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                                                                                                 By Ojo Ukanna                   Those who thought the exit of Hajia Turai Umar Yar’Adua automatically freed Nigeria from the manipulative claws of a power lusting Presidential spouse, need to worry about the perfidious script currently playing out in Abia State under the direction of Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan.

Jonathan's Wife Begins Her Power-Grab Career From Abia

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                                       By Ikechukwu A. Ogu                   The promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to set up Special Courts for Electoral Offences is laudable, although I do not know the form the special courts will take.

How to Structure The Proposed Special Courts For Electoral Offences

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                                       Bank Forum                   I want to draw the attention of the CBN Governor to the activities of Banks on the issue of “contract staff” in Nigeria banks.  If the Senators, Reps. Ministries of Labour, and the NLC are not responsive to the plight of Nigerian youths who are unjustly subjected to slavery in their own country because of unemployment problems in Nigeria, then the CBN should take appropriate actions about this issue. The restructuring exercise in the banking industry will not be completed if this is not checked.

Attention: CBN Governor-Nigerian Banks And Their Outsourcing 419 Strategies

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                                       by Bolaji Aluko                   "My own assertion is simple:  the US case of "no presidential assent" [Hollingsworth vs. Virginia (1789)] does not apply in Nigeria because in Section 12(3) of Nigeria's 1999 constitution on Treaty approval, the original drafters of our Constitution had shown their hand, together with Sections 9, 58 and 59(4).."

THURSDAY ESSAY:  Asserting the Necessity of Presidential Approval to Our Constitutional Amendments

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                                                                                                 AFP                   KANO, Nigeria — Authorities shot three people dead as a mob threatened to burn down a police station in an area of northern Nigeria that has been a hotbed of political and religious violence, police said Friday.

Three Killed As Mob Storms Nigerian Police Station-(AFP)

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                                                                                                 SaharaReporters, New York                    Authorities of Kansas University in Lawrence, KS, have fired a Nigerian-born professor at the center of a controversy over funds for the training of Nigerian legislators.

Kansas University Let Go Of Nigerian Professor Involved In Controversy Over Training Funds For Nigerian Legislators

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Fellow Nigerians: I address you today with a deep sense of world history and particularly of the history of our great country. In the aftermath of the recently annulled Presidential Election, I feel, as I believe you yourself feel, a profound sense of disappointment at the outcome of our last efforts at laying the foundation of a viable democratic system of government in Nigeria.


Enemy Of Democracy: IBB's 1993 Presidential Election Result Annulment Speech

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As part of efforts to mobilize Nigerians to participate effectively in the 2011 general election, MakeYourVotesCount (MYVC), an organisation dedicated to free, fair and credible elections is set to launch a national Election Fraud Monitoring Committee.

By Chido Onumah

MakeYourVotesCount to Launch Election Fraud Monitoring Committee

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 Saharareporters has obtained an August 2008 letter by George Obiozor, Nigeria's former ambassador to the United States, in which he appealed to Emeka Ugwuonye, the controversial Embassy lawyer, to disburse the IRS tax refund he had "seized," to the Embassy as Mr. Ugwuonye had promised.
                                                         
SaharaReporters, New York                   

Releasing Embassy's Seized Funds "The Proper And Honourable Thing," Obiozor Told Emeka Ugwuonye Two Years Ago

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Between Tuesday 13th July and Monday 19th July, 2010, a period of about one week, history was recorded as twenty (20) Nigerian artistes converged on the Ilupeju Lagos recording studio of Delta State born music producer Magege Theophilus (Ex-O) to lend their voices to the Cool2Vote Nigeria campaign with the recording of "I Go Vote"


By Fi'ammari Machar Zoaka                   

2011 Polls: 20 Nigerian Artistes Record "I Go Vote"