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President Umaru musa Yar’Adua has ordered a probe of the death of Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf, an incident that has raised questions of extra-judicial killing by security agents.

This comes as a security source confirmed to THISDAY that a similar group opposed to Western education has been traced to Niger State.
There were conflicting reports regarding [...]

President  Umaru Yar’Adua, will, tomorrow in Abuja, unveil the re-branding Nigeria logo and slogan, as his administration pushes to give the nation a more positive image.Former Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon would be chairman of the occasion which is expected to attract a cream of top government functionaries, business moguls, the diplomatic corps [...]

Guardian
UNDER a new policy unveiled yesterday by the Federal Government, state governments can no longer award contracts for the repairs of highways.
The policy abolished a system under which state governments award contracts for the rehabilitation of federal roads without federal government’s input only to send the bills to it for refund.
The Federal Government also released [...]

Says a lot about the sad state of Nigerian affaris that no one was surprised that Yar’Adua’s victory in the 2007 election would be validated by the Supreme Court.
Since every cloud has a silver lining, the only good to come out of the Supreme Court decision is that the rule of law has prevailed.
I wish [...]

Yar’Adua must think Nigerians are just too dumb for words. I mean, isn’t this the same man whose administration closed down Channels TV for the God-Awful crime of reporting of saying things about him which were simply not true. Isn’t this the same Yar’Adua whose security forces are arresting journalists for daring to step out of [...]

Nigeria is truly an amazing country. While criminals go about their business in the National Assembly , crime-fighter Nuhu Ribadu was arrested by the EFCC
Security operatives yesterday dragged the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, from the graduation ceremonies at the NIPSS. Ribadu, who had successfully [...]

I just have to shake my head in bewilderment at how in Nigeria, the more things change, the more they stay the exact same…
I remember reading about the late Bola Ige being asked to merely take a bow at his Ministerial Confirmation hearing in 1999, of course he went on to underperform at both the [...]

Kids will be kids, the son of Umaru Yar’Adua obviously being one. So, some of the images here can be excused as manifestations of youthful exuberance more than anything else. The issue however is what kind of upbringing is he getting if his father who is the President of Nigeria allows him to engage in [...]

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar’Adua called, yesterday, for partnership between government and the private sector in tackling the current global financial crisis.
He spoke as The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wrote to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to explain the alleged N600 million bailout plan with some banks. The NSE has denied any such bailout.
The SEC also [...]

Sunday, October 05, 2008
FOI Bill And The Elusive Open Society
By Reuben Abati
One of the major highlights of the October 1 Independence Anniversary this year (apart from the stylish but insincere independence day speech by the President, loaded with false claims as it was, and the praise-worthy renaming of streets [...]