Jill Johnson receives degree from Smith
... education included George School in Pennsylvania, Guilford College in North Carolina, the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, Community College of Vermont in Brattleboro, and Greenfield Community...
View ArticleNigerian Author Publishes New Book of Traditional African Fables
... and fiction. She is the founder of Comfort and Alphaeus Omieibi-Davids Library (CAODL) in Ogu, River State, Nigeria and is an active member of various education and Christian organisations in Port...
View ArticleMiss Africa Ukraine 2013 Crowns a Worthy Pageant Queen
"We're very proud to be involved in Miss Africa Ukraine 2013 and think Isabel will make a stunning ambassador for Africa in Ukraine," said a spokesperson for AfricaBeauties.
View ArticleEnugu Rangers To Use Second-string Side For Ghana President's Cup
Enugu Rangers will use a second-string side to play in Ghana's President's Cup in July due to their busy calendar, GHANASoccernet.com understands.
View ArticleNigeria: AU Endorses Country for UN Non-Permanent Seat
Nigeria yesterday recorded a major diplomatic victory at the on going conference of the African Union, AU, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as her candidacy for the non-permanent seat in the United Nations,...
View ArticleNigeria: How Amaechi Was Re-Elected
After many weeks of intrigues and horsetrading, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was re-elected as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum, NGF, beating his lone rival, Jonah Jang...
View ArticleUS urges Nigeria to avoid rights abuses
... to ensure the military does not carry out atrocities against civilians in its clampdown on Islamic militants. Nigeria declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states on 14 May as it...
View ArticleUS urges Nigeria military to avoid rights abuses
Nigerian army soldiers are driven in a pickup truck as they partrol the streets of Maiduguri, capital of the Borno state in Nigeria, on May 24, 2013.
View ArticleNGF: Pro-Jonathan govs split Forum, name Jang chairman
... Chairman of the Jang-led NGF, read the six-paragraph communique issued and jointly endorsed by the faction. "The Nigeria Governors' Forum, under the new leadership of Governor Jonah Jang, as...
View ArticleHow the bloody rise of a little-known insurgent group may plunge Nigeria into...
... a game reserve where the rebels are believed to have set up camp. The escalation raises the worrying prospect that Nigeria-home to more than 250 different ethnic groups, with its population of 160...
View ArticleGunmen kill security operative in Maiduguri
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect membrs, Saturday, shot and killed a security official suspected to be a personnel of the Department of Security Servies at Ajilari/Gomari airport ward of...
View ArticleKerry to appoint envoy to Sudan after oil dispute with south
... barrels a day since May 3, he said in Addis Ababa yesterday. "We defend the right completely of the government of Nigeria to defend itself and to fight back against terrorists," Kerry said. He said...
View ArticleKiller-friend on the loose: 'He made me a widow nine days after our wedding'
If 35-year-old Amaosa Otabor, alias Biggy, had known he was walking into his untimely death, he would have stayed at home last Sunday morning.
View ArticleDeep Beatles: Paul McCartney, "Bluebird"
... Jamaican vacation. McCartney, along with wife Linda and bandmate Denny Laine, began laying down the track in Lagos, Nigeria, eventually finishing recording at George Martin's AIR Studios in London....
View ArticleEvergreen Apple Nigeria To Represent Gulfstream
Lagos-based Evergreen Apple Nigeria , the first fully integrated FBO, maintenance and hangar facility for business jets to open at Murtala Mohammed Airport, announced at EBACE 2013 that it has signed a...
View ArticlePolice rescue four kidnapped foreigners in Port-Harcourt
Confirming the development, Rivers State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Angela Agabe, gave the victims names as Vadym Shytov, from Ukraine; Obaya Marak, from Kiribati; Mikhail Teresgji, from...
View Article'No killer-gas but killer-equipment'
... all gas being sold across the country are in tandem with the standard speciified by the Standard Organization of Nigeria. The clarification, made during a gas stakeholders meeting in Lagos, came in...
View ArticleTinubu: Opposition leaders to rescue Nigeria
National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria , Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, says leaders of opposition parties remained resolute in their desire to reconstruct Nigeria.
View ArticleAero Contractors to start flying Accra-Douala
... Kotoka International Airport (KIA) - Douala International Airport and back to Accra with a brief stop in Lagos, Nigeria, was launched at a short ceremony at the Silver Lounge of the Accra Mall,...
View ArticleNigeria: Governors Forum Chairmanship - Governor Jang of Plateau Now to...
The meeting of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, where its officers will be elected, has just commenced in Abuja, with strong indications that two candidates for the position of the chairman: Katsina...
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