SOUTH Africa has again postponed the target date of its land reform programme. In its post apartheid election manifesto, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) had promised to redistribute 30 percent of agricultural land in its first five years in office. But by 2001, some seven years later, less than two per cent had been distributed.
Nigeria dropped nine places to 130th position out of the 180 countries ranked on the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2009 by Transparency International (TI), a global anti-corruption watchdog.
Last week Thursday, the House of Representatives was thrown into what may qualify as a brief drama following a motion by chairman, House Committee on Ethics and Privileges, Alhaji Sani Saleh-Minjibir (Kano, PDP), calling on the House to condemn a report by TELL magazine describing Nigeria as a failed state.
Nigeria qualified for the World Cup in a tense Group Two photo finish after beating brave Kenya 3-2 at Moi International Sports Centre on Saturday. The results pushed the Super Eagles to top position in the group with 12 points after long time table leaders Tunisia were beaten 1-0 by Mozambique in Maputo to remain with 11 points.
Mrs. Maryam Babangida, wife of former military president General Ibrahim Babangida, said yesterday that she is alive. She said the widespread rumour which claimed she had passed on at a hospital in the United States were "untrue, cruel, malicious and calculated to create mischief."
The Court of Appeal in Enugu this morning dismissed Andy Uba's case asking the court to grant him leave to assume office as Governor of Anambra State after the tenure of the incumbent, Governor Peter Obi in February 2010. Details later...
LONG fuel queues have hit Lagos State and other major cities across the country, as the problem of logistics hinders efforts by the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to discharge products from its imported cargoes for distribution to marketers.
One person was feared killed while 8 others sustained serious injuries yesterday when some suspected students of Lagos State University, (LASU) staged a protest in their Ojo campus.
Following the passing away of Guinea's long-time ruler, Lansana Conte, in December 2008, the medium-sized country sitting along Africa's west coast has barely escaped the international spotlight. Because of Guinea-Conakry's prominent role in issues, especially of peace-keeping, in and around the ECOWAS [Economic Commission of West African States] sub region, a wide-range of foreign governments and ...
The 2009 edition of FIFA Under-17 World Cup hosted by Nigeria is over. The concluded round leather tournament has revealed that if there is the political will to resolve the country's knotty problems of underdevelopment, there would always be some ways just as we have just muddled through the recent competition triumphantly.
No doubt, there is yet to be a weekend in Nigerian football history in recent times comparable to last weekend. It was one 'blessed' weekend that saw seeminly impossibile situation turned to possibility. It was a weekend that God answered the prayers of teeming Nigerian football passionate fans.
Kaduna State Governor, Architect Mohammed Namadi Sambo, has described as blatant lies and untrue that he has been billed to succeed President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua in the 2011 presidential elections. The governor, who in a swift reaction to reports in the media that he has been tipped to replace Yar'Adua, added that the whole thing was meant to bring about a political cold war between him and the ...
Dimeji Bankole, Speaker House of Representatives who clocks 40 tomorrow is at that stage that people call mid-life. But unlike your typical rump- scratching, lazy one that we know as "a fool at 40", Bankole, at this age, is still firing from all cylinders and chalking history each and every day.
A newspaper claim that a Nigerian has faked a marriage with his daughter to secure a United Kingdom visa for her has sparked renewed debate for immigration control in the country.
Following the resolution of the US Senate on June 18, formally apologising for fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and the noticeable attempts by some heads of governments, and global opinion leaders to wash off the blights and stains regarding the roles they played in the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trade, some Nigerian traditional rulers having been ...
