Nigerian Jungle Blues and Sunday Cartoons

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan has warned key government officials who peddle rumour to be ready for the exit door. Talking tough yesterday, he said that government was aware of the presence of mischief makers within its fold and would soon decisively deal with them. MORE @ SUN NEWS ONLINE


Ogbonna Onovo, Inspector General of Police "Kidnappers Storm Presidency Abduct Son of Yar’adua’s Top Aide Demand N20 Million Ransom We’re on their Trail -Police" Kidnappers struck The Presidency yesterday when they abducted a four-month-old male baby of the Commander of the presidential aircraft fleet, Air Commodore Aminu Adamu. Sunday Trust gathered last night that the child, called Al-Amin, was kidnapped at the Apo Zone D residence of the Aminus, and that the kidnappers were asking for N20 million ransom from the baby’s parents. MORE @ SUNDAY TRUST


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Nigerian Jungle Blues and Cartoons

ABUJA—A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, declared that Vice President Jonathan Goodluck is empowered by the 1999 Constitution to exercise, in the absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua, all the powers vested in him, including signing of sensitive documents, so far such powers are delegated to him. The presiding high court judge, Justice Dan Abutu made the pronouncement while interpreting the meanings and intendments of sections 5(1) and 148 (1) of the 1999 constitution in a suit brought by a lawyer, Mr. Christopher Onwuekwe. Onwuekwe, in his suit, FHC/ABJ/CS/10/2010, had requested the high court to declare that in the absence of President Yar’Adua who is receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia, the Vice President, by virtue of the provisions of Section 5(1) and 148 (1) of the 1999 Constitution, could exercise all the powers vested in the President in the interest of peace, order and good governance pending when his boss, Yar’Adua, would resume office. He sued the Attorney General of the Federation and the Executive Council of the Federation. MORE @ VANGUARD







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Nigeria Jungle Blues and Thursday Cartoons

FIFTEEN new Federal permanent secretaries who were appointed by President Umaru Musa Yar’adua in October last year have been cooling their heels for nearly three months because his absence from the country has stalled their swearing-in ceremony and assignment of portfolios. One of them actually died last month while waiting to be sworn-in. MORE @ DAILY TRUST


"I Spoke With Yar'Adua Briefly - Jonathan." MEETING: From right; Osun State Governor, Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Martin Elechi, Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu and Governor Ikedi Ohakim of Imo State, after the PDP Governors' meeting with Vice President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, yesterday. MORE @ VANGUARD


"We Don't Know When Yar"Adua Will Return - PDP Govs" Nasarawa State Governor, Akwe Doma (left); Kwara State Governor, Bukola Saraki; Kaduna State Governor, Namadi Sambo; and Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke; after a meeting with Vice President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja on Wednesday. MORE @ DAILY INDEPENDENT


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Turmoil Christmas and Friday Cartoons

'People doing last minute shopping for Christmas yesterday in Lagos.' It’s Christmas again, but how many Nigerians know it as a fact in the true sense? How many people are really getting that special feeling which traditionally comes with the yuletide? How many are really sharing in the joy and goodwill the season has brought to the world? A cursory assessment of the local situation reveals that this year’s Christmas does not appear to be the best in recent times for the average Nigerian. Sola Ogundipe encounters persons who don’t know it’s Christmas and those who know but don’t give a care. MORE @ VANGUARD


There will be no Christmas and New Year holidays and celebration for some key members of the federal cabinet over the persistent fuel scarcity and epileptic power supply across the country. Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan who gave the directive in Abuja yesterday said the affected ministers should remain at their duty posts throughout the festivities until normalcy returns in the supply of fuel and power stabilizes a bit... Those affected are the Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Rilwanu Lukman, Minister of State, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia, the Minister of Power, Dr. Lanre Babalola and the Minister of State, Mr. Nuhu Wya. MORE @ SUN NEWS ONLINE


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Nigerian Jungle Blues: Ghetto Life Images IV

Garbage lines the street in this Ajegunle slum in Lagos where an estimated 3 million people live. Photo by Stephanie Giry/Boston Globe


How far is Ajegunle from Ikoyi? Apparently not that far if there are good, accessible roads, It is obvious the political elite is breathtakingly rich, and very small. Remarkably little of it trickles down. Part of this is because the super rich keep their money and spend it overseas. Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Times


Holy Cow! A nation that is rich in oil reserves? Photo by Punch


"Home for all"? They must be kiddying me! A Punch photo


Afternoon jump in the Ajegunle jungle as the DJ spins. Photo courtesy of Out There.


Nosamu Street in the crime-ridden, densely populated Ajegunle of Lagos. Photo courtesy of Vanguard.


What a life! Photo courtesy of Punch


Yes oo! Na real rumble in the jungle. Image courtesy of African Photos.

Nigerian Jungle Blues and Monday Cartoons

“It is not just about NNPC, really, but how we manage the entire downstream sector of the petroleum industry because of the inefficiencies, which have led to the haemorrhage, not leakage, that we currently experience in that sector. Few days ago, I got an invoice from NNPC. I got this invoice with the amount of N1.15 trillion in relation to money owed NNPC, and about N880bn of that amount represents outstanding subsidy payments..." 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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Nigerian Jungle Blues and Friday Cartoons

The Federal High Court in Asaba has quashed the 170 charges the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) preferred against former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, alleging that he mismanaged huge public funds while in office.The case, instituted two years ago, ended on Thursday when Justice Marcel Awokulehin, who said he trod “the part of caution” struck it out. He arrived in court at 9.30 a.m. and began by recounting how the suit went from the Federal High Court, Kaduna to Asaba. MORE @ DAILY INDEPENDENT


“In the event of any need to engage in politics of succession, it is the position of ACF that the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution remain the only effective guide for the process,” the group said in a communiqué at the end of separate meetings of its National Working Committee, NWC, and the National Executive Council, NEC, in Kaduna yesterday. MORE @ VANGUARD


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