Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Agwu Agwu, has said that there was no promise or agreement between the Assembly and Governor Theodore Orji to pick the next deputy governor from among the 24-member Assembly.

Speaking with journalists at the Assembly complex in Umuahia, on Tuesday, the speaker said the choice of the deputy governor was at the governor’s discretion and that the …

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United States of America (U.S.A) Senate has confirmed the nomination of a new Ambassador to Nigeria.

A statement by a US web site allgov.com said a certain Terence P. McCulley, selected by President Barack Obama on June 28, 2010, to serve as ambassador to Nigeria, has now been confirmed by the Senate.

McCulley understands French, and speaks some Zulu and Wolof. He and his wife have two sons.

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Former military ruler, Ibraim Badamasi Babangida has declared that he will seek the ruling party's nomination for the presidential election next year, challenging Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent president.

He believes that PDP's "zoning formula" can help him in seeking the nomination.

Ibrahim Babangida, who was forced to step down in 1993, announced his ambition in a speech …

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Nigerians are not brought up with honour as one of our virtues. Our parents usually told us to be good boys/girls, to read our books, to not fight, not steal, to respect our elders, do our chores, but they never told us anything about honour or glory.

It is mostly during self-enlightenment and rumination that we get to understand what such things really mean. What we must do is enlighten the …

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Former vice president Atiku Abubakar, who was accused of bribing a U.S. congressman while in office, announced Sunday he would seek the nomination of the PDP to run for the presidency in 2011.

Abubakar, 63, would need the People's Democratic Party to again accept him as a member before contesting the primary, as he ran unsuccessfully as a presidential candidate for an opposition party in …

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why fedral government feel so relluctant to award the 84 billion check for INEC for credible ilection

We the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Having firmly and solemnly resolve, to live in unity and harmony as one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign nation under God, dedicated to the

promotion of inter-African solidarity, world peace, international co-operation and understanding

And to provide for a Constitution for the purpose of promoting the good government and welfare of all …

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Something happened around me some weeks back (i'd like to use 'around' because i am still in denial that it happened to me), a friend of mine went from 'very respectable' to 'disgracefully shameless' in two hours.

It stirred up the question 'who is a man?' in my head. The friend in question physically was a man's man even if intellectually he was below average but not noticeably or so I thought.
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...when he said "thy glory 'o israel is slammed upon high places, how art the mighty fallen. Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exhult.
Mr Speaker, it is a pitiable disma-bysma, it is regrettably lucubrious, that in a country that is so blessed with human resources, in a …

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