Nigerian Jungle Blues and Tuesday Cartoons

Palpable tension has gripped the House of Representatives, over plot to remove the Speaker, Dimeji Bankole. Bankole is among some notable Nigerians including no fewer than five governors who are currently stranded in Europe due to the volcanic ash, which led to cancellation of flights.
As members of the Nigeria First Forum (NFF) who are pushing for Bankole’s removal confirmed the plot and the scheduling of a meeting for last night to fine-tune their strategies, there is uncertainty over whether the House, which had been on Easter vacation would sit today... MORE @ SUN NEWS ONLINE


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Senate, Reps okay N4.6 trn budget: ABUJA—THE National Assembly, yesterday, approved a harmonized N4.6 trillion 2010 budget for the Federal Government directed at boosting infrastructure development across the country. Underlining its priority for infrastructure development, the budget has set N1.85 trillion representing 40 per cent of the total budget for capital expenditure. It is the highest proportion earmarked for capital development since the return to democratic rule in 1999.... MORE @ VANGUARD


There is unquantifiable shock in the camps of three former governors over the failure of the ex-state chief executives to make Acting President Goodluck Jonathan’s ministerial list.
A highly-placed Presidency source told correspondents in Abuja yesterday that until what seemed to be a Jonathan shocker earlier in the week, the trio of Chief Achike Udenwa, Dr. Sam Egwu and Obong Victor Attah, former governors of Imo, Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom states respectively, were said to be very sure of landing ministerial nominations... MORE @ SUN NEWS ONLINE


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Nigerian Jungle Blues, News Desk and Cartoons

Sympathizers at the site of the mass grave for victims of the Dagon Na Hauwa mayhem in Jos, Nigeria

>*Aliyu Gusau is new Security Adviser *400 victims get mass burial *UN, Vatican mourn, appeal for calm. ABUJA— THE Jos crisis which led to the death of about 400 people on Sunday, has led to the sacking of the National Security Adviser, Sarki Mukhtar, by the Acting President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. replace him is Aliyu Gusau, a one time National Security Adviser to former President, Olusegun Obasanjo. Meantime, about 400 corpses of the victims of Sunday’s massacre were, yesterday, given a mass burial at Dogon Na Hauwa village in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State amid tears and wailings. <<< MORE @ VANGUARD >>>


A three and a half-hour top level security meeting presided over by Acting President Goodluck Jonathan ended in the Presidential Villa, Abuja last night with a major outcome: the immediate removal from office of the National Security Adviser to the President, Maj-Gen. Sarkin Mukhtar. He was immediately replaced with his predecessor, Lt. Gen. Aliyu Gusau in what is seen as the beginning of a major shake-up in the nation’s security services following security lapses in the Jos renewed violence. Gusau served as the national security adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo until 2006 when he left to contest the 2007 presidential election. MORE @ SUN NEWS ONLINE


An unstable Nigeria is a nightmare prospect for Western leaders

Though the latest Muslim-Christian killings have nothing to do with Nigeria’s current constitutional crisis, triggered by a long illness to President Umaru Yar’Adua, they illustrate graphically the dangers when drift and dither replace swift decision making. The Christian-dominated Government of Plateau State has yet to explain how warnings of an impending raid by Muslims on Christian villages went unheeded or why security forces were unable to stop the bloodletting quickly. <<< MORE @ TIMES ONLINE >>>


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Nigerian Jungle Blues and Saturday Cartoons

Man Gunned Down In His Prime •Parents Demand Justice •His Dreams Have Been Shattered - Wife
Last Monday, the life of a 25-year-old electronics trader, Sunday Onuorah, was cut short by a trigger-happy policeman attached to the Mapo Divisional Police Station in Ibadan South East Local Government Area of Oyo State. The deceased, who was described as the bread-winner of the family, was said to have gone to the popular Ogunpa market to purchase some electronics gadgets with a view to replenishing the stock in his shop located along Gate-Molete road when he met his untimely death. After buying all the goods he had intended to buy, the father of one decided to board a commercial motorcycle to make his journey back home faster, so that he would be able to meet his wife, Augustina, whom he had earlier called to tell her of his return. MORE @ NIGERIAN TRIBUNE


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Nigerian Jungle Blues and Wed. Cartoons

Examining the U.S.-Nigeria Relationship in a Time of Transition: Mr. Chairman, Ranking member Isakson, and members of the Committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify before you today on Nigeria. Nigeria is one of the two most important countries in sub-Saharan Africa and a country of great significance to the United States. I have just returned from a five-day trip to Nigeria and I am pleased to share my insights on the evolving situation there as well as the U.S.-Nigeria bilateral relationship. MORE @ US STATE DEPARTMENT


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The election to choose the nations's next President is to be held as early as November this year, under proposals separately articulated by the Senate and House of Representatives committees on the review of the constitution... MORE @ VANGUARD


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Nigerian Jungle Blues and Thursday Cartoons

FG Moves to Probe Yar'Adua's Health: The Federal Executive Council, FEC, at its weekly meeting, yesterday, resolved to commence the process that could lead to the invocation of Section 144 of the 1999 constitution... MORE @ VANGUARD


Defeat of the Power Cabal: Members of President Umaru Yar'Adua's infamous kitchen cabinet are forced to throw up their hands in defeat as sustained public pressure forces the National Assembly to compel the investment of full executive powers in Vice President Goodluck Jonathan... MORE @ THE NEWS


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Nigerian Jungle Blues and Friday Cartoons

Fund athletics now or forget it, Coach Ariyo:
“In Nigeria, it is all about football, forgetting that there are other sports that can equally bring glory to the country. If we want to get the right result, we must have to fund athletics right from the grass roots." MORE @ VANGUARD


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Nigerian Jungle Blues and Sunday Cartoons

The ailment is acute pericarditis. This is not the first time the president will be going to that country of late. Last October when the president was being expected in New York to address the United Nations’ General Assembly, he headed for Saudi Arabia ostensibly to attend the commissioning of a new university. That excuse later turned out to be a smokescreen. He actually went to the holy land to keep an appointment with his doctors. Two months earlier, he had equally kept a date with them. Thankfully, this time around, the nation did not resort to grapevine sources to learn the real reason for his latest visit. MORE @ TELL MAGAZINE


Nigeria’s oil production and revenue might nosedive again following the resumption of attack on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta. The main militia group in the region, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), yesterday, claimed responsibility for the attack on a Shell/Chevron crude oil pipeline in Abonnema, Rivers State.
The military Joint Task Force (JTF), however, denied knowledge of MEND’s claim, saying it was yet to be verified. MORE @ SUN NEWS ONLINE


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Nigerian Jungle Blues and Saturday Cartoons

“The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) can confirm that a warning strike carried out by five boats involving thirty five of its fighters armed with assault rifles, rocket launchers and heavy caliber machine guns was carried out at about 0200Hrs today, December 19, 2009 on a major Shell/Chevron crude pipeline in Abonemma, Rivers state of Nigeria”. MORE @ VANGUARD


The EFCC said that Ibori was only discharged by the court and not acquitted, revealing that the former governor refused to take a plea in the case preferred against him in Kaduna, which later referred to Asaba, Delta State capital. The statement said: “In view of the attention the judgment of Justice Marcel Awokulehin of the Asaba Federal High Court has attracted globally, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC wishes to state the following facts regarding the decision of the court to quash all the 170 count charge against a former governor of Delta State, Mr. James Onanefe Ibori and others. MORE @ SUN NEWS ONLINE


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