GENERAL NEWS

"I am ready to fight to end dictatorship in Angola"
By Arao Ameny in New York

Angolan born Miss Universe Leila Lopes

New York, New York  — Lelia Lopes, 25, native of Angola, the second black African woman to win the Miss Universe pageant was at SaharaTV   to talk about Angola, her charity work and new life in New York City. She is only the second black African to win Miss Universe, after Botswana’s Mpule Kwelagobe won in 1999.

VIDEO REPORT

 Dancing for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

GENERAL NEWS

China funded African Union new HQ 



The African Union has commissioned its Chinese-funded newly built headquarters in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. A huge golden key was handed over by top Chinese officials to declare open the $200m building, which is also 100 m high.

GENERAL NEWS

Nigerian gay in the U.S at risk of deportation
By Matteo Pegoraro 

Rome / San Diego, January 27, 2012. LGBT refugees in the U.S.: Becley Aigbuza, a young Nigerian homosexual who lives in San Diego, risks being deported back to his homeland where he was raped and tortured. EveryOne Group is appealing to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and the Governor of California, Edmund Brown Jr.

GENERAL NEWS

Ghanaians urged to remember Nigeria in prayer
Accra, Jan. 27, GNA- Global Intercessory Prayer Organisation (GIPO), a non governmental organization, has call on Ghanaians to show more concern for Nigeria’s current instability by praying for that country.

COMMENTARY

If I were Nigerian new police boss 

By Adewale T Akande

First of all, I will thank the almighty God for helping me to reach the highest level of my career and also thank the Presidency and the entire Nigerians for giving me this opportunity to serve as the 16th Inspector-General of Police of the most populous black nation of the world since the appointment of the first indigenous Inspector-General of Police in 1964 in person of late Mr.Louis Orok Edet.

YOUR HEALTH

Skin bleaching: Confusion or confidence?
B y Oluwabunmi Ogunmoyero

THE vague fight against the ignorance of skin bleaching among Nigerians has received yet another boost as Bunmi Ogunmoyero, Public Relations student of University of Westminster, UK, launches her campaign "Love the Skin You Are In" to open a new vista of knowledge into how young Nigerians can stop confusing inferiority complex for confidence.

OPINION

Rivers State: Traders & multiple ticketing agents at oil mill market

By Nwaorgu Faustinus

AUTHOR

In the time past, this writer wrote an article with the caption “Nigeria: Rivers State – the Bill on Illegal Development published in some online media sites and a few national dailies where he commented on the  collection of all sorts of levy from land developers, borehole drilling companies among others. In that opinion piece I noted that “ 

NEWS & REPORT

Northern Christians reject new police boss
From Noah Ebije, Kaduna

Abubakar

Twenty-four hours after appointing Muhammed Abubakar as the acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Christians in the 19 northern states and Abuja have rejected him.

FEATURE

Monumental fraud in Nigerian ministry of foreign affairs By Bonaventure Ezekwenna

Prof. Mrs. Viola Onwuliri New York------On Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012, a few group of people mostly Nigerians gathered at a small hall in Grand Hyatt Hotel in mid-town Manhattan, New York to meet the Minister of State in Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Prof. Mrs. Viola Onwuliri.

FEATURES

Palm wine: A drink the British could not kill

 By Adetokunbo Abiola

In the days of yore, before Britannia came to the shore of Nigeria, palm wine was the 'mother of all drinks.' British missionaries, sailors and soldiers came, bringing drinks such as Jack Daniel's, Old Toms and Johnnie Walker as well as their muskets, ships and rifles. British drinks soon dominated the market, pushing all local drinks to the background.

NEWS & REPORT

Rwanda: Eggs are latest weapon against malnutrition

By Rodrigue Rwirahira

For Health Minister Agnes Binagwaho, 2012 must be the year of eliminating malnutrition in Rwanda; this is of capital importance, she says, because an unhealthy diet in an individual or at the community level impacts negatively on people's well-being as well as on society as a whole.

VIDEO REPORT

PRESS RELEASE

Nigeria re-organizes Nigeria Police Force

Acting Inspector General

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the appointment of Mr. Mohammed D. Abubakar as Acting Inspector General of Police as a first step towards the comprehensive reorganization and repositioning of the Nigeria Police Force to make it more effective and capable of meeting emerging internal security challenges.

NEWS & REPORT

South African schools to drop Zulu & Xhosa languages
 By Fungai Maboreke

Jan. 24 (GIN) - South African Model C primary schools have been quietly removing Zulu and Xhosa languages from their curriculum leaving English and Afrikaans, popularly known as “the oppressors’ language” during the apartheid era as the medium of Instruction.

NEWS & REPORT

Nigerian legislature, apex of corruption - Soyinka
By Gbenga Adeniji

Prof Soyinka with white hair

Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described the legislative arm of government as the apex of corruption in Nigeria. Soyinka, who used 'hydra' and 'octopus' as images to define the kind of graft confronting the country, said the National Assembly was the pinnacle of what he described as “hydro-pus” corruption.

FEATURE

Zimbabwe: Will EU sanctions go this year?

  The 27-member European Union (EU) meets in the Belgian capital, Brussels, early next month to review targeted sanctions slammed on President Robert Mugabe and members of his inner circle amid indications that the powerful bloc is likely to maintain the punitive measures ZANU-PF squarely blames for Zimbabwe's nagging political crisis.

HEALTH/OPINION

Laugh your way to great health
Rachel Garuka

A laugh a day keeps the heart attack away. Who would have known that all you had to do to stay healthy was laugh? I may have heard the line 'laughter is the best medicine' before but I never took it seriously. 

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Most hip-hop artists are scared to visit Africa

US rapper, Nas who has visited Africa three times already – once for his birthday and twice for corporate performances – has said that the reason why most of his colleagues never go to Africa is because they are afraid of the ‘dark continent’.

NEWS & REPORT

Pro-Gaddafi forces capture Bani Walid

Fighters loyal to late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have clashed with revolutionary forces in the former-regime stronghold of Bani Walid, taking control of the city in the process. Some say the country is heading towards another civil war. 

CELEBRITY NEWS

Seal & Heidi Klum confirm split

British singer Seal and German supermodel Heidi Klum have released a statement confirming they are splitting after nearly seven years of marriage, following divorce rumours this weekend.

When the going was good & honey

The couple told People: "While we have enjoyed seven very loving, loyal and happy years of marriage, after much soul-searching we have decided to separate.

ENCOUNTER/ANALYSIS

You lazy (Intellectual) African Scum!

By Field Ruwe 

Ruwe

They call the Third World the lazy man’s purview; the sluggishly slothful and languorous prefecture. In this realm people are sleepy, dreamy, torpid, lethargic, and therefore indigent—totally penniless, needy, destitute, poverty-stricken, disfavored, and impoverished.

RELIGION/STYLE

Spiritually dressed for success & victory
By Deaconess (Mrs.) Ozi  

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”. John 10:10. For this reason and more, the Christians through the death and resurrection of Christ are made strong to face the challenges of this world.

FOOTBALL PERSONALITY

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