Nigeria's governors are a bunch of jokers. If you haven't heard, the latest game in town for our daredevil governors is the scramble among them to fill the presidency and vice presidency ballots in next year's elections. What have they done for their states?
Nigeria has gone to the dogs. While umaru yar a'dua absconds from office and senators and top officials butter their own bread, hoodlums are now in charge.
EFCC and global computers giant Microsoft team up to tackle Nigeria's organised and brutal cybercrime syndicates.
It is no laughing matter, but Nigeria is clearly the world's most bizzare country. Some say our president has emigrated to Saudi Arabia. Others say the man actually died in Decemberm and a cabal of evil, powerful men and women have taken the country for a ride.
Against all odds, incumbent Anambra State governor Mr. Peter Obi wins big at the controversial Feb 6 gubernatorial elections, beating his powerful opponents senseless.
Politics
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That Akwa Ibom governor, Chief (Dr) Godswill Akpabio throws wrong words on Anambra are something that should worry Ndi Anambra. In November 2009, he said that Anambra was a failed State before Governor Peter Obi assumed office. Ndi Anambra disagrees that Anambra was a failed State under Dr. Chris Ngige.
This time around, Governor Akpabio on page 46 of Nigerian Tribune of 22nd January 2010 while receiving in his office the GOC 82 Division Enugu, Major General Mohammed Issah, sought the military assistance in stamping out kidnapping. He said “that the kidnapping crime, which started in the Niger-Delta…
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Interview
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EXECUTIVE Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Ernest Ndukwe has said that the commission took certain decisions based on the direction the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector was heading.
According to him, the need to take some steps was necessitated so as to further fast-track the development of the industry.
Speaking at the CEO Agenda Nigeria, put together by Economist Conferences, Ndukwe said that one reason the commission did not allow national roaming when the first set of digital mobile licenses were initially issued was to encourage the operators to build their own mobile network infrastructure…
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Editorial
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AN XCLUSIVENIGERIA COMMENTARY:
Nigeria is probably the only country in the world, or perhaps one of the few hopeless cases, where its president would embark on a long journey to a foreign land for medical attention, without handing over the reins of government to his vice president. Clearly, umaru yar a’dua knew he was in a desperate medical situation requiring all kinds of possible surgeries, and knew he could not ascertain how long he was going to remain abroad, or whether for that matter he was going to return to the country ever again. Everybody knew he was desperately ill.…
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Business & Economy
Sports
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Egypt coach Hassan Shehata claims he has been approached by Nigeria to lead them at the World Cup in June.
Shehata revealed he had been offered the post on a temporary basis, after leading Egypt to their third successive Africa Cup of Nations title on Sunday.
Nigeria were criticised for their performances on the way to finishing third in Angola under Shaibu Amodu.
"They expressed interest in hiring me to take charge during the World Cup," Shehata told TV station Modern Sport.
The 60-year-old also revealed the approach to at least one other Egyptian TV station and it…
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Arts & Culture
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“They remind us that of all the identitarian markers of the subject – the poet and his pen/is – circumcision is the most circumspect, if circumstantial.” - Obiwu
Keywords: Dennis Brutus, Objet Petit a, South Africa, Archilochus, Roy Campbell, Christopher Okigbo, Poet, Poetry, Circumcision, Death, Ticklish Subject, Images
For some inexplicable reason, the passing of the South African poet Dennis Vincent Brutus (November 28, 1924 – December 26, 2009) finds me wondering about the nature of the objet petit a – or in the stylish Lacanese, “Object small a.” Brutus would understand my reference since he was the first…
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Parliament
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So much has been written about the unending Jos City crises and will continue to be so in the future. Some bizarre writers andcommentators have even suggested that Plateau state must be Balkanized andshared amongst Bauchi, Kaduna and Nasarawa state.Some comedians are of the view that Jos City should be excised from Plateaustate and taken to Bacuhi state since it was part of Bauchi Province before 1926! Some even suggested the scrapping of Plateau state from the faceof the earth. Well whether people like it or not we will say the truth as it iswhose ever ox is goad. While…
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The Biafran War of July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970, was the “second media war” of modern history. The Spanish War of July 17, 1936, to April 1, 1939, was the first. Both wars were fought for nearly three years. Among the coalition of writers and journalists who spoke and fought for Spain were Roy Campbell, Ernest Hemmingway, Uys Krige, George Orwell, and Stephen Spender. In Biafra the vanguard of global writers and journalists included Renata Adler, Norman Cousins, Suzanne Cronje, Stanley Diamond, Frederick Forsyth, Nadine Gordimer, and Auberon Waugh. As in the Spanish crisis, Biafra did not become…
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Studying the Nigerian problems with its people, I have come to the conclusion that the problem we have in Nigeria is one. That problem is ignorance. Nothing more and nothing less.
When I speak of ignorance, I am speaking of ignorance of the people at the helm of affairs, ignorance of our policy makers, the movers and shakers of the society, the people with triple and double degrees in all spheres of life, the people who consider themselves the elites and erudite of the society. Little wonder the country is what it is today. One would think that education was…
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Perspective
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It was a Friday. As usual after office hours, he came over to the house. Dionne had prepared dinner; they both ate, as they reviewed the day's events. The night was special, it held no mischief - at least that was what she felt. Unknown to her, Rolins, whom she'd been dating for 3 years was set to get married the next day. Unfortunately, the lucky bride was not her.
What a way to end a relationship! For some, the calls would stop coming in, the once feisty lover feigning 'too busy' to call, until the intimate feeling of the…
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The national question in Nigeriaconcerns all the underlying and recurrent issues that excite perennialdiscourse, debate and conflict such as federalism, revenue generation/sharing,security, injustice, energy crises, election, constitutionalism, religiousextremism, ethnic intolerance, corruption and so on. Top on the list today isconstitutionalism and political succession, with the President’s health andabsence fueling and heating up the system. With so many divergent voices producing a cacophony in recent weeks, thewisdom of elders was badly needed and one voice that has clearly pointed out apath to follow is that of former Akwa Ibom State Governor Obong VictorAttah. See Sunday Sun, Guardian on Sunday, Sunday Compass, The…
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Notable PDP stalwarts have said almost the same thing, but in differentways; about the situation in the country, the ailing PDP-powered PresidentUmaru Yar’Adua, and the way forward.Former governor Victor Attah said in his recent media chat that “President cannotresign today and come back tomorrow to sayI want to rescind my resignation because I am well now, therefore asking him toresign would sound very extreme and final. Constitution clearly stated that ifthe President has to be out of the country as it were, his Vice must beproperly mandated to function in his position.”Former governor Duke, in This Day of 10/01/10 said…
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Prologue: 18 February, 1990, on my maiden visit to Greece, Mediterranean Europe, as a young Nigerian student with only a secondary school education, I came across an invitational essay competition sponsored by “FORUM PANELIST INVITATION COMMITTEE, OSAKA CENTRAL P.O.BOX 770 H.H.D., 530-91 JAPAN.”
This piece titled “My Letter to the 21st Century” was my entrance in the essay competition. Sir/Madam, if you find it worth-while please, do me the honour to re-publish it as a mark of respect to what your media house stands for and in total agreement with the way and intellect Stella Azie has employed to…
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Show Biz
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Popular Nollywood actress, Adam Ameh, is about starting a new project that will kick start a new dawn in the educational system in her home state, Benue.
The new project, which has been tagged, ‘Take it to the Street’, is all about sharpening the cognitive skills and mental alertness of students in all secondary schools in Benue State. It is coming under her production outfit known as Adylad Productions.
Speaking exclusively to HVP on phone,…
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