THE Federal Government is leading the campaign for free entry into South Africa and Nigeria for diplomats and holders of the two countries’ official passports. The proposal was presented to South Africa yesterday at the on-going Eighth Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) confab in Cape Town. The Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Working Group of the […]
A watershed for justice and constitutionalism in Africa was marked by the April 26, 2012 verdict of the Sierra Leone Special Court which convicted Charles Taylor for aiding and abetting war crimes. The court, sitting at the Hague, was established in 2002 with the mandate to try those who bear the greatest responsibility for crimes […]
BY PROVIDENCE OBUH Lagos — President of the Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies (AES), Dr. Ausbeth Ajagu, has advocated the need for the Federal Government to stop the importation of generating sets into the country, in a bid to address the epileptic power situation in the country. Ajagu, who spoke weekend, at a press conference, said […]
Photos are beginning to come through from the picket in London to protest that King Mswati III of Swaziland has been invited to take part in the Jubilee celebrations of the UK’s Queen Elizabeth. The King, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, is staying at the Savoy Hotel, where rooms cost about £400 per night. He […]
“Today, I can announce a new global effort we are calling a ‘New Alliance’ for food security and nutrition. And, to get the job done, we are bringing together all the key players around a shared commitment,” said Obama. At a food security forum in Washington, the president said ending hunger by making African farms […]
There was palpable tension on Friday in the commercial city of Onitsha over the disappearance of the corpse of a 42-year old woman, Eunice Azala, from a mortuary, one month after it was deposited. Two Liberian morticians attached to the Bex hospital Awada, where the incident took place have been arrested by policemen attached to […]
Seventeen Nigerians are currently on the death row in Indonesia, the Federal Government said yesterday. They were convicted for various offences including drugs trafficking. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, speaking at the 2012 Ministerial Platform to commemorate the first year of the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, however said government had stepped […]
The Olympics’ Torch has arrived Nigeria as part of the countdown to the London 2012 Games. Speaking at the event in Abuja, the Deputy British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Giles Lever, said the torch represented peace wherever it goes. He said it symbolised the power of sports to overcome divisions between countries and religions […]
A GLITTERING lunch for the world’s sovereigns to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was marked yesterday by a withdrawal, protests and sharp criticism of the guest list. Spain’s Queen Sophia has pulled out of the event slated for Windsor Castle, west of London, amid tension over Gibraltar, while there were protests […]
By Kenneth Ehigiator LAGOS — Almost two weeks after the Senate ordered Lufthansa Airlines to pay the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, N2.198 billion, being money representing unpaid royalties between 2009 and November 2011, the airline is yet to do so, saying it had paid all charges to date. Royalty is money paid by foreign […]
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