The United Nations refugee agency says more people in 2012 became refugees or internally displaced people than at any time since 1994. The UNHCR said in a report Wednesday that war and other crises last year forced one person from his or her home every 4.1 seconds. The agency’s annual Global Trends report said more [...]
ISLAMABAD, June 19 (Xinhua) — Death toll of Tuesday’s suicide blast in Pakistan’s northwest Mardan district has risen to 34 from 29 as five more people succumbed to injuries on Wednesday, said local officials. Talking to media on Tuesday, Shaukat Yousuf Zai, information minister of the country’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which Mardan is [...]
Turkish police sent 94 demonstrators to the prosecutor’s office to face charges of provoking violence during the recent unrest, as growing numbers adopted a silent form of protest inspired by the “standing man.” The suspects, including 20 members of soccer team Besiktas’s fan club, known as Carsi, face charges of organizing acts of violence and [...]
19 June 2013 Last updated at 12:56 The row centres on the new Taliban office, which opened in Qatar’s capital Doha on Tuesday Afghanistan has suspended talks with the US to discuss the nature of US military presence after foreign troops withdraw in 2014. A spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said the decision was taken [...]
JACKSON, Mississippi — Mississippi’s teacher training programs are mediocre at best, according to a group pushing for changes in how the nation trains teachers. The report from the National Council on Teacher Quality is backed by Mississippi groups pushing for educational improvements. However, leaders of some colleges of education said the council’s report either misconstrues [...]
Mallam Nuhu Ribadu Tobi Soniyi A Federal High Court in Abuja will on July 10 hear an application by the Delta State Government on the $15million bribe allegedly offered former Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, by a former governor of the state, Chief James Ibori, to be paid to the [...]
The presiding judge on the case, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, has set the 10th July for the Federal and Delta state governments to argue which side should claim the $15 million recovered from former governor of Delta state, Mr. James Ibori. At a resumed sitting of the court, Justice Kolawole adjourned the case for hearing for [...]
KANO -Residents of Kano have expressed concern about the persistent scarcity of potable water in many parts of the state capital, newsmen, reports. Many of those, who spoke with newsmen, stressed the need for government to arrest the development on time. Malam Wada Abdullahi, a resident of Sagagi, described the effect of the problem on [...]
SENATOR Albert Legogie, the Deputy Senate President in the aborted Third Republic and a pioneer member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is dead. Aged 76, his death was confirmed by his son, Victor, who said his father died on Monday evening in a private hospital in Benin City, [...]
The chairman, Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, Mrs. Lucy Omagbon, has proposed a budget estimate of over N2.3 billion for the 2013 fiscal year. Presenting the budget at Okada, headquarters of the council, to the legislative arm of the council, Mrs. Omagbon, who tagged the proposed budget estimate a ‘Budget of New [...]
Ihedioha, Oshiomhole mourn Adibe Emenyonu A former Deputy Senate President, Senator Albert Legogie, is dead. He was 65. Legogie who was a pioneer member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was said have died on Monday at about 4:30p.m., after a brief illness at a private hospital in Benin [...]
The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), has warned the state government to desist from further deducting additional money from the lean finances available to councils under the guise of implementing the 271/2 per cent increament to primary school teachers. The incessant deduction of teachers’ salaries from the local [...]
By Andrew Osborn and Maria Golovnina ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland | Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:10pm EDT ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – Russia’s Vladimir Putin derailed Barack Obama’s efforts to win backing for the downfall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at a G8 summit on Tuesday, warning the West that arms supplied to the rebels could [...]
If the talks begin, they would be a significant step in peace efforts that have been locked in an impasse for nearly 18 months. American officials have long pushed for such talks, believing them crucial to stabilizing Afghanistan after the 2014 Western military withdrawal. But it was unclear what immediate actions led the Taliban to [...]
Several opposing groups have filed lawsuits against a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that was adopted in May. The four suits, filed over the course of the past month by environmental groups and water users, argue the Delta Plan does not fulfill its two co-equal goals of providing a [...]
Authorities of the United Nations (UN) yesterday said it has commenced negotiations with the management of World Bank to provide financial assistance to Delta State to rebuild its infrastructure destroyed last year by floods. Valerie Amos, the UN under secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, gave the hint in Asaba at a town [...]
Gang Rape: Two Bag Life Imprisonment in Delta State Nigeria Category: Nigeria News Published on Monday, 17 June 2013 15:31 Written by Agency Reporter Hits: 133 A Delta State High Court at Ughelli has convicted two persons for gang-raping a 17-year old girl after robbing her parents of valuables, and thereby sentenced them to life [...]
DELTA State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, yesterday, broke his silence since the State House of Assembly passed the anti-kidnapping Bill into law which overrode his executive veto, saying that the action however never affected what he described as, “the robust relationship” between him and the House. The governor stated this in Asaba, yesterday during a [...]
Justice Gabriel Kolawole has set July 10 for the Federal and Delta State Governments to argue the case involving $15 million recovered from convicted former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori. At a resumed sitting of the court, Justice Kolawole adjourned the case for hearing for the claimant, Delta State, to make its case [...]
Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has restated his administration readiness to collaborate with the United Nations in the effective management of the post flood challenges facing displaced persons in the state. Dr. Uduaghan who stated this during a Town Hall meeting in Asaba, organised by the state government as part of official visit of [...]
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UK Prime Minister to Lobby President GoodLuck for Gay People in Nigeria
The Britain Prime Minister, Mr David Cameroon whilst reacting to questions from a Nigerian, Name, Bisi, living in Britain, who asked for his reaction to a bill approved by Nigerian lawmakers last month banning same-sex marriage – setting jail terms of up to 14 years for offenders – and making it illegal to form gay [...]
Death Of Nans Senate President And Four Others In Auto Crash Erc Condoles With Nans And Students
PRESS STATEMENT Death Of Nans Senate President And Four Others In Auto Crash Erc Condoles With Nans And Students The death of the Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Donald Onukaogu Sunday, Dimeji Azeez (a.k.a Fagbocious) and three others is indeed shocking. Reportedly, they died in an auto crash while on their [...]
Taming the Ghost Workers Abdullahi M. Seidu For years, ghosts’ workers in Nigeria are not meant to be seen on their duty post but clearly visible on the payroll. They crawl under the shadow of darkness to suck dry our common wealth. They are reapers where they have not sown anything! Going by the [...]
Condoms, narcotic drugs flood Boko Haram camps
More of the dirty sides of the insurgents’ lifestyle are being revealed as troops continue to stumble on strange and bizarre objects such as several used and unused condoms as well as charms and amulets of various shapes in the captured terrorists camps. Defence spokesman, Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade, who made the revelation, said that [...]
Clarifying Nigeria’s Debt Position
Clarifying Nigeria’s Debt Position There has recently been a lot of misinformation and misconception in our public debate on debt. My goal in this article is to shed some light on the public debt, to clarify the real state of Nigeria’s debt position, and hopefully, provide a knowledge platform for constructive debate. Let me say [...]
Governor Yari: An Excellent Performer in search of “Result-Oriented SSG”
Governor Yari: An Excellent Performer in search of “Result-Oriented SSG” I do not live in Zamfara but passively at the moment, so my view is shaped from what opinions of pundits gathered and my research. As I moved round, the enormity of work done was not only amazing and revealing but very exciting to behold. Good networking, expansion [...]
Africa’s mobile youths drive change Cell phones reshape youth cultures
Africa’s mobile youths drive change Cell phones reshape youth cultures By Jocelyne Sambira The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cell phone–based curriculum, told the TechDailyNews that most of these children have never even used a [...]
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