Skin Discoloration: Tonto Dikeh, Fans Panic Hits: 4 Tonto Dikeh before her skin discoloration When she started out some years back, the entire lovers of Nigerian movies love her natural beauty, fair complexion, dexterity and artistic prowess, but today, Tonto Dikeh seems to have lost all due to her attitude towards people and her health. [...]
Kingsley igholor African expectations were high for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, the biggest UN summit ever. The conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June, was “too important to fail,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the outset. Under the theme of “The Future We Want,” many of the 100 heads [...]
Finance ministers from the Eurozone are expected to give the green light to a euro 100bn rescue plan for Spain's struggling banks today.
Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) Ondo State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship candidate, Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), yesterday said the resounding victory of Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole in last Saturday’s election was a signal of what to expect in Ondo State in the October 20 governorship election. In a statement by his Special [...]
Paving the path to “the future we want” By Masimba Tafirenyika It is rare for a head of government to be greeted with applause at the very beginning of a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. But that’s what happened last September when Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley of Bhutan took the podium and signalled [...]
East London, South Africa – Defending champion Louis under 62 on Friday to move atop the leaderboard at the mid point of the Africa Open. The South African Oosthuizen, who won the 2010 Open Championship, finished 36 holes at 15-under 131 and is two strokes clear at par-73 East London Golf Club. First-round leader Thomas [...]
INLSA Environmental activist Bobby Peek, the head of groundWork, stands next to a burning map of Africa. Earthlife Africa said the decisions resulting from COP17 would result in a 4�C global average temperature rise which would mean an average increase of 6�C-8�C for Africa. It is estimated that this will result in 200 million deaths [...]
Effa Tambenkongho 9 December 2011 Within the next few hours, the United Nations climate change talks will reach its climax. But questions abound as to what conclusions would be made; what amendments must be made and what needs to change? Third World Network’s Meena Raman most of the issues raised during the deliberations by developing [...]
Mike Loewe 7 December 2011 Japan and Canada said they were out of the Kyoto Protocol, while China indicated support for all COP17 initiatives – especially the launch in Durban of the Green Climate Fund. But Africa, Pacific island small states and Latin American countries called for immediate action from COP17, citing a litany of [...]
By Ken Borland SUN CITY, South Africa | Sun Dec 4, 2011 12:30pm EST SUN CITY, South Africa (Reuters) – Defending champion Lee Westwood held off the rest of the field to win the Sun City Challenge by two strokes at the Gary Player Country Club on Sunday. Westwood began the final day with a [...]
| Print | E-mail Written by Ebenezer Adurokiya Saturday, 26 November 2011 Share The last time I visited Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), I felt I was in a capital city that anyone could be proud of, strictly on account of its cleanliness. But I have my reservation about other aspects of the Abuja environment. I was [...]
African Development Bank (Tunis) 28 October 2011 SPONSOR WIRE Africa should unleash its immense natural resources to pursue sustainable economic growth and development, participants at the African Economic Conference said at the end of the event on Friday in Addis Ababa. Africa has sustained a decade of solid progress, including impressive rates of economic growth. [...]
Some years before independence, only few Nigerians had taken the international sports field by storm.. The likes of Emmanuel lfejuna who won a gold medal in high jump during the Commonwealth Games in 1954, Hogan Kid Bassey who became the world featherweight boxing champion in 1957 and Dick Tiger who won the middleweight crown and [...]
The African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI) has concluded its inaugural Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) meeting with a formal resolution to advance prospective Centres of Excellence and research projects to the next stage of review. The STAC is mandated to oversee the technical work of ANDI, which was launched… AfricaNews – [...]
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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 [...]
Latest Jobs in NigeriaRussia’s Putin torpedoes G8 efforts to oust Assad
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 [...]
Taliban Step Toward Afghan Peace Talks Is Hailed by US
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 [...]