Category: Africa

Nigeria needs a minimum of 150,000 megawatts of electricity in order to maximise productivity of the entire economy. Toyin Dawod, managing partner, Capital Investment Group, a California, United States-based diversified...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Determined to energize dispirited Democrats, President Barack Obama told New Mexico voters on Tuesday that Republicans would reverse the progress he's made on education reform and student...

Nigerian lawmakers said they are willing to consider postponing legislative, presidential and gubernatorial polls because the electoral commission said there is not enough time to register voters. A joint committee...

NOBEL laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, yesterday, questioned the rationale behind the celebration of the nation’s 50th independence anniversary. Soyinka, who spoke in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as guest lecturer at...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan flagged his support on Tuesday for the postponement of January elections to allow more time to prepare. In the letter to lawmakers, Jonathan said he agrees...

UNITED NATIONS – The U.S. delegation walked out of the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday after he said some in the world have speculated that Americans...

“Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English’,  ‘Welsh’ or ‘French.’ The word ‘Nigerian’ is...

Former EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, has declared in a meeting with some media chiefs today in Abuja that he does not plan to wait till 2015 before remaking a new...

(Codewit)The Nigerian president, Jonathan Goodluck declared his intention via Facebook  to run for 2011 presidential election and here is the except of his declaraton. Dear compatriots, four months ago, providence...

In the last few months,   I have followed   the debate and power struggle centred on the issue of rotational presidency or zoning.  The intensity of the debate and the many...