Category: Africa

Abeokuta – The former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Dr Emeka Anyaoku, on Friday, absolved Nigeria from fault over its refusal to arrest the Sudanese President, Omar Al-Bashir. Al-Bashir was to...

GOMA (Codewit) – A week of renewed fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east has driven more than 4,000 people to seek refuge in the provincial capital Goma,...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday in Lagos restated the opposition of Nigeria and the African Union to the unconstitutional removal of any democratically-elected government. A statement by the President’s Senior...

Why should Her Excellency, Joyce Banda, President of Malawi, kneel to greet fellow Heads of State as shown below? Is it because they are whites? Or because they are men,...

NIAMEY (AFP) – Niger has cited delays to revoke a huge contract with a Russian company tasked with building the impoverished nation’s flagship hydroelectricity project. “The government has quite simply...

SOME Nigerians residing in Kenya yesterday threatened to take upon themselves to cut diplomatic ties claiming police are harassing them. The Nigerians said they will engineer the move if their...

PORT HARCOURT— Rivers State government has dismissed as untrue, allegations by wife of President Goodluck Jonathan that Governor Chibuike Amaechi imposed a nine months curfew on Okrika area of the...

ATLANTA - If you're 65 and living in Hawaii, here's some good news: Odds are you'll live another 21 years. And for all but five of those years, you'll likely...

The Sambians: The semen-drinking tribe – Papua, New Guinea To become a man in this primitive tribe, boys are removed from the presence of all females at the age of...

GT Bank annonuced on Thursday it had reached an agreement to acquire a 70 percent stake in Kenya’s Fina Bank Limited for $100 million. Fina Bank has total assets of...