Libyan rebels raced into the capital Tripoli yesterday and moved close to center with little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi’s defenders melted away. Opposition leaders said Gadhafi’s son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, has been arrested. It was gathered that the fighters moved easily from the western outskirts into the regime stronghold in a dramatic […]
NATO says Gaddafi’s regime ‘crumbling’, ROME (AFP) – Libya’s defected ex-prime minister Abdessalam Jalloud said Sunday he believed it was too late for his former ally Moamer Gaddafi to strike a deal to leave power and he would likely be killed. “I believe the regime has a week left, 10 days at most. And maybe […]
VINEYARD HAVEN (AFP) – The White House predicted Sunday that Moamer Kadhafi’s days as leader of Libya were numbered, as rebel forces fired the opening shots in a battle for Tripoli. President Barack Obama received a briefing from senior national security staffer John Brennan at his rented farmhouse on the resort island of Martha’s Vineyard, […]
United States (US) Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Terence McCulley, Wednesday identified corruption, poor power infrastructure, non-functional public health and inadequate education system as some of the major challenges confronting Nigeria as a nation. McCulley, who spoke at the matriculation ceremony of American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa State, said some of these problems were […]
United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Terence McCulley, yesterday, identified corruption, poor economic growth, erratic power supply as well as non-functional public health and education systems as some challenges facing Nigeria. McCulley also said youth restiveness, religious bigotry and get-rich quick syndrome were other factors militating against the country’s growth. The Ambassador spoke at the […]
Nigeria has again recorded a giant stride in its quest for the utilisation of space technology and application for socio-economic development, following the successful launch of its two new Earth Observation satellites, on Wednesday, in Russia. The new satellites, NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X were successfully launched into the synchronous orbit at the launch site in Yasny […]
GENEVA (AFP) – Football’s governing body said Thursday it will donate $1 million to the international Red Cross to support its famine relief efforts in Somalia. “Approximately one-third of the donation will be used to finance the purchase and transportation of food, representing standard food rations for 25,000 families … over a period of one […]
Nigeria’s external reserve was not threatened by the liquidity crisis facing the United States (US) where the Congress reached a last-minute deal to raise America’s debt ceiling last week and saved America’s credit rating. But the specter of global economic slowdown loomed beyond the shores of the US as Nigerians wre worried that there was […]
Reactions from Nige rian groups and individuals following the release of a landmark UN report detailing oil pollution that may require the world’s biggest ever clean-up by Nigeria’s government and oil giant Shell have put the government and the oil giant under heavy pressure. While rights groups want to use the U.N. report as momentum […]
US President Barack Obama turned 50 Thursday, marking the milestone at a moment of political peril after a damaging debt showdown with Republicans and as he plots his 2012 reelection bid. Supporters sang “Happy Birthday” as Obama let off steam at several political fundraisers in his hometown of Chicago on Wednesday night after a ferocious […]
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