Year: 2012
Army claims shooting Mauritanian president in error
NOUAKCHOTT(AFP) – Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz was shot and “slightly wounded” Saturday when an army unit accidentally fired…
Cuban footballers defect in Canada
Three members of the Cuban men’s soccer team competing in the World Cup qualifying tournament have defected, international football’s governing…
Wife of Osun Speaker rescued, abductors arrested
Wife of the Speaker of State of Osun House of Assembly, Mrs Muibat Salaam, was on Saturday rescued from her…
Flood: Minister allays fears over food shortage
Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, has assured the country that it would not be plunged…
Kwara United appoints Unuane as Technical adviser
Kwara United FC of Ilorin on Saturday officially announced the appointment of Coach Samson Unuane as its Technical Adviser for…
Nana Rawlings joins Ghana’s presidential race
The wife of Ghana’s former leader John Jerry Rawlings was nominated as a presidential candidate by an upstart political party…
Tears as FATGBEMS Petroleum owner buried
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The remains of the Chairman and chief Executive Officer of Fatgbems Petroleum, Alhadji Abdul Fatai Olalekan Akanmu…
Protest in Kaduna after cop kills printer
By Femi Adi/Kaduna An overzealous Nigerian policeman today killed a commercial printer along Forcados Road, by Bonny street in Kaduna…
Ondo Poll: Pastor Bakare told to bury his face in shame
FOLA ADEMOSU Action Congress of Nigeria, Lagos Chapter, has asked the Senior Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly and Vice Presidential candidate,…
South Africa bound Nigeria wallop Liberia
Taiwo Adelu The Nigerians promised to beat the Lone Star of Liberia silly in the qualification match today at the…
Ikorodu youths protest bad road
Hundreds of Youths in Ikorodu Community on Saturday in Lagos state, western Nigeria held a protest over what they conceived…
Zambia break Uganda’s heart, escape with penalties
Defending champions Zambia qualified for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations Saturday after winning a marathon penalty shootout in Uganda.…
Stop the war, governor appeals to Boko Haram
Nigeria’s Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima added his voice to that of the Shehu of Borno, in appealing to members…
Asantehene’s jewel: Norway police release CCTV footage of suspects
Norwegian police released on Saturday images of a woman and a man suspected in the Oslo theft of crown jewels…
In Shanghai, Murray overpowers Federer to meet Djokovic
Andy Murray heaped the misery on Roger Federer on Saturday, taking advantage of an astonishing service meltdown by the Swiss…
Ghana, Mali through to South Africa 2013
Ghana’s Black stars have qualified for the African Nations Cup tournament in South Africa next year. They beat Malawi 1-0…
France, Switzerland crackdown on drug money
French authorities have arrested 17 people, some of them of Moroccan origin, suspected of laundering about 40 million euros ($52…
Al Qaeda chief urges more protest over anti-Islam film
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Muslims to keep up their protests against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States,…
PDP suspends vice chairman
.Party also mobilizes support for Olusola Oke in Ondo The National Working Committee (NWC), of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP),…
Boko Haram begged to embrace dialogue now
The leading traditional leader in the Boko Haram beleaguered Borno state in Northern Nigeria, Abubakar Ibn Garbai, the Shehu of…
IMF, World Bank warn on West Africa’s food emergency
The IMF and World Bank on Saturday raised the alarm on the “humanitarian emergency” in West Africa’s Sahel region, where…
Nigeria’s corruption outrageous, says US author Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama, author of the world acclaimed book “The End of History and the Last Man,” has described as ”outrageous”…
Francophone summit begins in Kinshasa
Leaders of French-speaking nations began meeting in troubled Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday for their 14th summit, with France’s President…
Obama showcases auto industry success
US President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the decision early in his administrations to bail out the failing US automobile…
Chinese political system could collapse, warns US academic
China’s top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to…
3 babies delivered at camps for flood victims
No fewer than three births were recorded at the flood victims’ camps located in Asaba, capital of Delta state, an…
Facebook boost for Obama campaign
US President Barack Obama got an exceptional spike of more than one million “likes” on Facebook this week in his…
Shot fired at Obama campaign office
A shot was fired Friday at a campaign office for President Barack Obama in the western US state of Colorado,…
Paradoxical Nigeria: View from Outside
By STEPHEN HAYES (October 12, 2012) Nigeria is perhaps the most misunderstood country in Africa, and it is not an…
Nigerian doctor sacked in the UK
A Nigerian medical consultant in the United Kingdom has lost his job at an NHS hospital after carrying a sample…