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PDP crisis: Nuhu Ribadu speaks out...




Former VP Atiku Abubakar, former governors Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Bukola Saraki, and seven other serving governors today formed a new faction of the PDP and Nuhu Ribadu thinks it's good more democracy. See more Tweets after the cut...













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Daily Independent: Bauchi: Three die in auto crash

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Aug 31st 2013, 23:02, by daily Editor

By Patience Ogbodo-Iwuagwu Correspondent, Bauchi                               Three people have been confirmed dead while 17 others sustained injuries in an auto crash that occurred in Gindin Tsamiya along Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The accident, which occurred around 7.24 p.m. on [...]

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Daily Independent: Rivers crisis: Ex-militants threaten commissioner

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Rivers crisis: Ex-militants threaten commissioner
Aug 31st 2013, 23:03, by daily Editor

By Daniel Abia Snr Correspondent, P/Harcourt The political crisis in Rivers State is gathering a fearful momentum following the allegation in some quarters that a commissioner recently received threat calls from unidentified ex-militant leaders. It was gathered that the calls were made to cow the commissioner to shift base from supporting Governor Rotimi Amaechi by [...]

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Daily Independent: …Uba brothers, Nwoye camps fight at venue

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Aug 31st 2013, 23:03, by daily Editor

By Okey Maduforo  Correspondent, Awka The tussle for governorship ticket of the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) degenerated to fisticuffs on Saturday during the special national convention of the party at the Eagles Square, Abuja. The PDP held its special convention to fill in vacant party positions. The melee started before President [...]

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Daily Independent: Nigeria’s corporate existence negotiable – Afenifere

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Nigeria's corporate existence negotiable – Afenifere
Aug 31st 2013, 23:02, by daily Editor

By Oladele Ogunsola Correspondent, Ibadan Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG), has described as erroneous the thinking that the corporate existence of Nigeria is non-negotiable, which informed the recent comment by the Senate president, David Mark, that the Sovereign National Conference (SNC) is not workable under the 1999 Constitution. The group berated the Senate president [...]

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Daily Independent: Police probe Uba over ‘fake’ PDP ballot papers

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Police probe Uba over 'fake' PDP ballot papers
Aug 31st 2013, 23:02, by daily Editor

By Ishaya Ibrahim Snr Correspondent, Lagos As fallout to the parallel Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries held in Anambra State on August 24, the Nigeria Police may have begun investigating Senator Andy Uba over allegation that he printed fake PDP ballot papers and other election materials used in conducting the primary that saw him emerge [...]

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Daily Independent: Bank liquidation: NDIC settles depositors with N6.82b in 2012

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Aug 31st 2013, 23:02, by daily Editor

By Igoniko Oduma  Correspondent, Yenagoa Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) has said that it paid the sum N6.82 billion to 528,212 insured depositors of closed banks as at December, 2012. Managing Director of the NDIC, Alhaji Umaru Ibrahim, stated this at the weekend during the corporation's Special Day at the on-going Yenagoa Trade Fair organised [...]

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Daily Independent: Anambra 2013: Lobby for Obiano, Ngige, Ubah running mates begins

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Aug 31st 2013, 23:02, by daily Editor

By Okey Maduforo Correspondent, Awka Barley one week after the conduct of governorship primary election by most political parties in Anambra State, the battle ground has laterally shifted to who becomes the running mates of Senator Chris Ngige of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah of Labour Party (LP) and Chief William Obiano of [...]

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Daily Independent: APGA, APC, LP battle INEC over PDP double candidacy

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Aug 31st 2013, 23:03, by daily Editor

By Okey Maduforo  Correspondent, Awka The confusion trailing the parallel gubernatorial primaries conducted by the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the war of attrition between the party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the fate of Comrade Tony Nwoye and Senator Andy Uba has drawn the anger of [...]

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Daily Independent: Aftermath of Convention: PDP splits

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Aug 31st 2013, 23:04, by daily Editor

By Rotimi Akinwumi Snr Correspondent, Abuja The Special Mini Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) held at the Eagle Square Abuja Saturday ended on a sour note as some party stalwarts announced the hijack of power from Bamanga Tukur and the formation of a new PDP. The crisis was a fall out of the festering [...]

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TalkAfrika.com: WILLIAM RUTO’s URP vows to oppose RAILA ODINGA’s referendum – RUTTO to be disciplined

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WILLIAM RUTO's URP vows to oppose RAILA ODINGA's referendum – RUTTO to be disciplined
Aug 31st 2013, 22:54, by Talk Afrika

Saturday August 31, 2013 – The party associated with Deputy President William Ruto, United Republican Party (URP), has rejected calls for a referendum, saying time is not ripe for the constitution to be mutilated. 

Speaking during the party's two day retreat in a Naivasha Hotel, URP Chairman, Francis Ole Kaparo, denounced a stand taken by Bomet Governor, Isaac Rutto.

Kaparo said URP will oppose any plans of a referendum saying that the country is yet to recover from the last general election.

He accused some politicians of hijacking the proposed referendum and bringing in politics.
"The referendum had its owners but some people decided to hijack the process for ulterior motives and we cannot allow this," Kaparo said.

Incidentally, Rutto who had been spearheading the referendum debate was missing from the retreat.

Kaparo said that they were ready to lead from the front and will address the issue of the disciplinary measure they will take against Governor Rutto for supporting the referendum.

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TalkAfrika.com: Syria

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Aug 31st 2013, 23:27, by Talk Afrika

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It could be that by the time this article goes to press, a strike has already taken place on Syria by a conglomerate of forces, led mostly by the US, the UK and France. It could be that it has not. The decision to do it, one way or the other, is beyond the purview of the author of this piece; that will be decided in rooms far, far away from Syria's shores, and will have little to do with the hopes and dreams of the Syrian people fighting for a free Syria, beyond the clutches of the butcher of Damascus, Bashar Al-Assad. What some might want to consider, however, is how people beyond Syria actually feel about the strikes going forward and the various contradictions and remaining questions that are making the rounds, including in my fair land of the United Kingdom, particularly after the British parliament sent a clear message to the Prime Minister.

Allow me to be clear about my enthusiasm for a military strike on Syria: I do not have any. At the best of times, I do not relish the prospect of modern warfare with the weaponry available to the world's arsenals. Invariably, people die who had little or nothing to do with the stated reasons for the attacks. Sometimes, military action may indeed be necessary, but to savour the opportunity to partake in modern combat is akin to enjoying collateral damage.

With regards to Syria in particular, military action does not merely involve collateral damage; it introduces consequences. Military action that leads to the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad's regime would result not in a sustained peace, but a new war before any peace was likely. That war would be aimed, in all likelihood, against the Alawites of Syria, but also Muslims and Christians, carried out by the radical extremists by the likes of Jubhat al-Nusra. That, unfortunately, appears to be a foregone conclusion after the policies of the last few years by the Syrian regime, neighbouring countries and the international community at large.

Of course, overthrowing Al-Assad's regime is not the point. At the moment, the military strikes are aimed at sending a message to the Syrian regime, rather than overthrowing it. The international community, it is clear, has decided that an outright military victory for either the revolutionary forces or the regime is not really on the table. No one is interested in intervening to that extent; indeed, it seems that the international community is quite content to let the Free Syrian forces and the regime simply continue fighting each other. For what purpose, it is unclear. What is abundantly clear seems to be that any strike that takes place won't be on the side of the Syrian revolution, or against it.

All of that makes any enthusiasm one might have for military intervention in Syria rather paltry. Yet, one would be hard placed to have sympathy for the 'anti-interventionist' position that many in the UK are currently exhibiting in the national press and among the political elite. The spectre of the Iraqi debacle, and the misrepresentations that were made to Parliament over that invasion a decade ago, still hang over the national discourse like a dark, desolate cloud. Well, I remember Iraq, and I remember how while the Stop the War Coalition organised protests in London (the largest London had ever seen, and the largest that happened anywhere around the world at the time), I felt a mixture of pride and distance. The pride was due to the truly incredible mobilisation that took place on the basis of sincerely held principle for a people far, far away.

The distance, however, was rooted in the fact that so many Iraqis had suffered so much until that point and many of them were more than willing to entertain such an invasion over the continuation of the status quo. The world, and the anti-war movement, gave them two practical choices: the continuation of that status quo (which was sustained sanctions against Iraq and Saddam Hussein's rule, causing great suffering to civilians) or an invasion. I wasn't surprised many of them chose the latter, even while I did not support the war in Iraq.

Today, I feel a similar confluence of contradictions. On the one hand, I'm proud of the fact that our system of government has ensured, that the Prime Minister has been unable to proceed further as a result of a democratic vote, even though I doubt our MPs really knew enough about the situation at hand. When Egypt has a system where the legislature feels so empowered against the executive, it will be a great day. On the other hand, Syrians now face an absurd choice. It is not a choice, as some people try to insinuate, between 'foreign intervention' or not, because foreign intervention has been in place for years now. The support given to the Syrian regime by Russia is not 'domestic', nor is the active role of Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, or Iraqi ones, that have been flocking to support Bashar Al-Assad's government. If the argument against military involvement by the UK is to keep Syria's conflict 'domestic' and 'national', well, that ceased to be the case many moons ago, and to argue otherwise is to insult one's intelligence.

The absurdity of the choice Syrians face is actually the illusion of choice. Anti-interventionists on the British left seem to think that if they can hold Britain back from engaging militarily in Syria, they will have achieved a victory. It would not be because Syria would still be burning. Doing nothing, as some seem to think is the 'solution' in Syria, is no solution at all. On the contrary, it is an abject failure, and has led Syria to this point, with more than 100,000 persons dead, and the use of chemical weapons. Between a quarter and a third of Syrians are displaced, including 1,000,000 children, and Lebanon is dangerously close to re-entering civil war. The continuation of a status quo that maintains that is not a solution; it is cowardly and a disgraceful reflection of the impotence of the international community. The claims of the 'red line' being crossed are bizarre; it's been crossed many a time already. The ramifications of that continuing are tremendous.

I do not pretend to know what is best to secure the success of the Syrian revolution: the promise of a free, pluralistic and just Syria. I am uncertain that these limited military strikes will have the desired effect, and I am unsure that there are no other courses of action that could be taken, if by different actors in the international community. But what I do have absolute certainty of, is that doing nothing is not a solution , and that the lives of more than a 100,000 Syrians, as well as the destruction of that beautiful country, is a shame upon the very concept of the 'international community'. If the British anti-interventionist left, and all those around who now oppose military strikes had been be so energetic about trying to enact solutions for Syria over the last three years, perhaps there would be no need to mourn the deaths of so many now. Give the people of Syria a better choice than one type of madness over another.


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