By Imo Eshiet There are many Nigerians who would easily connect with the magistrate in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting For The Barbarians who remarks that,“ when men suffer unjustly…it is the duty of men who witness the suffering to suffer the shame”. Many decent Nigerians trying to earn honest living... Read more
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Nigeria on Sunday for an African Union summit on HIV/AIDS as his hosts chose to ignore an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him. Bashir, accused of masterminding genocide and other atrocities during Sudan’s Darfur conflict, which has left some 200,000 people... Read more
Tussle for monarch’s stool goes to Nigeria’s Supreme Court as Calabar Kingmakers Celebrate New Obong
By Dianabasi Effiong The tussle for the throne of the Obong of Calabar has been taken to the Supreme Court of Nigeria by five litigants led by the Country’s former Minister of Finance, Etubom Anthony Ani. They are challenging the July 4, 2013 Court of appeal, Calabar judgement by Justice... Read more
By Nkem Ekeopara On Monday July 8, 2013, the British interior ministry announced that the Islamic fundamentalist group Boko Haram operating in Northern Nigeria is to be banned in Britain under anti-terror laws with effect from Friday July 12, 2013. To be banned too is Minbar Ansar Deen, also... Read more
By Nkem Ekeopara There is nowhere in the world were the English proverb “You can’t eat your cake and have it” ought to become a jingle played every second in the public and private electronic media outlets than in Nigeria. This should be so to remind top ranking Nigerian... Read more
President Barack Obama on Saturday reiterated that the U.S. is not aligned with and is not supporting any particular Egyptian political party or group and again condemned the ongoing violence across Egypt. Obama made those points during a telephone conference with the National Security Council about developments in Egypt,... Read more
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood believes Western governments fully supported the military overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi, a decision it says will fuel hatred towards the United States and Europe and ultimately backfire on them. Mohamed El-Beltagi, a senior Brotherhood politician, said everyone would lose, including the West, from violence that... Read more
The board of the Nigeria National League (NNL), have set up a five-man panel to investigate allegations of match fixing raised by some clubs in the NNL against the league organisers. The league was last week thrown into confusion with some clubs accusing its secretariat and some wealthy clubs... Read more
The Chief Coach of Nigeria’s under-20 national team, the Flying Eagles, John Sam Obuh, has submitted his letter of resignation to the management of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) confirming rumours that he was no longer interested in the job. Obuh, who was in-charge of the Flying Eagles squad... Read more
By Diana-Okon Effiong The Appeal Court sitting in Calabar Thursday set aside the March 31, 2008 selection and proclamation of Etubom Ekpo Okon Abasi Otu as the Obong of Calabar. The court gave the ruling in a lead judgement by Justice Mohammed Lawal Garba assisted by Justices Uzo Ndukwe-Anyawu... Read more
