Ethiopia: The Meles Zenawi foundation
... family members, senior government officials, presidents of the Sudan, Uganda, and Djibouti, former President of Nigeria Olusegun Obasanjo, AU Commissioner Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and other invited...
View ArticleAp Photos: Nigeria's forgotten railroad history
Train horns now sound again across Nigeria's lush south and the encroaching desert of its north, but the history of the nation's 100-year-old railroad still sits rusting away.
View ArticleNigeria: 2015: Conversation With Usman
Laifi'n babba, rowa, laiii'n yaro, kiwuya. Usman, that's his name, he is responsible for the yam we eat in my house, we all call him mai doya .
View ArticleGovernor Akpabio "Own Hands", The Nigerian Elites and a Nigerian Arab Spring
A week before Nigerian governor, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state in Southern Nigeria confessed that he "pre-rigged" the election of Senator Aloysius Etok of Akwa Ibom North Senatorial District, I...
View ArticleThe Apotheos-ification of Nigerian Leaders and Political Elites
... Thailand, and the Roman Empire are especially noted for redefining monarchs as god-kings. In pre-colonial Africa and Nigeria, the same applies with most of the monarchs, e.g. in Yoruba land, the...
View ArticleWe've much to learn from Indian varsities: African official
... assist the Pan Africa University to develop the Institute of Earth and Life Sciences at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. The declaration aimed to pave the way for greater interactions between...
View ArticleNigerian theatre seeking revival in...
The future of Nigeria's rich theatre legacy, built over decades by artists including Africa's first Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka, may be found off stage.
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... Gulf of Guinea in western Africa. The bureau reported 15 attacks in the gulf, including three hijackings. It said Nigeria accounted for 11 attacks with pirates hijacking a vessel with 15 crew...
View ArticleNigeria U17 Coach Manu Restates Eaglets Will Be Champions After Hammering Ghana
Nigeria coach Manu Garba has restated his team will be African U17 champions after hammering rivals Ghana 6-1 in their opening game at the African Championship on Sunday.
View ArticleWorld sea piracy falls 35 per cent in first quarter 2013; spotlight on Gulf...
... Gulf of Guinea in western Africa. The bureau reported 15 attacks in the gulf, including three hijackings. It said Nigeria accounted for 11 attacks with pirates hijacking a vessel with 15 crew...
View ArticleEdo warns PDP against alleged perpetration of falsehood
... local government elections in the state, said that one of the cardinal objectives of his party, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, was to bequeath power to a vibrant young generation that would take...
View ArticleNigeria's MEND Issues Threat to Bomb Mosques, Kill Clerics
Nigeria's Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta threatened to bomb mosques and assassinate Muslim clerics, a week after saying it killed 15 security personnel in the southern oil-producing...
View ArticleWorld sea piracy down 35 percent in first quarter
... Gulf of Guinea in western Africa. The bureau reported 15 attacks in the gulf, including three hijackings. It said Nigeria accounted for 11 attacks with pirates hijacking a vessel with 15 crew...
View ArticleLagos council chief, Bamigbetan kidnapped, abductors demand N155 million
... All men are on ground doing what is expected of us." Also, Spokesman of the Lagos chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Joe Igbokwe, has ordered the abductors to release Bamigbetan...
View Article2013 West African Polytechnic Games postponed
... for the event established by the Summit of Heads of Polytechnics and Sports Coaches from West Africa in Lagos, Nigeria in 2000; which led to the maiden edition taking place seven years on with the...
View ArticleASUU moves against VC over senate members of governing council
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, has threatened a showdown with the Vice Chancellor, Professor Boniface Egboka, over alleged violation of the...
View ArticlePresident Jonathan, IGP Abubakar urged to immortalise slain CP Asadu
... on the IGP, Mohammed Abubakar to name the Nsukka Police Barracks after late Chinweike Asadu. He however, thanked the Nigeria Police family as well as Enugu, Anambra and Kwara States governments for...
View ArticleIDEA to revolutionize Nigeria's software industry
... during the launching of the IDEA programme in Lagos, the Vice Chairman, institute of software Practitioners of Nigeria, Mr. Pius Okigbo, said that software as far as information technology is...
View ArticleEkeji quits with a strong legacy
... Abuja as the Director of Sports in the Sports Ministry, a feat no other director, dead or living had achieved since Nigeria got her independence fron the British in 1960: Aside that, the...
View ArticleTwo Leadership Newspaper reporters docked, released
... committed an offence and punishable under section 467 of the Criminal Code Act Cap 'C' 38 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004." Besides, it told the court that the accused persons conspired...
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