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Aloysius Katsina-Alu was sworn in Nigeria's new Chief Justice Wednesday in the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who is hospitalized in Saudi Arabia with an ailing heart.

Katsina-Alu assumed office at a ceremony presided over by outgoing Chief Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi at the Supreme Court complex in Abuja.


Ignoring calls for resignation over his ill-health, Yar'Adua has not formally handed over power and reports say that Nigeria is locked in a political deadlock.

Earlier this week, he signed a supplementary budget for the current financial year at a clinic in the Saudi Red Sea port of Jedda

In this article, Onimisi Alao writes on the cancer scourge that has claimed the lives of several  prominent Nigerians, including the former first lady, Maryam Babangida

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Group calls for Revolutionary change in Nigeria
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“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of constitutional and moral crisis maintain their neutrality or silence” (Adapted from Dante) (more…)

Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has asked the Lagos State Government to free those it is detaining in detention facilities throughout the state in the spirit of Christmas and New Year.

The party also demanded the freeing of all seized vehicles and business implements, like commercial motorcycles and buses, confiscated by the government and its agencies. (more…)

(Mrs.) Maryam Babangida, wife of Nigeria’s former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retd.) died early today at the University of California Los Angele’s (UNCLA) Jonsson Comprehensive  Cancer Centre in Los Angeles, United States where she was receiving treatment for cancer

A statement signed by Ibrahim Ismail, Special Assistant to Gen. Babangida, stated that she died beside her husband who has been at her beside in the US hospital.

With total submission to the Will of Allah, we humbly announce the passing away of our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and amiable friend Hajiya Maryam Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. (more…)

A 23 year old Nigerian,  son of Alhaji (Dr.) Umaru Mutallab, the immediate past Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria PLC is facing charges in United States over a foiled bid to blow up a plane in Detroit United States, yesterday

Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab is  an engineering student at University College London with suspected links to Al Qaeda.

Mutallab has allegedly tried to light up explosives while Flight 253 of Northwest was making a landing in Detroit on December 25.

He had an explosive device close to his groin and was successful at initial ignition of the device causing smoke to billow in the cabin. However, his further actions were stopped by passengers and crew, among them Jasper Schuringa, who wrestled the explosive device away from Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab and covered it with his own hands. It was reported the terror suspect behaved very calm after he was subdued.

It is being reported Mutallab was traveling without a return ticket

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As Christians mark the birth of Jesus Christ today, the Movement for Revolutionary Change (MRC) has urged citizens  and mass movements  in Nigeria to imbibe the revolutionary messages and teachings of Jesus Christ and forge alliances towards delivering the country from the clutches of the cabal that have captured state power at all levels to fetter personal and clannish interests (more…)

The Oil field of Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria is up for sale

Valued at $5 billion (3.1 billion pounds),  the auctionof the Oil field is influenced by insecurity in the oil-rich Niger Delta, government funding shortfalls and an uncertain regulatory environment.

A Truck accident in the Northern town of Dekina, in Nigeria claimed about 55 lives with dozens injured

The driver of a truck loaded with cement bags lost control of his vehicle and smashed into a crowd of people in the town of Dekina.