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The noose of custom and tradition is tightening slowly but surely around the neck of Dr Edmund Maduabebe Daukoru, a former Petroleum and Energy Minister under the Obasanjo presidency, and interim Amanyanabo of Nembe. The paramount ruler is reported to have entered a personal confession with regard to extraordinary measures he took to get his nephew, Chief Timipre Sylva-Sam, into office as Governor of Bayelsa State.

Women suffer disproportionately more than the rest of the world’s population, whether at a time of peace or at time of war. In essence, women suffer, in peace time and at war times. Women suffer from physical-mental abuses and brutalities, horrors and displacements and dislocations at times of war and social upheavals, as well as denial and deprivations of economic and political powers and opportunities at times of peace

The Court of Appeal tribunal in Ibadan Monday confirmed the declaration of the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, which returned Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State as the winner of the 2007 governorship election. While affirming the declaration of INEC, the four-man panel that gave the judgment dismissed the appeal of the governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Senator Ibikunle Amosun to upturn the verdict of a lower tribunal which gave victory to Governor Daniel.

Information reaching Elombah.com indicates The Nigeria Acting President has removed the National Security Adviser a very a powerful figure who was among the inner circle of aides to ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua. 

Goodluck Jonathan replaced Sarki Mukhtar with Aliyu Gusau, a retired northern general who served as national security adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and who remains a powerful kingmaker in the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP).

Heavy losses, Corruption and liabilities are pushing Nigeria's giant state oil firm toward annihilation, its top official warns, just as Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account is being looted by the State Governors with the active connivance of the Federal Government.

The incessant genocides in Plateau state, which started since 1999, led to loss of thousands of lives and teeming number of refugees (widows & orphans). The major ones occurred in 2001 and 2004.We will not forget when the Olusegun Obasanjo led federal government of Nigeria declared a state of emergency in the central Plateau state after massacres between two ethnic groups were turning

Jos Explodes Again While Still Under Security Watch: Who is accountable?

Ask this man the GOC Commanding the Jos Mechanised Div a Muslim sympathetic to the Hausa Fulani herdsmen   Not the Police Inspector General sequestered In ABUJA 

Maj Gen Saleh Maina. GOC

Jos riots are historical dating back to 1960. We have scientifically analysed the Jos riots which is between traditionally an Hausa Fulani sect mostly matchet wielding and barbaric  and a Christian population who have now learnt over the years to fight back in same barbaric manner

Has it occurred to anyone that 36 men and some of their predecessors no longer in office more or less hold the fate of 140 million-plus Nigerians in their hands? These men comprising the 36 serving governors of the federation and some ex-governors decide who gets what in high office and sashay around pretending they are acting in the best interest of this country. They are not. Most of their utterances, motives and actions are self-serving.

Dearest Tunde (Pastor) Bakare, what I am not sure is, if you got a copy of my appeal to Leaders of Faith Organizations in Nigeria published last year (2009) on my blog (http://briefsfromak uta.blogspot. com/2009/ 06/appeal- to-leaders- of-faith. html) and on most national newspapers. But whether you got it or not, your actions and deep involvement with the Save Nigeria Group are exactly the responses solicited from that appeal.

My dear friends, Below is my formal rejoinder to a despicable article that was written by one Yemisi Aderogba and which was published by Saharareporters on the morning of March 7th 2010. I do not believe that Aderogba actually exists but if she does she is not my friend on facebook yet somehow she managed to get into my photo gallery on my facebook page and steal a few pictures of my children. She then wrote her article and told the world that I had posted NUDE pictures of all my daughters on my facebook page.

Dr. Stanley Macebuh, The Guardian newspaper’s first managing director,

Dr. Stanley Macebuh, died by 4.15 am Sunday 7th March 2010, at the National Hospital, Abuja, after a brief illness. He was rushed to the hospital Saturday afternoon.

Witnesses said corpses were piled up in the village of Dogo-Nahawa, a few kilometres (miles) south of Jos. A doctor at a hospital in Jos told Reuters news agency that victims had been cut by machetes and burnt. In January hundreds of people were killed in riots in the city, which lies between the mainly Muslim north and the more Christian south.

Ever since Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan became the acting president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, powercenters, decisionmakers, opinionmakers, civil society, and every-day Nigerians have been begging, advising, cajoling and/or yelling at him to “move it, do something.” In their estimation, the acting president has been a laggard, slow to decision, and in some cases, indecisive. Nigerians, it seems, are inpatient with him. And frankly, their impatience and annoyance is justified. Or so it seems.

The leadership debacle created by President Umaru Yar'Adua's debilitating absence from Nigeria is far from over despite his return 11 days ago from a lengthy treatment abroad for an acute heart ailment.

How could Bankole control and manipulate the Nigeria House of Representatives so easily and so well?

Since President Umaru Yar’Adua was sneaked out from the country  for  medical treatment on the 23rd of November last year, and “smuggled” back penultimate Wednesday night,  his handlers have made him look like an oracle. They, in turn,  have assumed the positions High Priests through which he passes his esoteric messages to his confounded people.

Nigeria politicians are among of the highest paid in the world while Nigeria’s civil servants are some of the lowest paid in the world

In its New Human Development Reports, AfricaFocus Bulletin reports today that "Between 1985 and 2004, inequality in Nigeria worsened from 0.43 to 0.49, placing the country among those with the highest inequality levels in the world.

In a country that is so rich that it could afford to lose the sum of N300bn ($1.4bn)in oil revenue in four months in 2009- because The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) did not lodge the oil revenue into the nation’s coffers, over 70 percent of the population lives in abject poverty.

The United States government yesterday demanded to know the health status of President Umaru Yar’Adua as secrecy continues to surround it. State Department spokesman, Philip Crowley said in a statement that “in a democracy, senior cabinet members and legislative leaders have a right to know the health status of their president and so do Nigeria’s citizens.”