President Goodluck Jonathan pronounced in Abuja on Thursday that his administration was operative toward substantiating embassies or representational offices in all African countries. Jonathan done a devise famous during an assembly with a new Mauritanian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr B.A. Abderrahmane. He pronounced a step was in avail of his administration’s joining to operative with [...]
He said whites in southern Africa, including white Judge Hans Fabricius who made the probe ruling, are trying to makes excuses for their defeat by the forces of African liberation. He called the judge `’a boer,” a pejorative term for whites, and said Fabricius has no jurisdiction in Zimbabwe and does not understand the way [...]
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By Mabvuto Banda LILONGWE | Fri Jun 8, 2012 7:44am EDT LILONGWE (Reuters) – The African Union will move a July summit from Malawi if the country keeps up its efforts to block the attendance of Sudan’s wanted president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Malawi’s vice president said on Friday. Malawi last month asked the African Union [...]
PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL YOUTH DAY COMMEMORATION IN PORT ELIZABETH PRETORIA, South-Africa, June 8, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Members of the media are advised that President Jacob Zuma will on 16 June 2012 deliver a keynote address at the National Youth Day Commemoration under the theme, Working Together [...]
LILONGWE (Reuters) – The African Union will move a July summit from Malawi if the country keeps up its efforts to block the attendance of Sudan's wanted president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Malawi's vice president said on Friday. Malawi last month asked the African Union to prevent Bashir from taking part in the event, saying his visit would have "implications" for its aid-dependent economy. Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court over charges he masterminded genocide and other atrocities during his country's Darfur conflict. …
Malawian President Joyce Banda is dismantling the policies of her predecessor that stopped aid to one of Africa’s poorest nations and plunged the country into a political and fiscal crisis. It’s working. The International Monetary Fund on June 6 agreed to lend Africa’s second-biggest tea producer $157 million and the U.K., Malawi’s largest donor, has [...]
ABUJA, June 7 (Xinhua) — Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has reaffirmed a thorough investigation into Sunday’s plane crash that killed 193 people. The accident was a major setback to his government’s ongoing efforts to restructure the aviation sector, Jonathan told a special cabinet meeting held on Wednesday to mark the end of an official three-day [...]
Precisely, Democracy day when President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan announced the renaming of the prestigious University of Lagos (UNILAG) as Moshood Abiola University , Lagos (M AULAG) as a part to immortalize the great democrat who fought massively to see the enthronement of democracy in Nigeria.But the ill- informed pronouncement of Jonathan elicited the University of [...]
Michelle Obama has appeared on David Letterman's Late Show to offer her top 10 "fun facts" about gardening – while making fun of her president husband.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Hugo Chavez's voice booms out from loudspeakers singing the Venezuelan national anthem. A life-sized puppet of the socialist president dances on stage. His face looms from hundreds of shirts and hats on euphoric red-clad followers. Yet at the latest government election rally, in a renovated colonial square at the heart of the largest slum in Caracas, the man himself is nowhere to be seen. …
LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian emergency workers have begun recovering bodies from the site where an American-built airliner crashed in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. All 153 passengers were killed in Sunday’s crash, and more fatalities are expected because the Dana Air jetliner went down in a densely populated area. Emergency workers, firefighters and police struggled [...]
One of my greatest fears is someday to wake up and to hear that the University of Jos, my beloved alma mater, has ceased to be, and has been renamed the Yakubu Gowon University. Or that the University of Ibadan would come to be known as Olusegun Obasanjo University; and since the inimitable Nnamdi Azikiwe [...]
We need to preserve our institution —Gbadamosi For Sesan Gbadamosi, an alumni of UNILAG and proprietor, Bell Time School, renaming the institution is an improper step taken by the Federal Government. “UNILAG is an old institution of 50 years and it is not proper to put down the reputation of the institution. “We need to [...]
Divide Nigeria Peacefully OR by Civil War
The fact that Boko Haram has succeeded in waging war against Nigeria in total violation of the fundamental principles of society means Nigeria security arrangements have failed, and either the personnel are untrained or ill-equipped to meet the present and future threats to Nigeria territorial integrity The perpetual granting of amnesty to people who commit [...]
The Big Uniport Four (Jonathan, Amaechi, Wike & Princewill) And Way Out Of The Rivers Macabre Dance
The Big Uniport Four (Jonathan, Amaechi, Wike & Princewill) And Way Out Of The Rivers Macabre Dance By Eze Chukwuemeka Eze. ezemediaconcept08@rocketmail.com, 08038199163 PREAMBLE Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one [...]
In Africa’s Great Lakes region, peace dividend must follow peace deal
In Africa’s Great Lakes region, peace dividend must follow peace deal By Ban Ki-moon and Jim Yong Kim Africa’s Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades. It can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbours, educate millions of out-of-school [...]
Open letter to NGF: Do not betray your own
Open letter to NGF: Do not betray your own By Igwe Douglas It is allegedly the highest height of desperation if what is being reported in an online news website -http://abusidiqu.com about how the President of Nigeria, Mr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan wants to compel the Nigerian Governors’ forum to hold its election in the Presidential village [...]
EASYKOBO.COM presents Nigeria’s 1st Free NSE Stock Trials
Aug 9 (Lagos) –Easykobo Finance website welcomes you to the new and improved easykobo.com experience. In December 2010,Easykobo.com was formed during the financial crisis to bring a fresh approach to investing in the Nigeria capital markets, website was upgraded last month. Easykobo.com now features Nigeria’s first free Stock trials simulation with exciting prizes for winners [...]
Telkom SA joins IT Leaders East Africa Summit in September as platinum solution provider
The anticipated 2nd annual IT Leaders East Africa Summit will take place from 5 to 6 September 2012 in Nairobi; in the heart of Kenya’s esteemed capital city. The summit is produced and hosted by international business-to-business conferencing company, Kinetic Events in proud association with the Kenya ICT Board (KICTB) and Kenya Information Technology and [...]
Hennessy Artistry To Release Music Video For Bartender On August 17th
The video of the year is about to drop! Hennessy Cognac announced today, that acclaimed Film Maker, Clarence Peters has delivered the music video for ‘Bartender’, the historic Hennessy Artistry collaboration between Naeto C and M.I – two of Africa’s best Hip hop artistes. The video promises to be very exciting and arguably sets a [...]
CHIBUIKE ROTIMI AMAECHI AND THE RESOURCES OF RIVERS STATE – A SCORE CARD!
The main treatise of this attempt for avoidance of doubt is to examine and x-ray how Gov Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has diligently and prudently managed the resources of Rivers State or otherwise. This becomes imperative considering the Punch Newspaper publication in its edition of [...]