Akpabio Backs Jonathan for 2015

The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday pledged his support for President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 re-election bid and called on the President to declare his intention to run without further delay.

With the call, Akpabio, regarded in party circles as one of the President’s die hard supporters, appeared to have belled the cat on Jonathan’s re-election bid.

Akpabio’s call is coming on the heels of a resolve by the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, to poach prominent members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to counter the gale of defections from the ruling party to the opposition.

The New Holocaust Discoveries

The latest revelation about the Holocaust stuns even the scholars who thought they already knew everything about the horrific details of Germany's program of genocide against the Jewish people.

It's taken more than 70 years to finally know the full facts. And what is almost beyond belief is that what really happened goes far beyond what anyone could ever have imagined.

For the longest time we have spoken of the tragedy of 6 million Jews. It was a number that represented the closest approximation we could come to the victims of Hitler's plan for a Final Solution. Those who sought to diminish the tragedy claimed 6 million was a gross exaggeration. Others went further and denied the historicity of the Holocaust itself, absurdly claiming the Jews fabricated their extermination to gain sympathy for the Zionist cause.

But now we know the truth.

French Police Launch Raids On Controversial Comic Dieudonné

French police have launched raids on the Paris home of controversial comic Dieudonné M'bala M'bala as well as le Théâtre de la Main d'Or, a source close to the investigation told the AFP.

This is the latest chapter in the controversy swirling around the comedian.

Dieudonné, whose act has been widely condemned as being anti-Semitic, was banned from performing in several French cities on the grounds of maintaining public order as authorities probe whether he should face charges for breaking French laws against “inciting racial hatred”.

French President François Hollande has publicly backed the ban on his performances

Ndu Enuwa News Joint: Obama To Sign Executive Order To Raising Minimum...

Ndu Enuwa News Joint: Obama To Sign Executive Order To Raising 

Minimum...: Obama To Sign Executive Order To Raising  Minimum Wage  President Obama, in the first of potentially many executive actions tied to...

Obama To Sign Executive Order To Raising 

Minimum Wage 

President Obama, in the first of potentially many executive actions tied to his State of the Union address, will unilaterally increase the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour, from $7.25, in an effort to build momentum for a minimum wage hike for all Americans.

The executive order, which has been championed by progressive Democratic lawmakers, applies to all contractors performing services for the federal government and would effect more than 2 million employees, according to an administration official.

THE BLUES BROTHERS

Branislav Ivanovic praised his compatriot Nemanja Matic after the midfielder made his full Chelsea debut in Sunday's FA Cup win over Stoke City.

Matic returned to Stamford Bridge earlier this month, signing from Benfica following an impressive two-and-a-half-year spell with the Portuguese side.

Having come on as a substitute during our 3-1 win against Manchester United last week, the Serbian played the full 90 minutes as we secured our place in the fifth round of the FA Cup, and Ivanovic was delighted to see his friend return to west London.

Ndu Enuwa News Joint: Kalu Bows To Ohaneze Ndi IgboThe Apex Igbo Socio-...

Ndu Enuwa News Joint: Kalu Bows To Ohaneze Ndi Igbo
The Apex Igbo Socio-...: Kalu Bows To Ohaneze Ndi Igbo The Apex Igbo Socio-cultural Group, the Ohaneze Ndigbo yesterday succeeded in pressuring the former go...

Kalu Bows To Ohaneze Ndi Igbo

The Apex Igbo Socio-cultural Group, the Ohaneze Ndigbo yesterday succeeded in pressuring the former governor of Abia State and former presidential candidate of Progressive peoples Alliance, PPA, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu to shelve his Presidential ambition for the 2015 general elections.

Kalu on Monday – after intense pressure from the apex Igbo socio-cultural group, that lasted for six months – announced his total withdrawal from the 2015 race in his Abuja home, following an extensive meeting with the leadership of Ohaneze Ndigbo led by the president general worldwide, of the association, Gary Nnachi Enwo-Igariwey.

Ndu Enuwa News Joint: Bilie Human Rights Dismisses Threat To Drag Ihejir...

Ndu Enuwa News Joint: Bilie Human Rights Dismisses Threat To Drag Ihejir...: Bilie Human Rights Dismisses Threat To Drag Ihejirike To ICC A United Kingdom-based human rights organisation, Bilie Human Rights In...

Bilie Human Rights Dismisses Threat To Drag Ihejirike To ICC

A United Kingdom-based human rights organisation, Bilie Human Rights Initiative (BHRI), has described as most ridiculous, threat by the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) to drag former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, to the International Court of Justice (ICC).

The group expressed dismay that the NEF, as represented by Professor Ango Abdullahi, could embark on such fruitless venture, adding that rather than being perturbed by the mischievous proposal, it was happy with the development because such move would only quicken its pending case in the Owerri Federal High Court, in Imo State.

American Folk Singer Pete Seeger Dies

Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died on Monday at the age of 94.

Seeger's grandson, Kitama Cahill-Jackson said his grandfather died at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where he'd been for six days. "He was chopping wood 10 days ago," he said.

There Will Be 'Almost No Poor Countries By 2035,' Bill Gates Says

Bill Gates has said there will be "almost no poor countries by 2035", and that child mortality rates in the poorest nations will plummet to the same levels as in the US and UK in 1980.

The world's richest man made the prediction in the Gates Foundation's annual letter, in which he and his wife Melinda Gates sought to dispel three common "myths" surrounding the issues of world poverty.

Boko Haram kills 74 In Borno And Adamawa

 

There seems to no end to the bloodletting by the Boko Haram sect.

The sect’s fighters killed no fewer than 74 people at the weekend in Borno and Adamawa states.

The attacks were launched  few days after the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshal Alex Bardeh, boasted that the Boko Haram insurgency would be quelled by April.

Assailants armed with guns and explosives killed 22 people in an attack on a Catholic Church on Sunday in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa State.

DSS Released EL-Rufai After 15hrs

After being questioned for close to fifteen hours at Department of State Services, (DSS) Malam Nasir el-Rufai, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, who on Tuesday willing surrendered to the DSS regained his freedom.

El-Rufai, the current Interim Deputy National Secretary of the nation’s leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress, APC, was driven on Tuesday by Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, to the national headquarters of the security outfit at about 9.15a.m. in an ash-coloured Mercedes Sports Utility Vehicle was released at about midnight on Monday to go home.

It Is Over---T.I. And Tiny

Report fter almost a year of speculation, Atlanta’s favorite Hip-Hop power couple, Clifford “T.I.” Harris an

Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, are calling it quits,  The stars of VH1′s The Family Hustle have laughed and love their way into America’s hearts and the news is sending shock waves through social media.

Gunmen Kill 52, Set Ablaze 300 Houses In Borno

Over 50 gunmen invaded Kawuri District of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno stategand set ablaze over 300 residential houses, after killing a soldier, 51

 civilians and wounded several policemen.

 The injured residents are now receiving treatment at the Konduga General

 Hospital and the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.

Ohanaeze Bars Kalu, Prominent Igbo  From Contesting For President                                                                                     

            

As part of its move to secure block votes for President Goodluck Jonathan, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo said it has begun consultations with prominent Igbo citizens to shed the ambition of contesting the 2015 presidential election.“Mr. President (Enwo-Igariwey) was here and he advised that he would like the Igbo to speak with one voice. 

They said a tree cannot make a forest. If the apex organisation in Igboland wants to say, ‘well; we don’t want any of our sons to contest for election this time’, well, we will hold on and work with them to see what they will do.

N220bn Debt, Import Allocation Delay Threaten Fuel Supply

Nigeria may be heading for another round of fuel scarcity as a result of the failure of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency to release the import allocation for the first quarter of the year to oil marketing and trading companies.

It was also learnt that nationwide fuel supply was being threatened by the inability of the Federal Government to pay the oil marketers over N220bn outstanding fuel subsidy claims and accumulated interest/foreign exchange for 2013.

PDP, APGA, LP, Accord Gang Up Against APC

A GROUP of lawmakers, under the aegis of the National Unity Group (NUG), has announced plans to block the moves by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to shut down the Executive through legislative blockade, including the delay of this year’s budget.

The group comprises members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the Labour Party (LP) and Accord (A).

How An Obama ‘State Of the Union’ Speech Is Born

President Barack Obama’s 2014 State of the Union speech has been coming together, draft by draft, much of it springing from the mind of a quick-witted 33-year-old with a below-ground West Wing office, an above-average thirst for caffeine, and a passion for the 1985 Chicago Bears.