Lagos - More opposition to President Olusegun Obasanjo's alleged third term campaign continued yesterday, when a coalition of Southern Self-Determination Groups from the South-east, South-west and South-south, declared that the third term scheming was undemocratic and as such, morally unacceptable to Nigerians.
Enugu - Southern self-determination groups have berated leaders of the region who met in Enugu on December 19 for sweeping fundamental issues affecting the country under the carpet and concentrating on rotational presidency and power shift.
Lagos - Pro-national Conference Organisation (PRONACO), yesterday expressed dismay at the continued detention of leaders of ethnic nationalities, including Friedrick Fasheun, Asari Dokubo, Gani Adams and Ralph Nwazuruike, alleging that it is a calculated attempt to scuttle the planned people's conference.
Lagos - column
HAS the Biafran war ended? Are you sure it has actually ended? When did it end? How did it end? Does the absence of battle fronts accompanied by shooting indiscriminately, signal the end of a war? What are the signs that the war has ended? Are there indications that there could be another civil war in Nigeria? Who are the likely parties if there is another civil war? Will it be Ndigbo again against the rest of the nation? Could it be another ethnic group against the rest of us? Can the federal government by omission or commission plant the seed that could produce a civil war when it germinates? How are state controlled resources dispensed among the various federating units? Can Ohanaeze or MASSOB sponsor another civil war?
analysis
Lagos - Year 2005 has thrown up many plots in the polity such that at different times, the scene severally took on the shape of a drama, melodrama and tragi-comedy depending on the events, developments and actors that trotted the stage. Oke Epia reviews the year over which the curtain now speedily falls
Lagos - High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), yesterday, granted leave to 17 people in the leadership of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to drag the nation's security apparatus to court over enforcement of fundamental human rights of the MASSOB members who were arrested by security operatives at various places in Onitsha and Nnewi, Anambra State and have been detained in Abuja.
Owerri - The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Richard Gozney, has
condemned in very strong terms, the recent use of firearms on
defenceless Imo people by the police and army personnel dispatched to
check the demonstrating loyalists of the Movement for the Actualisation
of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
editorial
The Igbos as an ethnic group in Nigeria can substantiate a claim of
marginalisation in comparison to their Hausa/Fulani and Yoruba brothers, but
is it not a crisis of thinking if they still feel that Biafra can be
actualised?
Abuja - The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), yesterday said it had concluded plans to build a new refinery, in joint venture partnership with US oil major Chevron, which will have the capacity to process 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil.
Motorists in the Federal Capital Territory yesterday experienced hard
times as most filling stations in the town failed to open their premises for
business.
The situation which led to the emergence of long queues at the filling
stations started in the evening of Monday, and gradually worsened by
yesterday, resulting in motorists spending long hours trying to purchase
petrol while commuters had a hard time getting taxis and buses to
board.
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