Tag Archives: Port Harcourt
This is Bayelsa State, heart of the Niger Delta, and “glory of all lands”, according to the official state tagline. Under the care of His Excellency the Honourable Seriake Dickson, what was once a restive kidnapping zone has mellowed considerably. … read more »
Posted in Letters & Interviews, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged African Movie Academy Award, Bayelsa State, Goodluck Jonathan, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Yenagoa
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By Prince Charles Dickson There is no manner of death that is inconvenient for the chicken.(One is game for whatever propositions might be made to one). The phrase ‘oga at the top’, some forthnight went virile. We all know how … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Lagos State, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Nigerians, Nkem Owoh, Port Harcourt, Shem, Television
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By Justine John DYIKUK Official statistics from the Nigerian Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) show that the highest number of deaths and accidents occurred in last quarter of 2012. It indicted that an average of 15 people died daily from … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Justine John DYIKUK, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Enugu, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, IndepthAfrica, International Public Sector Accounting Standards, Nigeria, Port Harcourt
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ANIEBO NWAMU, leadership.ng All doubts about President Goodluck Jonathan’s ambition in 2015 have been cleared. An Abuja high court headed by Justice Mudashiru Oniyangi performed the onerous duty, on Friday, by its ruling in a suit filed by Mr Cyriacus … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, bokoharam, GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, local Nigerian newspaper, Nigeria, Nigerian, Port Harcourt, United States
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With the above, let me therefore state that the main treatise of this attempt is to review the strategies adopted by the Rivers State Government under the watch of Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi in tackling the menace of insecurity … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Amaechi, IndepthAfrica, List of Governors of Rivers State, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Port Harcourt, River State, Rivers State government, Rotimi Amaechi
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MOST foreign investors in Nigeria have reckoned that the profits outweigh the risks and the hassle. But a spate of kidnappings, on top of an Islamist insurgency that refuses to die down, may make them think twice before venturing into … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Al-Qaeda, Bauchi, Boko Haram, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news, nigerian newspapers, Port Harcourt
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By Amnesty International Hundreds of fatal police shootings which each year leave families anguished and bereaved are not being investigated effectively because of a failure of the Nigerian justice system, Amnesty International says in a report released today. Nigeria: No … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Amnesty International, Human rights, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news, Police brutality, Police officer, Port Harcourt, rivers state
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By Reuben Abati A loosely bound group of yesterday’s men and women seems to be on the offensive against the Jonathan administration. They pick issues with virtually every effort of the administration, pretending to do so in the public interest; … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Ewekoro, GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, Jonathan, Lagos, local Nigerian newspaper, Nigeria, Nigerian news, Nigerian Railway Corporation, Port Harcourt, Reuben Abati
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by Olusegun Adeniyi Scores of pipelines vandals lost their lives at the weekend at Arepo Village in Ogun State, following an explosion which occurred as they struggled to siphon fuel. According to media reports, it all started with an argument … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Atlas Cove, IndepthAfrica, Kogi State, Lagos, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian news, NNPC, Ogun State, Port Harcourt
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As I pondered on the lifetime achievements of Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, arguably the greatest export of the Ijaw nation and the legend who standardized highlife music in Nigeria, I couldn’t but also reflect on the man Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, Israelites, Niger Delta, Nigeria, nigerian newsnigeria news, Port Harcourt, Rex Lawson, rivers state
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BY Justine John DYIKUK As this writer sat reflecting on the state of affairs in both private and corporate Nigeria, many things came to his mind. While he was gleaning through the pros and the cons of our national life, … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Justine John DYIKUK, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Christian, GoodluckJonathan, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Port Harcourt, rivers state, United States, West Africa
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By EMMANUEL UDOM Operatives of the State Security Service, SSS and under-cover police officers have been placed on red alert at airports in major states and cities across Nigeria in the in the build-up to the Christmas and new year … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, bokoharam, Frederick Fasehun, IndepthAfrica, Lagos, Nigeria, Nigerian news, Oodua Peoples Congress, Port Harcourt, State Security Service
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The changes in the Nigeria Premier League continues today (Friday) the Nigeria Football Federation releases the names of those appointed on an interim basis run the league until a new board is constituted. The NFF board was scheduled to meet … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, Soccer, Sports, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Africa Nations Cup, African Footballer of the Year, IndepthAfrica, Nigeria Football Federation, Nigeria national football team, Nigeria Premier League, Nwankwo Kanu, Port Harcourt
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SIX years after a Nigerian 18-seater Dornier 228 Air Force transport plane, carrying 15 senior army officers and three crewmembers crashed leaving only three survivors that sustained serious injuries on September 17, 2006, 2012 will go down in history as … read more »
The governor of Nigeria’s Kaduna state has been killed in a helicopter crash in the southern delta region along with other senior officials, his party says. Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa and former national security adviser Gen Owoye Azazi were on … read more »
Backslidden Pastors and their Patronage of a Port Harcourt Based Occult Woman There is disturbing news within pastoral circles in Abuja concerning some backslidden colleagues whose recent patronage of a certain Port Harcourt based occult woman is a source of … read more »
New style prophets from Nigeria and Ghana have bastardized the once prestigious prophetic ministry and turned it into a caricature of visions of phone numbers, bank details and ladies underwear. The prophetic ministry is one of the fivefold ministry which … read more »
Posted in Article, Columnist, Nigeria, Obinna Akukwe, West Africa
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Tagged Ghana, God, HolySpirit, Jesu, John, New Testament, Port Harcourt, University of Lagos
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President Goodluck Jonathan has told a Federal High Court that contrary to the provisions of the 1999 Constitution, an incumbent president’s tenure in office can extend beyond four or eight years. The president, who last Sunday said it was too … read more »
A Federal High Court (FHC) sitting in Port Harcourt has fixed for January 15, 2013, hearing on the case of alleged of plagiarism instituted against Professors Steve O. Tamuno and Needorn Richard Sorle of the Department of Economics, University of … read more »
by M. Joe Omeokwe, Ph.D. I have come to love Nigeria. I was born a Nigerian, grew up a Nigerian and later became a Biafran even serving the new nation as a soldier in the 2nd Battalion of the ‘S’ … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria
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Tagged Biafra, Ibadan, Igbo people, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Port Harcourt, yoruba, Yoruba people
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THE situation surrounding the killing of the four students of the University of Port Harcourt worsened on Tuesday evening, as students of the institution, led by the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), stormed Omuokiri-Aluu, burned houses and … read more »
By Ben Ndubuwa, Leadership opinion The current fuel scarcity which NNPC thought it could contain now seems intractable as marketers insist that the federal government pays their subsidy reimbursement. The Jetty and Petroleum Tank Farm Owners of Nigeria (JEPTFON) who … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Lagos, Nigeria, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Oando, Ogun State, Petroleum product, Port Harcourt
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opinion There is need to introduce what night life in Abuja could be. Basically, the federal capital Territory is known to be a seat of power and naturally, a city full of civil servants and politicians. It is a city … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, bokoharam, Federal Capital Territory, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kogi State, Nigeria, Port Harcourt
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Lagos – Nigerian officials on Monday began demolishing a large waterfront slum in the economic capital Lagos, a move that could leave tens of thousands of people homeless. The Makoko settlement consists of rows of shanties perched on stilts in … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Amnesty International, breaking news, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Lagos, Makoko, Nigeria, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, nothafrica, Port Harcourt, West Africa
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Tanker exploded. The explosion sounded like an earthquake. Many of them could not come out alive,” a panic-stricken survivor of a petrol tanker fire that killed over 200 at the outskirts of Okogbe community, Rivers State, on Thursday narrated to … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Abuja, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Bayelsa State, breaking news, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, nothafrica, Okogbe, Port Harcourt, rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi, Tank truck, Toyota Camry, West Africa
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by Aminu Sani Without doubt there is Boko Haram which aims to establish, according to them, a just social system of governance as they understand it, which path to its establishment is strewn with violence and there is a “Boko … read more »
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, bokoharam, Christian, East Africa, Gombe State, improvised explosive device, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, Jos, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, news, news 24, news in africa, Nigeria, North Africa, Plateau State, Port Harcourt, South Africa, south african news, travel to africa, West Africa
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With the dust raised by his suit against the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, whom he accused of grossly violating his intellectual property rights by extensively plagiarizing his work in two public lectures … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Central Bank of Nigeria, Igbinedion University, Lamido Sanusi, Needorn Richard Sorle, Nigeria, Port Harcourt, University of Port Harcourt
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Police on Sunday night rescued midfielder Christian Obodo, a player for Italy’s Udinese football club now on loan to Lecce, a day after he was abducted in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern delta, a police spokesman said. Delta state police spokesman Charles … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, Soccer, Sports, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Christian Obodo, IndepthAfrica, John Obi Mikel, Joseph Yobo, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Udinese Calcio, Warri
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•November 20, 1969: Nigeria Airways BAC VC10 crashes on landing killing 87 on board. • January 22, 1973: Royal Jordanian Airlines flight 707 carrying 171 Nigerian Muslims returning from Mecca and 5 crewmen died in crash in Kano, Nigeria. •March … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Boeing 727, Ghana, Kano, Lagos, Nigeria, Nigeria Airways, Nigeria: Timeline of air crashes, Port Harcourt
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Ten people died after a cargo plane smashed through a runway fence at Ghana’s international airport and slammed into a minivan bus. The Boeing 727 had flown in from the Nigerian capital of Lagos when it overshot the runway at … read more »
Posted in Ghana, Hottest News, News, West Africa
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Tagged Accra, Cargo aircraft, Ghana, ghana cargo plane ceash, IndepthAfrica, John Dramani Mahama, Kotoka International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria, Port Harcourt
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