VIDEO & REPORT

 Moroccans burn selves in unemployment protest

VIDEO REPORT

MARRIAGE COUNSELING

Mistakes men make in marriage

 By Amara

Ms Amara

Men, you often don’t mean to nag, but you may be making mistakes that risk ruining your marriage. In fact, if you are a typical man, you are likely making several mistakes and quite often. Don’t believe me? Ask your wife.

COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS

African Union president  visits Tripoli

By Simon Allison

The African Union backed the wrong horse in Libya. Its name was Gaddafi, and it was a particularly lucrative horse, but now it's dead and the AU has to deal with a highly unimpressed government in Tripoli. AU Commission chairman Jean Ping was in Libya to try to get relations back on track.

NEWS & REPORT

Libya: Govt number two flees protest in Benghazi
 

ANP/AFP - The deputy head of Libya's National Transitional Council was manhandled by protesters on Thursday in the cradle of the uprising that ousted Moamer Kadhafi last year, witnesses said.

COMMENTARY

Truth is poor & lie is rich

By S. Ranganathan, Dr

Corporate employees often need motivation even to do their job. Hence all most all the corporate never fail to motivate the employees. The truth is that the employees are regularly motivated by the corporate more for its own advantage than for the employee's sake.

INTERVIEW

You’re never too old for anything in marriage
By Chucks Eze

She is amiable, humble and simple to the core. A quintessential mother of six, who has successfully scaled the hurdles naturally placed before female intellectuals and reached the top of her discipline and thereby set a national record as the first female (and still the only one) professor of Mass Communication in Nigeria.

NEWS & REPORT

Young Congolese sets himself on fire

On December 10th, 2011, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's city of Boma (Bas-Congo region), a young man named Cedrick Nianza self-immolated by pouring gas on himself and setting the fuel alight.
 According to witnesses at the scene, the man continually shouted « Congo na nga, Congo na nga » (my Congo, my Congo) while the flames consumed him.

VIEEO REPORT

NEWS FEATURES

Woman fired for doing work at lunch wins unemployment claim
By  Susanna Kim

(ABC News) Sharon Smiley had worked for 10 years as a receptionist and administrative assistant at a Chicago real estate company until she was fired for skipping lunch one day. After a two-year battle, an appeals court in Illinois has found that denial of her unemployment benefits was "clearly erroneous."

NEWS FEATURE

EU threatens legal action against Hungary
By Gabriele Steinhauser & Raf Casert

Olli Rehn

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union stepped up the pressure Wednesday against Hungary, saying its fiscal policies were unsustainable and threatening legal action over a new constitution that some fear could push the country back into authoritarianism.

NEWS & REPORT

 Merkel: Hungary must adjust to EU principles

"Hungary must adjust to basic EU principles, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared in a Sunday radio interview in her first public comments in connection with the controversy over Hungarian laws.

NEWS & REPORT

Liberia: Sirleaf sworn in for second term  
By Henry Flomo in Monrovia 

Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been sworn in as the 24th president of the Republic of Liberia. The occasion was held Monday in the Liberia capital Monrovia in front of an array of distinguished personalities that included the leaders of the Liberia's three neighbours - Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Côte d'Ivoire.

COMMENTARY

Lack of honesty: Why people use money to buy morality

By Odimegwu Onwumere

The disposition to defraud or deceive is tendency that is rife among the Nigerian people. The January 9 to 16 protests by Nigerians over the increment in the fuel price was an expression of accumulated anger in the people. The distrust of the people came as a result of perceived lack of honesty on the side of the government. 

NEWS & REPORT

Nigerian accent ranked 5th sexiest in the world

By Coaj

King sunny Ade & Omotola Ekehinde

Star actress Omotola Jalade Ekehinde & world renowned Afro Juju Yoruba musician King Sunny Ade were the notable people whose accent were used for this ranking.

VIDEO REPORT

If I die, I die but Nigeria must move forward

COMMENTARY

Patrice Lumumba: A true African hero

By Olajide Jatto

Patrice Lumumba - Photo source: The Guardian, UK

“If you have nothing to die for, you have nothing to live for” Not sure where I heard it or if those are even the exact words, but the above line is one of the many sayings that live in my head. Many times when I see myself pushing enthusiastically for what I want and making big sacrifices that can have long-term effects, this line comes to my head.

HOME FRONT

Things women do to ruin themselves
By Oluwatoyin Akinola
 

“Mummy, mummy, mummy,” three-year-old Eniola shrieked excitedly on sighting her mum. “Uh my baby, baby!’, her mum, cooed in response, and Teni also grabbed her happily, tickling her on each side as she giggled excitedly. She also greeted her husband, Gbemisola, who was busy watching his favourite match on the Supersport channel, and hurried inside the kitchen dropping her handbag by the big couch, since she was already behind schedule in preparing dinner. She also dropped her toddler urging her to go call her eight-year old elder sister, Temitayo.

CHURCH NEWS

The history of Saint Paul’s Catholic Parish

Umuodagu Ntu in Ngor Okpala Local Government Area L.G.A is one of the two parts into which Ntu town is traditionally divided. It is made up of Umuogba, Umuaku, Umuolokoche, Umuokpo and Umuhoko villages. The other part of Ntu is known as Umuneche, and is composed of Umuogbo, Uvuru and Umuhitte village.