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The Nigerian governors have said that they have no powers to direct the National Assembly to install Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to install Vice President.Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum and Kwara State governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, made the clarification after the meeting of the state security council held in Ilorin.| Read Story
 
 
NEWS ON THE HOUR
PDP salutes Soludo, Obi
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Local: 02:00am GMT:01:00am
Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, the National Chairman of the PDP, yesterday congratulated Prof. Chukwuma Soludo for his strong showing in last Saturday’s gubernatorial poll in Anambra. The PDP national chairman saluted Soludo on behalf of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party. Soludo, ex-governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), was PDP’s | Read more
Pendulum swings to Metsu
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Local: 02:00am GMT:01:00am
Bruno Metsu, former Senegal’s coach, could get the nod to lead Nigeria's Super Eagles to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The coach, also known as Abdul Karim, is a French football manager and the head coach of the national team of Qatar. Russia’s Coach, Guus Hiddink, with Metsu, Serbia’s Under-21 Chief Coach, Ratomir | Read more
 
NEWS OF THE DAY

Breach of procedure: Senate suspends confirmation of AGF
The position of the Auditor General of the Federation may still remain vacant for a while following the resolve of the Senate to suspend further action on the confirmation of the presidential nominee for the office, | Read Story

Ministers locked out of meeting in Aso Rock
It is obvious that some ministers are yet to come to terms with the reality on ground as far as the country’s leadership is concerned, as two of them were locked out of a scheduled meeting presided over by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan in Aso Rock yesterday. | Read Story

 
 
Woman of Sun
How I want to be remembered, by Archbishop Benson Margaret Benson-Idahosa
At 66, her beauty still radiates. A woman of style and poise, delectable Archbishop Margaret Benson- Idahosa needs no introduction. Blessed with a strong personality, Idahosa is tenacious in pursuit of whatever she desires. | Read Story

Sun Tech

‘Ndukwe’s shoes too big to fill’
As the Executive Vice-Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Ernest Ndukwe bows out of office next month, there is concern over the calibre of his successor. Industry watchers are worried over who could best fill the | Read Story

Education
Egwu presents 2009 education score card
The Minister of Education, Dr.Sam Egwu, has urged stakeholders to join hands with the government to revamp and reposition the sector. He made the call at the 2009 Ministerial Press briefing held at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, last week. | Read Story
Sports

Trapattoni rues loss of Eagles’ job
Republic of Ireland‘s Coach, Italian-born Giovanni Trapattoni, has expressed regret over his inability to secure the job of taking the Super Eagles to the World Cup The Italian, who had boasted that he would transform Nigerian | Read Story
 
South-South Report...
Why we hold South-South Summit–Delta Chief of Staff
Mr. Solomon Arenyeka is Chief Of Staff(COS), Governmnet House, Delta State. In this interview with BUCHY ENYINNAYA, he talks about the problem with Nigeria which he says  is lack of  continuity with ideologies, and philosophies of subsisting governments . He argues, “people come with  big dreams , big ideas.| Read Story
Hate: The real quake that killed Haiti
The University of the West Indies is in the process of conceiving how best to deliver a major conference on the theme “Rethinking And Rebuilding Haiti”. I am very keen to provide an input into this exercise because for too long there has | Read Story 
THE SUN SUMMIT...
Why Jigawa is a revolution
 Jigawa State is marked by a landscape of breathtaking proportions. But so also is it marked by breathtaking poverty. It is, officially the poorest state in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, if you take just the infant and maternal mortality | Read Story
How VP, govs took shine off Soludo’s rally
 Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan at the weekend, for the second time disappointed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful in Anambra State and supporters of Prof. Chukwuma Soludo| Read Story
Lecture:  Electoral violence and the threat to democracy in Nigeria
The most serious scholar to draw attention to the issues of violence in Nigerian politics was Professor Remi Anifowoshe. In his classic study on Political violence in Nigeria he focused on the two case studies of violence among the Tiv and the Yorubas. | Read Story
More News ...
Uba visits Obi, promises to assist in state development
Labour Party (LP) standard bearer in last Saturday’s governorship election, Dr. Andy Uba yesterday paid a surprise visit to Governor Peter Obi, assuring him of his support in the task of developing the state. Similarly, | Read Story
Amaechi goes tough on contractors
Contractors who collected huge mobilization fees in Rivers State but abandoned the projects have been warned to return to the sites on or before Friday this week or risk arrest. Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi handed down the order| Read Story
Cleric blames government for violence in the country
Renowned cleric and Vicar-Genereal, Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, Monsignor Matthew Kukah, has accused the Nigerian government of being the number one promoter of violence in the country. |Read Story
Fashola: Court asked to stop Lagos Assembly probe
Human rights activist and press freedom advocate, Mr Richard Akinnola has dragged the Lagos State House of Assembly to court over its plan to investigate alleged financial malpractices involving both the executive and legislative | Read Story
Chime, Mark, Ekweremadu congratulate Obi
President of the Senate, David Mark has congratulated the governor-elect Mr. Peter Obi of All Progressive Grand Alliance, (APGA) over his victory at Saturday’s gubernatorial polls. | Read Story
Why we hold South-South Summit–Delta Chief of Staff
Mr. Solomon Arenyeka is Chief Of Staff(COS), Governmnet House, Delta State. In this interview with BUCHY ENYINNAYA, he talks about the problem with Nigeria which he says  is lack of  continuity with ideologies, and philosophies of subsisting governments . | Read Story

Jigawa Governor:
Is something developmentally serious really taking place in Jigawa State under the governorship of Alhaji Sule Lamido that a performance starved Nigeria polity should take note of? Could that be the claim of the Jigawa State governor | Read Story
Today's EDITORIAL
Registration of SIM cards
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has indicated its intention to embark on registration of all SIM card holders in the country. According to NCC, the action is in exercise of its regulatory function as provided for by the Nigerian Communications Act (NCA) 2003. It also stated that with effect from March 1, 2010, | Read Story
 

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Jigawa State is marked by a landscape of breathtaking proportions. But so also is it marked by breathtaking poverty. It is, officially the poorest state in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, if you take just the infant and maternal mortality rates alone which is put as the highest in the world. |Read Story

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Last Saturday, voters in Anambra State came out in impressive numbers to elect a governor. The stakes were extremely high, and the obstacles formidable, but the people of Anambra did themselves great credit. After it was all over,
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For 37 days, Investigative Reporter, EMMANUEL MAYAH, travelled a total of 4,318 kilometres across seven countries and the Sahara desert in the company of illegal African migrants on their way to Europe. From Nigeria to Benin Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and finally Libya, he survived to tell the story of human traffickers, sex slavery in transit camps, starvation, desert bandits, arduous toil in a salt mine, cruel thirst and deaths in the hot desert.|Read Story
 
 
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