The new Cape Town Stadium has been opened on time - 32 months after the first sod was turned.
The Nigerian Bar Association rose from its National Executive Committee (NEC) at Zodiac Hotel, Enugu Friday last week with a resolution that 'all statements made by the NBA President and in particular, the statement to the effect that the President of Nigeria should have handed over to the Vice-President in an acting capacity and in keeping with relevant constitutional provisions or resign in the ...
Diplomats and African leaders are calling for an international civil-military force in Guinea to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian assistance, but a junta official has warned such a deployment would be seen as a "declaration of war".
Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Mr. Parry Osayande, yesterday said about N420 billion is needed to reposition the Nigeria Police Force to enable it perform its statutory duties as enshrined in the constitution.
A former minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Don Etiebet and human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, among others, yesterday expressed fears that the absence of President Umar Musa Yar Adua from the country in the last three weeks on grounds of ill-health might have more grave implications on national security than earlier envisaged.
THE palpable sense of excitement among Luanshya residents following the imminent re-opening of the mine is understandable.
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda blocked the payment of US$6.7 million to Lusaka lawyer, Rodger Chongwe because the amount was too excessive and was going to set a bad precedent, his special assistant for Press and public relations, Dickson Jere has said.
FOUR Members of Parliament (MPs) and a Catholic Priest in the Eastern Province have strongly condemned people promoting tribalism at the expense of national development.
Many people see some sort of dichotomy between development and a low carbon society.
50,000 Tunisians especially among the population composed of elderly people, those suffering from heart ailments and diabetics, have been vaccinated against the H1 N1 virus, since the launch of the vaccination campaign on November 18, 2009.
The officials of the Ogaden National Front (ONLF) guerillas have warned the oil searching companies operating in the Somali region under the Ethiopian control, official told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma yesterday made clear Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel's central role in economic policy, but stressed that the government had already agreed what those policies would be.
THE rift between the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) widened yesterday.
FOR more than a decade already, news about the impending death of the tripartite alliance has been grossly exaggerated. The communists and trade unionists continue to suffer from battered spouse syndrome - they are in complete and self-destructive denial about being battered by their ANC bedfellows.
The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal will tomorrow give judgment on the legal dispute surrounding the controversial emergence of former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Professor Charles Soludo, as the flagbearer of the Peoples' Democratic Party, PDP, for the February 6, gubernatorial election in Anambra State.
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, is considering holding a video conference with hospitalised President Umaru Yar'Adua as a means of assuring Nigerians that he was recuperating, to confirm the claim of his officials.
FEW days from now, year 2009 will roll away and 2010 will be ushered in, with fanfare and merry making.
At a news conference in New York on Monday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the issues raised by the hunger strike of Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar. The relevant excerpts follow:
African Union climate negotiator Meles Zenawi has sought Chinese and Indian backing if the African demands are not being taken seriously.
By 2050, ocean acidity could increase by 150 percent. This increase is 100 times faster than any change in acidity experienced in the marine environment over the last 20 million years.
New estimates of sea level change including the dynamics of the big ice sheets are way higher than the IPCC 2007 estimate.
The recent report by the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) alleged that personnel of the Nigeria Police carried out the extra-judicial killing of over 3,014 people, after labelling them as 'armed robbers'.
Years after the Rwandan government sent indictments of nine Genocide fugitives living in Mozambique, the country's Minister of Justice, Levi Benvinda, has said that her government has vowed to offer support and collaboration in tracking down the suspects and bring them to justice.
Rwandans in the Diaspora are meeting in Kigali to map out strategies on how they can better serve their country. As this important group of Rwandans meet, the Central Bank has given them the green light to set up the Rwanda Diaspora Mutual Fund to mobilize resources for investing in various sectors of their interest within the country.
NIGERIAN politicians are a strange breed. They believe they are the smartest beings in existence which could explain their conduct. In 10 years of managing Nigeria's vast resources, they have insisted on befuddling the issues.
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