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ACN massive election rally for Fashola kicks off in Lagos

ACN massive election rally for Fashola kicks off in Lagos

Mar. 5 | Press Release: The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has urged all Lagosians to publicly show their approval for the wonderful works of Governor Babatunde Fashola government in Lagos by trooping out en mass to attend the grand ACN...

Confusion grips INEC as Court extends 5 PDP governors tenures

Confusion grips INEC as Court extends 5 PDP governors tenures

Feb. 24 | Five of Nigeria’s powerful ruling party state governors, including one in the volatile Niger Delta oil region, won a court ruling on Wednesday which could prevent them having to stand for re-election in April polls. Africa’s most populous...

Timi Alaibe, Special Adviser On Niger Delta Affairs Resigns

Timi Alaibe, Special Adviser On Niger Delta Affairs Resigns

Dec. 30 | Nigeria’s presidential advisor on the Niger Delta and the main figure in the implementation of an amnesty for ex-militants in the oil-rich region has resigned from the job, an official statement said on Thursday. “…Timi Alaibe had...

Kwara State Gubernatorial Election: A one man inheritance

Kwara State Gubernatorial Election: A one man inheritance

Oct. 6 | By Augustine E. Akhilomen It will be sarcastic for a hyena to want to claim supreme justice over the animal kingdom, when he is yet to control the affairs of his own domain, where there could be possible cracked walls for him to amend. How well can a...

IBB the Terrible

IBB the Terrible

Oct. 1 | “The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defiant though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are ordered. He can only be persuaded by showing him a new reason which commands his own. ” Ralph...

The Insult Of  Babangida/Odili And Saraki Presidential Ambitions

The Insult Of Babangida/Odili And Saraki Presidential Ambitions

Sep. 16 | By Akintokunbo Adejumo In the opening paragraph of my article, “We Really Must Be Really Scared Now!” written in June 2009(nigeriavillagesquare.com ) I wrote “I am scared for myself, my family, my people (all Nigerians), Nigeria itself. Please...

Jonathan, Ndigbo and the First Columnists

Jonathan, Ndigbo and the First Columnists

Aug. 26 | By Emeka Ukpabi The recently held South-East Political Summit 2010 in Enugu provided another opportunity for Ndigbo to contemplate their political future ahead of the 2011 presidential elections. However, the controversy surrounding its convening, in...

Bankole, Daniel Feud: The Grass Beneath Their Feet

Bankole, Daniel Feud: The Grass Beneath Their Feet

Jul. 31 | By Pius Adesanmi, Ottawa, Canada I do not mind the ijakadi festival orchestrated inside a bus recently by two corrupt members of the PDP, Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun state and Ogbeni Dimeji Bankole of the Federal House of Representathieves; I do...

2011 Election: South-South governors ‘endorse’ Jonathan

2011 Election: South-South governors ‘endorse’ Jonathan

Jul. 26 | State governors from Nigeria’s oil-producing south on Monday called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare his candidacy in upcoming elections and urged other parts of the country to also back the incumbent. Nigeria’s Senate last...

Dubai to extradite James Ibori to Britain

Dubai to extradite James Ibori to Britain

Jul. 26 | James Ibori, governor of the southern oil rich Delta between 1999 to 2007, who was arrested in May, “will soon be extradited to London,” Gulf News quoted a police source as saying. Dubai police were not immediately available to confirm the...