Pirates late Thursday attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria, near Lagos, injuring three crew members, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anatolian reported yesterday. According to the agency report, about 10 pirates with automatic weapons boarded the ship … read more
Nigeria is among African states where democracy remains “fragile or tenuous”, according to the United States Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Johnnie Carson. Carsonsaid this when he appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and … read more
In Nigeria today, the fear of kidnappers is the beginning of wisdom for most prominent Nigerians and their immediate families. But in recent times, the abduction trend has taken a more frightening dimension as nobody is free from the onslaught … read more
Ailing President Umaru Yar’Adua failed to appear at the Friday Jumat service in Abuja today, dousing tension in the political and security quarters of the federal capital that he will be ending his four months absence from public space by … read more
Show me your friends, a popular adage says, and I will tell you who you are. The friends or more appropriately, close associates of the acting president, Goodluck Jonathan give some insight into the kind of leader he is. Though … read more
DESPITE tightened security in the restive Nigerian city of Jos following recent sectarian massacres, a wave of revenge killings has claimed the lives of both Muslims and Christians. The tension is so marked that inhabitants find it difficult to venture … read more
The Nigerian parliament on Thursday approved a 4.6 trillion naira (31-billion-dollar) budget for 2010 based on a benchmark oil price of 67 dollars per barrel. The new budget shows a 13.3 percent increase from the original proposal of 4.079 trillion … read more
IT was a huge surprise to many senators yesterday when at the mention of the name of a former colleague of theirs as a ministerial nominee, Senator Sanusi Daggash, out of a total of 33, shouts of “No” rent the … read more
Afghans, Iraqis, Somalis and Nigerians are top on the list of asylum seekers, according to the 2009 chart released by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Also top on the chart are people from Russia, China and Serbia. … read more
Champions of deregulation gained the upper hand yesterday. Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has given his blessing to the planned deregulation of the oil industry’s downstream sector, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Group Managing Director Sanusi Barkindo said. He told the … read more