The African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI), managed by the African Development Bank, hosted a Pan-African Stakeholder Workshop from October 22 to 24, 2012, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Tunis. The workshop offered a unique opportunity for policymak...
Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello is an international businessman based in Kaduna, Kaduna State. He has his finger in many good pies. Bello who is chairman of Millennium Air, a subsidiary of Millennium Travels and Tour, chairman of Properties and Estate Limit...
Chris Brown’s recently-dumped ex Karrueche Tran still believes she has a future with the singer -- in fact, Karrueche is telling friends, she’s not gonna stop trying to get with CB just because Rihanna’s back in the picture. Sources c...
It’s not every day that the President visits you and your peers. Then again, it’s not every day that you get to kiss a pretty girl. President Barack Obama Tweeted a photo Tuesday in which he is seen speaking with two young boys, presumably ...
Kirk Briscoe aka Tijani Conscious born in Kingston, Jamaica, is an international reggae artiste, a singer, songwriter, producer and film director whose songs are enjoying massive attention all over the world. He currently lives in Atlanta, USA. In this...
Gloria Allred is in court in Boston and she is representing Maureen Sullivan Stemberg in the Stemberg divorce. The court hearing where the Boston Globe is asking a judge to unseal Stemberg divorce documents – including Romney’s testimony &n...
Nasarawa state, being largely an agrarian state with large settlements along the banks of the river Benue has had more than a fair share of the recent flood disasters leading to various levels of destruction, with attendant displacement of over 100,000...
History was made in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital about a fortnight ago when the management of the University of Ilorin included Mrs. Medinat Folorunso Salman in the list of the institution’s newly appointed professors. By her appointment, Medi...
It took the prompt intervention of the men of the Nigerian Air Force Base in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, to rescue the governor of Taraba State, Mr. Danbaba Suntai, and five of his aides that were involved in an air crash on Thursday night, LEADER...
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have launched a massive investigation into how an unregistered firm, Pinnacle Contractors Limited, received a whopping N2.76 billion of the oil subsidy funds without supplying even a lit...
Less than a month to the November 22, 2012 deadline for the submission of its report, months the 41-man Committee on Reconciliation, Healing and Security set up by the Northern States Governors’ Forum (NSGF) to work out ways to end the insurgency...
Barely 24 hours after the Eid-El-kabir celebration, a middle age man whose name is yet to be known engaged in an indiscriminate slaughtering of human beings in the form of a ram leaving two persons dead and other Four in a critical condition at the Sai...
As the spate of kidnapping and ritual killings increased across the country, the recent accusation levelled against a medical doctor in Onitsha, has again brought to the fore the question of how safe are the hospitals in the delivery of new-born babies...
Americans will head to the poll on November 6 to vote for a new president. As incumbent President Barack Obama is seeking another four years in office, JONATHAN NDA-ISAIAH, in this piece, examines what Obama’s victory will mean for the Afri...
Shootings and bombings near the capital Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq have left at least 14 people dead, as Muslims mark the second day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, officials have said. A police source told Al Jazeera that at least five passengers on a ...