The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement sent by email to the media, saying its fighters launched an attack on the Atlas Cove Jetty in Lagos state overnight, the first in the area since the group began its latest campaign in May.

EVEN though Nigeria was not listed as one of the countries to be visited by President Barack Obama on his maiden trip to Africa last weekend, the American leader nevertheless found it expedient to single out for special mention, Nigeria’s path-breaking interfaith initiative to defeat malaria.

Health Minister Prof. Babatunde Oshotimehin has attributed poor and inadequate funding, poor political will as the major challenges facing the control of epidemic outbreak in the West African countries.

THIRTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Frank Emeka Ozor, an Evangelist from Delta State needs help and needs it fast. Fortunes forthe fair-skinned man, who has been evangelising for a few years, suddenly took a turn for the worse during one of his evangelisations, when he was involved in a road traffic accident.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama of the USA told Africans the truth that we have often failed to imbibe, “Africa’s future is up to Africans”. He admitted the role that colonialism has played in Africa’s current situation. It is obvious that most of the problems of the continent today derive more from daft and greedy leadership that […]

Yet, the present administration chose to make light of the whole matter, pretending that a visit from America’s first black president was no more or, perhaps, was worth less than a jaunt to a PDP retreat in Obudu.

“The Federal Government’s refusal to conclude the negotiation amounts to an invalid, unilateral abortion of the 2001 agreement, since as evidenced by the government document, the 2006 exercise was a re-negotiation of the legitimate 2001 agreement”,ASUU

By Tony Ubani FEDERATION Cup champions Enyimba of Aba still savouring their victory over Sharks may still break the hearts of the Port Harcourt side in going continental. The Aba Elephants finished third in the Globacom Premier League to win a ticket to carry Nigeria’s cross in the Confederations Cup. The Federation Cup victory also […]

According to the Federal Government, subsidy removal intervention plan the government in collaboration with local governments will provide vans and trucks to farmers’ cooperatives to haul products to major distribution centres and cities which it believes will help mitigate the cost of hiring vans to haul agricultural produce and reduce the cost of transporting goods into cities.

SPORTS in Anambra state may have suffered neglect in the past due to lack of commitment from the previous administrators who relegated sports to the background. Governor Peter Obi hopes this should be a thing of the past with the new stadium he built in Onitsha and his resolve to re-engineer sports in the state.