October 2011
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WatchSaharaTV Interview Skype Call with Ikenna Azuike
We featured What’s Up Africa host Ikenna Azuike on our live SaharaTV program this past Saturday.
Get to know the interesting commentator and humorous personality behind one of the most hyped African vlog channels on the internet.
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Air Crash At Akwa Ibom Airport: No Damage To... →
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Akwa Ibom International Airport (AKIA) says the Friday crash by Nigerian Airforce (NAF) airplane did not damage any of its facilities even as the Nigeria Airforce kept the incident under wraps.
Captain Jari Williams, Managing Director of AKIA, disclosed this on Sunday in a statement issued on the incident.
The statement entitled, “Communiqué on NAF incident at AKIA” said...
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Time To Reclaim Nigeria 2 By Chido Onumah →
Perhaps the most interesting – some would say most bizarre – story out of Nigeria this past week was that involving some of the country’s journalists in the capital city, Abuja. We have had tales of inducement of journalists, and its impact on their job in the past, so this aspect of the story was not particularly enthralling.
I shall tell the other side of the story, which would have been quite...
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WatchSahara Reporters has been called the WikiLeaks of Africa.
Omoyele Sowore, a 40 year old political dissident from Nigeria produces the website from New York.
Sowore is dedicated to exposing corruption and greed in his home country.
One of the ways he does this is by tracing foreign property deeds and the assets of Nigeria’s political leaders.
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Northern Christians Condemn CAN’s Oritsejafor For... →
Some Concerned Christians in the North held emergency meetings in Kaduna on Friday and Saturday respectively and discussed the unfolding events trailing the Federal Government’s planned action on fuel subsidy.
Most disturbing to us is the much-publicized endorsement of the Federal Government’s action by the leadership of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) as was relayed by its National...
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Occupy Campaigners In The US Demand Dr.Emmanuel... →
Niger Delta Activist and President of the Global Network on Nonviolence, Justice, Good governance and Democracy (GNNJGD) Comrade Rex Ekiugbo Anighoro has become the first Nigerian activist to galvanize the international revolutionary Occupy wall street movement to take a more proactive stand in supporting Nigerians to Occupy against corruption, greed, financial crimes and electoral fraud in...
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Is the War on Terror Shifting to Africa? →
On October 24th the US House Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing regarding the recent decision by the President to deploy Special Forces to Uganda and other regional countries in an effort to follow through with US Law that is designed to rein in the Lord’s Resistance Army.
There is an interesting history regarding this Group. In 2001 the State Department placed the Lord’s Resistance...
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The House of Reps Objects to Diaspora Voting By... →
Of all the jokes emerging from Abuja, the one from the House of Representatives has to be the most serious.
Last week, it suspended discussion of a bill which will amend the 2010 Electoral Law to extend voting rights to Nigerians abroad.
It is a simple proposition that is obvious especially in the lower house of bicameral legislatures worldwide: the more the number of citizens who are able to...
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US Takes Welcome Action To Seize Dictator’s Son’s... →
Today the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed an asset forfeiture claim against a $30m Malibu house, a $38.5 million Gulfstream jet and other assets owned by the son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, claiming that they were bought with the proceeds of corruption. Global Witness, which in 2006 first revealed that Teodorin Obiang owned the Malibu mansion, welcomes this action after several...
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EFCC Re-arrests Maryland Lawyer, Ugwuonye For... →
The Economic and fiancnail Crimes Commission this morning re-arrested Maryland-based Nigerian lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye, soon after he concluded a court trial at the Abuja high court where he was facing trial for diversion of $1.5 million proceeds of IRS refunds relating to a real estate transaction in Washington DC.
Today’s arrest according to the EFCC was unrelated to the diversion of the...
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NTA Executive To Face Child Abuse Charges →
Princess Folasade Bankole, the General Manager of the National Television Authority (NTA) in Ado Ekiti in the South West of Nigeria, has been summoned to appear before the National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP) in Lagos over allegations of gross child abuse, child trafficking and inhuman treatment.
A source from the state’s Ministry of...
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Another Overland Mishap Averted In Asaba →
Another Overland Airways flight from Lagos to the increasingly-notorious “Asaba International Airport” nearly crashed again today due to poor weather and problems with communication equipment at the N40 billion uncompleted facility.
The latest mishap was more dramatic than a previous one about which a Citizen Reporter wrote here in SaharaReporters only yesterday. In today’s drama,...
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"OCCUPY WARRI"-Unemployed Youths And Students Stop... →
Youth groups in Warri, Delta state yesterday took to the streets to protest mass unemployment in the state.
The unemployed graduates led by a youth activist and leader of the “unemployed Graduates Association of Nigeria, Progress Omo-Agege forced the governor of the state, Mr. Emmanuel Uduaghan to abandon his birthday party scheduled for the city.
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The United States’ Looming Invasion Of Central... →
President Obama recently sent a letter to the United States Congress informing it of his administration’s dispatch of 100 US troops to central Africa, “to help battle the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).” This action represents a sudden and intriguing interest to engage in a guerilla warfare that has lasted almost three decades and whose popularity has waned considerably in recent times.
At the...
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Plane Crash Averted At Asaba’s Uncompleted... →
What might have been a disastrous plane crash at the yet to be completed N40billion Asaba International airport was averted at the weekend when an Overland Airlines plane was forced to go and land at the Benin Airport following communication equipment failure at the troubled airport.
The pilot of the fully loaded commercial aircraft, registration number 5N-BND, which had come in from Lagos,...
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"Time To Reclaim Nigeria" By Chido Onumah →
I have been following the “Occupy Movement” across the world and I must say I am impressed. What started as a small band of protesters on Wall Street in New York a few weeks ago, has grown into a global movement against the current exploitative social order. It is growing bigger every day, incorporating community and religious groups, labour unions, students, and youth organisations.
As an...
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Crimes Against Humanity In Benue State →
Playing opposition party politics in Benue State can be akin to playing Russian roulette, and can often lead to wrongful arrests, discrimination, or worse still, death.
Unlike in the free world where opposition parties task themselves with playing the role of watchdog to keep the ruling party on their toes, the Benue State Governor, Dr. Gabriel Toruwa Suswam has elected to subdue the...
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When Nigerians Talk Of Gaddafi →
When a man of Gaddafi’s might falls, it is typical of self-taught historians and unpaid political commentators to creep out of the woodwork voicing their opinions based on what they hear through Western media outlets influenced by governments who seek to provide a defense for their interventionist actions in countries around the world.
When Western commentators choose to speak against a man...
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Court Okays Trial Of Former Nigerian Parliament... →
An Abuja high court earlier today thrashed three motions brought by former Nigerian parliament speaker Dimeji Bankole. The court decision on three motions aimed at truncating Bankole’s trial has cleared the way for the start of his trial for theft and contract fraud.
At today’s sitting the judge rejected on the first motion filed by Bankole which aimed at disqualifying Nigerian...
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Missing $12.4bn Oil Windfall: Judgment Adjourned... →
Hope for a definite legal pronouncement on the controversial Okigbo Panel report was today dashed, as the Federal High Court in Abuja did not sit, leading to judgment in the case being adjourned indefinitely.
It would be recalled that judgment in the case was initially to be delivered on Thursday 28 July 2011 but the court then declared that the judgment was not ready. When the matter came up,...
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Jonathan Asks Alaibe To Join Bayelsa Guber Race →
President Goodluck Jonathan, in a disturbing demonstration of political confusion, has asked Mr. Timi Alaibe, who has just hopped back to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from the Labour Party (LP), to join the Bayelsa State governorship race, our sources say.
Before now, the President had asked a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Henry Dickson, to pick the nomination form...
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What To Do With Oshodi-Apapa Expressway →
Though the Federal Ministry of Works working with Julius Berger is trying hard to fix Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, the truth of the matter remains that, that very important road linking the nation’s busiest seaport has collapsed.
For the past 15 years or so, the clueless and moribund Federal Ministry of Works officials sat comfortably in their comfortable offices watching primitively as the busy...
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Africa News Briefs - Report Finds Waste In Money... →
Oct. 18 (GIN) – A new report published by the Washington-based Center for American Progress provides detailed evidence of the exorbitant amount of money and millions of lives lost in the ongoing strife in Somalia – all without producing positive change.
Specifically, in the past 20 years, the war with western powers has taken as many as 1.5 million lives and cost about $55 billion. Some 750...
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Sack Samson Siasia Now! →
I am compelled to join the call for the sack or removal of Samson Siasia, the coach or manager of the Super Eagles, should he refuse to resign honourably, by his employer, the NFF.
Like the Vanguard Newspaper editorial on the subject, I feel compelled to join the call, hoping that perchance, his employers would read this piece and do the proper and right thing by sacking him if he refuses to...
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Let’s Legalize Prostitution, Plus Other Menaces... →
I remember my first night in Owerri as an undergraduate student of the state-owned university. It was very late in the evening when I alighted at the Wetheral junction. After settling down, I decided to explore my immediate environment but the mini-crowd that gathered at the old Garden Park attracted my attention more than any other place along the stretched axis.
At the not-well-lit arena, I...
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Chinese Expats Treat Nigerian Employees As... →
The Chinese kick Nigerian workers on the testicles when they are not submissive.
If you are a Nigerian working for the Chinese, you are at risk of losing your private parts, says Maaji Meriga, after he practically lost the use of his manhood while working to construct railway tracks in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, for the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), a major overseas...
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Niger Delta Group Honours Gani Fawehinmi, Dele... →
The Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development has called on the Nigeria police to re-open its investigation of the murder of Dele Giwa, the late co-founder of Newswatch Magazine, and prosecute those who were responsible for his death.
In a statement issued to commemorate today’s 25th anniversary of Mr. Giwa’s assassination by a parcel bomb in his home in 1986, CEHRD...
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US Warns Citizens Of Travel To Nigeria →
The United States has again warned American citizens of the risks of travel to Nigeria, with particular to Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers, Abia, Edo and Imo States.
Other areas involved in the advisory, dated October 13, 2011, are Jos, Plateau State, Bauchi and Borno States; and the Gulf of Guinea.
The US attributes the advisory to “the risks of kidnapping, robbery, and other...
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Another Attack Hits ExxonMobil’s Qua Iboe Oil... →
Seventeen days after an earlier attack that led to the abduction of a sailor, gunmen, suspected to be militants, have attacked a vessel at a crude production platform at the Qua Iboe oil fields operated by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) off the Ibeno coastline in Akwa Ibom on Monday.
Sources have informed Sahara Reporters that the vessel, the MV Wilbert was serving the OSO platform when the...
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"We Won’t Give Up The Struggle For The Poor At The... →
They Bring Us Bullets; We Demand Justice- Victim Of 2009 Shooting On the second anniversary of the gory shooting and killings of defenceless inhabitants of Rivers State waterfronts by heavily armed soldiers acting on the orders of Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, the London- based frontline human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) has vowed to defend the poor residents who dwell in...
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Jonathan Depletes Nigeria's Foreign Reserve By... →
President Goodluck Jonathan’s financial recklessness has further depleted the strategic foreign reserve of the Nigerian state by $3.5 billion in 2011 alone, according to information obtained by SaharaReporters.
A source at the ministry of finance told SaharaReporters at the weekend that when Mr. Jonathan came into office, he met a robust foreign reserve in place, but this year alone, he...
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I Am Amazed But Not Surprised About Why Nigerian... →
By Dr. Wumi Akintide
Many Nigerians of all walks of life are quick to claim or gloat about the fact that one out of every four Africans is a Nigerian. It is something to be proud of when size matches achievement and self-worth. The size of the elephant has not taken away the Lion’s claim to being king. Singapore is a little island in the Pacific is classified as one of the 4 tigers in the...
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WAEC Please Release My Results By Chika Ezeanya →
I wish to use this medium to humbly beg the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to kindly release my results. My name is Innocent Odogbe. I sat for the last GCE exams at Oturkpo Senior Grammar School in Benue State. My number is 587321098762 and my seat number is 079.
I have no other means of appealing to your goodselves, my most blessed WAEC officials, than by writing to the media. I beg...
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Boko Haram Kills Lawmaker In Maiduguri →
A member of the Borno state house of assembly representing Konduga local government area, Hon. Modu Bintube, has been killed by suspected Islamists in Maiduguri on Sunday.
Alhaji Bintube,50, was reportedly shot in the head at his residence early evening on Sunday.
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Mission Incredible: Nigeria To Invest US$2.68... →
Nigeria is to sink a staggering US$2.68 billion in the construction of three oil refineries in faraway Indonesia, The Jakarta Post reported today.
The newspaper was told by Panggah Susanto, a director of the Ministry of Industry in that country, that Nigeria had been looking for a partner to refine its crude oil, and both countries agreed [for that purpose] to build three refineries in...
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Nigerian Police Release Detained Journalists, To... →
Following intense pressure from several quarters, the Nigerian police today released four of the five editors of the Nation newspaper arrested on Monday in a raid at the Lagos and Abuja offices of the newspaper. The fifth editor is still being held by the police until tomorrow when he is expected to be arraigned.
The editors released today were: Lawal Ogianegbon, Dapo Olufade, Dupe...
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Nigeria Confirms Readiness In Security Council To... →
Nigeria, which presides over the United Nations Security Council this month, may have decided to vote for the application of Palestine for membership of the Organization.
Nabil Shaath, who is a member of the Fatah central committee, told Ma’an News Agencyon Monday that nine Security Council members, including Nigeria, have committed to supporting the Palestinian effort.
“The nine states that...
