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Farouk Martins Aresa - Kai! Nobody said democracy is cheap; all these billions for election hurt our heads. Some of us kept mute for fear of anti-democracy label. We dare not ask why any contract of substance in Nigeria has to be foreign in implementation or manufacture.

The billions approved for INEC Attahiru Jega is so huge but because it is for democracy, we accepted it. On top of that is the salary of those elected. Demon-crazy can't be practiced in poor countries, we tell you. One man one vote is so difficult to implement because of our indigenous dexterity that can defeat any oyinbo-made product and that include their voters registration machines.




Source: Jega Election 2011 May Be A Lavish Wedding At Any Price

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Nigeria Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mohammed Adoke (SAN) wrote to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to withdraw the case file of Minister of State for Health Sulaiman Bello, who is accused of N11.2million fraud.

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Mazi Uzo Obi - About eleven years ago precisely in 1999 when the military ceded power to the civilians, I had lamented the wrong choices that Ndigbo were making in a widely publicized article " The Igbo and their Bad Choices: Cause of Igbo Marginalization"-http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/obi/igbo.html.Today, nothing has changed and the southeast Ndigbo have totally lost out and lack any political strategy.

No Igbo of Southeast origin heads any of the branches of Government at the Federal level. The House of Representatives has Speaker Bankole from the Southwest while Ike Ekweremadu of the Southeast is the deputy Senate President. I respectfully submit that the failed leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo and Southeast Governors will make Ndigbo politically irrelevant in Nigeria. I am not making a claim to superior knowledge of anything but I will outline the facts as they are today for the reader to make the judgment.




Source: Ohaneze Ndigbo And Southeast Governors: Making Bad Choices For The Southeast Zone

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A Nigerian citizen, Moukhtari Ibrahim Aminu, has been arrested and detained for 10 days allegedly for "insulting" Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State on facebook. In addition, Mustapha Saad, a magistrate in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, has further remanded the accused in prison until February 7th 2011.

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Citizen Reports - The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday accused the Congress for Progressive change CPC as not demonstrating "sufficient seriousness and political will to forge a workable electoral cooperation" and has thus called off any alliance between it and the Congress for progressive change (CPC).

In a letter dated 28th of January 2010, written by the party's National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, and addressed to the National Chairman of the CPC, the ACN gave other reasons for calling off the alliance to include the fact that "it (ACN) no longer considers a merger feasible."

Chief Akande explained in the letter that his party which preferred a merger commenced discussions with General Buhari in 2005.

"As proof of our willingness and sincerity, we even decided to adopt his party's name and logo. This was when he was in ANPP. This dream never materialized," the party chairman stated.

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Dr. Wumi Akintide - President Jonathan must truly believe that Nigerians have very short memories. If you believe this crap statement you will believe anything. It's campaign season in Nigeria and politicians are desperate and will not hesitate to promise the impossible. Their credibility should only be determined by their track record. If you go by that prism alone, you will understand that President Jonathan is only trying to play the Hosni Mubarak on Nigerians because he plans to win the next election by all means.

Whoever believes that Mubarak can now deliver in 8 months what he has woefully failed to deliver in 30 years of his authoritarian rule in Egypt. If the Egyptians believe that, I have an island to sell them in the Pacific.

I am sure they don't. By the same token, Nigerians should not believe Jonathan.



Source: Super Man Jonathan To Deliver In 4 Years What His Party Could Not Deliver In 12

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The Nigerian Judicial Commission has offered a surprise promotion to the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami, the "troublesome" judge behind the recent rash of electoral rulings that involved the sacking of some People's Democratic Party (PDP) governors in the Southwest.

Justice Salami's promotion is being undertaken despite the lack of a vacancy for a North Central zone at the Supreme Court, but to make Salami's elevation politically possible, President Goodluck Jonathan will be increasing the number of Supreme Court justices to 21, thereby creating the spot needed for Justice Salami.

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Stella Lebbi -  Much as we do not wish to engage in polemics with Chief Bisi Akande, the national chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, we feel a sense of obligation to millions of our supporters and Nigerians in general to set the records straight.

Though Chief Akande has chosen to air brush the impossible demands of the ACN during the merger talks, we wish to set the records straight for posterity.




Source: CPC/ACN Merger Talks: Response To Chief Bisi Akande

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Ibraheem Dooba - I've just read the pathetic and gut wrenching story of how Mr. Dayo Modupe suffered in the hands of Nigerian Customs officers.  Seeing that Sahara Reporters is always willing to stand by the little guy, I expected to see the story on SR; but Mr. Modupe probably didn't send it here.




Source: Let's Take the Next Fight To The Nigerian Customs Service

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Former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission between 2000 to 2005, Abel Goubadia has died. The former public servant died this morning at the age of 79 in Benin City, Nigeria.

An entry on Wikipedia stated that Sir Abel Guobadia, was Officer of the Federal Republic(OFR) who was born on June 28, 1932 in Benin City, Nigeria. Goubadia according to the entry is an educationist, administrator, diplomat and retired public servant.

"In 2000, the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Guobadia Nigeria's Chief Electoral Officer. Dr. Guobadia was confirmed as the Chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission by the Nigerian Senate in May 2000. Guobada retired from this position in May 2005 becoming the first, and so far, only Chairman of the Electoral Commission since Nigeria's independence in 1960, to complete his tenure"