Category: Weird

President Umaru Musa Yar‘Adua‘s insistence on fiscal federalism and alleged contract inflation may have spelt the doom for Nigeria‘s $8.5billion (N1.2trillion) rail modernisation project agreement with the Chinese, investigations by...

LAGOS (CGN) – Nigeria fined Anglo-Dutch petroleum giant Shell one million naira (6,800 dollars, 5,100 euros) for failing to clean up an oil spill within reasonable time, a company official...

ABUJA (CGN) – Nigeria on Wednesday set up a panel to probe a multi-million dollar cash-for-contract scandal embroiling US giant Halliburton and reportedly implicating three former presidents, the justice minister...

Intrinsically, many dictators are cowards. And it is this cowardice that drives them to intimidate and harass people. They are always aware of their vulnerability. (more…)

IBADAN, Nigeria (Dow Jones)--Nigeria said Monday that there was no threat of terrorists attacks of any sort on an embassy or diplomatic mission in the country. (more…)

The Federal Government is making  effort to meet with the Indonesia Government on how to extradite about eight Nigerian citizens who are currently on death row in  that  country. (more…)

Out of court settlement in the case that inspired 'The Constant Gardener' A divorce case was all that passed for excitement at Richard P Altschuler's "kinda small" lawyer's office in...

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has designated the area around which he is building his private multi-million 25-bedroomed mansion a "protected area" as he faces calls to disclose the source of...

A government foremost responsibility is to its citizens, this is not only a constitutional requirement but a moral requirement. Mugabe became demonized by Europeans because he is accused of grabbing...

When the atom was first split in a laboratory in April 1932 in Cambridge in the UK, there was no thunder and lightning to herald that historic moment but those...