Sahara Reporters: Latest and Current Articles & News [March ‘11 Diet]

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                                                                   By Photonews@SaharaReporters, New York           The candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Nuhu Ribadu, on a second day of his presidential campaign in Gboko, Benue state.

Source: UPDATED: Mammoth Crowd At Ribadu's Rally In Benue And Ondo State

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                 By Jon Gambrell (CP)           LAGOS, Nigeria — Opposition presidential candidate Nuhu Ribadu, a man who once went after Nigeria's top politicians as the oil-rich nation's anti-corruption czar, struggled Saturday to have someone listen to him.

Source: At Opposition Rally In Nigeria's commercial capital, Ribadu Struggles To Get Noticed-Canadian Press

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   By Sabella Ogbobode Abidde           The Middle East comprises North Africa and Western Asia with about two dozen countries, multitudes of races, religions, cultures and subcultures. This is a land, which had, for thousands of years been the epic-center for very many interesting and epoch making events.

Source: The Collapse Of Authoritarian And Puppet Regimes In The Middle East

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                 By Osita Okechukwu           Conference of Nigerian Political Parties {CNPP} calls on Professor Attahiru Jega led Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} to give Nigerians CLEAN Automatic Fingerprint Identification System {AFIS} National Voters Register; commensurate with the N187billion expended on National Voters Registration.

Source: Jega: Give Us Clean AFIS Voters Register -CNPP

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              Wikileaks cables released by Lagos-based 234Next newspaper reveals how current Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan engaged in multiple voting in the highly discredited 2007 election that brought him to power.

Source: Wikileaks Cable Reveals How Goodluck Jonathan Engaged In Multiple Voting

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                 By Tony Iyare           Our attention has been drawn to the above titled lead story of the Next on Sunday published on Sunday, March 6, 2011, which falsely alluded that the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole told some US diplomats in December 2008, that President Goodluck Jonathan voted four times as Vice President in the April 2007 election.

Source: Oshiomhole Reacts-Re: Jonathan Voted Four Times In 2007

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                 By SaharaReporters, New York           Entering into its 52nd anniversary, Chinua Achebe’s classic novel, Things Fall Apart, continues to garner a string of laurels around the world. The latest honor for this, the most widely read and translated novel by an African author, came recently when scholar Andrew Taylor named Things Fall Apart as one of the 50 most “most important and influential books in the history of the world.

Source: Things Fall Apart Makes List Of 50 Most Influential Books

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                           By SaharaReporters, New York           A source in Enugu has sent SaharaReporters two photographs of Divisional Police Officer Sam Chukwu who is on the run after prosecutors fingered him in the kidnap of Lotachukwu Ezeudu, a second-year accountancy student at the University of Nigeria (Enugu campus).

Source: DPO Sam Chukwu's Pictures Discovered; Still In Hiding As Trial Looms

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Attempting to come to terms with xenophobia is confusing and highly problematic. It is like a disease that carries a lot of opprobrium and excites a great deal of contradictory reactions. The way it wreaks its havoc in Africa appears quite peculiar.

Source: Shades Of Xenophobia

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   By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye            Late last year, President Goodluck Jonathan was at the Enugu home of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. Their meeting took place behind closed doors. No statements were issued after it, and no attempt was made to let the public into the details of their deliberation. It was a private meeting, and they wanted it to remain so.

Source: Unfair Attacks On Ojukwu