Is President Yar’adua Missing?
President Yar’adua may be missing if the report by the Nigerian Tribune today is anything to believe! This paper in an article titled ‘Yar-adua not with us –Saudi-Hospital, reports today...
Israel is NOT and Never was a Democracy
"President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. are fully committed to a comprehensive peace in the Middle East," US special envoy to the Middle East George...
Baghdad police hits by Car bombat crime lab, 21 killed
BAGHDAD – A suicide car bomber struck a police crime lab in central Baghdad Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens a day after suicide attacks hit several...
Jos grounded as govt declares 24-hour curfew
The sectarian violence that was unleashed on Jos, the Plateau State capital on Sunday, was on Tuesday aggravated with soldiers deployed in the city to contain the crisis. (more…)
Israel snubs Turkish ambassador in public
JERUSALEM – Israel publicly snubbed Turkey's ambassador over his country's persistent criticism of the Jewish state, with a government official refusing to shake the envoy's hand and making him sit...
It is over for Yar’Adua
The president is sleeping. The president is awake. The president is hale. The president is ailing. It is now 48 days since Umaru Yar'Adua boarded a jet to Saudi Arabia...
Mene Mene Tekel Upharson: A Handwriting on the Nigerian Wall.
The year was 539 BC. Of all the years that came and went in Babylon, this very year would go down in history as sadly memorable. It was the year...
Yemen official tells AP US troops not wanted
SAN'A, Yemen – As Yemen becomes the new front in the war on terror, its leaders want this to be clear: It does not intend to become another Iraq or...
Maryam Babangida dies. burial Dec- 28- 2009
MINNA— Former First Lady and founder of the Better Life for Rural Women, Mrs. Maryam Babangida, is dead. (more…)
Manage your oil wealth well, Venezuela urges Nigeria
 The Minister of Information and Communications, Dora Akunyili, yesterday got more than she bargained for when Enerique Fernando Arrundell, the Venezuelan Ambassador to Nigeria, used the opportunity of his visit...