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There are a great many people, I expect a million in the country, who could have done the job better than I could, but I had the job and I had to do it --President Harry Truman, 33rd U.S. president, born 1884 at a Press Conference for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 17, 1952.
Abuja - AFederal High Court sitting in Abuja, has fixed May 5, for ruling on bail application made by counsel of detained members of Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB).
At Wednesday's proceeding before Justice Binta Murtala Nyako, counsel to one of the accused persons, Festus Keyamo, urged the court to grant bail to his client.
Onitsha - TENSION, yesterday gripped Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra State, following the killing of a 22-year-old girl allegedly by a policeman and death of four others in a violent clash between members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Onitsha Main Market Vigilance Group.
Lagos - Founder and President of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Chief Frederick Fasehun, has called on the Federal Government to release all detained ethnic leaders.
Fasehun, while addressing newsmen in Lagos yesterday, called for the immediate release of his five colleagues, including Otunba Gani Adams, Chief Oyinlola Awe, Alhaji Wahab Igba, Alhaji Mudashiru Adeniji, and Mr Sola Ajayi.
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Excerpts from a paper presented by the SSS DG at the Nigerian Press Council National Workshop on the Line Editor As a Gatekeeper in Lagos.
Every country in the world stands for something. That which the country stands for embodies the values upon which its governance is sustained. Consequently, the concept of national interest defines the objectives which a country pursues and protects consistently.
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Lagos - Political philosophers and scholars define Democracy as "Government of the people, by the people and for the people". This entails the resting of de-facto powers on the citizens that constitute the electorate. Such De-facto powers sacrosanct as they are consummate in the sovereignty of the citizens of any given nation state. This metamorphosis in the Supremacy of the Law as guaranteed by the rule of law.
POLICE authorities are on the trail of a leading member of the Movement For The Actualization Of The Sovereign State Of Biafra (MASSOB) identified as Munachi Nwosu over his role during the just concluded national Census exercise in the country.
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IDRIS Derby, former rebel General in Chad organized an armed struggle that overthrew the government of Chad in 1989. His movement, Derby said, was a patriotic movement. It was the movement for the salvation of a historically restless Chad which had not known peace or stability since 1960 when it gained independence from France. Thereafter be began a transition to democracy program, and offered himself for elections as a democratically elected president under a constitution that guaranteed two terms of office. His term ended, but Mr. Derby was not done yet with Chad; not especially with the new discovery of oil in the Chad basin which promises stupendous wealth - the sort we in Nigeria have come to know as "national cake" or "nku ukwa" in its Igbo variation. In the upshot, Idris Derby manipulated and forced a constitutional change through parliament that allowed him to elongate this term and run for another term of the presidency. The story is familiar isn't it?
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THERE is no gainsaying the fact that whatever is garnered from this expected initial skirmishes will follow us as a group to the coming decisive battles for the well-being of the nation in general and the Igbo in particular.
Abuja - It is not yet Uhuru for Chief Ralph Uwazuruike and his colleagues
of the Movement For the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra
(MASSOB) as hearing in the appeal filed by their legal team for bail
has again been deferred till May 15. 2006.
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