The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian–Biafran
War, 6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970, was a political conflict caused by the
attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the
self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra. The conflict was the result of economic,
ethnic, cultural and religious tensions among the various peoples of Nigeria.
Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) has released a statement
clarifying some of the issues that were held in contention after the previous
election in 2012 ahead of next year’s general poll. In a 4-point communiqué signed by the Acting Director of
Public Affairs, Christian Owusu-Parry, the EC revealed that it held fruitful
discussions with the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC), a body made up of
representatives of all the political parties in Ghana and other stakeholders.
Abayomi Akintola, the son of former Premier of Western
Region, Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola, has recounted how his father was murdered
on January 15, 1966 during Nigeria's first military coup which resulted in the
assassination of many leading politicians, mostly members of the Northern
People's Congress (APC).
The story of how Nigeria’s then Central Bank governor Sanusi
Lamido Sanusi, in August 2009, shook up the local banking establishment is well
told. He bailed out five banks and dismissed their chief executives and
introduced reforms like capping the duration a bank boss could stay in office
to ten years.
In this
Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 picture, a Senegalese man named Ngame, who told
reporters that he was rescued by Spain’s coast guard traveling from Africa’s
western coast toward Spain’s Canary Islands, speaks after discovering he won
euro400,000 ($438,000) in Roquetas de Mar, in Almeria province, Spain. About 35
African migrants, including at least one rescued at sea from an overcrowded
wooden boat, are among the top prize winners of Spain’s Christmas lottery,
according to the owner of the lottery agency that sold more than 1,000 tickets
worth 400,000 euros ($438,000) each.
Accra (AFP) - Ghana's transport
minister resigned Wednesday after a controversy erupted following reports she
spent about one million dollars to repaint over 100 buses with portraits of the
country's recent leaders.
It's a response to the surge of undocumented immigrants fleeing violence in Central America. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have flocked to the United States since the start of last year, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Deposit Money Banks in the country are recording
unprecedented foreign exchange bills owing to heavy and frequent use of payment
cards by their customers who travel abroad, it has been learnt.
Passengers on a chartered flight operated by Aero
Contractors used a ladder to disembark after the aircraft landed at the Bauchi
airport on Saturday. It was learnt that the flight, which had 34 passengers
onboard, took off from Abuja and the travellers boarded without any problem,
but trouble started after it landed in Bauchi.
German chancellor Angela Merkel -- easily Europe's most
important leader for years, Time's and the Financial Times' "Person of the
Year," etc., etc. -- made an important statement at her party's convention
last week, especially notable since it came from her. Via the Washington Post:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced something
pretty surprising this week — she is going to "drastically decrease"
the number of refugees entering Germany. And it turns out the real reason for this is pretty
simple. The change of heart is a big deal because originally
Merkel pledged to not put quotas on the number of refugees entering Germany
since the EU is currently experiencing the worst refugee crisis since World War
II. |
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| CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who just last week was
named TIME magazine’s 2015 Person of the Year for her stance on the refugee
crisis, received a seven-minute (or nine-minute, according to some reports)
standing ovation Monday for a speech at her ruling Christian Democratic Union
congress in which she promised to “tangibly reduce” the number of refugees
coming into her country.
ABUJA - As details of huge funds
disbursed by the Office of the National Security Adviser under Col. Sambo
Dasuki continue to surface, indications emerged last night that the embattled
security czar is set to expose more top Nigerian leaders who benefited from the
funds. |
| Odimegwu |
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The latest developments as tens
of thousands of people make their way to Europe and across the continent,
seeking safety and a better life. All times local.
Check the draw for the round of 16 European Champions League the most prestigious competition takes place with first legs on February 16-17 & February 23-24 and conclude with return legs on March 8-9 and March 15-16 See full draw after the cut
Japanese Toyotas, German Mercedes and BMWs,
GM cars and trucks from the USA are driven in countries around the world. But
in Ghana an inventor and church leader who started out trying to make
voice-controlled television sets is telling the auto giants to move over.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday promised to reveal
the names of former government officials who have voluntarily returned looted
funds to the coffers of the Federal Government in “due course”, saying that
early disclosure of their identities “may jeopardize the possibility of bigger
recoveries.”
Mustafa Adebayo Balogun, more known as Tafa Balogun, was
appointed Inspector General of the Nigeria Police Force on 6th of March 2002,
from the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (Zone One in Kano),
shortly after the brutal assassination of an incumbent Minister of Justice and
Attorney General of Nigeria; Chief Bola Ige, on December 23, 2001. Tafa
Balogun, in his first public address to the Media as IGP, vowed to “fish out
those who killed Chief Bola Ige”. 
A fine technocrat who did not wear his position on his
sleeve, and known for tapping into his soft power of persuasion, Nhlanhla Nene
has now been shunted out of South Africa’s National Treasury. The man who was South Africa’s Finance Minister has been
forced to make way for an obscure politician, David van Rooyen, who was on the
backbenches of parliament.
One of Nigeria’s highest profile and best-regarded former
government ministers Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is caught up in a widening $2 billion
arms procurement scandal which has already led to the arrest of the former
national security adviser with former state governors, businessmen and the
governor of the central bank also roped in.
In our series of letters from African journalists,
novelist and writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at the impact of new
economising measures in Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari, who came to office in May,
seems bent on making public office less and less attractive to the average
Nigerian "big man".
A court in Hungary has ruled that four men detained as
suspected terrorists were in fact World War Two enthusiasts.The men were arrested after visiting the site of a wartime
tank battle at the weekend, carrying old weapons they had found with a metal
detector. |
| 500 Nigerians arrived Lagos today after they were bundled in a plane and deported from the UK: Photo credit, bbc |
Over the last few days, since the terror acts in Paris,
France; that left over 120 dead, and the subsequent symbolic Paris Flag idea
elevated by Facebook to support and stand with France, which I bought into;
many of my fellow citizens through the Phone and on Social Media have
questioned me on the wisdom of my path, asking me if the over 120 dead in
France are more important than the thousands that have been killed by Boko
Haram in Nigeria, thus calling into question my character and patriotism for my
country.
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| Jose Eduardo dos Santos |
Kidnappers demand
millions of naira from lecturers in Nigeria whereas minimum wage of a worker is
N18, 000 A roomful of lecturers
of higher institutions of learning in Nigeria are often kidnapped for ransom by
suspected gunmen. Many of the lecturers meet threats of murder by their
abductors and subsequently are killed, while many others come back alive. In most
of the cases, police are rather tired to find those that effect the
kidnappings, but resort to flippancy excuses. Odimegwu Onwumere reports:
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