GENERAL NEWS

 Nigerians in the Diaspora disfranchised 

  

The author is no longer surprised about what happens in Nigeria or what comes out of Nigeria. Therefore, it didn’t come as a surprise, when the House of Representatives stood down a bill, seeking to amend the 2010 electoral act that would have made it possible for Nigerians in Diaspora to vote. 

POETRY

Immigrants

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

  

When they bought some of us
for their plantation work,
we were legal immigrants,
but now some of us
want to migrate on our own,
they call us illegal immigrants.

GENERAL NEWS

There are no US military bases in Ethiopia

"There are no US military bases in Ethiopia. It's an Ethiopian airfield," Kirby said. In support of Ethiopia's 2006 invasion of Somalia, US warplanes carried out attacks from a base in Ethiopia. The government, however, ended the arrangement once it became public.

COMMENTARY

Jonathan's caged mind on NDDC appointment

By Odimegwu Onwumere   

The quest for who will man the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is taking the shape of the 2011 presidential elections, where ‘it was zoning’ and ‘it was not zoning’ characterized the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) primary elections. 

GENERAL NEWS

Achievements of Colonel Gaddafi: was he mad?

By Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi

"Protest however you want but do not go unto the streets and squares." Quotes by Muammar Al-Khaddafi

GENERAL NEWS

Why naked women were flogged

The former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, has stated that he tolerated the public flogging of naked market women during the June 4, 1979 Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) uprising because some of those women threw urine at his soldiers.

GENERAL NEWS

Nigerians in Thailand cry for help

By Henry Umahi

The Nigerian Community Association Thailand (NCAT), an umbrella body of Nigerians living in Thailand, has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan, saying they deserve a better deal from the Nigerian ambassador to the Asian country. They alleged that the ambassador, Umaru Suleiman Azores, in collaboration with another Nigerian, Mr. Jerry Chike Obinabo have made life difficult for them.

GENERAL NEWS

 America spends $1 billion to oust Gaddafi

 

It probably has cost the United States of America about $1 billion to get rid of the former strong man of Libya. According to the Pentagon, that was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar Gaddafi’s head, the latest figure just out of the Defence Department.

GENERAL NEWS

 Why I took to terrorism, Abdulmutallab
 By Laolu Akande

IT is a study in the psychology of  a young, well-trained engineer from an affluent background turned terror mind. Psycoanalysts and allied professionals would do well to pour over it now, not for its author's sake for he may well be beyond helping in the hands of an unmovable justice system and a people braying for his blood, but for many young minds on the same path of needless waste of their God-given potentials and sure destruction in Nigeria, yes Nigeria, and some far-flung places across the world.

GENERAL NEWS

S.Africa: ANC takes hate song to court 

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress will appeal to the Constitutional Court to be allowed to sing a racially charged anti-apartheid song, the party's spokesman said Sunday.

COMMENTARY

Okocha & Kanu's big boys era destroyed Eagles

“... Okocha’s, Kanu’s Big Boys Era Destroyed Eagles”... Samson Siasia Too Arrogant... 

COMMENTARY

Understanding the fuel subsidy riddle
By Kingsley Omose 

As mind bogging as it sounds, I am not writing to ascertain how a single government agency, the Petroleum Product Pricing and Regulatory Agency has become the most powerful arm of government, saddled with the unenviable task of ensuring the importation and distribution of petroleum products and the burden of spending N1.2 trillion annually.

GENERAL NEWS

 Gaddafi's last will

Muammar Gaddafi’s website, Seven Days News, yesterday claimed to have published the last Will of the late former leader. The document was reportedly handed to three of his relatives, one of whom was killed, the second, arrested and the third, managed to escape the fighting in Sirte.