Nigerians protest against Jonathan gov’t in London

by Akan Ido Hundreds of Nigerians in the United Kingdom staged a protest against the “dictatorial tendencies of President Goodluck Jonathan.” According to the Vanguard Newspapers, the protesters marched to the British seat of power at 10 Downing Street to presents copy of their petition to the British Prime Minister, David Cameron. We shall bring you... Read More

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June 5, 2013

Constitution amendment: Senate recommends 6-year single term for president, governors

by Isi Esene The Senate Committee on Constitution Amendment has submitted its report recommending six-year single tenure for president and governors. The committee headed by Senator Ike Ekweremadu, however, excluded serving president and governors from benefiting from the proposal. Read the Nigerian Tribune report below: Sources close to the committee told the Nigerian Tribune that the committee... Read More

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June 5, 2013

Terrorism: Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, may face trial in the US

by Akan Ido Just as President Jonathan officially declares Boko Haram a terrorist organisation, Kurt Rice, the U.S. Acting Assistant Director of Diplomatic Security Threat Investigations and Analysis Directorate has revealed that the leader of the terrorist organisation, Abubakar Shekau could be tried for in the United States or in courts of partner nations if caught. Rice... Read More

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June 4, 2013

Opinion: The cost of Sanusi’s success at the CBN

by Abiola Phillips The next CBN Governor should not be a banking industry operator. To appoint a serving or former bank managing director would be a big mistake. The term of office of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will end in 2014, but he has already announced that... Read More

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June 3, 2013

Elnathan John: Letter to the Nigeria Governors Forum Secretariat

by Elnathan John Rotimi, I am not one who believes in rumours or talking behind someone’s back. So I will ask you to your face: Who printed those posters of you and Sule Lamido for 2015? Because I care Rotimi Amaechi, Chairman, Nigerian Governors Forum NGF Secretariat, Abuja, Nigeria cc Jonah Jang The Other Chairman,... Read More

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June 3, 2013

NGF crisis: Jonathan under fire for endorsing Jonah Jang faction

Opposition parties and prominent lawyers on Sunday blasted President Goodluck Jonathan for recognising the Jonah Jang faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. The Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progress Change as well as lawyers, including Prof. Itse Sagay and Mallam Yusuf Ali condemned Jonathan’s action. The governors had on May 24, 2013, held... Read More

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June 3, 2013

PDP crisis: Obasanjo is an embarrassment to the party – BoT member

by Akan Ido Shauib Oyedokun, a member of the People Democratic Party Board of Trustees has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as an embarrassment to the ruling party. Oyedokun who said this in Osogbo, the Osun state capital on Sunday, fingered Obasanjo as the cause of the current crisis bedeviling his party. Read the Punch Newspapers report... Read More

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June 2, 2013

NGF crisis: “We see a growing pattern of a lying presidency” – ACN slams Jonathan

by Akan Ido The controversy trailing the chairmanship election of the Nigeria Governors Forum which saw Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state beating his Plateau state counterpart, Jonah Jang continues to rage on. The Action Congress of Nigeria today released a statement through its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed condemning President Goodluck Jonathan for throwing... Read More

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June 2, 2013

2015 ticket: 8 governors, senators may dump PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) appears headed for major turbulence, this time sparked by last Thursday’s call for automatic tickets at the 2015 elections for President Goodluck Jonathan, ‘performing’ first term governors and legislators. The idea was floated by Chief Tony Anenih, chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees (BoT). Many in the party view... Read More

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June 2, 2013

NGF crisis: We supported Amaechi to disgrace Jonathan – APC

by Isi Esene The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that they supported Governor Rotimi Amaechi against the President Goodlcuk Jonathan in the acrimonious Nigeria Governors Forum election to disgrace the president. The Party spokesman, Rotimi Fashakin likened it to position the opposition parties took in the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu... Read More

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June 2, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Fellow Nigerians, the Governors Forum distraction is all politics

by Simon Kolawole So our politicians are now symbols of credible elections and role models of integrity? Seriously? Since when? Many Nigerians are selling and buying that line. Have we been so bewitched to forget that this fight is but a mere disagreement between soul mates? This story often summons a smile to my face.... Read More

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June 1, 2013

#SOE: Al Jazeera report is contrived and misleading – Presidency

by Isi Esene The Presidency has expressed it displeasure over what it described as an “attempt by sections of the media, especially the foreign media to mislead the general public and the international community about the on-going State of Emergency and military operations in three states of the Federation.” In a statement signed by Reuben... Read More

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June 1, 2013

Touch not…: Court restrains PDP from further action against Amaechi

by Isi Esene A High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state have restrained the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from taking any further action against Governor Rotimi Amaechi pending the hearing of a substantive suit challenging his suspension from the party. The party had on Monday suspended the governor over the removal of Obio/Akpor Local Government Council Chairman,... Read More

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June 1, 2013

Dele Momodu: This is another epistle to President Jonathan

by Dele Momodu “Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” – Corinthians 10: 11-12 Your Excellency, please permit me to intrude into your busy schedule again today.... Read More

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May 31, 2013

Nasir el-Rufai: Hard facts show clearly that Jonathan has failed to deliver

by Nasir el-Rufai So Jonathan knew he was being economic with the truth from day one. It is not surprising that this is one of the many promises that he has failed on. We began the assessment of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration by listing a number of the campaign promises he made in 2011 and... Read More

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May 30, 2013

Olusegun Adeniyi: The NGF election and the dangers ahead

by Olusegun Adeniyi Nigerians need not look too far for the real culprits in the saga of election manipulations in our country: The faces of the bad losers in the NGF election seem very much familiar. Shame! Very early in 1993, the State House Correspondents (of which I was one, reporting for African Concord) held... Read More

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May 30, 2013

Abimbola Adelakun: Good luck, Governor Amaechi

by Abimbola Adelakun Amaechi, last time I checked, is a member of the PDP and a beneficiary of all the political capital and the repressive might the party wields. The drama involving Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and certain political goons is approaching a climax. What started as a governor-family affair has, somehow, managed... Read More

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May 29, 2013

2015: Lamido, Amaechi’s posters flood Abuja

by Isi Esene Campaign posters for the 2015 elections bearing the images of the embattled governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi and Governor Sule Lamido now litter some parts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Amaechi, who is facing political challenges after winning the chairmanship re-election of the Nigeria Governors Forum has denied being behind the... Read More

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May 29, 2013

Opinion: Mr. President, amnesty for Boko Haram is dead and buried

by Bayo Oluwasanmi A man can be no bigger than the number of people from whom he genuinely cares. If Jonny Nash was the embedded musician to boost morale of Nigerian troops in the ongoing campaign against Boko Haram insurgents, his choice of song would have been his all time classic “I can see clearly... Read More

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May 29, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Nollywood actress, Ini Edo lounges with Mr. President in Aso Rock

by Isi Esene Following the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) crisis which his spokesmen have repeatedly denied his involvement, President Goodluck Jonathan took a breather to host some entertainment industry practitioners in Aso Rock recently. Nollywood actress, Ini Edo posted this photo online posing with the Commander-in-Chief. Cool picture!

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May 29, 2013

Opinion: Saint Amaechi, please pray for us

by Saatah Nubari Can saint Amaechi say he has not seized the allocations of local government councils before? Amaechi is enjoying making people believe that he is been persecuted by the presidency, hence making people think the president is a dictator. Today as we celebrate our beloved Rotimi Amaechi attaining “sainthood” lets pause and take a... Read More

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May 28, 2013

Olatunji Dare: How Rotimi Amaechi became a marked man

by Olatunji Dare In that dubious quest, Dr Jonathan and Anenih seem to have been worsted. At the end of a visit the other day with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Ota, Ogun State, in continuation of meetings with leaders of the party across Nigeria to resolve a raft of internal issues, the chairman of... Read More

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May 28, 2013

Okey Ndibe: A case for canceling the 2015 elections

by Okay Ndibe Nigerians may not be able to bear – should not bear – the burden of yet another clash of naked ambitions. Once again, Nigeria has entered an awful, familiar season. The country’s air is rent with talk of power. Not electric power, no; we’re talking raw political power! And the general elections... Read More

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May 28, 2013

NGF crisis: Gov. Jonah Jang’s faction set to open new secretariat

by Rachel Ogbu Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang’s faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum are planning to open a secretariat in Abuja. The new secretariat plan was because of the division in the forum and some party members supporting the other Chairman of the Forum, Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, were not going to... Read More

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May 27, 2013

Reno Omokri: President Jonathan is a study in under-promising and over-delivering

by Reno Omokri These successes have not been accidental. The Federal Government has taken a number of initiatives to get Nigerians working. As we approach the midterm period of the Jonathan administration, many young Nigerians have asked me through various fora but especially on Social Media why I support and project this administration’s Transformation Agenda... Read More

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May 27, 2013

It gets EVEN worse: PDP suspends Rotimi Amaechi

by Isi Esene The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party has turned up a new gear as the National Working Committee in its emergency meeting earlier today resolved to suspend the embattled governor of Rivers State , Rotimi Amaechi. This position was taken after a petition was submitted by the PDP Rivers State Executive Committee against the... Read More

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May 27, 2013

How to rig a 35-man vote – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze “God is a democrat, does not support rigging but if you rig and succeed, that means God approves of it.” – Governor Jang Good morning and happy Monday. I hope you had a good rest this weekend, not the kind of rest that the Plateau and Akwa Ibom blazers had. You see,... Read More

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May 26, 2013

Opinion: NGF crisis – The pro-Jonathan faction has lost this one

by Wale Odunsi An election and not a selection was what they all agreed to conduct. Also their claim that it was wrong for the incumbent to be in office and still conduct the election really does not hold water. If events surrounding the chairmanship election of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) are anything to go... Read More

May 26, 2013

NGF crisis: How Northern governors deceived Jonathan

In spite of the awesome powers of the Presidency allegedly deployed to frustrate him, Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, like the proverbial cat with nine lives on Friday retained his seat as chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF). Sunday Sun reports that the outcome of the tension-soaked election apparently shocked the foot soldiers of... Read More

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May 26, 2013

Photo of the Day: Would your governor do this?

by Akan Ido The Queen of England on Thursday surprised her subjects by travelling on a guided single decker bus through Cambridge. Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh were in the town to open a £212million lab for a leading medical research institute. The bus driver, Mick Capper who could not contain himself having the... Read More

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Nigerians protest against Jonathan gov’t in London

Constitution amendment: Senate recommends 6-year single term for president, governors

Terrorism: Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, may face trial in the US

Opinion: The cost of Sanusi’s success at the CBN

Elnathan John: Letter to the Nigeria Governors Forum Secretariat

NGF crisis: Jonathan under fire for endorsing Jonah Jang faction

PDP crisis: Obasanjo is an embarrassment to the party – BoT member

NGF crisis: “We see a growing pattern of a lying presidency” – ACN slams Jonathan

2015 ticket: 8 governors, senators may dump PDP

NGF crisis: We supported Amaechi to disgrace Jonathan – APC

Simon Kolawole: Fellow Nigerians, the Governors Forum distraction is all politics

#SOE: Al Jazeera report is contrived and misleading – Presidency

Touch not…: Court restrains PDP from further action against Amaechi

Dele Momodu: This is another epistle to President Jonathan

Nasir el-Rufai: Hard facts show clearly that Jonathan has failed to deliver

Olusegun Adeniyi: The NGF election and the dangers ahead

Abimbola Adelakun: Good luck, Governor Amaechi

2015: Lamido, Amaechi’s posters flood Abuja

Opinion: Mr. President, amnesty for Boko Haram is dead and buried

SNAPSHOT: Nollywood actress, Ini Edo lounges with Mr. President in Aso Rock

Opinion: Saint Amaechi, please pray for us

Olatunji Dare: How Rotimi Amaechi became a marked man

Okey Ndibe: A case for canceling the 2015 elections

NGF crisis: Gov. Jonah Jang’s faction set to open new secretariat

Reno Omokri: President Jonathan is a study in under-promising and over-delivering

It gets EVEN worse: PDP suspends Rotimi Amaechi

How to rig a 35-man vote – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

Opinion: NGF crisis – The pro-Jonathan faction has lost this one

NGF crisis: How Northern governors deceived Jonathan

Photo of the Day: Would your governor do this?

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