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Nigeria gets $23m GEF grant for environmental projects (it will be embezzled)

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

Nigeria has received grants totalling $23million in four years from the Global Environmental Facility, under its “Big Full Size” project funding, a desk officer, has said. The GEF’s Desk Officer in the Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs Halima Mohammed, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday. Mohammed […]

Picture: 100 die in Algerian military plane crash

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

Crashed Algerian military plane… on Tuesday. | credits: European Pressphoto Agency An Algerian military transport plane has crashed in mountains in the north-east of the country with 103 passengers and crew on board, BBC reports. The Hercules C-130 crashed in a mountainous area of Oum al-Bouaghi province, en route to Constantine. One survivor has […]

Opinion: Criminality in the Niger Delta (1)

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

By Sabella Abidde For more than a decade, the Niger Delta was home to formal and informal groups like the Outlaws; the Tombia Youth Organisation; the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta; the Ijaw Youth Council; the Niger Delta Strike Force; the Niger Delta Coastal Guerillas; South-South Liberation […]

South Africa: Police fire rubber bullets at ANC supporters

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

South Africa’s heated election campaign turned violent on Wednesday, forcing police in Johannesburg to fire rubber bullets and stun grenades to separate armed supporters of the ruling ANC from an opposition rally. African National Congress militants brandished sticks and hurled petrol bombs and bricks at members of the Democratic Alliance holding a march near the ANC’s […]

C’River denies losing villages to Cameroon

Posted by admin Cross River, Headlines, State News Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

The Cross River Government said on Wednesday that none of its villages were illegally annexed by Cameroon on the orders of the Nigeria-Cameroon boundary demarcation officials. The Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Liyel Imoke, Mr Christian Ita, told newsmen in Calabar that the speculation was untrue. He, however, said that a pillar on the boundary between […]

CAR: Peacekeepers fail to prevent ethnic cleansing of Muslims

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the Central African Republic, a human rights group says. Militia attacks have led to a “Muslim exodus of historic proportions”, according to a report by Amnesty International. Aid groups have warned of a food crisis, as many of the shops and wholesalers were […]

Opinion: Probability of APC winning 2015 presidential election

Posted by admin All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines Wednesday, February 12th, 2014

Uche Igwe | credits: File copy The All Progressives Congress has started with a momentum as a radical opposition party in Nigeria. Relatively, it seems to have achieved some visibility nationwide, especially in the media. It has also succeeded in antagonising the ruling Peoples Democratic Party on many issues and has attracted many prominent politicians […]

Guinea: Kalu to visit Guinean President as Nigerians protest Unlawful arrest

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

By Odimegwu Onwumere Nigerians in Guinea on February 10 2014 barricaded the Nigerian Embassy in that country in protest of what they said was unlawful arrest and detention of fellow Nigerians, especially from Igbo extraction and, keeping them in the prison for days. According to a report by Igbo socio-political group called Njiko Igbo, about […]

Clerics die as jeep, bus plunge into canal

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, February 9th, 2014

… on Sunday | credits: Odutayo Odusanya Two Islamic clerics lost their lives on Saturday after their jeep collided with a bus and plunged into a canal at the Iyana Ipaja end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. PUNCH Metro learnt that the victims, Alhaji Akinsola Al-Ameen and Muyideen Thiamiyu, were coming back from Ikorodu when their […]

Alleged certificate forger, Stella Oduah, bars SSS operatives from international airports (Instead of resigning in shame for fraud and corruption)

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories Sunday, February 9th, 2014

Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah Operatives of the State Security Service have been directed by the Ministry of Aviation to stay away from all the nation’s international airports. The order, which was communicated to the SSS leadership a few weeks ago, was said to have shocked the operatives. It was further gathered that […]