NEWS

South Africa refuses entry to Nigerian passengers

By Debo Oshundun

Many Nigerians aboard Arik Air and South Africa Airways flights were refused entry to South Africa on Friday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

NEWS

Hague accused in land controversy

By Nzau Musau,  

THE ICC has taken keen interest in a Kenyan court case in which William Ruto is accused of improperly acquiring 100 acres of land that belonged to an IDP until the post-election violence. The case will be back in court on Monday.

NEWS

Sierra Leone: Taylor ruling set for April

The international court that was set up to try suspects indicted for war crimes in Sierra Leone announced that the judgment in the trial of the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, will be delivered on April 26.

COMMENTARY

Jerry Rawlings on the enlightenment cylinder

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Ex-Ghanian president, Jerry Rawlings

Suddenly, ex-President Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghanaian/African enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that have been demeaning Ghanaians'/Africans' humanity, Rawlings, in the manner of Archimedes and Isaac Newton, exclaimed "I need an explanation."

FOOTBALL PERSONALITY

I left Super Eagles to avoid disgrace
By Ganiyu Salman, Lagos

FORMER Super Eagles captain, Austin Okocha, has declared that he left international football to avoid being disgraced in the face of declining productivity. 

COMMENTARY

Kalu, PPA & the politics of ridicule

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Orji Kalu

Even in politics and in the secular and spiritual business, former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who is the chairman Board of Trustee of the Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA), is a success story. As a strategist who has a wand of gold, anything he touches turns to gold and his followers are in tremendous integer. Even to date, majority of people could attest to the fact that it is politically thoughtlessness not to be on the side of Kalu. Whether he is in the political office or not, his is the winning team.

NEWS FEATURE

Nigerian ladies of easy virtues rampant in Italy, Sweden, others  
By Nnanna Okere  

  Female Nigerians are being trafficked to Italy, Sweden and other parts of Europe under the guise of a better life.

This disclosure was made by an Italy-based Non-Governmental organization, (NGO) known as New Face of Nigeria (NFN). 

NEWS

Senegal: Paris sets up voting booths for elections

Paris's Senegalese community flooded offices set up in the city's northern suburbs on Sunday, to vote for a new president in Senegal's contentious elections. President Abdoulaye Wade is up for a third term, amidst violent protest during the campaigns.

NEWS

US Supreme Court will hear shell Nigeria abuse case 

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide if companies can be held liable in the United States for international human rights law violations, a case about allegations that Royal Dutch Shell Plc helped Nigeria violently suppress oil exploration protests in the 1990s.

NEWS

Boko Haram’s rage has local roots

KANO, Nigeria — In an imam’s quiet office, two young men in long hooded robes, their faces hidden by checked scarves, calmly described their deadly war against the Nigerian state. A member of Boko Haram, an Islamist group that has staged deadly attacks in Kano, in northern Nigeria. “Millions of people in Kano State are supporting us,” he said.

COMMENTARY

Somalia: A failed state but useful lessons for African countries 
 By Michael J.K. Bokor, Ph.D.

At long last, there is something on the horizon to assure us that the decades-long Somali crisis will be tackled to restore sanity to the Horn of Africa and relieve the world of a major headache. Somalia may be suffering the negative backlash of political instability but the world feels the pinch when the Somali pirates strike vessels plying the Indian Ocean. In a fell swoop, the international community wants to kill many birds with one stone—a resolute determination to eradicate en bloc al-Shabab, the terrorist group!

OPINION

Igwe Nawfia’s lack of tradition morality

By Odimegwu Onwumere 

A fool will do everything possible to flatter himself or herself instead of bemoaning his or her incongruous dim-witted action.

INTERVIEW

When acting becomes a life
By Anthony Obi & Okogbue Ngozi

She is one promising and dazzling talent that any producer in search of an actress would want to have on set. Damilola Adegbite started her acting career with Tinsel a M-Net production over five years ago. According to her, acting has been her childhood dream, which explains why she dumped her certificate in Business Administration from Bowen University, for the make-believe world. Dammy believes her certificate is not wasted as she could still use the experience she acquired as a business administrator in a tertiary institution when she owned her business. She spoke with Saturday Sun on her acting career, her life and other things.