NIGERIA and the European Union (EU) have agreed to jointly support both national and regional strategies to combat security challenges. The development is coming as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Anyim Pius Anyim expressed deep concern about insecurity in the country, calling on all Nigerians to support government’s efforts at tackling the […]
February 6, 2012 by Agency Reporter A former Wishard nursing assistant accused of fondling a patient and videotaping it appeared in an Indianapolis court on Tuesday. The judge appointed a public defender and entered a “not guilty” plea on his behalf. But police said the evidence against Folajuwani Ajayi pointed to guilt. His immigration status, […]
RIVALRY between Nigeria and South Africa, and a deep diplomatic cleavage in the African Union, may have led to the failure of the AU to elect a substantive chairperson for the AU Commission after four rounds of voting that ended without the emergence of a winner last Monday in Addis Ababa. Informed Diplomatic sources considered […]
Zambia and Ivory Coast eased into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with 3-0 wins over Sudan and co-hosts Equatorial Guinea respectively on Saturday in the first games of the weekend’s quarter-final clashes. A 15th minute goal from defender Stopilla Sunzu, a second after 66 minutes from captain Chris Katongo and a third four […]
Zambia, Cote d’ Ivoire, Gabon and Ghana appear the likely winners of the 2012 Cup of Nations quarter-finals across central Africa this weekend. The football feast begins Saturday with two fixtures in Equatorial Guinea — Zambia and Sudan in mainland port city Bata followed by the co-hosts and Cote d’ Ivoire in island […]
In terms of global visibility there could hardly be a greater contrast between Wednesday’s soccer disaster in Egypt which claimed the lives of at least 73 people and the world’s worst recorded stadium disaster in which 340 people died in Moscow in 1982. Video footage of the riot in Port Said between fans of […]
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered that a Nigerian, Rasheed Mustapha, be extradited to the United States of America for allegedly stealing $798,907.62 (N125.3m) in that country. The verdict came after a lot of drama between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Mustapha, who through his counsel, Joseph Nwabike, fought […]
HE United States of America’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Terrence McCulley, has denied that the US predicted that Nigeria might break up in 2015. McCulley said this in Ibadan on Thursday while speaking with journalists during his visit to Oyo State. He said, “No US government official predicted that Nigeria will break up by 2015. That […]
January 31, 2012 by Olalekan Adetayo, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday said he did not contest the chairmanship of the African Union with the union’s new helmsman, President Boni Yayi of the Republic of Benin. He said contrary to some reports that he contested and lost, he instead facilitated the […]
A two-day summit of the African Union leaders opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday with the election of a new chairman for the pan-African organisation. The election saw the president of Benin Republic, Mr Thomas Yayi Boni emerging chairman for the next year, as he took over from the president of Equatorial Guinea, Mr […]
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