Photo: JTF Goes on rampage, shoots Unimaid Doctor
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- Published on Thursday, 09 May 2013 22:21
- Written by Elombah.com
Below photo: A doctor shot at University of Maiduguri, UNIMaid, teaching hospital by the Joint Task Fore, JTF, of the Nigeria Security Services in Borno State, because there was no space at the mortuary for dead soldiers brought to the pathology department. Another example of the military's heavy-handed tactics. The military’s harsh tactics,
Between the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority and Governor Rotimi Amaechi
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- Published on Thursday, 09 May 2013 12:15
- Written by Abdul Mahmud, ESQ
Press statement - Recall that on the 27th day of April, 2013, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) purportedly acting pursuant to the powers granted to it by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Act, 2004, as the regulator of Nigerian aviation, grounded the private jet of the Governor of Rivers state at the Akure airport. The reasons
ATROCITY! Body count soar as Nigeria military hunts down and kill Boko haram Islamists
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 May 2013 11:48
- Written by Adam Nossiter, New York Times
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. “They were not properly shot,” recalled a security official here. “I had to call the J.T.F.” — the military’s joint task force — “and they gunned them
Boko haram's defiant challenge
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 May 2013 22:30
- Written by Will Ross
BBC News, Lagos - In late 2012 you could have argued that the military operation against the Islamist militants had diminished the threat. But not any more. Coming on the back of other deadly attacks, this is probably the most significant strike against the state apparatus since the Kano bombings in January 2012. The army says it was
More than meet the EYES: Yoruba may determine who wins 2015 presidency
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 May 2013 15:18
- Written by Maazi Onumonu-Uzoaru
“The voting pattern of the South-East, South-South and North-Central may not change much if Jonathan contests in 2015. He may not garner as many votes as he did in 2011, depending on his performance and perception between now and 2015. If he is perceived as “improved” in his performance between now and 2015,
CD calls on South East governors to conduct LGA elections in the area
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- Published on Monday, 06 May 2013 22:25
- Written by Admin
Campaign For Democracy (CD) South East Region Calls For Immediate Conduct Of Local Council Election In Five South-East States Of Abia, Anambra, Enugu,Ebonyi And Imo State Respectively - South eastern states; we are filled with a mixture of sorrow and joy: sorrow because of the re-introduction of camouflaged
Hausanisation & Islamisation Policy In The Nigeria Police Force
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- Published on Monday, 06 May 2013 09:37
- Written by Emeka Umeagbalasi
Hausanisation & Islamisation Policy In The Nigeria Police Force: Our Case Against The Police Leadership Under IGP M.D. Abubakar - Intersociety
(Onitsha Nigeria, 6th day of May, 2013)- The composition of the Government of the Federation
Trilogy on Biafra, Nzeogwu & Igbo coup: Damola Awoyokun, Too Small To Be A Hercules
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- Published on Saturday, 04 May 2013 13:55
- Written by Mazi Chike Chidolue
When I read your trilogy on Biafra, published in The NEWS Magazine of 25, February, 4 and 11 March 2013, based on 21,000 pages of American Secret Files, as you claimed,
Question for Awolowo: All Is Fair In War And Love?
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- Published on Saturday, 04 May 2013 13:26
- Written by Mazi Chike Chidolue
Chief Obafemi Awolowo during the Biafra-Nigeria war orchestrated an old maxim- All Is Fair In War And Love - adding the hardy Awolowo blend - Starvation is a legitimate weapon of warfare! What Chief Awolowo meant was that in war, no weapon is considered dangerous. The title of this article and what follows immediately have been
Chris Okotie-Apostolic Incursion into Nigerian Politics
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- Published on Thursday, 02 May 2013 23:07
- Written by Obinna Akukwe
Pastor Series 2: Chris Okotie is the first cerebral pastor in Nigeria to make an apostolic incursion into Nigeria's dirty presidential politics . In 2003 he contested under Justice Party, placing 8th out of 29 candidates with 119,547 votes. Okotie formed FRESH Democratic Party and used the FRESH platform to vie for the presidency of Nigeria in 2007,
Amaechi’s Aircraft Ineligible for N-Registration & Why the Pilot Did Not Tender the Manifest
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- Published on Thursday, 02 May 2013 15:39
- Written by Ross Alabo-George
The whole aircraft registration scandal is just unfortunate yet intriguing. The Rivers State Government fell prey to poor advice and this is the simple truth. I feel sorry for the governor who has been super mired in the minutiae of this brouhaha and must have been taken aback by the emerging facts and the damning implications. The truth is
Baga bloodbath: Satellite Images, Witness Accounts Raise Concerns of Cover-Up
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 12:50
- Written by Human Rights Watch
Nigeria: Massive Destruction, Deaths From Military Raid - Satellite Images, Witness Accounts Raise Concerns of Cover-Up. Human Rights Watch. May 1, 2013
(Johannesburg) – Satellite images reveal massive destruction of civilian property from a military raid on April 16 and
Death Theatre: Over 1000 Nigerians Murdered In 4 Months
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 10:15
- Written by Emeka Umeagbalasi
(Onitsha Nigeria) Nigeria In Review By: International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law: Nigeria Is A Death Theatre: How Over 1000 Citizens Were Murdered In Four Months By Malicious Elements
- January to April 2013 remain the darkest periods in the history of Nigeria outside the full blown war and violence
Igbo Story in Kano under Governor Kwankwaso
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:59
- Written by Ohaneze Ndigbo Kano Chapter
On assumption of office 2011, Gov. Rabiu Kwankwaso took the disposition of an ethnic chauvinist. At one time, he began to promote policies that are obviously antagonistic to the well-being of Ndigbo and other non-indigenes in the state. He set an agenda to kill and bury all the business concerns of Ndigbo to the glory of his own people
Obasanjo, Yar'adua, Jonathan illegally withdrew N1.04 Trillion from Special Funds account in 10yrs
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 23:24
- Written by Admin
Channels Television - The senate has accused the executive of withdrawing money from the Special Funds Account (SFA) from 2002 till 2012 without due process and appropriate financial practice. Chairman, Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Ahmed Lawan (ANPP, Yobe State) submitted the committee’s finding in
Group petitions EFCC to investigate Petroleum Minister over N59tr Oil deal
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 April 2013 21:30
- Written by Olanrewaju Suraju
On April 26, 2013, sunnewsonline.com reported under the caption “Minister named in N59tr Oil deal” that five oil producing communities in Delta State and their leaders shut down the National Assembly over allegations that the Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison- Madueke and Shell Petroleum Development Company(SPDC) limited were
Massacre in Nigeria Spurs Outcry Over Military Tactics
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- Published on Monday, 29 April 2013 23:18
- Written by Adam Nossiter
Days later, the survivors’ faces tensed at the memory of the grim evening: soldiers dousing thatched-roof homes with gasoline, setting them on fire and shooting residents when they tried to flee. As the village rose up in smoke, one said, a soldier threw a child back into the flames. Even by the scorched-earth standards of the Nigerian military’s
Boko Haram Repubic; Alternative to Failed Amnesty
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- Published on Monday, 29 April 2013 22:24
- Written by Obinna Akukwe
Recently the Boko Haram Group of terrorists rejected the amnesty offer of the Nigerian Government making a Boko Haram Republic a viable alternative. A situation whereby everybody is begging a murderous group to accept amnesty makes nonsense of our collective sense of decency. President Jonathan, Sultan Abubakar, Ado Bayero, Bola
20,000 PHCN workers to be sacked
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- Published on Monday, 29 April 2013 17:05
- Written by Admin
VANGUARD - THE Federal Government has ordered the retrenchment of no fewer than 20,000 workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, ahead of takeover by successful bidders of its assets. Vanguard gathered that the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, issued the directive to the Chief Executive Officers, CEOs,
Nigeria’s northern insurgency Ever bloodier
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- Published on Saturday, 27 April 2013 00:15
- Written by The Economist
IT IS unclear how many people were killed in the fishing town of Baga in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno on April 18th and 19th as a result of fighting between Boko Haram, an extreme Islamist group, and Nigeria’s security forces. Some put the death toll as high as 188, with more than 2,000 houses destroyed. Such
My peace initiatives with Boko haram
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- Published on Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:12
- Written by Aisha Alkali Wakil
Not long ago, I reached out to members of a factional group of the Boko Haram sect led by Abu Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Aziz, and succeeded in persuading them to dialogue with the Borno state government. The group consequently declared a ceasefire. In 2009, I prevailed on the slain leader of the sect, late Mohammed Yusuf to
