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AU SUMMIT, GROUP OF AFRICAN LEADERS

Jonathan: Paths to building a viable Africa Free Trade Area

PRESENTATION BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK  EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR,  ON “BOOSTING INTRA-AFRICAN TRADE” AT THE 18TH AU ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 29 – 30, 2012, ADDIS ABABA PROTOCOL It is a great pleasure for me to attend the 18th Ordinary session

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(From left) Silva of Bayelsa State, Imoke of Cross River State, Wamako of Sokoto and Idris Kogi State

Supreme Court sacks 5 Nigerian governors

A seven- man panel of the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision this morning sacked Governors Liyel Imoke, Murtala Nyako, Ibrahim Idris, Wamako and Temipre Silva of Cross River, Adamawa,

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Alhaji Hafiz-Ringim.

Jonathan Sacks Police Boss, Ringim

The Nigerian government Wednesday announced the sacking of under-fire Inspector-General of Police, Hafiz Ringim, a move seen as a belated response to the escalating campaign of violence by the Islamist ...
•Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mrs. Deizani Alison-Madueke

Nigeria’s Oil Thieves In Trouble

More shocking revelations emerge on how Nigeria’s oil wealth has been plundered through the subsidy scheme administered by the PPPRA in connivance with the NNPC [caption id="attachment_9362" align="alignleft" width="297" caption="•Diezani Alison-Madueke: ...
Femi Falana

Nigeria’s Oil Industry Stinks

Mr. Femi Falana, lawyer and human rights activist maintains in this interview with ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE, that monumental fraud exists in the importation of petrol. He and other activists, he declares, ...

After the bombs, Nigerian rites of verbiage begin

Nigerians have begun their usual rituals after the act of abomination has been committed: open the floodgate of reactions, with torrents of words condemning the act, but with little action ...
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News Analysis: Boko Haram Militants Mock Nigeria’s Security

Bayo Onanuga Nigeria’s National Security Adviser, retired army general Owoeye Azazi was in Lagos Friday soaked in the ping-pong controversy over who ordered the soldiers to the streets of Lagos, the ...
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How Okonjo-Iweala Misled Jonathan

How did President Goodluck Jonathan arrive at his decision to remove the fuel subsidy, a gravely unpopular, anti-people policy? It all started on 6 December last year, when Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Finance ...

Okonjo-Iweala: Nigeria’s IMF Agent

 Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former managing director of the World Bank and incumbent Minister of Finance/Chairman of the National Economic Management Team draws the ire of Nigerians for imposing the harsh ...
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Nigeria: How to Reduce Governance Costs

Nigerian leaders must cut out waste if the nation is to achieve growth and development [caption id="attachment_9870" align="alignleft" width="263" caption="Goodluck Jonathan"][/caption] Some eight years ago, a commissioner in Ogun State invited a ...

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• Prof. Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka: Next Phase Of Boko Haram Terrorism

To what will you attribute Boko Haram’s ...
Prof. Wole Soyinka

Between Town And Gown

Professor Wole Soyinka combines intellectualism with positive ...
Al Mustapha after the verdict

Al-Mustapha Sentenced To Death

Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, head of the killing ...
• Boko Haram-bombed police vehicle at Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi

Nigeria: A Nation On The Brink

The Boko Haram menace spins out of ...