From the monthly archives: January 2011

Forest Registration

On January 30, 2011 · In Nigeria Today

We have quite a large number of people in this country who are permanently cynical. They never see anything good about government and its agencies.

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Time and projections for the New Year

On January 30, 2011 · In Sunday Perspectives

Time, we all assume, is undirectional and rolls inevitably on from the past and present to the infinite future. Hence, when midnight arrived on Friday, December 31, 2010, people all over the world rejoiced and jubilated for surviving to see the New Year.

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Rep petitions against Ekiti North senatorial primary

On January 30, 2011 · In News

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Environment and Senatorial aspirant for Ekiti North Senatorial District on the platform of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Duro Faseyi, has petitioned the party’s Appeal panel, alleging that the senatorial primaries was characterised with massive fraud.

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Akala, Akinjide declare return ticket to Senate leader illegal

On January 30, 2011 · In News

FORMER Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide, and Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State say the purported rerun primary election which declared Senator Teslim Folarin winner of the PDP ticket for Oyo Central Senatorial District was illegal.

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President Saviour? Not a chance

On January 30, 2011 · In The Orbit

An amusing cartoon last week in the Vanguard raised the question of whether President Goodluck Jonathan is finally the political saviour Nigerians have long awaited.

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Obama tourney, part of building process for Eagles – Shofoluwe

On January 30, 2011 · In Sports

Former Super Eagles defender, Yisa Shofoluwe, says more tournaments like the Obama Cup as well as other international friendly matches will help coach Samson Siasia build a formidable Super Eagles team before the Africa Cup of Nations next year.

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Jos: Let’s do something-Anything

On January 30, 2011 · In The Spectrum

Jos is a sickening metaphor of a potential conflagration that seriously bothers my subconscious. We live in fears of possible present-dangers, but worse than that are the horrible imaginings of what the Jos of today may rub off the Nigeria of tomorrow.

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Sex is God’s idea

On January 30, 2011 · In Vista Woman

There is no doubt that Father Ralph loves his God more than he loves the woman of focus as he claims in the movie. His problem started the day, when as a young priest, he sets his eyes on Meggie, who became his protégé, till when he died as a Cardinal. Though a fiction, this story represents the sexual struggles that many Christians are dealing with.

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Fresh Jos violence, Borno killings heighten security concerns

On January 30, 2011 · In Headlines

The outbreak of fresh violence in Jos, the Plateau State capital, yesterday, and the Friday’s killing of the ANPP gubernatorial candidate in Borno State, Engr Fannami Modu Gubio, along with six others by suspected terrorists, at the weekend, heightened security concerns in the country.

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Sacred time; sacred space

On January 30, 2011 · In Moment to Moment

By Debbie Ogunjobi
My favourite space is painted in cool shades of green (my favourite colour); the furniture is huge and more built for comfort than decoration.

The curtains are the exact shades of green as the walls and it is also my sacred space. The focal point is my Altar on which stands [...]

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‘ACF has no say over Jonathan’s emergence as PDP presidential candidate’

On January 30, 2011 · In Politics

The meeting had discussed the contentious issue of power shift after which the ACF said it rejected the emergence of President Goodluck Jonathan as the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate. But, in this interview, a former Secretary of the ACF Politics Committee, Alhaji Mohammed Abdulrahman, says the ACF has no power to regulate the conduct and decisions of political parties.

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JOS RIOTS: So close, yet so far apart

On January 30, 2011 · In Religion & Beliefs

THE 82-year old historical masterpiece known as Mapo Hall perched on top of Oke Mapo, in Ibadan, Oyo State last week rekindled the legacy of the colonial masters when it played host to stakeholders in religious matters who had gathered in the ancient city to proffer solutions to the perennial crises in parts of the North.

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Who is Chukwuma Nwabara?

On January 30, 2011 · In Voice of Reason

I doubt there is someone like Rev. Chukwuma Nwabara in Kubwa, Abuja. If he exists, he is trying to call attention to himself. He is probably using the same tricks like the little-known American priest who called attention to himself that he would burn the Qur’an.
Of course, he did not burn the Qur’an and America and the world listened. He came to the notice of the American President.

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NFF Technical C’ttee, an all- comers’ body

On January 30, 2011 · In Sports

The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF is a public organisation. It is a Nigerian organisation running football on behalf of Nigeria and her people. It is thus an organisation in which all Nigerians have a stake. It is also an organisation operating professionally in adherence to the practical and theoretical principles of its activities. In this regards, therefore, the NFF, a sport governing body must have in its fold, persons with both cognate practical and theoretical knowledge of the sport.

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