NEWS & REPORTING

U.S & others rebuke Nigeria on Gay bill

The United States has joined its voice to the host of foreign nations speaking out against Nigeria’s anti-gay marriage bill. In a statement issued by the US Embassy on Friday, the western nation expressed concern Senate-approved bill that outlaws gay marriage and institutes a 14-year jail term on same-sex couples who seek to marry. 

COMMENTARY

A day @ the American embassy
By Muyiwa Adetiba

IT seemed a perfect way to celebrate our wedding anniversary, on a cruise, with friends who had been there all along. In fact, three of them were at our first date including the one who had earlier linked us up. And then there was the wedding of the son of one of us for the day before the cruise.

HUMAN INTEREST

Ghanaian’s battle against a soothsayer’s curse

Almost killed for being a ‘spirit child’, Paul Apowida explains how AfriKids, one of the Telegraph’s 2011 Christmas Charities, helped him. At just after 1.30pm on Thursday, Paul Apowida, a soldier with 1st Battalion The Rifles, marched on to the parade ground at Beachley Barracks, near Chepstow, to receive a campaign medal for his service in Afghanistan.

NEWS RELEASE

The colonial collaboration of the Nigerian Embassy with the German State

About 20 Activists assembled on Tuesday 22.11.11 at 8 am to protest the Nigerian Embassy deportation hearing taking place at the Central Foreigners Office, Am Blaubach 13, Köln.

COMMENTARY

NGF: Can this economic system be the best?

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State is revealing something new to us. His clamour for more funds for the states (as the chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum NGF) in the name of reviewing the Revenue Sharing Formula is like a cry of a family man raising his family without any budget.

NEWS FEATURE

Solo IEPA will destroy Ghanaian businesses

Since the beginning of the year, the Trade and Industry Minister, Hon Hannah Tetteh has continued with her push for Ghana to sign and ratify the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (IEPA) that was initialled in 2007 to save small proportion of exporters whose main export destination is the European market. The Minister has indicated that Ghana will decide whether to sign the IEPA or not as the Nation hosts the ECOWAS Ministerial Monitoring Committee meeting in Accra from the 28-30th of November 2011.

NEWS

ECOWAS-EU EPA negotiations not stalled

Accra , Nov 28, GNA - Despite disagreements, the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union is not stalled, Dr Gbenga Obideyi, Director of Trade of ECOWAS has said.

PRESS RELEASE

 Ojukwu’s place in Nigerian history assured….Jonathan Goodluck

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has received with much sadness and a deep feeling of great national loss news of the passing away of Chief Chukwemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in the United Kingdom.