I Took over a Failed State, Says Yuguda This Day Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state who formally decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last Saturday, took some time off to speak to some journalists about his stewardship in the last 24 months. Chuks Okocha who was present at the parley brings excerpt | How has it been as governor of ...
Comment: Life in Ghana is nasty, brutish and short Joy Online Fatai Ayinla, a Nigerian with whom I attended elementary school at Kusi Presby Primary and L/A Middle School recently paid a visit to Ghana. He narrated his ordeal at the hands of the Nigerian Police some few years ago. | It was the period of Christmas and the spirit of the season could be felt in t...
Nigerian militant group claims attack on Chevron pipeline Star Tribune | PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria - Nigerian militants say they have sabotaged a pipeline in the restive southern Niger Delta region. | The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said in a statement it had blown up a pipeline Friday run by Chevron Corp.'s local subsidiary. | The commander of the jo...
China to Replace NigComsat-1 Free All Africa The Vice President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr. He Xing, of China Great Wall Industry Incorporation (CGWIC), the firm that designed and build the crashed N24 billion NigComsat 1 satellite, has affirmed that the company would replace the de-o...
Senate Names Adedoyin, Offor, Bayero, Others in N53.3bn Insider Credit Abuse This Day At last, the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions yesterday made good its threat to name former directors of 13 failed banks who were involved in insider credit abuse that led to the banks’ failure. | The former dir...
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s Iron Lady of Finance This Day Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is a woman of history. A director of the World Bank, she was Nigeria's Finance Minister and then briefly Foreign Affairs Minister from 2003 to 2006, the first woman to hold either position. | As a Minister Ngozi stood out as the ...
Will His Death Pay His Debts? This Day Suddenly, everyone has realised that Michael Jackson can not die! In fact his transition has generated goodwill, far better than when he was living. Michael has taken on a whole brand new life in death. Anything connected to Michael is a hot cake now...
Points To Consider Before Quitting Your Job to Be Your Own Boss This Day Got that entrepreneurial spirit? You aren't alone. In fact, two out of three teenagers who completed a recent Junior Achievement "Interprise" Poll on Teens and Entrepreneurship with me recently said they hope to start their own business one day. But ...
Fashions of a Postcolonial Provocateur The New York Times | Yinka Shonibare loves to make fun of Victorian repression, but the art in his first major survey is just as stuffy in its own way. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Audio Slide Show Art and Identity | Related Art: Headless Bodies From a Bottomless ...
Lagos will be Better Under PDP, Says Bode George This Day Basking in the euphoria of the recent victory of his party in the bye-election held in the Ibeju-Lekki Federal Constituency in Lagos State, Chief Olabode George, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the former National Vice Chairman ...
When Corporations Ruled WorldNews.com Article by WorldNews.com correspondent Dallas Darling. | I am not sure if you ever had the experience of sitting down and listening to widows share how corporations and their paramilitary organizations tortured and then assassinated their husbands. Or how their sons and daughters were killed for trying to start a union, or for attempting to improve...
Nigeria rebels attack oil facility, hijack tanker The Star | ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's main militant group said on Monday it had sabotaged a Chevron oil facility and seized a chemical tanker and six crew members, the latest in a string of attacks in Africa's biggest energy producer. | The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said it had attacked Chevron's Okan manifold late on Sunday i...
Obama's Africa visit prompts Nigerian, Kenyan angst The Star | LAGOS (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's choice of Ghana for his first official trip to Africa next week has triggered a bout of self-questioning in Nigeria and Kenya, where many see his itinerary as a deliberate snub. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about innovation and job creation at the White House in Washington July 2, 2009. (REUTE...
