News Updates's Blog – November 2011 Archive (17)

By GILBERT EKEZIE, gilbertekezie17@yahoo.com Wednesday, November 30, 2011

It has observed that Imo State is now witnessing a new era with the wind of positive change blowing across the state. Chief Uche Edom, Chief Executive, Brightway Group of Companies, who made the observation in Owerri, the state capital, said it gladens one’s heart that the state is fast wearing a new look:

“The impression is that Imo State has been trudging in hopelessness well accentuated by the…

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By CHIDI OBINECHE

Wednesday, November 30 , 2011

•Ojukwu & •Ekwueme

Photo: Sun News Publishing

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In a rather loose pattern, there is a general understanding that the late Biafran secessionist leader, and Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu naturally approximated the position of leader of the Igbo. The belief was so widespread that in life he was treated as a cult-hero, and lionized by the legions of ethno-centric groups that…

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By Sun News Publishing Wednesday, November 30 , 2011

On November 23, 2011, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, was relieved of her post by President Goodluck Jonathan. Following her sack, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, a police officer and the Director of Operations of EFCC, was appointed as the Acting Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the anti-graft agency.

Although government did not give reasons for her removal, it is widely…

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By Paul Okechukwu Oranika Wednesday, November 30 , 2011

Please permit me to begin this tribute to General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu with a paragraph of quotation from William Shakespeare, who noted: “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

As, first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms And then the whining school-boy, with…

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Written by Victor Ugborgu Saturday, 26 November 2011

Many Nigerian football clubs have consistently recorded bad results in local and international competitions and the hope of turning them around has led to more frustrations

It was a moment of disappointment, rage and disenchantment among fans of some of the big clubs when the 2010/2011 Nigerian Premier League ended November 13. Many clubs that started the football season with high hopes of winning the Premier League or making…

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Written by Ishaya Ibrahim Saturday, 26 November 2011

The jungle of Ososo hills, venue of the ongoing Gulder Ultimate Search contest, erupts in jubilation as Ezeoba Okoroafor is nominated for eviction

For the first time in this season of Gulder Ultimate Search, GUS 8, the eviction of a contestant elicited wild jubilation. Unlike other evictees who were missed by their mates after their eviction, Ezeoba Okoroafor’s eviction was rather greeted with cheers by other contestants. While…

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Written by Modupe Ogunbayo-Tona Saturday, 26 November 2011

Protests and confusion rule Egypt as the country’s apex court rules in favour of the continued participation of ex-president Hosni Mubarak’s political allies in the politics of the country

Did the people’s uprising that led to the exit of Hosni Mubarak from office as the Egyptian president achieve the desired change in the country? From all appearances, the transformation that the Egyptian people envisioned has not fully…

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Written by Anza Phillips & Ishaya Ibrahim Saturday, 26 November 2011

The 2010 and 2011 National Honours for 354 beneficiaries is generating dust and condemnation over the inclusion of many undeserving persons

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday, November 14, conferred National Honours on 354 Nigerians. The award which was for 2010 and 2011 recorded the highest number of recipients. But it was also the most controversial since the introduction of the awards.

The first…

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Written by Mike Akpan Saturday, 26 November 2011

In Nigeria, no government has had it easy whenever it tries to increase the prices of petroleum products by whatever name

By 2012, toll gates, which were dismantled in 2003 by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, will be back on all federal roads across the country. Mike Onolomemen, minister of works, revealed this plan at an interactive session with members of the Senate Committee on Works in Abuja early this…

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Written by Demola Abimboye Saturday, 26 November 2011

Even as students, they own cars and live big on campus. They tell the sordid tales of their involvement in kidnapping, the money they make and how they got recruited into the booming business of holding people hostage for money

The phenomenon began in the Niger Delta region as a freedom fight by militants protesting the degradation of their environment by oil industry activities. But it soon turned into a money making avenue…

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By Onukwugha Osuji Wednesday, November 09 , 2011

The failure of the generality of political leadership in Nigeria has been arguably the single most debilitating factor against societal development and progress. And, since many of them were not on the people’s mandate, there was little accountability but a high level of clouded purposes, broken promises and venality in the conduct of public affairs.

Mercifully, a few have established that with a clear vision, mission and…

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By Abdullahi Garba Wednesday, November 09 , 2011

On the political scene of late, no issue has been as vexatious as the sensational reporting and attendant commentaries on the tendencious and distasteful propaganda woven around the sighting of one of the old 2007 campaign vehicles of Vice President Namadi Sambo at a PDP event in Kaduna, still carrying the discarded slogan of “Namadi Project”.

This was promptly pounced upon by the thriving merchants of political mischief and…

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By Maduabuchi Dukor Wednesday, November 09 , 2011

It is overwhelmingly sad that the political and economic barometer of the state of the nation of Nigeria is pulsating a red light. For the 51st independence anniversary to be celebrated out of human face and the ritual postponed till 2014 without the consent of the governed through the instrument of the bicameral legislature is not only undemocratic but also mystical, closed, condensed, sad and translucent. The reading from the…

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By Abiodun Komolafe Wednesday, November 02 , 2011



Muammar Muammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi. That’s his name. Variously nicknamed ‘Brother Leader’, ‘Guard of the Revolution’, ‘King of the kings of Africa’, and ‘the rogue school bully,’ among others, Gaddafi was until August 2011, Libya’s strongman. Any hope of reclaiming the seat he’s occupied since 1969 came to a sad end on October 20, 2011 when he was captured and killed by rebels loyal to the National Transition… Continue

By The Sun Publishing Wednesday, November 02 , 2011



A journalist, activist cum politician, Abdul-Lateef Aderemi Ibirogba, the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, explains to some select journalists in his office, factors that make Lagos State relatively peaceful and crime-free inspite of its large population.

RAZAQ BAMIDELE was there. His reports:



On peace in the state

We thank God that Lagos state is peaceful and relatively crime free. If you… Continue

By The Sun Publishing Wednesday, November 02 , 2011



A journalist, activist cum politician, Abdul-Lateef Aderemi Ibirogba, the Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, explains to some select journalists in his office, factors that make Lagos State relatively peaceful and crime-free inspite of its large population.

RAZAQ BAMIDELE was there. His reports:



On peace in the state

We thank God that Lagos state is peaceful and relatively crime free. If you… Continue

By UGOCHUKWU RAYMOND OGUBUARIRI Wednesday, November 02 , 2011



A famous proverb in my country home posits that “instead of allowing the child of a native doctor to die of a common sickness, it is better that all the herbs in the forest are exhausted.” This, unfortunately, appears to be the new-found resolve of Nigeria's Federal House of Representatives in their latest neurotic craze to panel-beat the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - EFCC, into a docile, castrated and highly… Continue