Igbo Angry With Kano Government
The Igbo in Kano say they have lost confidence in the way Kano State government is handling last Monday’s bombing of luxury buses at New Road Luxury Park, in which...
Igbo And The Elusive Seat
The Igbo are ubiquitous; they are everywhere. In the remotest villages, the farthest part of the earth, North Pole, Down Under, all over the world, into anything, commerce, transport, drugs,...
Nigeria: 60 people massacred in Plateau’s ethnic strife
Violence involving rival ethnic groups in Nigeria’s central state of Plateau has killed at least 36 people and left dozens of houses burnt over the past week, the military said...
Attacks Leave More Than 50 Dead in Central Nigeria
Attacks on villages surrounding a central Nigerian city at the heart of unrest between Christians and Muslims have killed more than 50 people this week, officials said Saturday, as authorities...
NATO Strike Kills Child in Afghanistan
Afghan officials say a NATO helicopter strike Saturday killed at least one child near the capital of Ghazni province. Other reports said two children had died. Officials said the helicopter...
Egypt Orders Arrest of Satirist Over Skits on Islam and Morsi
CAIRO — Egypt’s public prosecutor on Saturday ordered the arrest of a popular television satirist on charges that included insulting President Mohamed Morsi and denigrating Islam, a state news agency...
Cheating Our Children
So, about that fiscal crisis — the one that would, any day now, turn us into Greece. Greece, I tell you: Never mind. Over the past few weeks, there has...
Can Zimbabwe learn from Kenya’s peaceful election
In our series of letters from Africa journalists, London-based Ugandan writer Joel Kibazo considers whether Zimbabwe can learn from Kenya's largely peaceful election process. I have always thought elections are...
Judge: Angelina Jolie didn’t plagiarize ‘Blood and Honey’
According to the lawsuit, James Braddock argued that one the film’s producers, Edin Sarkic, read his book and that the book heavily influenced Jolie’s film A judge has ruled that...
White House says it takes seriously North Korea’s ‘new and unconstructive’ statement
WASHINGTON — The White House said Saturday it is taking seriously new threats by North Korea but also noted Pyongyang’s history of “bellicose rhetoric.” North Korea warned Seoul on Saturday...