LAGOS (AFP) – Nigeria's information minister has called on ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua to transfer power, a senior official said Thursday, in the first sign of a cabinet split over his prolonged absence from the country.
Reporting from Washington - In a morning pep talk to Senate Democrats, President Obama urged his allies to buck up despite electoral setbacks, bear down in the final push to overhaul healthcare -- and, whatever they do, quit relying on blogs and cable television for news.
There was disquiet within the Senate Chambers on Tuesday as senators raised objections to insinuations that it has foreclosed the consideration of other options over the Yar’Adua debacle.
ABUJA - A Nigerian court ruled on Friday that President Umaru Yar'Adua was not breaching the constitution by failing to hand over to his deputy during a prolonged absence, but offered little clarity on who was in charge.
When you strip Nigeria of all its borrowed and illusive attires, what will be left is a wretched half-child-half-man nation on the verge of implosion. Nigerians and the rest of the world are beginning to ask themselves serious questions in the wake of a Nigerian man’s attempt at bombing an...
Worried by the prolonged absence from his presidential functions in Nigeria due to ill-health and the total ignorance by the Nigerian citizens of the whereabouts of President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, a call has gone to the National Assembly legislators billed to resume today, to declare the president missing.. Read More
Awka - AS the clock ticks close to Saturday's Anambra governorship poll, Action Congress, AC, candidate and former Governor of the state, Dr. Chris Ngige, has asked the people to vote for the liberation...
An election for governor of Nigeria's Anambra state has been condemned amid reports of vote-buying and ballot-box theft.
Damn our “leaders” if they like it, damn them if they don’t, the people have spoken. Enough of power vacuum, near constitutional crisis, and over heating of the polity all due to the fact that...
Report: Israeli warships on way to Persian Gulf 07 Feb 2010 As Israel keeps threatening the regional countries with war, Egyptian maritime sources say the Israeli navy has deployed two missile ships...
President Umaru Yar'Adua has both heart and kidney problem Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua will write a letter handing power over to his vice-president, his adviser...
It's been a rough few weeks for Sam's Club workers. First came the announcement that ten Sam's Club stores in the United States would close and the 1,500 employees who worked there could lose their jobs....
Walmart is having second thoughts about its master plan for Canada, at least that’s what some of the analysts are saying. According to a recent industry report, the world’s largest retailer is throwing...
LAGOS, Feb 3 - U.S.-based Motorola Inc. <MOT.N> said on Wednesday it had signed a multi-million dollar deal with Zain <ZAIN.KW> to expand the operator's mobile network into rural parts of Nigeria,...
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- FirstRand Ltd., South Africa’s second-biggest financial-services company, said it plans to start a division in Nigeria that will include commercial and retail units....
A Nigerian oil ship believed to have been hijacked and pirated from Lagos, which managed to find its way into Ghanaian territorial waters, has been intercepted by a combine team of the Ghana Navy and the...
How army officers sold weapons to militants: N220m found in Major’s account; N100m in Colonel’s account; 15 officers face court martial - Yar’Adua orders investigation THERE have been startling...
I CONSIDER it appropriate at this juncture to take a closer look at the two key buzzwords that have in recent times been ingrained in the polity in order to ascertain whether or not there is any connection...
Against the backdrop of the University as a microcosm of a utopian society, the menace of secret cults in our institutions of higher learning leaves myriads of perplexing questions: When did secret cult...
As a black immigrant in Britain, my response to Obama’s US presidential victory was a resounding indictment on British moral, social, cultural, racial and political backwardness in a world that is renewing...
Europe, a continent I have come to adopt as home for the past 19 years is under the grip of a new resurgence. The evils of xenophobic populism, anarchic patriotism, nationalism, racism and schadenfreude...
THE charismatic preacher and founder of the Household of God Ministries, Reverend Christopher Akpobrorie Okotie was outside the country in far away United States with his newly wedded beau, Stephanie....
There has been so much controversy surrounding Nigerian prophet TB Joshua, a man renowned world over yet most vilified over for his miracle healing services and predictions.
- (HealthDay News) -- Migraine headaches frequently are characterized by symptoms such as nausea, dull or severe head pain and sensitivity to light.In some sufferers, certain foods may help trigger migraines....
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Babies who die from sudden infant death syndrome make low amounts of the message-carrying brain chemical serotonin needed to regulate sleep, breathing and heart rate, U.S. researchers...
In our last reflection, we identified how environmental adaptation can provide moral steam for tribal survival. We called on all and sundry to cast down so that society can move forward in the event where...
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