Uganda is keeping up its assault on the rights of gays. Yesterday armed Ugandan police raided a human rights workshop and arrested lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists and organizers of the conference in Kampala. This is the second time that Ugandan authorities have disrupted a workshop and arrested participants. At least five staff of […]
The Muslim Brotherhood leadership in Egypt held a secret meeting last week in anticipation of Mohammed Morsi’s expected presidential victory. According to the Arabic report, discovered by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the leaders drew up the “Jazira Plan” to Islamize Egypt and pave the way for the resurrection of the Caliphate. The “Jazira Plan” […]
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Wednesday (today) leave Abuja for Brussels after the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council on a one-day official visit to Belgium. According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President would deliver a keynote address at the Summit of the World […]
Udoamaka Okoronkwo-Onuigbo, the mistress of a former governor of Delta State, James Ibori, has been released from a United Kingdom Prison after serving two years. Okoronkwo-Onuigbo, who was tried alongside Ibori’s sister, Christine Ibori-Ibie, was found guilty of money laundering and mortgage fraud and was sentenced to five years by Judge Christopher Hardy of a […]
SPECULATIONS are rife that the once harmonious relationship between the Nigerian movie industry, Nollywood and its counterpart, Ghana’s Ghollywood,is currently under threat as the movie marketers under the aegis of Film, Video Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria (FVPMAN) has placed embargo on Ghanaian films with effect from the end of this month. The association […]
DAMASCUS (AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree on Saturday forming a new government, state television said, less than two months after controversial parliamentary elections boycotted by the opposition. “President Bashar al-Assad has issued Decree 210 forming a new government under prime minister Dr Riad Hijab,” the television said. Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem […]
Italian embassy still silent on Zanin’s death A VIOLENT protest by hundreds of people has trailed the death of a Nigerian in police custody in China’s southern city of Guangzhou, state media and police said. According to agency reports, the police said in an online statement on Tuesday that the man was detained after he fought […]
AHEAD of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) 37th yearly convention holding in New Orleans, United States (U.S.) this week, Nigeria yesterday came under severe criticisms as envoys and security agencies focused on the worrisome corruption in the country. Most of their comments were provoked by the current Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola $620,000 […]
NIGERIAN and Pakistani army have agreed to partner on areas of professional interest, in furtherance of their long standing cordial relations. The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Azubike Ihejirika, who began a working visit to Pakistan on Thursday, discussed with his counterpart, Pakistan Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on areas of mutual […]
BY EBUN SESSOU & OLUWATOSIN OLUWARINU LAGOS — Ghanaian Vice President, Mr. John Dramani Mahama, has said Nigerian government needs strong institutions, especially a strong legislature, whose legislative functions will hold the government accountable. The vice president stated this in a lecture delivered on his behalf by Ghana’s Minister of Information, Haruna Idrisu, […]
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