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The unravelling of Rotimi Amaechi

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Thursday, 02 May 2013; By Daniel Elombah

The Rivers State Government and it's governor must surely be taken aback by the emerging facts and the damning implications as controversy surrounding the status of the aircraft- Bombardier BD 700 Express jet owned by the State Government heightened today.

Nigerians must rise against this mind blowing corruption

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Sunday, 28 April 2013; By Daniel Elombah

Nigeria is one of Africa’s largest economies; it produces around two million barrels of crude oil per day. And yet, in 2010, 61 percent of Nigerians were living in “absolute poverty” — able to afford only the bare essentials of shelter, food and clothing. In one state in northern Nigeria, where extremist groups like Boko Haram originate, poverty levels

Nigeria, international investors destination

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Friday, 19 April 2013; By Daniel Elombah

Nigeria is Africa's foremost business destination second only to South Africa and international investors are rushing in. A huge wave of western capital has flooded into this country over the past year – foreign direct investment totalled $8.9bn in 2012 but that’s a tiny number compared with the obvious potential. WHY ARE THEY INVESTING IN NIGERIA?

Nigeria’s indolent and lazy Attorney General, Mohammed Adoke should act now!

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Monday, 28 January 2013; By Daniel Elombah

adoke I hereby call on the Nigerian attorney general to immediately take over and call for a review of the ridiculous sentence passed today in Abuja. In addition, Justice Mohammed Talba who convicted and sentenced John Yakubu Yusuf to two years imprisonment with the option of N250, 000 fine on three of an amended 20-count charge of

Who really lost the Nigeria- Biafra war?

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Saturday, 26 January 2013; By Daniel Elombah

As part of his contributions to the intense debate generated online by Olusegun Adeniyi’s brilliant article, ‘Memories of Biafran Nightmares’, Ayo Ojutalayo wrote: “Some people want to be reminded as often as possible that Biafra lost the war.” He added: “… rebel leader himself, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu admonished Igbos to "face the FACT that the

Section 27 of the EFCC Act offends Nigeria Constitution

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Thursday, 27 December 2012; By Daniel Elombah

Sections 27(1), 27(3)(c) and 38(2)(b) of the EFCC Act that compels persons arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to declare their assets are directly inconsistent with the provisions of Section 35(2) of the 1999 Constitution which provides that, “any person who is arrested or detained shall have the right to

Sule Lamido in his own words: Nigerians break the rules and expect their leaders to be different

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Wednesday, 12 December 2012; By Daniel Elombah

I am not surprised to read today that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) last night arrested the son of the Governor of Jigawa State, at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) over alleged money laundering. The reason is that back just last month, Sule Lamido told the world that Nigerians break the rules and

Pope Benedict says Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Thursday, 22 November 2012; By Daniel Elombah

The Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church has faulted three claims about the birth of Jesus Christ, the founder of Christianity. Pope Benedict XVI claims that Jesus was born years earlier than thought. The entire Christian calendar is based on a

The desperate attempt to link Buhari with Boko haram

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Saturday, 03 November 2012; By Daniel Elombah

Buhari Since the February 2011 presidential elections, there has been both overt and covert campaign to tar General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) with the Boko haram brush. A lot of whispering campaign has been, and is being conducted in the print, electronic and online media to link the principled General with the more than Three

Hurricane Sandy: Mitt Romney's policies would be disastrous for federal emergency relief efforts

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Tuesday, 30 October 2012; By Daniel Elombah

Dumb Romney! helpless in a Hurricane: Mitt Romney's Five Dumbest Budget Cuts. The Republican challenger's policies would be disastrous for federal emergency relief efforts. During one of the 2011 GOP presidential debates sponsored by CNN, Mitt Romney argued that the Federal Emergency ManagementAgency should be disbanded

Why Barack Obama should win US presidential elections next month

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Saturday, 27 October 2012; By Daniel Elombah

Three Indicators on the US economy is in the upswing - the housing bust finally seems to be over. Health care costs have slowed. The unemployment rate has fallen below 8 percent, much sooner than forecasters were predicting a few months ago. Consumer confidence has reached a post-recession high, and whoever wins the US

Awolowo, Ojukwu and the Forgotten Documents of the Nigerian Civil War

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Friday, 26 October 2012; By Daniel Elombah

I have noticed the tribal chantings of many Nigerians including a section of fellow Igbos under the guise of either mauling Chinua Achebe and defending Obafemi Awolowo, or sustaining Achebe's legacy. Nigeria's obfuscation of issues and crisis did not start today. First it was operation wetie where brothers were burning brothers as a

US Memo: role of the Soviet Union in the Nigeria Biafra War

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Thursday, 25 October 2012; By Daniel Elombah

The Soviets became major arms suppliers to the FMG (Nigeria) at the outset of the war when the US embargoed arms to both sides and the British hesitated. The FMG gives frequent assurances that the Soviet involvement is only a matter of wartime necessity and portends no political realignment of Nigeria's traditional pro-Western

Nigeria-Biafra war driven by a “common tribal hatred of the Ibos” - Henry Kissinger

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Monday, 22 October 2012; By Daniel Elombah

This Kissinger's memorandum to President Richard Nixon in January 28, 1969 traced the remote and immediate causes of the Nigeria-Biafra war, it sketched the background of the Biafra starvation and relief problem, the two sides of the conflict, the interplay of relief and diplomacy, and where other nations – France, Britain, OAU and

Biafra: ‘Nigerian leaders regard starvation as a legitimate weapon of war’ – US Memo, 1969

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Sunday, 21 October 2012; By Daniel Elombah

This Intelligence Memorandum, Washington, January 29, 1969 analyzed the Biafran relief problem, which was then getting worse. The memo prepared by the US directorate of Intelligence concluded that Nigerian authorities were increasingly suspicious of foreign involvement and "some Nigerian leaders regard starvation as a legitimate

All hail Chinua Achebe, the Ogbuefi of African Literature

Details: Category: DANIEL ELOMBAH; Sunday, 07 October 2012; By Daniel Elombah

achebe "In May 1968, I was part of the Biafran delegation that attended the Kampala, Uganda, talks - one of the world's failed attempts (in this case, the British Commonwealth and the OAU) to forge a peace between Nigeria and Biafra. President Milton Obote of Uganda hosted the deliberations that also involved the

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