The United State of America Treasury Department has added two individuals and seven organizations in Nigeria and other Africa nations and Asia connected to Islamic State to its sanctions list for global terrorism. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday on its website declared that it had added Abu Musab Al-Barnawi of […]
— 27th February 2018 Romanus Ugwu, Abuja The Department of State Services (DSS) has revealed that it has arrested five members of the notorious Gemere kidnap gang that abducted some Canadians and Americans along the Abuja-Kaduna road. In a statement signed by its spokesperson Tony Opuiyo, the services disclosed that in furtherance of its commitment […]
Former US first couple Barack and Michelle Obama unveiled their portraits at Washington’s National Gallery Monday, two contrasting works by African American artists that shocked and delighted. The paintings by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, were revealed at a star-studded event that is a rite of passage […]
Article for publication: Poem – What is Africa…. Shithole? By Emeka Chiakwelu Ancient landscape of body, mind and spirit Noble Humanity of innovation, experience and action Were you not there in the genesis Relegated as the edged narrative in bondage Destruction of mind was deadlier than body Demolition odour of toxic hydrogen sulfide odour of […]
— 8th February 2018 NAN The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it has arrested two men for “impersonating” its operatives to obtain $10,000 by false presence. Spokesman of the commission, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed this in a statement. Uwujaren identified the suspects as one Mike Nkwocha and Richardson Obasogie, a “self-confessed Colonel in […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | January 28, 2018- A Mozambiquean professor at Howard University once summed it up in his own words, “Nigerians have very low morals”. Despite our low morals and its attendant sleaze and moral squalor, we long to be portrayed in the most favorable light. To remain wedded to unethical and amoral […]
Photo: Embraer A-29 Super Tucano. Federal Government has concluded arrangements to meet the Feb. 20 deadline for payment of 494 million dollars meant for procurement of 12 A-29 Super Tucano Light-attack aircraft from U.S., Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, said. The minister made this known while briefing State House correspondents after the meeting of National […]
Breaking News: Kidnappers release Americans and Canadians in Kaduna — 20th January 2018 Kidnappers have released two Americans and two Canadians kidnapped in Kaduna after paying unspecified amount of money. Rescue of American and Canadian Citizens kidnapped along Jere-Kagarko road Kaduna state and arrest of two Kidnappers. Combined teams of Intelligence Response Team (IRT), Counter […]
Adelani Adepegba, Abuja The Federal Government has summoned the United States ambassador to Nigeria,Stuart Symington, over the derogatory remarks by President Donald Trump. Trump had in a fit lambasted immigrants, stating that they were coming from ‘shithole’ countries, a statement that annoyed many concerned nations and generated serious criticisms from the African Union and […]
The Nsobundus, the Nigerian couple living in the Houston-area of the United States has been ordered by an American court to pay $121,000 as restitution to the Nigerian woman who worked for 20 hours a day for two years as the nanny to their five children. The nanny was not paid throughout the period. Now […]
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