The Federal Government and Britain have tightened their grip on funds flowing to the Boko Haram and its breakaway faction, Ansaru, in their determination to cripple the activities of the terror groups. Saturday PUNCH learnt that Nigeria and Britain had in conjunction with some other countries intensified the search for sources of funding for these […]
Nigerians, disgruntled by President Goodluck Jonathan’s last CNN interview claim of improved electricity, seized on Sunday’s U.S. Super bowl power outage, to issue a fierce rebuttal, stirring intense debate on the social media on Monday and Tuesday. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who interviewed the president a fortnight ago, said she received torrents of tweets from Nigerians […]
Commander of the United States Africa Command, Gen. Carter Ham, has confirmed that the US has deployed its intelligence machinery to support Nigeria in fighting the threat posed by violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Ham, who spoke in an interview session with a Nigerian media delegation in Stuttgart on Friday, said the support followed a […]
Tina Turner is following in the recently trodden footsteps of French actor Gerard Depardieu and renouncing her citizenship to her mother country, as the legendary singer has decided to say so long and farewell to the United States for good as she has become a fully-fledge Swiss citizen. The ‘Proud Mary’ singer, who was born […]
The Speaker, Nigeria House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal is to speak at the 1st Annual Africa Business Conference of the University of Michighan, United States on Friday, February 8, 2013. PSN gathered that the speaker would discuss issues related to growth through awareness and investing in Africa. Also speaking about the event, the organisers […]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Benue State has vehemently denounced a foreign award conferred on the governor of Benue State, Mr. Gabriel Toruwa Suswam by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in the United States. In a statement, the party advised the management of the Center, which is located […]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama took the oath of office Sunday to begin a second term threatened by strife at home and abroad and amid inaugural rituals lacking the hope and historic promise of 2009. Obama, with a slight smile, took the oath at an intimate, private ceremony in the Blue Room of the White […]
Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his 2000 Olympic Games cycling time trial bronze medal by the International Olympic Committee, continuing the once dominant rider’s spectacular fall from grace after a doping storm. “We have written asking for the return of the medal from the Sydney 2000 Games,” an IOC official told Reuters on Thursday […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Michelle Obama’s office said Thursday it had opened a Twitter account, as the US first lady turned 49. The account is @FLOTUS, the acronym for First Lady of the United States, and it will be administered by the first lady’s staff. Tweets penned by the first lady herself will bear her initials […]
America is “not a deadbeat nation”, US President Barack Obama has said, as he warned Republicans unconditionally to approve a rise in the US debt ceiling. At a White House news conference, he said it would be “absurd” to use the borrowing limit as a negotiating chip. But Republican House Speaker John Boehner said spending […]
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