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Security Conference On Nigeria Holds In London

By NewsRescue • February 4, 2012

February 4th, 2012
NewsRescue- BEN TV release: The need to proffer solutions to the fragile security situation in Nigeria has prompted BEN TV, an African and Caribbean TV in London to organise an International Security Conference …

Nigerian Students spend over 1 billion dollars in Ghana every year- Sanusi

By NewsRescue • January 30, 2012

January 30th, 2012
NewsRescue- The intriguing, highly intellectual, controversy spitting governor of the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) has dropped another thought provoking bomb on the state of the Nigerian education system and the siphoning of …

Middle Belt holds Nigeria ‘Security Summit’

By NewsRescue • January 29, 2012

The Middle Belt holds Nigeria together
January 29th, 2012
NewsRescue- Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), the Yoruba Ile-Ife chieftan, recently lambasted Nigeria’s former president, IBB (Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida) for professing his readiness to defend a united Nigeria at all …

The Solution for Boko

By NewsRescue • January 28, 2012

January 27th, 2012
Dr Mustapha Johnson[NewsRescue]- It is only within the capacity of the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan(GEJ) to solve this particular crises, now plaguing our dear nation. I am not going into the …

The End of Boko Haram

By NewsRescue • January 25, 2012

Update, February 1st, 2012
Boko spokesman with nom de guerre Abul Qaqa, arrested in Maiduguri, Borno state.
A police official told the Associated Press news agency the militant was captured after police tracked his mobile phone.
Officials are …

Report: Nigeria Govt. Links to Boko Supplier; Kingpin released

By NewsRescue • January 17, 2012

January 17th, 2012
NewsRescue- Reports from reliable sources indicate a strong campaign among some members of the ruling PDP party of Nigeria, also including pressure from some top military officers, to release the military office suspect, …

Nigeria Under Siege

By NewsRescue • January 16, 2012

‘General Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’- The Photoshopped image of Nigeria’s president is the most common blackberry Avatar and an indication of how Nigerians feel about their ‘civilian’ dictator president.
January 16th, 2011
NewsRescue- Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation …

Democracy Fails Africa

By NewsRescue • January 15, 2012

January 4th, 2012
Social Research

Democracy Fails Africa
The heading is actually a misnomer. Democracy fails everywhere, at least in its popular definition and application today. Multiparty democracy as promoted and appealed for globally today, is a political …

The Damning KPMG Report: Nigerian Government & NNPC Corruption

By NewsRescue • January 12, 2012

January 12th, 2012
The Damning KPMG Report FG, NNPC, Do Not Want Nigerians To See – Premium Times
AfricanSpotlight- On Thursday December 1, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, cringed when the senate joint committee investigating the …

Spike in Violence in Nigeria as President Refuses to Restore Fuel Subsidy

By NewsRescue • January 12, 2012

January 12th, 2012
NewsRescue- There has been increased deadly violence, with attacks and counter attacks across Nigeria, as the president fails to address security issues in the federation, but rather on January 1st increased anger and …

World protests against IMF, World Bank and Nigeria subsidy removal

By NewsRescue • January 12, 2012

January 11th, 2012
NewsRescue- Protesters world wide denounce the IMF and World bank compelling Nigeria and other African governments to suddenly remove fuel subsidies. On January 1st, 2012 the president of Nigeria, joining governments of Ghana, …

Nigeria Fuel Hike Fuels Cause for Impeachment of President Jonathan

By NewsRescue • January 11, 2012

January 11th, 2012
NewsRescue- Growing anarchy in Nigeria secondary to the sudden and abrupt government increase in fuel prices and the resulting deadly riots and closing down of the Nigerian work sector, with estimated losses of …

NLC Fuel Riots in Nigeria; Several dead

By NewsRescue • January 9, 2012

January 9th, 2012
NewsRescue- The NLC, TUC fuel subsidy removal riots in Nigeria kicked off all over the federation Monday, despite pleas and negotiations by the Federal Government. All businesses, office, markets including sea and air …

Nigeria Targeted For Destruction: Gordon Duff, US

By NewsRescue • January 7, 2012

January 6th, 2012
NewsRescue- Our readers should ask themselves this simple question- What has the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan done to combat the radical terrorism stemming from the notorious Boko Haram group in North Nigeria? …

Stop Giving Boko Haram Media Coverage!

By NewsRescue • January 6, 2012

January 5th, 2012
NewsRescue- This is a message to all media houses, online and off line editorials, journals and associated social media platforms in Nigeria and globally: Kindly stop giving the notorious Boko Haram radical …

‘Nigeria Fuel Riots are Not ‘Occupy’ Riots’

By NewsRescue • January 5, 2012

January 5th, 20012
NewsRescue- ‘The fuel hike riots in Nigeria are not ‘Occupy’ riots as you have in the United States and Europe’, Mr Agbati of Synthetic Nigeria says. ‘These riots are due to a single …

Fuel hike riots: Nigeria Cabinet to hold emergency meeting

By NewsRescue • January 4, 2012

January 4th, 2012
Bloomberg- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet today to discuss the goverment’s scrapping of subsidies on fuel, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told Channels Television.
The Nigeria Labor Congress and …

IMF Forces African Nations to Remove Fuel Subsidies

By NewsRescue • January 1, 2012

January, 1, 2012
NewsRescue- Joining Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Chad, Nigeria on New Years day removed fuel subsidies in accordance with an order from the IMF (International Monetary Fund). This created a jump in the price …

Small Arms – The World’s favorite weapons of mass destruction

By NewsRescue • January 1, 2012

by Hugh McCullum
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not …

Study documents Nigerian children died from families’ gold mining

By NewsRescue • December 21, 2011

Large numbers of infants and toddlers have died from lead poisoning in Nigerian villages where their parents process gold ore inside their family compounds, according to a report published Tuesday by an international team of …

Fela Kuti, Dim Ojukwu, Two men, One great Legacy

By NewsRescue • November 28, 2011

If you can’t fix them, leave them!
NewsRescue- It initially seems odd, that these two remarkable, great men, could leave a single, same legacy. One,- the most famous Igbo man in history, worldwide, and the other, …

Boko Haram linked to Qatar, Western Powers

By NewsRescue • November 23, 2011

November 22nd, 2011
NewsRescue- The radical Islamist group allegedly responsible for a spate of bombings across the Northern region and capital of Nigeria, Boko Haram(Western civilization is bad) has finally begun to reveal its long sought …

Birom Christians eat Roasted flesh of Muslims they Killed in Jos, Nigeria

By NewsRescue • September 29, 2011

Highlight: BBC reporter, Rob Walker witnesses Christian cannibalism {Audio link below}
At a point as the flesh is being roasted, someone says in Hausa language “…ni zuciyan na ke so…” meaning: “I want the heart”, while another person goes further to ask “…ka sa gishiri?” meaning: “…did you put some salt”?

The revolt of the people: From Nigeria to Bahrain and on

By NewsRescue • February 20, 2011

February 20th, 2011

NewsRescue-The then military dictator president of Nigeria, General Badamosi Babangida on June 26th 1993 annulled the June 12, 1993 election, won by the late popular millionaire, MKO Abiola. This election was reportedly the …

Tobechi Onwuhara, a king of US home equity fraud

By NewsRescue • January 29, 2011

CNN: By Luke O’Brien, contributorJanuary 25, 2011: 5:29 AM ET
FORTUNE — A luxury suite at the W Hotel in Dallas is as good a place as any to conquer the world. At least it seemed …