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Written by Tobs Agbaegbu Friday, 16 March 2012

It is likely that the next national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, will emerge through a consensus arrangement despite the opposition of some candidates to it

A consensus candidate is likely to emerge as national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on March 24, in Abuja. The candidate will be chosen from a long list of aspirants from the North East zone of Nigeria, during the party’s national convention…

Written by Demola Abimboye  Friday, 16 March 2012

A government White Paper just released indicts Gbenga Daniel of illegal land deals but his aide says the former governor’s hands are clean

For nine months now, the battle between the two political titans in Ogun State, popularly called the Gateway State, had raged endlessly. During this period, the gladiators have fired darts at each other ceaselessly. But it now appears the duel between Ibikunle Amosun, current helmsman in…

Written by Administrator Friday, 09 March 2012

Northern elites and their counterparts in the South-South engage in rancorous arguments on existing revenue allocation formula under which oil producing states get 13 percent derivation

The controversy is raging like wild fire in a harmattan. In the past few days, political leaders from the old Northern region and their counterparts from the South-South geopolitical zone have been on the war-path over the contentious issue of revenue…

Written by Obong Akpaekong Monday, 05 March 2012

Jerry Gana, professor and former minister of information, advises Nigerian leaders to make the poor and the needy the centre of all their plans for development

The Conference Hall of Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, was filled to capacity. It was the second annual lecture of the three-year-old Akpabio Centre for Leadership Development, ACLD, a non-governmental organisation, established to promote the…

Written by Pita Ochai Monday, 05 March 2012

The decision of the federal government to hand over the security of Nigerian waterways to a concessionaire is facing stiff opposition from stakeholders

The recent federal government decision to concession security of Nigerian waterways to a private firm has continued to raise dust in the maritime sector. Most maritime operators and security officials in the country have kicked against the attempt to transfer security responsibilities to…

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Group Politics Editor, Taiwo Adisa, examines the raging battle for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) which is fast dovetailing into a North versus South battle for Nigeria’s resources. He unveils some trends which will define the character of North, South relations in the ongoing efforts at constitution amendment.

Exactly a week ago, Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger…

Events appear to be moving too fast for Nigeria and they are frightening.With bombings and other first grade violence becoming very routine in the country, it would appear very instructive that leaders of ethnic nationalities and regions are digging in for an epic show of brain and brawn.

At one point or the other, key leaders of the Nigerian federation have had cause to regret the ethnic configuration of the nation and queried its existence ab initio. Chief Obafemi Awolowo…

By Henry A. Onwubiko Wednesday February 22, 2012

The state, to paraphrase Engels in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, emerged as an organ of domination and class rule. It reflects the irreconcilable contradiction between the oppressor and oppressed. Therefore its essential content is a band of armed men – militia, SSS, soldiers or police – designed to visit terror and institute fear within the ruled to maintain order or disorder to suit the caprices of the…

PUBLIC SPHERE By Onuoha Ukeh [onukeh@sunnewsonline.com] Friday February 17, 2012

The call for the convocation of a sovereign national conference ought not to generate much heat or controversy. This is so because it’s not new in Nigeria. Individuals and groups have, over the years, agitated for a conference, where Nigerians would sit round a table and iron out contending issues. Personally, I do not see anything wrong with a conference. I consider it necessary at this point of the…

By CITIZEN DAVID Friday February 10, 2012

My thoughts have dwelt largely on this geographical expression called Nigeria, its people, its policies and its destiny, natural or divine. The land space called Nigeria is such a wonderful and splendid piece of architecture.

From the forest of the Delta, the undulating and rolling hills of the west, the green fields of the Udi hills through the savannah of the middle belt especially the jewel crown of the Gombe, surrounded on all…

By Godson Offoaro Monday, February 13, 2012

Rochas Okorocha

Except for some political fat cats in Owerri who are taking exception to the rumored relocation of Imo State University (IMSU) to Ideato, the buzzword here is Rochas. The buzzword in Imo is Rochas. And the buzzword amongst internet chatroom fobs engaged in dispassionate discussion about happenings in Imo State is Rochas.

Warning folks: I’m not on a praise singing…

By Douglas Anele

Consequently, if measures are not taken expeditiously to cut down drastically the cost of governance, Nigeria would be bankrupt. That said, between 2008 and 2010, the most serious security challenge the country confronted was kidnapping by Niger Delta militants.

Of course inhabitants of Niger Delta have a valid case of criminal neglect and environmental degradation against government and oil companies, but this was overshadowed by the selfish interests of…

FEBRUARY 11, 2012 BY BASIL FADIPE 

The phrase, ‘free choice,’ now seems so irritating a concept and the explanations, even more so.

Free choice, if it exists, could not have been offered man for the reasons adduced by its protagonists. Accepting those reasons is also either denying God’s omniscience or suggesting He is playfully wicked.

God’s omniscience should have revealed to Him well in advance that man will misuse the free choice, eventuating into…

By Editorial 10/02/2012 00:38:00

Boko Haram, the Islamic sect wreaking destruction in some parts of the North, is apparently overrated. Like all species, it harbours the seed of its own destruction in its genetic code. If the security agencies had tackled the sect professionally instead of sentimentally, and if the Federal Government had made justice its watchword and then kept its cool rather than work itself into panic measures, it would have watched the sect expire under the weight…

By Our Reporter 09/02/2012 01:18:00

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has an innate ability to defy gravity. Much more than this, the party has perfected the unnatural art of making water flow uphill by uniquely applying unexceptional and third-rate methods to Nigerian politics. This conclusion is not because the PDP is hated or because anyone wishes it to implode. It is simply because the harder the party tries to break the law, ruin the constitution and implement…

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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less –Marie Curie

I pray I’m wrong. But it seems that Nigeria is right at the beginning of the same crossroads it found itself in 1966. Two events, last week, provided yet another evidence to support this eerie feeling. The first was the burial, Wednesday, of the…

By Orji Kalu [Okalu@orjikalu.com] Saturday, February 4, 2012

It is no longer news that Nigeria is passing through one of its roughest times since its evolution as an independent nation. The ominous signs, emanating from every nook and cranny of the country, point to this fact. The gravity of the situation prompted me to do a piece in this column last week entitled, We live in perilous times. What I did with that article was to arouse the consciousness of our countrymen and women to…

Written by Demola Abimboye Wednesday, 01 February 2012

Boko Haram’s bomb and gun attacks and its order that Christians leave predominantly muslim states in the north, creates tension capable of undermining the existence of Nigeria as one country

Tobias Michael Idika a native of Abam, Arochukwu local government area of Abia State, got to Kano, the commercial nerve centre of Northern Nigeria, at a tender age. He has lived in the city for 35 years now. Within this period, he served…

By Orji Kalu [Okalu@orjikalu.com] Saturday, January 28, 2011

When the crisis in the 60’s that led to the Nigerian Civil War started, many never fathomed it would snowball into a huge conflagration that was later to consume millions of innocent lives and set the nation several years back. When the clouds were gathering at that time, those that were expected to speak out in condemnation of the atrocities that were taking place chose to maintain studied silence, pretending that what was…