November 2011
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Global Information Network: Africa News Briefs
South Africa, Host Of Climate Confab, Is Africa’s Worst Pollutor
Nov. 29 (GIN) – Delegates from around the world are streaming into Durban, South Africa, for the U.N.’s Conference on Climate Change. Ironically, this is also home of one of the worst polluters on the continent, the Eskom coal-powered national electric company. State-owned Eskom’s coal-fired power stations are responsible for...
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Nigeria’s Solar Projects Yield Both Failure And... →
In the shadow of Nigeria’s business capital, Lagos, where some of the richest Nigerians live, lay the Onisowo lands. On an island in Lagos Lagoon, (map) Onisowo is 15 minutes west by water from the prestigious Ikoyi Boat Club, where the wealthy dock their yachts, and 10 minutes east of the private beaches Ibeshe and Ilashe, where they weekend.
Despite its prime location, the island is far...
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Nigeria Senate Approves Anti-gay Marriage Bill -... →
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s Senate has passed a bill banning gay marriage in Africa’s most populous nation, where gays and lesbians already face abuse and discrimination.
The Senate voted Tuesday to pass the bill. It was not immediately clear if it would then go to Nigeria’s House of Representatives or to President Goodluck Jonathan for his approval.
Under the measure,...
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How PHCN Makes Nigeria A Metaphor Of Hell By... →
Still suffering from the throes perpetrated by the organized crime group called ‘government’, Nigeria citizens in their daily lives are faced with a more heightened series of organized scams from all aspects of life. If you seek a region in the world that is critically taken over by misery, which can never heal by use of any known experimental panacea (except by a bloody revolution), your search...
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Lamorde Tasks EFCC Staff Over New Challenges As... →
Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde on Monday, November 28th, 2011, charged all staff of the Commission to brace up for fresh and greater challenges in the arduous task of combating graft.
He gave this charge at the handover ceremony, which held at the corporate headquarters of the Commission in Abuja. According to him, staff of the...
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Nigeria Bar Association Opposes Removal of Fuel... →
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has declared its opposition to the proposal of the Goodluck Jonathan government to eliminate petroleum subsidy, describing the idea as “suspect.” The announcement was contained in a press statement issued by the association at the end of the meeting of its National Executive Committee (NEC) last Thursday in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, and signed by its President,...
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Boko Haram: Senator Ndume Arraigned On Terrorism... →
The Nigerian senator detained in connection with links to islamic militant group Boko Haram appeared at an Abuja Magistrate court today to face terrorism charges.
The Peoples Democratic Party Senator, Mohammed Ali Ndume from Borno earlier confessed to knowing the spokesperson of the dreaded Boko Haram sect operating in the northeastern parts of Nigeria.
Senator Ndume represents Borno South...
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Jonathan Sacks EFCC Chair, Waziri →
President Goodluck Jonathan has removed the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Mrs. Farida Waziri.
Her removal was contained in a three-paragraph statement signed by Jonathan’s spokesperson, Dr. Reuben Abati in Abuja on Wednesday morning. Jonathan named Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde as the Acting Chairman/Chief Executive of the lame duck commission. Larmode was among the...
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National Awards: The Hypocrisy of the Nigerian... →
On Wednesday the 16th of November 2011, in the thick of the enormous national and international denunciation that trailed the recent reprehensible jamboree called the 2011 National Honours Awards, and also in response to The Punch editorial written in reaction to the same subject, I sent the following comment to The Punch Newspaper for publication in its MY NEWS DOT COM segment: “Excellent point...
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The Truth About The Oil Minister’s 20 Million Euro... →
Dear President Goodluck Jonathan and honorable minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison Madueke:
I am personally very happy about the urgency which this millions of euro mansion allegation in Vienna, Austria has been refuted and taken. Consequently I would want to inform you all, and fellow Nigerians that I went into action immediately after recovering from the shock of hearing that such amount of money had...
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Official: Guardian Newspaper Announces Alex Ibru's...
(Pictured: Guardian Publisher, Mr. Alex Ibru (middle ) with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton and his wife Mrs. Maiden Ibru)
The passing on of Alexander Uruemu Ibru, Chairman and Publisher of THE GUARDIAN, flagship of the Nigeria press has been announced. He died at about 1.30pm today, November 20 while in the course of an illness. He was aged 66.
Ibru was born on March1, 1945, the youngest...
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Nigeria's Secret Police Parades Boko Haram... →
Nigeria’s Secret Police, the State Security Service (SSS) today paraded Ali Sanda Umar Konduga (A.K.A) Usman Al-Zawahiri before journalists in Abuja. The SSS claimed that Sanda was the spokesperson for Boko Haram, the islamic militant group based in Maiduguri, Borno state.
However, Sanda claimed that he has been suspended from Boko Haram after the sect accused him of leaking information...
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US Embassy In Nigeria "Denies" Special Forces... →
The United States embassy in Nigeria has denied that it is sending troops to combat Boko Haram militants in the North of Nigeria.
Yesterday, SaharaReporters reported that a covert operation by US Special Forces aimed at fighting the militants is in the offing. Our source said Marines from Forth Carson in Colorado got a 48-hour notice to prepare to deploy to the troubled area through Niger and...
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WatchSkype call with Yemisi Ilesanmi, activist for gay rights in London
This past Saturday, during our livestream broadcast, correspondent Rudolf Okonkwo for SaharaReporters interviewed UK-based gay rights activist Yemisi Ilesanmi to talk about the misconceptions of LGBTQ lifestyle amongst Africans and within African culture - especially in light of the bill to ban gay marriage in Nigeria.
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Ethiopia: Teacher Burns Himself To Death In... →
Events in Ethiopia have taken a disturbing turn following reports that a teacher in his late 20s burnt himself alive last week in protest against the ongoing brutal clampdown on dissent in the country.
According to reports Yenesew Gebre made an impassioned plea at a protest gathering before dowsing himself in petrol and setting himself on fire.
Addressing fellow protestors he is reported to have...
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Nigerian Court Remands Maryland Lawyer Accused Of... →
A Lagos high court has remanded Emeka Ugwuonye, a Maryland lawyer accused of stealing $94,000 belonging to his client in the jail cells of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) pending a bail hearing scheduled for Thursday.
Mr. Ugwuonye was arrested by the EFCC in Abuja after he appeared at another trial for fraud charges relating to confiscation of $1.5 million tax returns from a...
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Bomb Targets Nigeria Governor's Motorcade In... →
(pictured: Undated photo of Borno state governor’s motorcade)
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A bomb targeting a police vehicle in a governor’s motorcade and two other blasts rocked the volatile Nigerian city of Maiduguri, but no casualties were reported, police and residents said Tuesday.
The blast involving the motorcade of Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima occurred Monday when suspected...
Benue Gov. Aide Attacked Over Alleged Adultery,... →
Dr. Cletus Akwaya, the Special Assistant for Media and Publicity to the Benue State Governor, was given the beating of his life in the early hours of yesterday by angry youths suspected to be loyal to the estranged husband of a woman he is allegedly having an affair with.
But contrary to the claims of the state Governor, Gabriel Suswam, the attack was neither political nor did Dr. Akwaya suffer...
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Suswam’s Aide Aaving An Affair With Brother’s Wife... →
The Benue State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has said the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor Gabriel Suswan of Benue State, Dr. Cletus Akwaya is having relationship with his brother’s wife.
The party said in a statement issued in Markurdi, the state capital on Monday, that this was the reason angry youths from his area molested and rough handled him in the state on Saturday...
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Rwanda: The Corruption Free Zone of Africa →
“You are Nigerian? Aaaah you will love it more in my country than here” my Ugandan co-worker enthusiastically advised upon my arrival in Rwanda, to work on a donor funded project. I was intrigued by his comment, so I prodded.
“Really? Why so?”
“I have worked in your country and the system is very much similar to what we have in Uganda. Things work as they should. There are no bottlenecks; you...
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Cover-Up At NAPTIP In NTA Executive Child Abuse... →
The National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and other Related Matters (NAPTIP) in Lagos is covering up the horrendous crimes of Princess Folasade Bankole, the General Manager of the National Television Authority (NTA) in Ado Ekiti in the South West of Nigeria who was involved in child abuse as reported by SaharaReporters.
In October Princess Bankole was summoned to appear before...
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Witchcraft Branding, Spirit Possession And African... →
I just returned from a two day conference on Witchcraft Branding, Spirit Possession and Safeguarding African Children. The conference was organized in London by a UK based charity, Africans United Against Child Abused (AFRUCA).
The aim of the conference was to mobilize the faith communities against the practice of witchcraft branding by highlighting the negative impact of this phenomenon and the...
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Proposed Seven-Year Single Tenure “Misunderstood”,... →
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has said his proposed seven-year single tenure for Nigeria’s President has been misunderstood by those who think he wants to add that term to his current one.
President Jonathan was speaking to Mr. Alain Juppe, the French Foreign Minister who visited him in Abuja today as part of his trip to Nigeria. “My proposal for a single seven-year tenure is anchored on...
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ABSU Rape: The Mourning After By Julius Ogunro →
It is probably only in Nigeria that five young men would brutally rape a woman, record the vile act on video, circulate it on the internet, and yet go scot free. Even in a country where murderers sometimes walk free, the ABSU rape scandal was a new low for us. It captured popular imagination, caused outrage, and made the international news circle. Not because it was the first rape incident in...
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Riot in Kafanchan: 6 Persons Reportedly Killed →
Six persons have died in the riots in Kafanchan, in Jamal local government area of Kaduna.
The rioting broke out following the death of an Hausa youth in Katshit township in Zango Kataf local government.
Residents in Kafanchan told SaharaReporters that the crisis today was a spill-over from Zango-Kataf, where some youths, who had allegedly committed arson during the April election crisis, were...
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Fire Engulfs Shell Oil spill Site in Niger Delta →
Fire broke out on earlier today on the Okordia/Rumuekpe oil pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region affecting oil production, but the blaze has since been put out, says Shell.
The fire on the pipeline in Ikarama, Bayelsa State, started a day after the company received reports of an oil spill there and was still burning as at 1.45 Nigerian time spokesman Precious Okolobo said by telephone....
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We The Stupid Southerners By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo →
If you are a Southerner reading this, I want you to know that you’re stupid. If you are a Northern Muslim reading this, I want you to stop. Now! I want you to stop because I am not feeling that brotherly love now. I will say some things you may not like. And I don’t give a hoot how they will make you feel. I am as mad as hell. I’ve had it up to my neck.
Nigeria is on a slow motion suicide...
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Nigerian Governors And The Craze For Fuel Subsidy... →
Only recently, the Federal Government announced that it had secured the full support of State Governors in regard to the removal of fuel subsidy. This announcement is coming few weeks after the Organized Private Sector also purportedly proclaimed their support for the policy.
My immediate reaction, on hearing that announcement, was that it hardly offers us anything new and refreshing. In fact,...
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Is Nigerian An Oil-rich Nation? What Is Its... →
By Rufus Kayode Oteniya
Nigeria is a major oil producing nation, no doubt! With about 2.5m barrels of the black gold gushing out daily from under the feet of its citizen, no one can contest the importance of the country in the global oil market but the doubt is about the country’s status as an oil rich nation and its future relevance to the global energy market.
With the trading price of oil...
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Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks Indefensible-Human... →
Hold Perpetrators Accountable, Ensure Security Forces Respect Rights
(Abuja, November 8, 2011) – The bombings by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram that killed at least 100 people in the northern Nigerian state of Yobe on November 4, 2011, were an indefensible attack on human life, Human Rights Watch said today.
Since the beginning of 2011, Boko Haram has been implicated in attacks that have...
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The Conditions Of Nigeria's Police Force →
(ph: Three years after it became a division Mpape Divisional Headquarters remains the worst station in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital)
Nigerian authorities are insincere about Policing within the country.
When Chief Superintendent of Police Musa Garba said the challenges facing the Mpape Police Station located in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, are “enormous”, he wasn’t overstating it. For the past...
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Watch“Nigeria’s Millionaire Preachers” with Seyi Rhodes via Sahara Reporters
Journalist Seyi Rhodes of Channel 4’s “Unreported World” reports on the illusive claims of prosperity preaching and the fabulous lifestyles of wealthy preachers in Nigeria.
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