according to him is three pronged , code named, “Operation Destroy Tonye Princewill (TP) and Amaechi” aimed at "to assassinate, destroy the foundation of state chapter of the party (AC) and subsequently hijack its machinery, media war to mar and malign the integrity and personalities of the leadership of opposition in Rivers State and the Government of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi."
The press statement, made available to the fourth…
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Interview
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Nigeria's police minister has launched a scathing attack on the force, accusing officers of killings, robbery and other abuses.
Ibrahim Lame said the lack of security was "condemnable and unacceptable".
Human rights groups have frequently accused Nigeria's police of abuses and corruption but it is rare for the government to make similar charges.
The national police chief blamed the security problems on poverty, corruption and religious tension.
Mr Lame told a meeting of police commanders: "The current rate of crime across the nation, rising cases of extra-judicial killings, human rights violations, robberies, high-profile assassination and deliberate failure to comply with…
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Editorial
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The President is back. And he is starring in a home video called “My Wife Turai, Mrs President.” Whether he is playing this role by choice or by force is not known. What is known is that nobody has seen him. Nobody seems to know what he looks like now; whether he looks like the man we once knew, or whether for that matter, he looks like somebody else. The Nigerian political comedy train has taken off from the subway station. They say Umaru is back, but nobody has seen him. In a commando action, both fit for theater and…
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Business & Economy
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A British businessman helped to channel bribes totalling more than $100m (£65m) to top Nigerian politicians to land lucrative gas contracts, an extradition hearing was told yesterday.
US prosecutors want to fly 72-year-old retired sales executive, Wojciech Chodan, to Texas to stand trial for his alleged involvement in a decade-long bribery scheme.
He faces up to 55 years in jail if convicted. His barrister said that it was "unjust and oppressive" to "haul him out of his domestic bliss" with his wife in a Somerset village and send him to the US where he could die in jail.
It is…
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Sports
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Nigerian striker Endurance Idahor has died after collapsing during a game in Sudan on Saturday.
Idahor, 25, who played for Al Merreikh club, collapsed during the league game with Al Amal in Omdurman.
He is believed to have died on the pitch after a minor incident in the penalty area of the visiting side.
"It was a normal incident of obstruction," said the official who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to talk to the media.
"He fell over and now he has passed away. It is a huge shock to Sudan's whole sporting family."
The…
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Arts & Culture
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Dennis Brutus, the poet and anti-apartheid activist, who has died aged 85, had no business reaching that ripe old age. In 1963, he was shot in the back at point-blank range in broad daylight by a white policeman in the streets of Johannesburg.
Brutus told me later in an interview for South Magazine that he did not realise, at first, that he had been shot. He was in the hands of the authorities after trying to flee South Africa via the Mozambique border, where he had been caught by Portuguese secret police and handed back. In Johannesburg, he saw a…
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Whitney Houston's return to the stage has been plagued with sub-par vocals since her performance on Good Morning America in August to promote her latest album, I Look To You.
Unfortunately, the singer once praised for her exceptional vocal talent was still struggling with singing live Monday when she opened her "Nothing But Love" world tour in Australia.
According to a review of the concert, Houston needed to take a break two songs into the…
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Parliament
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Sir, All those who can reach Her Excellency, Hadjia Turai Yaradua should please beg her that this may be the first time in history of the world that an ailing leader of a country is being treated this way. For all we know, Umaru Yar’Adua is a public property, therefore Nigerians have the right to demand to see or hear him. He probably needs our sympathy but the way Her Excellency is treating our President is to say the least, humiliating. Our President was smuggled into the country like contraband; whereas every Nigerian knows that he is not one.
This…
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Sir, honestly I must confess that many are confused about what we should believe here in Akwa Ibom regarding the ThisDay newspaper’s recent award ceremony. The impression some of us get here is that the trio of (our) Governor Godswill Akpabio, Mr. Mike Adenuga Jnr and post-humorously, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe were the joint-overall winners in the Award ceremony, as was in the case of Independent newspapers’ for Akpabio and Adenuga. I tend to believe this considering the avalanche of publicity which only our governor enjoyed. It was very clear and everybody noticed it. But there are people here who still doubt this assumed position.…
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Corruption is not only when you steal government money. When you are in position to work on truth and call white black then you are a corrupt person. When you cause confusion in places where you are supposed to create understanding, you are a corrupt person. Even as a politician, if prostitute from one political party to another all just for where it would serve your personal needs better, you are corrupt. It is said “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
Prince Vincent Ogbulafor was once an ANPP stalwart and even contested Abia State governorship on the platform. He…
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Sir, reading page eighteen of the New Nigerian newspaper of Wednesday January 13, 2010, I was happy to note that our governor, Chief (Dr.) Godswill Akpabio, confirmed through an interview organized by the Akwa Ibom Broadcasing Service on Monday January 11, 2010 that the federal government has at least refunded 2billion Naira on account of road constructions carried out on its behalf by the State government.
Judging from the news item, Governor Akpabio seems to have reversed self when he said that the State government had requested 40billion Naira as due refund; he had earlier claimed umpteenth time, in the…
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Perspective
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Journalism is an endeavor professionally practiced by journalists who scout, gather, write and disseminate truthful and genuine information through the various media; the electronic media such as radio and television, the internet, and the print media such as newspapers and magazines. In the pursuance of this professional enterprise, there are certain rules that its practitioners must strictly adhere to in other not be a victim of junk journalism, which is characterized by sensationalism, frivolity, character assassination: libel and slander and others.
One rule that ought to guide those in this field is “balance”, which means that if you are in doubt or not…
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Damian first met Ruth at the university's canteen while relaxing with a soft drink together with his friend Sam. Until that moment he had never believed in love at first sight. Talking and laughing with two of her friends, Ruth walked into the canteen heading towards the table across from him.She made her order, Damian was lost in his own world. His thoughts, "God! She is so beautiful... Her smile... Wow! Its killing... Her eyes... Oh my, she has this unique way of raising her eyebrows that could make a fella lost for words..."Coming back from his reverie he realised…
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The problem of the average Hausa or Fulani man is that he has no conscience. That is why you can have a mega headline in the Daily Trust of Wednesday 24th February 2010, "Yar'adua is back", yet 14 days after, even the Acting President who is supposed to be Yar’adua’s right hand man, has not been able to set eyes on him. “Abi Yar’adua don become ghost?”
We can understand the way Umaru was evacuated out of Nigeria on the 23rd of November 2009since it was a medical emergency and emergencies can happen in the middle of the night. But…
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Dear Sir, the foresight of the immediate-past administration in Akwa Ibom which started some developmental projects like the L’Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort, the Airport/Hangar project and the Independent Power project, etc and their continuations by the present administration has now posited Akwa Ibom State as the preferred conference destination. It is kudos to the past and present administrations for this feat.
Series of international, national, governmental and corporate meetings, tournaments, etc have found the L’Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort as very handy and preferred. Also with the completion of the transmission lines that evacuates the generated power…
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