Rebels Against All
IT is difficult to appreciate the dimensions of national conflicts until the victims include some distant and unintended targets. The attack on the Togolese team to the Nations Cup in Angola again restates the unresolved conflicts in Africa and their implications for the global village. We may mouth the import of globalisation, but we fail grossly to see that what hurts one, affects all.
CBN to implement strict regulation on banks
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it will implement strict regulation and supervision on banks to ensure that they do not fail.
NGOs laud EP poverty alleviation programme
By Laja Thomas THE Nigeria Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, NANGO, has awarded the United States- based anti-poverty organisa-tion, Empowerment Plus, EP, Rural Empowerment Award for fighting poverty and diseases in rural Nigeria. In the just concluded annual convention of NANGO at Durba Hotels, Kaduna, the President, Alhaji Usman Nyako praised the effort of EP in […]
Nigerians flay Yar’Adua’s BBC’s interview
THE interview granted to British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, by President Umaru Yar’Adua from his sick bed in Saudi Arabia, has done little to quell the opposition clamour for him to step down as president.
Africa’s World Cup bearers struggle in Angola
HOW are the mighty fallen! Indeed, Africa’s flagbearers in the World Cup in South Africa have performed below par at the Orange African Cup of Nations on-going in Angola.
Dussuyer banks on Omotoyosi, Ogunbiyi to destroy Eagles
After they were forced to a 2-2 drew by Mozambique in their group C opening game, Squirrels of Benin Republic coach, Michel Dussuyer, said that he is banking on the Nigerian-born players like Razak Omotoyosi and Muri Ogunbiyi to break the Eagles.
