Nigeria’s Current Articles & News from Sahara Reporters [May ‘11 Series]

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                 By Simon Ateba, PM News, Lagos           A passenger with Arik Air flight W3 596 who sat by the engine side of the aircraft when the plane suffered a bird strike yesterday has described as hellish the situation on board the plane before their emergency landing in Lagos State, South West Nigeria.

Source: Bird Strike: Arik Aircraft Passengers Saw Hell As Flight Ran On One Engine-PM News, Lagos

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   By Nigeria2day           Rights groups have accused Nigerian troops and police of abuses, including extra-judicial killings, as they sought to quell deadly riots in northern Nigeria after the April 16 presidential poll. Police and military officials could not be reached for comment, but a spokesman for the governor in the hard-hit state of Kaduna denied the allegations.

Source: Nigeria Police, Troops 'Abused Rioters' In North

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                 By Charles Ofoji*           The governorship of Ikedi Ohakim at best can only be described as Maurice Iwu´s slap on the face of Imo people. During the brazen days of Obasanjo´s presidency everything was doable on Nigeria´s political landscape, including overtly substituting candidates who won primaries and elections with losers with sickening impunity. Back then in Rivers, Rotimi Amaechi had won the PDP governorship primaries, but on the day he was supposed to be presented the party flag, Obasanjo thumped his ambition with the joke – that his candidacy had small k-leg. There and then he was substituted with Celestine Omehia. But thanks to the Supreme Court that later corrected such primitive injustice.

Source: Ohakim: Downfall Of An Impostor-Governor

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   By Ifeanyi Izeze           When the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some personal aides of President Goodluck Jonathan campaigned for his election last month, availability and easy access of fuels was a major theme used to cajole Nigerian voters. It was said that the nation has conquered the evil of fuel scarcity as petroleum products are now readily available in all filling station and at the government-pegged prices.

Source: NNPC: Diezani, Where Is Kerosene?

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                                                                Nigerian rogue bankers on trial at the Ikeja High Court in Lagos, in appearance of former Board of Director of FinBank plc , Dayo Famoroti, Erastus Akingbola, Okey Nwosu, former MD FinBank and Agnes Ebubedike former Executive Director FinBank.

Source: Photonews: Nigerian Rogue Bankers On Trial

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                 By SaharaReporters, New York           Dear SR Reader: The SaharaReporters election team is now in the process of wrapping up its coverage of the 2011 Nigeria elections.  

Source: Wrapping Up SaharaReporters's Coverage Of Nigeria's 2011  General Elections

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                 By Oguchi Nkwocha, MD.           The British have a saying: “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” However, when it comes to Nigeria, what is normal and natural for the UK citizens and government to do in UK cannot be allowed—by the UK—for the peoples suffering and dying in Nigeria to do in Nigeria.

Source: UK Versus Nigeria: Good For The Goose, Apparently Not So For The Gander

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   By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu           The past three weeks have been some of the most difficult for the frames of perception and analysis of Northern Nigeria, in the Southern Nigerian press. Not since the crisis generated by the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election, has Northern Nigeria received the negative, in some cases, crudely racist profiling, as has been visited upon it, in the wake of Nigeria’s last presidential election. From top clergy men, like the President of CAN, through to newspaper columnists, and individuals who don’t have a real day’s job, but are called “militants”, the North was exhumed as the enemy and has been so treated.

Source: Profiling The Northern Enemy By Is'haq Modibbo Kawu

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   By Yinka Odumakin           The petty politics being played by President Goodluck Jonathan with the unfortunate disturbances in parts of the country following the massive rigging of the April 16 Presidential election shows the tragic incompetence that is governing Nigeria at its pathetic  worst.

Source: On President Jonathan's Cheap Politicisation Of Post-Election Violence