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My attention has been drawn to a story in ThisDay today which suggests I justified BH activities because of uneven distribution of resources and derivation funds to the Niger Delta. I haven’t read the story (as I am just on way back from Davos) but would like to issue this clarification to this network: 1. [...]
A group of Nigerian Professionals in the US have condemned what it called a “show of shame” and the doctoring of video clip purportedly recorded during a TownHall meeting held by Nigeria’s Minster of State Foreign Affairs Prof. Viola Onwuliri in New York and when Nigeria’s National Anthem was being sang by Mr Sowore Omoleye [...]
By Yemi Adebowale, with agency reports, and Ahamefula Ogbu Attempts to redress historic grievances in Nigeria’s oil-rich south may inadvertently have helped create the conditions for the Islamic insurgency spreading from the impoverished north-east of the country, so says Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. A revenue sharing formula that gave [...]
In Bayelsa State, The ousted governor Timipre Sylva, has issued a statement descibing the Supreme Court ruling as a temprorary setback. “As a democrat and firm believer in the rule of law, Chief Timipre Sylva takes the ruling of the Supreme Court today terminating his tenure in good faith,” the statement by his spokesperson Doifie [...]
