Disabled persons shut council secretariat
PEEVED by their alleged exclusion from Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P, by the chairman of Ughelli North Local Government Area Transition Committee, Delta State, Mr Friday Akpoyibo, physically challenged persons shut down the secretariat.
Africa’s future is in young hands, says Obama
US President Barack Obama told Africa’s youth Saturday that the future of the continent was in their hands and urged them to use Nelson Mandela as a model for political leadership.
Structural Transformation in Nigeria and Africa
In the 35 years leading to 2005, crude oil exploration, production and export provided the only talking point on Nigeria in international business of scale. Over this period, the Nigerian economic outlook was impacted mainly by global politics and market events. The ripples generated in Nigeria, positive or negative, were too weak to travel far and wide enough to impact the country outlook in the estimation of the international community and systems that controlled global markets, except when the ripples were ultra-negative. We were susceptible to external shocks transmitted through the conduit of international oil market.
UK VISA BOND: A price for migration and terrorism
When two Nigeria – born British citizens, Michael Adebolajo and Micheal Adebowale – went on celebratory murder of Lee Rigby, 25, a British soldier in Woolwich, southeast London on May 24, it was obvious that the conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron will hit back.
Ask questions on foreign investments, Obama tell Africans
US President Barack Obama urged Africans on Saturday to ask more questions about lop-sided deals with some foreign investors, while dismissing talk of a Chinese and US scramble for influence on the continent.
Mandela: Obama meets family, speaks with wife
US President Barack Obama on Saturday met the family of his “inspiration” Nelson Mandela but was unable to visit the anti-apartheid legend who remains critically ill in hospital.
