VISA/EDUCATION

Ukraine embassy turns students visa to meal ticket, demands N250,000 bribe from applicants

If you think bribery and corruption as well as other vices are exclusive preserve of Nigerians, then read this.

PRESS RELEASE

Group dismisses marginalization claim in Delta State

The character and values of some politicians in Delta state came under the searchlight of The People’s Movement, a group of prominent Deltans Thursday and the group did not mince words in asking the detractors of Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan to bury their heads in shame.

PICTURE NEWS

Hungary: Charity event marks Nigeria’s anniversary

By Hakeem Babalola 

The embassy of Nigeria in Budapest celebrated the country’s 52nd Independence Day with a visit to two social institutions in that country.

 

NEWS & REPORTS

College students massacred one-by-one in Nigeria

 By Ibrahim Garba, Christian Science Monitor

The militant Islamist group Boko Haram means ‘Western education is a sin’ but it’s not clear yet if the group was behind the attack.

NEWS INTERNATIONAL

Nigeria president to revisit Cameroon Bakassi dispute
By REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan gestures during an interview with Reuters at the Presidential Villa in Abuja

NEWS REPORTS

Mugabe says Gaddafi's death as tragic as US envoy's                         (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Wednesday the death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was as tragic as that of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, as he delivered a scathing critique of U.S., U.N. and NATO actions.

VIDEO REPORT

Nigeria celebrates anniversary with the less privileged

NEWS INTERNATIONAL

 Morocco must do more to eradicate torture 

Special Rapporteur Juan Méndez

24 September 2012 – While a culture of human rights is emerging in Morocco, the authorities must do more to eradicate torture and ill-treatment, says an independent United Nations human rights expert. “The situation on the ground regarding the practice of torture has generally improved from the past decades when there were widespread disappearances, secret detention and torture,” said Juan E. Méndez, the Special Rapporteur on torture.

PRESS RELEASE

Gypsy camp burning shocked leaders

Zed & Beyer

Hindus and Jews have expressed shock at the reported forcible eviction of Roma (Gypsies) and burning of their settlement in Marseille (southern France) suburb by vigilantes.

OPINION

Mugabe did not speak for Africans on Jamaican men
By Frouk Aresa

Robert Mugabe shot wild again. He angered some Africans recently by calling Jamaican men a derogatory name. Most Jamaicans familiar with him will just brush it off. Those of us that grew up with Jamaican men in Canada in those days know better. It was the Jamaican men that showed us the ropes of survival and they were also the proudest Africans you can count on. We studied, played and worked together with other Africans: West Indians and African Americans.