Journalist Survives Assassination...
Mr. Kola Eke is the Edo State correspondent of The First weekly magazine. He escaped death by the whiskers, penultimate Saturday, after gunmen suspected to be hired assassins tricked him out of the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretariat to the Ugbowo area of Benin City under the guise that they wanted to place an advertorial in his magazine and shot him at close range. MORE>>
How Nigeria Was Spared Another Civil War - Prof. Alaba Ogunsanwo
NIGERIA would have been plunged into another civil war had the constitutional amendment to ensure a third term for former President Olusegun Obasanjo not been scuttled by the Senate led by Ken Nnamani, president of the Senate, 2005 - 2007. This was the submission of erudite scholar, diplomat and political scientist, Professor Alaba Ogunsanwo, at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos Lecture delivered by Senator Nnamani titled: “Transformative Leadership: Lessons from the Fifth Senate,” recently. MORE>>
Soludo, Obi Team Up Against Andy Uba - Ahead Of 2011
Emerging signals have started indicating that Anambra State will continue to remain a political war zone till 2011 as the former governor, Dr. Andy Uba is now pitched in an intense power struggle with the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Charles Soludo for control of the state. MORE>>
British Police Arrive Nigeria This Week Over Ibori
The Metropolitan Police have concluded plans to dispatch a crack team of detectives to carry out further investigations in Nigeria on the former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, over money laundering. MORE>>
Top Govt Officials Behind Asuni's Travails, Says Family
The family of the detained peace activist, Chief (Dr) Mrs. Judith Asuni, has blamed the woes of their matriarch on those they called powerful top government officials “who are beneficiaries of the crisis in the Niger Delta.” The family did not however mention names of the suspected officials. MORE>>
Mr. Kola Eke is the Edo State correspondent of The First weekly magazine. He escaped death by the whiskers, penultimate Saturday, after gunmen suspected to be hired assassins tricked him out of the premises of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) secretariat to the Ugbowo area of Benin City under the guise that they wanted to place an advertorial in his magazine and shot him at close range. MORE>>
How Nigeria Was Spared Another Civil War - Prof. Alaba Ogunsanwo
NIGERIA would have been plunged into another civil war had the constitutional amendment to ensure a third term for former President Olusegun Obasanjo not been scuttled by the Senate led by Ken Nnamani, president of the Senate, 2005 - 2007. This was the submission of erudite scholar, diplomat and political scientist, Professor Alaba Ogunsanwo, at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos Lecture delivered by Senator Nnamani titled: “Transformative Leadership: Lessons from the Fifth Senate,” recently. MORE>>
Soludo, Obi Team Up Against Andy Uba - Ahead Of 2011
Emerging signals have started indicating that Anambra State will continue to remain a political war zone till 2011 as the former governor, Dr. Andy Uba is now pitched in an intense power struggle with the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Charles Soludo for control of the state. MORE>>
British Police Arrive Nigeria This Week Over Ibori
The Metropolitan Police have concluded plans to dispatch a crack team of detectives to carry out further investigations in Nigeria on the former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, over money laundering. MORE>>
Top Govt Officials Behind Asuni's Travails, Says Family
The family of the detained peace activist, Chief (Dr) Mrs. Judith Asuni, has blamed the woes of their matriarch on those they called powerful top government officials “who are beneficiaries of the crisis in the Niger Delta.” The family did not however mention names of the suspected officials. MORE>>
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