Nation
The appointment of some members of All Nigeria Peoples Party into the government of President Umar Yar’Adua and continued differences between the party’s leadership and its Presidential candidate in the 2007 polls threaten the survival of the party
By Oloukun Ayorinde/Abuja
If there is any defining characteristic of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Nigeria’s second …
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A female inspector with the National Youth Service Corps is victimised by soldiers for doing her job
By Ben Adaji/Jalingo
On 8 October, Mrs. Hadiza Usman, the National Youth Service Corps Zonal Inspector incharge of Gashaka Local Government Area of Taraba State, was allegedly brutalised and stripped half-naked by an Army Captain, M.A. Maina, the Adjutant …
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A Kebbi State indigene seeks an Abuja High Court’s leave to compel anti-corruption bodies to investigate and prosecute ex-Governor Adamu Aliero
By Nnamdi Felix /Abuja
Trying times loom in the horizon for Senator Muhammadu Adamu Aliero. The former Kebbi State helmsman is fighting the battle of a lifetime to stave off calls, by an indigene of …
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The sustained anti-narcotics activities of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, give Nigeria’s image a boost
By Lawal Dauda
Recent successes recorded by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in its anti-narcotics activities are enhancing the country’s image in the comity of nations.
Prominent among the nations to acknowledge the country’s remarkable feat is the …
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In 2006, I visited Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, the Alake of Egbaland in Abeokuta and I advised him publicly not to be the Oba of governors but Oba of all the citizens. I cited as an immoral example, a pathetic situation where students of Ilaro polytechnic were attacked and some murdered on the allegation that the …
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