News Desk (Early Edition) Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The travails of Nuhu Ribadu

SINCE his appointment as Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the country’s anti-graft body in 2003, Malam Nuhu Ribadu was able to cut a niche for himself as a fearsome anti-corruption czar who used everything at his disposal to do the job he was assigned by the Obasanjo administration. READ MORE>>>

Bakassi: Nigeria embarks on aggressive boundary demarcation exercise

To avoid future agonies and traumatic experience of the ceding of the oil rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroun Republic, the Federal Government has embarked on aggressive boundary demarcation exercise in order to ensure that her boundaries between other African countries are properly demarcated. READ MORE>>>

Homeless W/Cup: Nigeria Shock Italy

A Nigerian selected by Search and Groom- Youth for Development Centre from the just concluded Street Soccer League Cup team comprising players from the slums in Lagos, Ajegunle, Abesan/Ipaja, Agege, Ikorodu, Ikeja and Ibadan are doing the country proud in Melbourne, Australia at the moment. READ MORE>>>

Nigeria should generate 10,000MW from nuclear sources’

Nigeria’s quest to generate electricity from nuclear sources should be ambitious, with the target being to generate 10,000 mega watts, the Director-General, Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Prof. Shamsideen Elegba, said on Tuesday. READ MORE>>>

News Desk (Early Edition) Thursday, October 30, 2008

Ambassadorial nominee fails test on capital of Jigawa State

THE Senate yesterday commenced the screening of ambassadorial nominees with one of the eleven nominees failing to name the capital of Jigawa State just as the Senate disclosed its abandonment of its "bow and go" policy in its consideration READ MORE>>>

MOSOP tells Useni to apologise to Ogoni people over Saro wiwa

THE Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) has told former Federal Capital Territory Minister, Lt-General Jeremiah Useni to apologise to the Ogoni for saying the late Ken Sarowiwa deserved to be hanged READ MORE>>>

Finance officer Peter Voser takes command at Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell, the world's second-largest oil company, named Peter Voser, its chief financial officer, as its new chief executive yesterday. Swiss-born Mr Voser, 50, will replace Jeroen van der Veer on July 1 next year. READ MORE>>>

Policemen defy IG, still mount checkpoints on Lagos roads

Policemen in Lagos still mount checkpoints on the highways in the metropolis in defiance of last week’s directive of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, that such acts should stop. READ MORE>>>

Yar’Adua drops 20 ministers

The much-awaited cabinet reshuffle by President Umaru Yar’Adua took place on Wednesday with the removal of eight full ministers and 12 ministers of state. READ MORE>>>

News Desk (Early Edition) Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Obasanjo rejects power probe report

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has rejected the report of the House of Representatives Committee on Power, saying its conclusion contained unsubstantiated allegations. READ MORE>>>


Files on ex-governors missing, says EFCC

The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mrs. Faraday Waziri, on Monday said that the former state governors investigated by the commission were still walking about freely because files on their alleged misdeeds were either “missing or distorted.” READ MORE>>>

Africa and the taming of terrorists

Radical writer cum human rights activist, Mallam Shehu Sani is at it again. Following the publication of a bizarre work entitled, Political Assassinations in Nigeria, two years ago, the social critic is out with another breathtaking work. READ MORE>>>

Alleged N5bn fraud: EFCC threatens Rivers officials

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Monday threatened to declare wanted, the Rivers State’s commissioner for Finance, the accountant-general and the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance. READ MORE>>>

Nurses condemn state of primary health care

National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives has decried the situation at the primary health level, describing it as “very pathetic” and therefore called on the three tiers of government to intervene immediately before the total collapse of the sector. READ MORE>>>

News Desk (Early Edition) Tuesday, October 7, 2008

We are curbing crude oil theft - Military

Nigeria’s military assured on Monday it was making significant progress curbing crude oil theft, an illegal trade worth millions of dollars a day and the financial lifeline for militants in Africa’s top producer. MORE>>>

Ribadu: Sacrifice on the Nigerian altar

John Adams, son of Deacon and Susanna Adams and the first American president to live in the White House prayed with his wife, Abigail, as they entered into the lavish U.S. presidential residence on November 1, 1800 that “Lord, bestow the best of blessings on this house MORE>>>

Transparency International’s annual corruption perceptions index

Togo, Sao Tome and Principe tied with Nigeria in the 121st place. At the top of the list three countries tied for the first place, namely, Denmark, Sweden MORE>>>

North has World's highest illiterate children —World Bank

ABUJA—The Northern Nigeria Economic and Investment Summit, kicked off in Abuja yesterday with the World Bank, saying that Northern Nigeria has the highest number of children not going to School in the world. MORE>>>

Yar'Adua's secrecy oath, slap on Nigerians — Mudiaga-Odje

CONSTITUTIONAL Lawyer, Dr. Akpo Mudiaga-Odje, has described the oath of secrecy on some public officers appointed by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as a slap on the face of the entire Nigerian citizenry. MORE>>>

10 Nigerians begin economic dev. training in S/Korea

A News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN ) Correspondent in Seoul reports that the programme is sponsored by the South Korean government to complement President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s seven point agenda in the area of Human Capacity Development. MORE>>>

News Desk (Early Edition) Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Yinka Craig, ace broadcaster, dies of blood cancer - Govs, Nigerians mourn

ACE broadcaster and sports analyst, Mr. Olayinka Craig, is dead. He died on Tuesday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. He died of blood cancer which he had been battling since 2006. He was aged 60. MORE>>>

UN meeting on Bakassi put on hold

UN spokesperson, Michele Montas, told UN reporters that the postponement was because "President of Nigeria, Umaru Yar’Adua, will not be attending this year’s ordinary session of the General Assembly’’ MORE>>>

EFCC recorvers fake $2.1m in Kano

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it had recovered fake $2.1 million (about N247.8million) from a fraudster, Emmanuel Okoro, in Kano. MORE>>>

Newcastle FC’s Nigerian consortium place deposit of £200 miilion

Football circles in Nigeria and the United Kingdom are buzzing over the mysterious eight man consortia that are said to be in talks to purchase the English Premiership side Newcastle United. The group said to be in the Nigerian oil industry are represented by UK football agent Chris Nathaniels. MORE>>>

Nigeria improves on corruption ranking - Now 121st in the world

The efforts of the Federal Government at ridding the nation of corruption may have started yielding results as Nigeria further improved in the latest assessment of nations with corrupt practices globally. MORE>>>

Nigerian patients love to deny illnesses – CMD, others

Medical experts, including the Chief Medical Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Prof. Akin Osibogun, recount their experiences about patients who prefer spiritual homes to orthodox medicine. NIYI ODEBODE writes. MORE>>>

Exit of Mbeki

In a subdued television address he announced that he had submitted his letter of resignation to the speaker of parliament and would officially leave office once parliament chooses an interim successor, as it is expected to do within a month. MORE>>>

News Desk (Early Edition) Thursday, Sept 18, 2008

David-West seeks amnesty for militants
Former Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West has called on the Federal Government to grant amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta as a way to bringing about a lasting peace in the region and other parts of the country. READ MORE>>>

Navy sinks militants' boats, kills 12

Spokesman for the Navy, Lieutenant Way Olabisi, said the naval men were on routine patrol when the militants suddenly opened fire on them at a spot on the waterway. In the ensuing gun battle, the Navy sank the militants boats. READ MORE>>>

Anti-Jew, Muslim attitudes rise in Europe-survey

The Washington-based Pew Research Center's global attitude survey found 46 percent of Spanish, 36 percent of Poles and 34 percent of Russians view Jews unfavorably, while the same was true for 25 percent of Germans, and 20 percent of French. READ MORE>>>

NBC suspends Channels TV licence

THE National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the regulatory body for the broadcast industry, yesterday, suspended the operational licence of Channels Television following its Tuesday airing of the false report that President Umaru Yar’Adua might resign on health ground. READ MORE>>>

Iwu's recipe for sustainable democracy

At a recent lecture given at the behest of the Department of Political Science of the University of Nigeria , Nsukka, Professor Maurice Iwu, the Chairman of INEC, proposed a roadmap for the sustenance of the nation's democratic future. READ MORE>>>