09/29/2005

opinion Lagos - The squabble between President Olusegun Obasanjo and his deputy Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has hit Africa and the rest of the democratic world like a bombshell. For some time now Africans have been looking onto Nigeria as the new response for democratic engineering in Africa.

09/29/2005


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09/25/2005

column ANY Nigerian who is happy or hopes to profit from the conflict between the president and the vice-president needs to go and have his head examined; most certainly, something is loose upstairs.

09/24/2005

UNTIL November 15, 2005, when the Metropolitan Police in London are likely to charge the Bayelsa State governor, Chief Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha to a court of competent jurisdiction on allegation(s) of money laundering, it seems to be the words of the British Police against that those of Alamieyeseigha, with the way the matter is twisting and turning presently.

09/24/2005

interview MRS. Omekadiya Uwazurike is the wife of the leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, Chief Ralph Uwazurike. Predictably, it has not been easy for the family that has come under intense security searchlight and pressure with the incessant arrests and raids on the family homes either in Lagos or Okwe in Imo State. The woman bears the responsibilities of shouldering the family burden since her husband has remained underground following the hunt for him by the security operatives. Mrs. Uwazurike, in this interview, tells the story of how the struggle has affected her family.

09/22/2005

Lagos - Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and other oil firms operating in Rivers and Bayelsa states yesterday shut their offices indefinitely even as hundreds of militant Ijaw youths protested the arrest of their leader, Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo.

09/22/2005

opinion Lagos - January 1970 marked the official surrender of Biafran forces to the Nigerian military thereby effectively terminating the existence of the Republic of Biafra which was proclaimed 30 months earlier. The stage for the Nigerian Civil War was finally set when the federal government in Lagos, under the leadership of Yakubu Gowon, split the former Eastern Region to provide three of the twelve federating states of his rule without the due consultation with political leaders from the East.

09/21/2005

opinion Lagos - In a blistering critique of this government's poverty alleviation programme in 2003, the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), said it was clear from the content and implementation strategy of the programme that the PDP-government was bereft of any idea on how to fight the poverty monster. Poverty, APGA warned, was such a serious threat to the survival of the nation's democracy that the government had an obligation to find a realistic way of reducing it. The bottom line of APGA's statement was that the PDP government had yet to start any serious war against poverty, despite the sloganeering.

09/14/2005

Owerri - STRONG indications have emerged that Imo State Director of State Security Services (SSS), Mr. Alex Amechina had been recalled to Abuja headquarters of the body, following recent allegation of bribery levelled against him by leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike.

09/14/2005

opinion This is to the extent that military governance in search for international accommodation under international rule of law seeks subscription to the doctrine of international legal sovereignty, which stipulates juridical independent entity that then has the right to freely decide the international agreements or treaties it will enter into.

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