News Updates's Blog – January 2012 Archive (13)

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By Felix Elemchukwu Onuoha Thursday, January 26, 2012

Late Ojukwu

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Historically, the world, at one time or the other, receives from God, as gifts, talented great men and women destined to render critical services to man. The births and lives of these men and women are severally shrouded by mysteries and their bodies spiritually fortified…

By Bukar Usman Thursday, January 26, 2012

Maybe the best way to start making my case for local police is to remind us that local and independent police formations once existed in Nigeria before their integration into the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). And going by the low rate of crime and the communal peace generally experienced across the nation in those days, the local police formations, from the benefit of hindsight, can be said to have performed better than its unitary replacement,…

The Turf Game (Jimanze Ego-Alowes, alowesjimanze@yahoo.com) 08033009539

Thursday, January 26, 2012

The above quotation is taken from Professor Pat Utomi. He was at a STV programme on 16-01-12. Of course, Utomi is one of the few, who when they speak we pause to listen, after all he is easily one of the storied best and brightest. Continuing he stated; focusing on the past is not my thing. I like to move to the future. Next, if we moved over to Femi Kuti, himself a formidable…

By COSMAS OMEGOH Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Labour yesterday made good its promise to shut down the country unless president Goodluck Jonathan reversed the pump price of fuel. In various states of the federation and Abuja, huge crowds gathered at designated points and marched through the cities, displaying placards, chanting solidarity songs and denouncing the action of government.

Members of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), civil society…

With Dan Onwukwe (08023022170 dan_onwukwe@yahoo.com|) Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Regrettably, Nigeria, the most populous black nation on earth with a population of over one hundred million people, is sadly sitting on a cluster of time bombs waiting to explode with a catastrophic outcome that many will dread. The molange of communal killings, religious riots/killings, kidnappings, extremist agitation, corruption, criminally minded populace, unemployment and poverty, lack of purposeful…

By Chuks Iloegbunam Tuesday, January 10, 2012

My take on the removal of oil subsidy is that it should not elicit industrial action from organized labour. This is not because I do not see and appreciate the position of the majority of Nigerians who are already groaning under the deadweight of the subsidy removal. Oil subsidy, even with due deference to the informed and multifarious voices endlessly denying its existence, have repeatedly been removed in this country with dire…

By OKEY NDIBE (okeyndibe@gmail.com) Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Last Saturday, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan addressed Nigerians for the second time in as many weeks. This time, he mounted a multi-pronged defense of his decision to remove fuel subsidy, one of the most sinister New Year gifts an occupant of Aso Rock had ever given to Nigerians.

Mr. Jonathan’s defense reeked of platitudes and rhetorical sentiments. The platitudes rang false; the sentiments came across as cheap…

By G.O Akinluyi

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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It is time to license firearms for personal safety of responsible citizens. The quantity of illegal firearms currently in the possession of unauthorized persons and criminal elements is so much that the balance of security has tilted dangerously in favor of criminals and against law abiding citizens. The time is right now, to allow responsible Nigerian citizens to bear arms…

By G.O Akinluyi  Tuesday, January 10, 2012

It is time to license firearms for personal safety of responsible citizens. The quantity of illegal firearms currently in the possession of unauthorized persons and criminal elements is so much that the balance of security has tilted dangerously in favor of criminals and against law abiding citizens. The time is right now, to allow responsible Nigerian citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, families and their…

By Francis Bola Akin-John Friday January 06, 2012

It is crucial that every concerned church leader should understand the spirit behind the violent campaign of the dreaded Boko Haram so as to respond effectively. I have read many responses of Christian leaders and groups of people to the violent conduct of this Boko Haram and these show that we are yet to understand the spirit behind their actions.

Well, truth be told, the spirit behind Boko Haram is Jihad. It is the Islamic…

By Durugbo Ogueri Vincent Friday January 06, 2012

Now that the ex-Biafran Head Of State, Odumegwu Ojukwu, is no more, some people who ought to celebrate his well-lived and used life on earth seem to be mourning him, instead of celebrating him in all his ramifications. I was born a Biafran, and I am proud of anything Biafran.

The late Odumegwu Ojukwu was like a god to me, in that, apart from God in Heaven, without Ojukwu’s intervention in 1967, I would have been dead by now. He…

BY BOLA AJIBOLA Friday January 06, 2012

I am absolutely sad and disheartened to observe what is going on at the moment as regards the turbulence and destructive activities of the so called Boko Haram in our country. Since independence in 1960, we have faced so much disorderliness and confusion within our nation. I dare say that before independence, ours was a land flowing with milk and honey.

Then, we largely depended on agriculture; cocoa in the South West; groundnut, millet…