WITH their backs to the wall, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are prodding the United Nations to step up its intervention mission in war-torn Cote d’Ivoire to prevent a situation where the entire sub-region would be plunged into a humanitarian crisis of high proportion. Meanwhile, the ECOWAS Commission has stressed […]
A missile strike on Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s compound in Tripoli Sunday night has destroyed what Western officials called a military command and control centre. Kadhafi’s regime invited journalists to visit the site of the attack on the Bab al-Aziziya compound early Monday morning but it was not clear if there where any casualties. US […]
The UK, the US and France have begun attacking Libya as enforcement of the UN-mandated no-fly zone gets under way. Pentagon officials say the US and the UK have fired more than 110 missiles. Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has said he will open arms depots to the people and the interests of Mediterranean countries […]
The UN Security Council has endorsed a resolution authorising a no-fly zone over Libya, with the three African Union members of the Council, Nigeria, Gabon and South Africa, voting in its favour. UN security council members vote on the resolution to impose a no-fly zone on Libya. Photograph: Monika Graff/Getty Images Resolution 1973 (2011), passed […]
Nigeria would increase its crude oil production if OPEC requested higher output, NNPC said yesterday. Oil prices last month rose to their highest point in more than two years as a brewing civil war in Libya cut out as much as two-thirds of the North African country’s oil output, or one million barrels per day […]
Three aircraft arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja yesterday with 1,243 Nigerians who had been stranded in Tripoli due to the on-going political crisis in Libya.The director-general of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the coordinating agency for the operation, Muhammad Sani-Sidi disclosed this to journalists, while receiving the passengers at the airport. He said […]
By Emeka Chiakwelu, NNP, Mar 7. 2011 – Hosni Mubarak 82, resigned and Power transferred to Egyptian military Switzerland has frozen the Swiss bank account and assets of Hosni Mubarak The victory and accolades belong to the people of Egypt – youths, young and the old did not rest nor sleep until Hosni Mubarak, the […]
Somalia’s extremist group al Shabaab on Sunday afternoon executed two persons they had charged with spying and murder. The hard-line group had accused one of the men of being part of the Somali government’s intelligence department while the other man was charged with assassinating al Shabaab members. Speaking at Maslah camp in northeastern Mogadishu where […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Odein Ajumogobia, represented by the Director North and Horn of Africa Division, Mr Timloh Nkem, disclosed yesterday that about 3,000 additional Nigerians have registered with the embassy officials in Libya indicating their desire to be evacuated. This was as two distressed Nigerians delivered babies at Tripoli International Airport while awaiting […]
INDICATIONS emerged, weekend, that no fewer than six Nigerians had been killed in the ongoing political crisis in Libya while more than 12,440 others were trapped in Tripoli and Benghazi. This came as 1,243 Nigerians who had been stranded in Tripoli were evacuated, yesterday, with the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, using three aircraft for […]
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