As I read our own Ayo Olukotun (PUNCH columnist)’s column of last Friday with the above title, I chuckled. In it Ayo, a political science professor, was lamenting Nigeria’s exclusion from America’s President Obama’s forthcoming African tour, with his wife Michelle, of countries including Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3. […]
American civil rights leader, Baptist Minister and two-time Democratic Presidential nominee, Rev. Jesse Jackson, was in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as a Guest Speaker at Isaac Boro Day lecture. He spoke on a wide range of issues in this interview with journalists. MIKE ODIEGWU was there. An excerpt: You are from one of the most advanced […]
A DIRECTIVE from the White House has cancelled outright the visit of United States’ (U.S.) President, Barack Obama, to Nigeria on his second trip to the continent, informed U.S. sources have confirmed. While some middle level State Department officials had already intimated some U.S.-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on plans to include Nigeria on the U.S. […]
Nigerian troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states may have been bolstered by United States drones stationed in Niamey, Niger Republic. The Nigerian government had deployed thousands of troops to the three states after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in their territories on May 14, 2013. A top […]
THE Federal Government has identified a total number of 84 legitimate and legal routes through which people could come or go out of Nigeria, while about 1,497 illegal routes that entered the country had also been uncovered. Determinied to put an end to the unending insurgency in the country, the Federal Government has, therefore, approached […]
American civil rights leader and Baptist minister, Rev. Jesse Jackson, has thrown his weight behind the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to offer amnesty to members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Jackson, a two-time United States of American presidential candidate, also said Nigeria “is divided, not so much by religion, region and tribe but […]
2014 applicants asked to check website AS the United States (U.S.) reforms its immigration laws and eliminates the green card lottery, Africans could be the big losers owing to the fact that they are the main beneficiaries of the visa programme, agency report indicated Wednesday. But around 100,000 people were Wednesday picked from several million […]
By Nnamdi Ojiego …Says With successful convention, we have crossed last hurdle on path to merger The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the government it controls at the centre as a cesspool of corruption and asked them to cover their faces in shame. ACN was reacting reacting […]
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama on Tuesday branded the Boston bombings a “cowardly” act of terror, but said it was still unclear if a foreign or domestic group or individual was behind the attacks. “This was a heinous and cowardly act,” Obama said at the White House. “Any time bombs are used to target […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States did not yet know who was responsible for blasts at the Boston marathon but he vowed to find those accountable and punish them. “We don’t yet have all the answers,” Obama said. “We still do not know who did this or why,” he […]
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