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February 08, 2010

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• NIGERIA BELONGS TO US TOO.
  by Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie
  The current drama and subterfuge surrounding President Umaru Yar’Adua’s ill health justifies two very important political quotes. The first is that “fools do last, what a wise man does first”. The second is that “those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber” (Plato).  NigerianNews Special

• Jos Crises: An Old Problem taking a New Dimension
  by Dr. Yushau Balarabe
  Any sensible person that has anything to do with Nigeria must have been disturbed with high level of animalistic barbarism, and display of total hatred among the people that were hitherto living peacefully for hundreds of years. In particular, for those of us from Jos, and Plateau state in general, it has been a depressing, frustrating and confusing time. NigerianNews Guest Column
   

• ANAMBRA GOV ELECTION: How Obi floored Soludo, Uba, Ngige •AC’s votes inflated by 10,000 •Soludo lost to internal crisis - PDP
  INCUMBENT governor of Anambra State and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Mr. Peter Obi, was, on Sunday, declared the winner Tribune
   

• Yar’Adua: Senate ready with motion to empower VP •FEC meeting on Wednesday ’ll be dramatic - Ministers •Why NASS, PDP officials fear Jonathan •Aondoakaa moves to scuttle debate on Akunyili’s memo •State Assembly Speakers back Jonathan
  ALL appears set for the transfer of power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan in acting capacity this week, as indications have emerged that the Senate plans Tribune
   

• Jonathan stops ministers’ resignation
  THE crack in the cabinet of ailing President Umaru  Yar’Adua is widening by the day with the crisis of confidence among members, culminating in the threat Tribune
   

• Victorious Obi Woos Ngige, Soludo, Uba
  Even as some of them are still smarting from defeat, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has asked his opponents in last Saturday's governorship election to join hands with him in building a better state ThisDay
   

• More Ministers Back Akunyili
  Some young members of the Executive Council of the Federation (EXCOF) are planning a showdown with other members of the cabinet in a bid to get a letter from President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to enable Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan act as the President ThisDay
   

• Obi: Cat With Nine Lives
  Until 2003, little or nothing was known about Mr Peter Obi in the nation’s political circles. He emerged on the nation’s political scene after the 2003 governorship election in Anambra State. In that election he was the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) ThisDay
   

• Anambra Election: Winners and Losers
  That Mr. Peter Obi has been handed a re-election is a major victory for the embattled governor given the array of candidates that lined up against him at the poll ThisDay
   

• INEC declares Obi winner
  Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State winner in last Saturday’s gubernatorial election. Obi, who is the standard bearer of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), polled 97,843 votes of the total 301, 232 votes cast in the election| The Sun
   

• Ngige rejects result
  Former Anambra State governor and candidate of Action Congress (AC), Dr Chris Ngige has rejected last Saturday’s governorship poll, saying it was nothing but a voodoo election.  At a post-election press briefing in Awka, he expressed regrets that out of 1.8 million registered voters in the state| The Sun
   

• YAR’ADUA : More ministers support Akunyili
  AS the Federal Executive Council, FEC, is set to debate the memorandum presented by the Minister of Information and Communication, Professor Dora Akunyili, asking President Umaru Yar’Adua to step down for Goodluck Jonathan in the interest of national unity, in two days time, cabinet members earlier opposed to the idea are said to have resolved to back the ‘political solution’ proposed by the 36 governors Vanguard
   

• Obi’s victory excites Onitsha traders
  Onitsha—Market leaders in Onitsha, Anambra have urged candidates of other political parties who vied for the
  Saturday’s governorship election in the state to join Governor Peter Obi to move the state forward. Vanguard
   

• TRANSFER OF PRESIDENT’S POWER: Why PDP, Govs back down
  The political deadlock foisted on the country by the leadership of the PDP and a cabal in the Presidency in the aftermath of President Umaru Yar’Adua’s medical trip to Saudi Arabia appears to be nearing its end after the party and the Governors Forum confirmed at the weekend, the existence of a letter from the President to the National Assembly on his absence from the country. Vanguard
   

• Why we lost Anambra, by PDP
  The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday attributed the resounding defeat of its candidate Professor Chukwuma Soludo in Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Anambra State to lack of unity among party members i...Daily Trust
   

• Soludo: ‘There was administrative rigging’
  PDP’s defeated candidate in Saturday’s Anambra governorship elections Prof. Chukwuma Soludo conceded victory t...Daily Trust

Business
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• US, Bank of Industry list benefits of AGOA
  United State Ambassador to Nigeria, Ms Robin Sanders, has advised Nigerian business community to take greater advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) to get access to the vast American markets with their products Tribune

• FG may compel listing of oil marketers on NSE
  The Federal Government, in its effort to  return the capital market to profitability, after the huge losses suffered by investors in the face of the global meltdown, may compel the listing of oil marketers who are yet to bring their company to the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Tribune
   

• Afprint delisting : Board reaffirms commitment to pay off shareholders
  THE Board of Afprint Nigeria Plc last week expressed its commitment in meeting its final obligations to the minority shareholders of the company Vanguard
   

• NPA, NNPC to collaborate in rehabilitating Atlas Cove Jetty
  The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), and NNPC are to collaborate toward rehabilitating and upgrading the facilities at the Atlas Cove Jetty. Malam Abdulsalam Mohammed, NPA Managing Director, made this known in Lagos. He was conducting Mr Femi Olayisade, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Transport, round the organisation’’s facilities at the Atlas Cove Jetty and East and West moles of the Lagos Harbour Vanguard
   

• Fuel Subsidy: Governors Threaten Legal Action
  Some state governments are preparing a legal action against the Federal Government for fuel subsidy deductions from the Federation Account which they claim are illegal and unconstitutional ThisDay
  
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Editorial

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• Amaechi vs. Omehia: And the Reasoning please?
  Anyone who read our article on the Amaechi vs. Omehia titled The Supreme Court: Supreme in all things but Remedy! will in no doubt notice that our bone of contention with the Supreme Court was never about the conclusion they reached. Our problem has always been the remedy they fashioned to compensate the winning side in this case, Amaechi. NigerianNews Editorial
   

• Removal of Ribadu: The Triumph of Aondoakaa and his Ruse of Law
  December 31, 2007
  While the plot was being hatched, those who now cry foul on the removal of Nuhu Ribadu were busy celebrating the demise of the previous government. While the celebration went on, the evil geniuses in our midst were busy perfecting their next move of their escape from Alcatraz! NigerianNews Editorial
   

• The Supreme Court: Supreme in all things but Remedy!
  October 29, 2007
  We must first congratulate this Supreme Court for they have done it again! We congratulate you for your consistent inconsistencies. We congratulate you for consistently turning the face of logic upside down to the applause of those who should know better. If your inconsistencies are not embarrassing, we would  have also congratulated you on your undemocratic imposition of Rotimi Amaechi who was never voted for by the people of Rivers State. This is a first in the annals of representative democracy!! NigerianNews Editorial
  
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• Tunde Adenodi's Current Column
  
  Nigeria: How our leaders destroyed the country
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  July 22, 2009
  What started as a dream of the trio of Zik, Bello and Awo has now become a nightmare of our generation. Sometimes, I call it a “daymare” for my generation and the one that follows. It is an embarrassment to all black people of the world and a source of shame and odium for black people of the USA, particularly the President of the United States, Barack Obama. And if it means anything, I am now ashamed of Nigeria just like millions of Nigerians in Diaspora. NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Adenodi
   

• Madaki O. Ameh's Current Column
  
  THE 7-DAY ULTIMATUM TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: NIGERIA AS A LAUGHING STOCK
  by Madaki O Ameh
  January 12, 2010
  In the aftermath of the recent Christmas Day 2009 attempted terrorist attack by Nigerian born Umar Abdulmutallab over Detroit, Michigan in the United States of America, one key feature of Nigeria’s now famed confusion in international diplomacy has again come to the fore: fire-fighting. NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Ameh
   

• Frisky Larr's Current Column
  
  Yar’Adua: Do they know it’s Christmas Time?
  by Frisky Larr
  January 19, 2010
  Christmas time is Yar’Adua’s time. Yar’Adua is not Jesus though. Yar’Adua is no sanctity. He even has no divine calling. But Christmas time highlights his being if Nigerians know what Christmas means. The hand of the clock repeatedly runs a circumference of twelve hours. NigerianNews Special | |Read more articles by Larr
   

• Kay Soyemi's Current Column
  
  That CIA Report on Nigeria – Fact or Fiction?
  by Kay Soyemi
  December 01, 2008
  Dr. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), recently presented and discussed his report titled the “Global Trends 2025” and among many other things, has predicted a bleak future for Nigeria if certain identified indicators were not addressed before 2025.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Soyemi
   

• Atsar Terver's Current Column
  ECHOES:Commentary on burning public issues
  
  The Enemies of Electoral Reform and El-Rufai’s Silly Outburst.
  by Atsar Terver
  June 09, 2009
  When former President Obasanjo recently declared in his characteristically reckless manner that he was not aware of any ongoing electoral reforms in the country, not many may have read the evil intentions pregnant in those words. Coming at a time the Uwais Report on Electoral Reforms was being widely debated by the public, such a declaration from a former President meant either of two things, namely that he was truly ignorant of political happenings around him or that he was just expressing cynical apathy. The later seems more plausible for a former head of state that he is.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Terver
   

• Dotun Oyeniyi
  
  ARE OUR LEADERS LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE’S SULTAN?
  by Dotun Oyeniyi
  I have a fervent admiration for the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar.  We have not seen any Sultan like him in our recent history.  Unlike most of our traditional rulers, the Sultan is not one to frequent the corridors of power or churn out chieftaincy titles to the men in power in pursuit of vain glory or monetary rewards in return.  His utterances, since asscending the Sultanate, have always been incisive, frank, non-patronising of those in government and clearly pro-masses.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Oyeniyi
   

• Joe Chikunie
  
  EKITI STATE ELECTION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP).
  by Joseph Ifeanyi Chikunie
  May 11, 2009
  s a student of History in my secondary school days, there was a sequence of events that I found most fascinating in that subject: The Rise and Fall of Empires. It analyzes how empires as the Songhai, Mali, Fulani et cetera rose as all conquering and powerful kingdoms before they fell respectively. NigerianNews Special |

  
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Interview

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• AN INTERVIEW WITH CHIEF OJO MADUEKWE, THE EXTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER IN PRESIDENT UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA’S CABINET
  
  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Ojo Maduekwe, was recently in the United States as a participant in the 'Nigeria Meets The World Conference' organized by ThisDay, and the United Nations General Assembly session. He spoke exclusively with NNews at the New York Millennium Plaza. NigerianNews Interview

Guest Columns

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• The Bond Between Tinubu & Fashola
  by Suage Badey
  Contrary to the rumours that were circulating in the newspapers after Barr Babatunde Fashola won the Lagos State 2007 gubernatorial elections (under the Action Congress (AC) platform) that his predecessor Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu would be a thorn in his flesh, dictating and calling the shots irrespective of the incumbent’s feelings and ideas, events have proven them wrong as Asiwaju who saw in Fashola the qualities of good leadership has remained on the sidelines watching with delightful satisfaction that he didn’t go wrong afterall. NigerianNews Guest Column
  
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• Top Nollywood actress, Monalisa Chinda reveals: Violence drove me out of marriage
  Celebrated Nollywood star actress, Monalisa Chinda has consistently maintained a deafening silence since her five-year marriage to ex husband, Segun Dejo Richards crashed in July. In fact, while her ex was busy granting interviews on the split union|The Sun
   

• Ede Mi Out At Last
  After much expectation, the latest effort from the stables of Okiki Films - Ede Mi, has finally been released. Daily Independent
   

• We Don't Sleep Around In Nollywood -Kemi Alagbara
  Kemi Alagbara may be viewed by many people as a pretty up and coming Nollywood face, but there is more to her than that Daily Independent
   

• No more foreign-based lover
  January 11, 2009
  The last time we spoke to Mercy Johnson was in August. She was so enthusiastic about her boyfriend abroad and like every 25 year old, Mercy learnt that love does not always seem the way it appears. | The Sun
   

• Trouble in Nollywood
  December 27, 2008
  Until few years ago, the world knew only two flourishing film blocks. Then it was Hollywood of the United States and Bollywood of Indian. The Nigerian Nollywood joined the fray 16 years ago and showed much promise| The Sun
   

• Ghanaians eclipse Nollywood stars
  Just like many alien invasion movies we’ve watched, the film industry in Nigeria, better known as Nollywood, is fast experiencing its own kind of ‘alien’ invasion | The Sun
   

• In Abuja, stakeholders chart new course for Nollywood
  At the recently concluded fifth edition of the yearly Abuja International Film Festival, organized by NAFIFO group, the future of Nollywood, was the dominant topic of discussion among the participants| The Sun
   

• Nigerian Movie Industry Has Improved Tremendously
  Steve Gukas has made a name both in broadcasting and film production. For twenty years running, Gukas has directed and produced films that have won the Daily Independent
   

• 'Why I left banking for Nollywood'
  With almost a decade experience and romance with Nollywood, consummate movie producer and linguist Vivian Ejike, is still not relenting on her oars, especially in the areas of churning out movies| The Sun
   

• Nollywood actress, Winifred…
  She belongs to the new generation actresses whose entry into Nolly wood had brought some breath of fresh air into the industry.She is every man’s desire and what her fellow women aspire to be. |The Sun
   

• The Press, Responsible For Our downfall - Toyin Aimakhu
  Some in the Nollywood circle, especially actresses, prefer acting nude but this is not applicable to Toyin Aimakhu. Speaking with GBENGA OLUMIDE at LTV8 recently, she explained why she can’t act nude...Tribune
   

• Aromire To Get Befitting Burial
  News of the death of popular actor and producer, Muyideen Alade Aromire, seems to have escalated the injury the Nigerian entertainment industry has experienced following the death of many artistes. Daily Independent

• Alade Aromire is dead
  The curtain fell suddenly, finally, on one of the leading lights and pioneer of Yoruba home video industry, Muyideen Alade Aromire. Aromire was the first Nigerian to own a vernacular pay television channel, Yotomi TV. |The Sun

• Nollywood is not improving – Zack Orji
  Zack orji is one of Nollywood’s biggest talents, and is considered the movie biz’s most prominent celebs. Trust Entertainment caught up with the star. Daily Trust

• I Left Banking For Nollywood -- Blessing Effiong-Egbe
  Life as a model was fast and fun, short-lived but got to a reasonable and fulfilling stage. I started out in Nigeria in 2001 with the Silverbird International Fashion show Daily Independent
   

• I'm Old Enough To Get Money Anywhere
  Fathia, estranged wife of popular actor, Saheed Balogun, is a notable actress and producer in Nollywood.She spoke to Patrick Uwalaka about her career and new work Asa, Daily Independent
   
• Nollywood Will Crash Soon, Says Oba Funso Adeolu
  Not many would have forgotten Funso Adeolu, Chief Eleyimi,...Daily Independent
   
• Scandal in Nollywood
  Though the gladiators are artistes, what is currently playing out in Nollywood is by no means a movie. So, it is no make-believe. It is a scandal of worrisome dimension and it is real life. | The Sun
   
• Don’t be fooled, there’s sexual harassment in NOLLYWOOD — Arinze
  How long have you been in the movie, music industry?Ehmm, this is about the 24th year I’m in the industry...Vanguard
   
• It’s stupid to sleep with a producer, expect a role
  Believe it or not, Ijeoma Imo is one of the most beautiful girls that pass through the industry called Nollywood....Vanguard
  
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