By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna: The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has advised the Federal Government to vigorously address the security challenges being experienced as a result of the outcome of the presidential election, saying the approach to the present crisis is deplorable. In a statement signed by the president of the association, Mr Joseph Bodurin, the association says the current crisis questions the unity of Nigeria, and calls for urgent mechanisms to address that concept, adding that there is no point in living in any part of the world where perceived strangers are killed and maimed by their so-called hosts. The... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, April 25th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna: President Goodluck Jonathan has urged all Nigerians to renounce violence and unite in the interest of peace and development of the country. This was contained in his Easter message to Nigerians: President Goodluck Jonathan has enjoined Christians and non Christians to embrace peace and harmony so that children of both faiths will grow up as brothers, sisters and friends. He used the Occassion of Easter to urge both Christian and Muslim preachers to utilise their pulpits to preach peace and harmony, so that children of both faiths will grow up as brothers, sisters and friends. Dr.... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, April 25th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – Angry youths on Monday protesting against the results of the presidential poll held on Saturday, April 16, stormed the Nigerian Christian Corpers Fellowship, NCCF, Secretariat in Minna, the Niger State capital in the northern part of Nigeria and forcibly locked fifty members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in the state in the building and set the building on fire. Reports say the leader of the corps members managed to break the door and set his colleagues free and the NYSC members ran to the nearby army barracks for safety. According to Reports,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, April 22nd 2011 |
By Ozodi Thomas Osuji – We live in the age of science. The scientific paradigm of reality tells us that accidents, chance and randomness determine our fate. As this approach to phenomena sees it, the concatenation of events, from the Big Bang to the present, produced us and are responsible for our behavior and fate; in other words we were produced by chance, accident and random events; we have no free will and to the extent that we have consciousness it is epiphenomenal; our thinking is a function of the dance of neurons in our brains. But there is another... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, April 20th 2011 |
By Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna: The Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] has declared President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP the winner of the 2011 presidential poll in Nigeria. Announcing the result in Abuja last night, The INEC Chairman and the Chief Returning Officer for the presidential election, Professor Attahiru Jega, said the PDP candidate stands elected as President having satisfied the constitutional requirements for the position. According to the announcement by the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, in total, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 22,495,187; Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) 12,214,853; All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) 917,012;... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, April 20th 2011 |
