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January 06, 2009

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• Will 2009 be a Happy New Year for Nigeria?
  NigerianNews takes this opportunity to felicitate with everyone as the year 2009 rolls in. Indeed, our felicitation this New year bothers on the prophetic, so replace any reference to Jerusalem in the passage below with Nigeria OR Abuja. Please also understand that this editorial is not about religion. However, if you must take it as a religious editorial, also understand that religion is the way we live our lives. A good and honest human being is also a good Christian and a good Muslim all at the same time! NigerianNews Editorial

• Gani, Osinbajo, Falana, 37 others to defend Ribadu
  *70 other lawyers line up for him EMBATTLED former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, is ready to commence his legal battle challenging his demotion...Vanguard
   

• How judiciary meandered through political cases in 2008
  But for the exemplary performances of few courageous judges serving on the nation’s bench, it will not be unfair to say that the judiciary disappointed or so it seemed in the performances of...Vanguard
   

• 2009 Budget: Presidency, NASS, MDAs To Spend N2b On Generators
  Legislators have queried the Interior Ministry for proposing to spend N40 million for this year's National Day celebration which cost only N16 million in 2008. Daily Independent
   

• I Don't Share The View Of Bow And Go - Mamora
  Senator OLORUNNIBE MAMORA has a tradition of briefing the media and the people of his constituency at the beginning of every year. The essence of those well attended fora is to give account of his representation as well as offer his own perspective on some of the issues that shaped the polity in the previous year. Daily Independent
   

• I-N-C-R-E-D-I-B-L-E!: FG budgets N2bn to run generators - As generator fume kills man, wife, son, 3 others
  HOPE of the Federal Government to guarantee constant electricity supply in the country seems to have been dashed...Tribune
   

• Probe: El-Rufai faults police
  Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has faulted the decision of the police to recommend him for trial over his conduct in office...Tribune
   

• Yar'Adua Moves to Checkmate Gaddafi
  The coup in Guinea has pitched African leaders against each other as President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is set to mobilise other West African leaders in a move to checkmate his colleagues from Libya and Senegal, Muammar Gaddafi and Abdoulaye Wade, who are believed to be supporting the new military regime. ThisDay
   

• FG Reforms Land Use Act
  The Land Use Act, which was controversially incorporated into the 1979 Constitution and retained in the 1999 Constitution, is on the list of laws soon to be reformed by the Federal Government. ThisDay
   

• Doctors’ Strike Paralyses Lagos Hospitals
  The industrial action called by a factional group of Lagos State Medical Guild began yesterday, taking its toll on some patients seeking treatment at state government-owned hospitals in the state. ThisDay
   

• Gaza Death Toll Hits 500
  As the number of people killed in Israeli military invasion of Gaza rose to 500 yesterday, Isreali Defence Minister Ehud Barak has insisted that the offensive in the contentious strip will continue ThisDay
   

• ASUU Sues FG Over Varsities' Governing Councils
  The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has sued the Federal Government over the failure of President Umaru Musa Yar’adua to reconstitute the Governing Councils of federal universities, which were dissolved on October 23, 2007. ThisDay
   
• Doctors strike cripples Lagos hospitals
  … Consultants render skeletal services
  … AGPMPN condemns strike
  Activities in Lagos State owned hospitals have been grounded by the on-going industrial action by Lagos State Medical Guild Executives. A visit by Daily Sun to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, General Hospital, Lagos Island and Gbagada General Hospital, | The Sun
   
• Yar’Adua’s govt visionless – CAN President
  As Nigerians settle down into the New Year, President of Christian Association of Nigeria [CAN], Rev. John Onaiyekan has launched a scathing criticism on the government of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, describing it as visionless. Speaking exclusively with Daily Sun in Abuja, the CAN president, who is also the Catholic | The Sun
   
• Generator fumes wipe out family -...in Benin
  Tragedy struck at Ihogbe in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State in the early hours of yesterday when an entire family was killed by fumes from a standby power generator.  Prominent community leader Mr. Michael A...Daily Trust
   
• House committee on Jos crisis begins sitting in Jos
  The Committee set up by the House of Representatives to investigate the causes o...Daily Trust
   
• Lagos ports congestion defies solution
  A grim picture of the Lagos ports congestion was painted yesterday. The Nation
   
• NDDC boss Timi Alaibe disowns anti-Ekaette group
  The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Timi Aliabe, has dissociated himself from a group urging the President to revisit the appointment of the Minister of Niger Delta. The Nation

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• Amaechi vs. Omehia: And the Reasoning please?
  Anyone who read our article on the Amaechi vs. Omehia titled The Supreme Court: Supreme in all things but Remedy! will in no doubt notice that our bone of contention with the Supreme Court was never about the conclusion they reached. Our problem has always been the remedy they fashioned to compensate the winning side in this case, Amaechi. NigerianNews Editorial
   

• Happy New Year and Welcome 2008!
  January 01, 2008
  NigerianNews takes this opportunity to felicitate with everyone as the year 2008 rolls in. Indeed, Nigeria is a country which God has bestowed with enough resilience to weather any storm! 2007 was such a turbulent year which some would have either wished it never existed or certain events never occurred. All the same, all our experience is supposed to strengthen us with sufficient energy so that we can witness the fulfillment of things yet to be revealed to us as a Nation by the Almighty God. NigerianNews Editorial
   

• Removal of Ribadu: The Triumph of Aondoakaa and his Ruse of Law
  December 31, 2007
  While the plot was being hatched, those who now cry foul on the removal of Nuhu Ribadu were busy celebrating the demise of the previous government. While the celebration went on, the evil geniuses in our midst were busy perfecting their next move of their escape from Alcatraz! NigerianNews Editorial
   

• The Supreme Court: Supreme in all things but Remedy!
  October 29, 2007
  We must first congratulate this Supreme Court for they have done it again! We congratulate you for your consistent inconsistencies. We congratulate you for consistently turning the face of logic upside down to the applause of those who should know better. If your inconsistencies are not embarrassing, we would  have also congratulated you on your undemocratic imposition of Rotimi Amaechi who was never voted for by the people of Rivers State. This is a first in the annals of representative democracy!! NigerianNews Editorial
  
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• Tunde Adenodi's Current Column
  
  Vacationing in Nigeria with pain
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  January 05, 2009
  Going home is always fun. There is always an air of anticipation of what you are going to meet: Your relatives, your friends, your neighbors. There is also always an air of serious apprehension on what you will not want to meet: Armed robbers, NEPA and serious traffic jams that discourage the avid fun loving vacationer from having some fun out of your immediate environment. Certainly, no one wants to have anything to do with the police, customs immigration, the local government, the state and Federal Governments. Not that you can do without them. But the most minimal contact you have to have with those bodies, the better for you.  NigerianNews Special
  
  Ribadu: Fighting Corruption Nigerian Style
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  December 08, 2008
  In 1966, the army took over the reign of governance and listed corruption as one of the reasons for their action. But what they called corruption in those early days was nothing compared with what they handed over to Shagari in 1979 after 13 years at the helm. And each successive government after Gowon lamented the degree of corruption they inherited from their predecessors and swore to fight it to a standstill. They said they did. But corruption has always won. The result of their fight is that Nigeria has emerged the 38^th most corrupt nation on earth in a list of 41 countries. Put in another way, we are the third most corrupt nation on earth. And if President Yar’Adua continues the way he is going, we will catch up with the last two countries and emerge as the most corrupt nation on earth!  NigerianNews Special
  
  Obama’s bumpy ride to the White House
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  November 20, 2008
  Let us allow our imagination to run wild for only a fleeting moment: Suppose Barack Obama won the presidential election hands down like he just did and suppose the incumbent, the lame-duck US President George W. Bush announced with an unsigned statement that he was annulling the election because of fear of “judicial anarchy”, what reaction do you expect from Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar or Sani Abacha, were he to be alive? What would Obasanjo say? Or Buhari? Or all the anti-democracy leaders who have led us to the cul-de-sac we have found ourselves in since independence? Can you imagine the stress the US would have to go through? Can anyone imagine the stress the whole democratic world would have to go through?  NigerianNews Special
  
  Obama: No victory song until November 5
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  October 13, 2008
  Pollsters have been dead right in most elections held in the US in the last 20 years especially as it concerns the presidential elections. But in 1982, Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles ran for the office of Governor of California and lost! And so what? And so what?! Polls had indicated that he was heading for a landslide victory over his white rival in an election period not too different from the current socio-political and economic environment engineered by the Republican brand of unbridled capitalism. Bradley was a democrat and have I told you that he was also black?  NigerianNews Special
  
  Backing the Delta People to the Wall
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  August 12, 2008
  Normally, a sheep does not bite. But when you chase it around and back it to the wall, it would bite! This is a Yoruba adage. Collectively, we, all of us Nigerians, have backed the people of the Delta to the wall, and bite, they will. And if they bite, we shall all suffer the consequences.  NigerianNews Special
  
  Northernizing the Nigerian military… yet again
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  July 28, 2008
  By selecting what he thought was an urbane intellectual from deep north^*, also known as the Sharia States or “Gideon Orkar excised states” (my own coinage), former President Olusegun Obasanjo had hoped that his work of 8 years might not necessarily be overturned.  NigerianNews Special
  
  Northern Plot to Subvert the Constitution
  by Tunde Adenodi.
  June 26, 2008
  The northern power brokers are at it again doing what they know best: plotting and scheming on their method for retaining power, fair or foul. Forty years of failure has not dissuaded them from this line of action, the mafia style.  NigerianNews Special | Read more articles by Adenodi
   

• Frisky Larr's Current Column
  
  Is the Nigeria of our hopes dead and buried? Wither the brave young men of yesterday?
  by Frisky Larr
  January 05, 2008
  Once upon a time in good old Nigeria, we had only twelve regional states. They were governed almost in their entirety by military leaders. The head of state was called General Yakubu Gowon ruling from Dodan Barracks in the heartland of Lagos. Far away from Lagos was a State called Rivers. The military governor was called Diete Spiff. He was a young man below thirty years of age (if my memory is not failing me). I was only a teenager without the grasp of the complexities of politics as a game of resilience in dishonor. NigerianNews Special
  
  Mike Okiro: Seeking to pass through a brick wall with the force of the head
  by Frisky Larr
  December 29, 2008
  Doggedness and intransigence, determination and stoic commitment are the attributes of man when he sets out to achieve a course against all odds. When a man damns the odds and ignores the tidal wave, the bounty will be his to cherish at the end of an uphill task. Such men are usually heroes or villains sharing the common virtue of the daunting lion heart. Nigeria is the stage today for the battle of two dogged actors, playing out a script that is far apart in content. Nuhu Ribadu and Michael Okiro are thrilling the Nigerian audience to a soap opera in the chant of Déjà vu. NigerianNews Special
  
  The Nigerian Press: Collaborating or chickening out?
  by Frisky Larr
  December 18, 2008
  he recent escalation in the now potentially legendary battle of Nuhu Ribadu has shown some all too glaring qualities of a prototype case-study for unveiling the mindset of today’s political dispensation. It is an illustrate picturesque of a musicalized saying of the wise that was once expressed by none other than Rita Marley, the wife of the late Reggae singer Bob Marley in a piece titled “Who is your neighbor?” NigerianNews Special
  
  Killing Ribadu softly: Who will pay the price?
  by Frisky Larr
  November 28, 2008
  Close the media house. Arrest the journalists. Arrest the bloggers too. But there are Fawehinmis whose soul will never die no matter the chains of arrests. NigerianNews will speak out – Unbridled and Unafraid. Set the secret service loose – the truth will never die! Some will take to the streets with a little bit of courage. They will ask you loud and clear: “Kill Ribadu slowly but who will pay the price?”