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Dangerous farce in Plateau state

We are unimpressed by the pleadings of corruption and abuse of office for the removal of the governors when they were at the twilight of their tenures. We are convinced that someone is trying to show that he is the ultimate boss that gives and takes power at will. Such attempt to play God is certainly dangerous for the institution of constitutional democracy in Nigeria.

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OBJ vs. Atiku

*My PTDF Story, By Vice President Atiku

*Osuntokun, not Nigerians will be shocked at Senate Hearings.

*.Press Release:  Atiku Campaign Denies Pressure on Adenuga

*.Press Release
NASIRU EL-RUFAI’S PERFIDY AND LIES

*.IT'S NOT TRUE I MADE OBASANJO TO KNEEL DOWN FOR ME-ATIKU

*. Vice President's letter to the Senate

*. Press Statement (NDM-News, Washington DC, USA September 23, 2006):

THE ACHEBE COLLOQUIUM
A CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE

You Have Two Cows!! 

TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.
You retire on the income.

INDIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You worship them.

PAKISTANI ECONOMICS
You don't have any cows.
You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.
You ask the US for financial aid, China for military
aid, British for Warplanes, Italy for machines,
Germany for technology,
French for submarines,
Switzerland for loans, Russia for drugs Japan for
equipment.
You buy the cows with all this and claim
exploitation by the world.

AMERICAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You sell one and force the other to produce the milk
of four cows.
You profess surprise when the cow drops dead.
You put the blame on some nation with cows &
naturally that nation will be a danger to mankind.
you wage war to save the world and grab the cows.

FRENCH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.

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Yar’Adua: How I’ll Manage $50bn Foreign Reserves
Katsina State governor and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Umar Yar’Adua, has said if elected to succeed President Olusegun Obasanjo next year More...

PDP Prunes Aspirants, ANPP Goes for Consensus
The ruling Peoples Demo-cratic Party (PDP) has begun moves to prune down the number of aspirants, vying for the nomination of the party, to contest the 2007 presidential election next year More...

...Taciturn and Underrated, A Governor Steps Out
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. The man whose name has suddenly shot into the limelight as a front runner in the race for who would be the first elected president to take over from another elected president walked into the room looking unassuming More...

EFCC Arrests Ogun Accountant General
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday arrested Ogun State Accountant General, Mr. Babatunde Salawu, over allegations of illegal deduction of monthly allocation More...

Iwu: No Revalidation, No Voting
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commi-ssion (INEC), Professor Maurice Iwu, yesterday said Nigerians who are not registered or failed to have their voters card revalidated before election next year would not be allowed to vote More...

Another Bomb Explosion Rocks Asaba
Another bomb explosion yesterday rocked the residence of Chief Theodora Giwa-Amu, a House of Representatives aspirant and former Commissioner for Women affairs in Delta state between 1999 and 2003 More...

Prince Charles Commends Nigeria’s Peacekeeping Efforts
The visiting Prince of Wales, His Royal Highness, Charles has commended Nigeria’s efforts at global peacekeeping operations, particularly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Sudan. More...

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Robbers Kill Journalist
NANS Expresses Confidence In INEC
Delta Govt To Establish Energy Parks
Kalu’s Aide Declares, Promises Succour
Police Is Poised To Fight Crime –– IGP
Robbery: Police Gun Down Two In Benue
Gov Jonathan Lauds Journalists On Ethics
Atiku In Abuja, May Resume Work Today
Sokoto FRSC Harps On Traffic Regulation
Pensioners Receive Gratuity In Delta State
Oil Communities Decry SPDC On Environment
Privatisation Of Unity Schools Unconstitutional
Jigawa Dep Gov Debunks Defection Allegation
2007: Shuaibu Idris Joins Kaduna Guber Race
Poor Technical Output, Bane Of Nollywood ––DG
Benue Provides Relief Materials to Flood Victims
Sale Of FG Houses Will Generate N150b –– El-Rufai
Royal Fathers Decry Extortion By Task Force In Abia State
Top Govt Officials Go Underground As EFCC Arrives Kaduna
Governor Duke’s Presidential Campaign Team Storms Ebonyi
NSCDC Arrests FUTO Graduate, 4 Others For Illegal Bunkering
Ladoja’s Case Will Be A Big Test For Nigeria’s Democracy, Says Lawyer
Kogi Guber Race Hots Up: Aspirants Take Oath Before Kogi Central PDP Elders’ Caucus



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As a person they say his greatest asset is his generosity, but then who can not afford to be generous with what does not belong to him...Read On


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The battle for the Guber primaries of the peoples democratic party in Oyo state has been on for sometimes and it is reaching the climax...Read On


AFRICA' DEVELOPMENT AND THE WESTERN AGENDA 
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PAT UTOMI'S SLIM CHANCE IN 2007
By Mr Sabella O Abidde, Wash. DC, USA
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By Prince C Dickson, Jos, Nigeria
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Shaking My Head...Our Collective Insanity


ATIKU: A CANDIDATE OF CHANGE, IDEAS AND ISSUES 
By Musa Ilallah, Kaduna, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) Vice President Atiku’s declaration for the contest to the number one seat of Nigeria  last Saturday is no doubt an event that will...Read On


HARUNA DAN ZAGO AND HIS ANTICS 
By Umaru H Dambatta, Kano, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) In all modesty, the story of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) cannot be told and assumed to be complete, without a special mention of Alhaji Haruna Danzago...Read On


EFFECT OF NIGERIAN PORTS AUTHORITY (N.P.A.) CONCESSIONING ON NIPOST... 
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(AmanaOnline) There is no doubt that successes have been recorded by Obasanjo’s led government in the area of reform-in fact, the reformist regime...Read On


ON ATIKU'S CAUTION ON INSTABILITY 
By Muhammed Ali, Kaduna, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) The Federal Government is merely making a mountain out of a molehill by insinuating that VP Atiku calls for military coup d’état...Read On


2007: PENSIONERS ENDORSEMENT OF SHEKARAU... 
By Ibrahim I Bello, Kano, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) Shekarau’s journey to contesting the 2007 general elections for the second term in office as the Governor of Kano State began in earnest...Read On


COMPETING DESPERATELY FOR THE HIGHEST COVETED JOB
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(AmanaOnline) So many Presidential candidates the experienced and the inexperienced men of timber and calibre the heavy weights and the light...Read On


IS ASO ROCK SERVING AS THE OKIJA CULT SHRINE.?
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(AmanaOnline) In the days of the Anambra state mini civil war when Chris Uba was trying to wrestle control of the state from the former Governor Chris Ngige...Read On


THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PAT UTOMI PRESIDENCY...
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(AmanaOnline) In the run up to the defeat of the now disgraced third term agenda, some Nigerians stood out and pitched their tent with the Nigerian people...Read On


NIGERIA’S COMPLEX POLITICAL INTRIGUES AND MANEUVERING 
By Jide Ayobolu, Abuja, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) It is a well known fact that all is not well in Nigeria’s political firmament, this has to do with the inordinate ambition of some political gladiators...Read On


CAN IBB MAKE IT TO ASO ROCK 
By Abubakar Adamu, London, UK
(AmanaOnline) There is an air of festivities and glooms on the forthcoming 2007 election in Nigeria. I heard and read the news of the former Nigeria President...Read On


KANO: PDP'S NEWEST PLOT 
By Umaru H Dambatta, Kano, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) With the flagging off of the INEC registration exercise, nationwide, there is no doubt that we are back on track to a season of election...Read On


BETWEEN OBASANJO AND THE NORTH 
By Mohammad I Zayyad, Jimeta, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) For the few months remaining for president Obasanjo to vacate office of the president, Obasanjo must have started his homework...Read On


RESPONSE TO NUHU RIBADU'S CHALLENGE 
By Abdallah Shaibu, Lafia, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) I am always reluctant to write on any issue bordering on the activities of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission...Read On


THE YOUTHS AND DRUG ABUSE 
By Elizabeth Ameh, Maiduguri, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) Drug abuse is increasingly becoming a major canker worm eating deep into the fabrics of our contemporary society and the world at large...Read On


ATIKU, A DEMOCRAT TO THE CORE 
By Musa Ilallah, Kaduna, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) No one doubts the fact that Vice President Atiku Abubakar, is a democrat to the core. Not even President Obasanjo...Read On


KANO: ITS PENSIONERS AND WORKERS AGAINST KWANKWASO 
By Muhammadu Ladodo, Kano, Nigeria
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NIGERIAN POLITICIANS AND LESSONS OF THE ANT CIVILIZATION 
By Janet L Aiso, Maiduguri, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) On the first of October, 2006 Nigeria celebrated her 46th year of existence as a sovereign independent nation after about four decades...Read On


MAKING GIANT STRIDES IN VOICE OF NIGERIA 
By Usman G Santuraki, Jimeta, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) When his appointment was made, as the new Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria out of the about one hundred candidates that applied for the post...Read On


KICKING OUT THE REPUBLICANS (PDP) IN OUR MIDST 
By Prince C Dickson, Jos, Nigeria
(AmanaOnline) The big crocodile we see today originated from a small egg and it is a big folly to estimate the temper of a chicken still in the egg...a strong purposeful opposition...Read On


THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST ELEVEN 
By Joseph D Rinyom, Abuja, Nigeria
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In this case, the first eleven is a political team of the President’s closest “advisers” or undertakers. Our coach demands slave-mentality (“total”) loyalty from his players...Read On


INEC HAS BEEN PROGRAMMED TO FAIL 
By Jide Ayobolu, Abuja, Nigeria
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There some fundamental issues that needs to be raised about INEC, the first point has to do with the fact that, presently INEC is not democratized...Read On

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>THIS THE GOSPEL OF DEMOCRACY ACCORDING TO ST OBASANJO


COMMIT A SIN GET REWARDED 
By Muhammad Ali, Kaduna, Nigeria
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The last may not have been heard of the mess men in power get involved in as the can of worms opened with Andy Uba’s money laundering saga...Read On


BRAZEN DISPLAY OF STOLEN MONEY 
By Idang Alibi, Abuja, Nigeria
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Have we as a people collectively lost our ability to ask pertinent questions on what I consider urgent and fundamental national issues? It seems so to me...Read On


PAT UTOMI'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
By Mr Sabella O Abidde, Wash. DC, USA
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Until recently, I had not paid that much attention to Dr. Patrick Okedinachi Utomi. All I knew was that he has the right mental attitude...Read On


COUNTDOWN 2007: BETWEEN EFCC AND THE TRUTH OPTION 
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The literal meaning of anti-graft is “lie- less or unfettered and unadulterated truth in speech and action”. However, the big problem with Nigeria’s anti-graft campaign is that...Read On


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Babayola M Toungo, Kaduna, Nigeria
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Robert McNamara, former American Secretary of Defence; former World Bank President; former Ford Motor Company President and the author of the much maligned... Read On



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