Empowering Nigeria youth for sexual and reproductive rights
Today, nearly half the world’s population is under the age of 25. These three billion people – the largest-ever generation of young people – are our future and our present....
NATIONAL CONFAB: Ohanaeze, Afenifere, Arewa, others go to work
LAGOS—TWENTY-FOUR hours after President Goodluck Jonathan raised a 13-man National Conference Advisory Committee, leading ethnic nationalities and other groups in the country have started consultations with a view to presenting...
National Confab: ACF tackles Ohanaeze on equal representation
LAGOS—The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has rejected the suggestion by the umbrella association of all Igbo unions, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, that representations in the proposed national conference should be on equality...
New PDP Condoles Victims of Lagos Plane Crash
Abubakar Baraje led-PDP said it has learnt with shock of the plane crash that took place in Lagos this morning, in which several lives were lost. The breakaway PDP expressed...
BREAKING NEWS: Plane Carrying Agagu’s Corpse Crashes in Lagos!
A 30-seater passenger plane has crashed shortly after take-off from Lagos airport in Nigeria, officials and eyewitnesses say. The plane was bound for Akure in the south-west of the...
Only a sovereign national confab can save Nigeria – Chris Uche
THE National Dialogue being arranged by President Goodluck Jonathan might end up in the trash can like similar conferences bankrolled by his predecessors without the elevation of the talk to...
Shutdown could undercut Obama’s ‘Asia pivot’
WASHINGTON — With no end it sight to the federal government shutdown, President Obama now faces a difficult decision on whether to travel to Asia for two important summits next...
8 dead in church bus crash on I-40 in Tennessee
Eight people died and 14 were injured Wednesday afternoon when a North Carolina church bus crashed into an SUV and a tractor-trailer after it blew a tire and crossed a...
U.S. GOP offers to help keep WWII Memorial open
WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee is offering to pay security expenses so the World War II Memorial is open for visitors during the government shutdown. Wednesday's offer from...
U.S. Judge orders monitor in Sheriff Arpaio profiling case
PHOENIX -- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office will have to work closely with a court-appointed monitor and plaintiffs in a racial-profiling lawsuit to demonstrate...