The Isoko North Local government council in collaboration with the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) has built a 46 bed fully equipped cottage hospital including a doctors and nurses quarters and a theatre in Ekuigbo Iyede. During the commissioning of the hospital, the secretary to the state government, Comrade Ovuozorie Macualay commended [...]
News provided by the Venezuelan government must always be taken with a grain of salt. With that in mind, Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro announced on television Thursday that President Hugo Chávez is “battling for his health, for his life.” Chávez, who has not made a public appearance since undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba in [...]
The four photos showed Mr. Chávez lying in bed and smiling, with two of his daughters, Rosa Virginia and María Gabriela, on either side of him. Jorge Arreaza, the minister of science and technology who is married to María Gabriela, said the photos were taken on Thursday. In three of the photos Mr. Chávez is [...]
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian man who was beaten and dragged naked by riot police during a violent protest has admitted that security forces harmed him, after earlier saying that protesters had undressed him. The beating was caught on camera by The Associated Press, and the video was broadcast live on Egyptian television late Friday [...]
A well known man married to six women in a small Nigerian town has allegedly been “raped to death” by his wives. Uroko Onoja, a businessman living in Ogbadibo, returned from a local bar at 3 a.m. and headed to his youngest wife’s room. At that time, the other wives – who are said to [...]
Nollywood actor Victor Osuagwu has reportedly survived a terrible motor accident. But for God’s intervention, nigeriafilms.com reported, the renowned actor would have been long dead. “What would have amounted to another tragedy was averted in Nollywood when the top actor and comedian narrowly escaped a ghastly car accident,” reported the website. The crash, which left [...]
George Orwell’s Animal Farm The Nigerian adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm had its closing performance on February 26 after a month at the Terra Kulture in Lagos, Adewole Ajao writes A keen follower of Nick Monu productions would notice a return of the metal structure synonymous with his plays. This unmistakeable projection from both [...]
Clarion Chukwurah is a Nollywood actress. She was in Kenya last month courtesy of the Association of Nigerian Women in Kenya (ANWIK) for a fundraising in support of Kenyan women living with breast cancer. I’m not a routine person so I don’t wake up on a specific time every day. If I’m shooting or [...]
In Malaysia, a Nigerian man was arrested on suspicion of being a drug mule. The man was reported to have been tied down to a bed in the hospital as the police waited for him to excrete the drug capsules out. According to news from Malaysia, the man somehow managed to free himself from being [...]
IGP, Hafiz Ringim By Adibe Emenyonu A Benin-based actor, Mr. Daniel Iyamu, was allegedly killed Wednesday in his nap by his wife, during their No 1 Agonse Street, Ugbihoko Quarters in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. Iyamu was found stone-dead on his bed after his neighbours had forcefully damaged a doorway to his [...]
By Gabriel Enogholase BENIN— A Benin-based actor, Mr. Daniel Iyamu, has been allegedly killed in his sleep by his wife in Ugbihoko quarters, Egor North-East Local Government Area of Edo State. Vanguard gathered that the remains of the late Iyamu were found on his bed by his neighbours, who forced his door open following cries [...]
Enlarge ASSOCIATED PRESS Women hold mosquito nets after receiving them at a distribution point in Sesheke, Zambia. Researchers say malaria may have rebounded in some parts of Zambia and Senegal because of resistance to the insecticide-treated nets. ASSOCIATED PRESS Women hold mosquito nets after receiving them at a distribution point in Sesheke, Zambia. Researchers say [...]
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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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US Scrambles to Save Taliban Talks After Afghan Backlash
Mr. Karzai reacted in fury after an apparent diplomatic breakthrough on Tuesday — the opening of a Taliban peace office in Qatar — instead became a publicity coup for the Taliban. In televised images that horrified many Afghans, the Taliban introduced what appeared to be an embassy, raising their flag, speaking in front of a [...]
Global Forced Displacement at 18-Year High
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 [...]