NEWS
2011: South-South leaders beg North over Jonathan
By Henry Omunu
Political leaders of the South-South geo-political zone have pleaded with Northern political leaders to moderate North’s opposition to President Goodluck Jonathan’s plan to contest in the 2011 general elec...
SPORTS
Briggs taunts Klitschko ahead of October 16 bout
Former heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs plans to make current WBC titleholder Vitali Klitschko his “30-second, first-round victim” when they fight in October. “That’s how a lot of my fights end,” Briggs said Monday in...
POLITICS
Fierce battle between ‘khaki’ boys over 2011 presidency
By Richard Ihediwa
Interestingly, top contenders in the 2011 presidential elections have military or paramilitary backgrounds. From their training, Nigerians often refer to them as "khaki boys." Unknown to many Nigerians,...
BUSINESS
Okereke-Onyiuke: Court dismisses SEC’s objection
From Francis Iwuchukwu, Lagos
Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday dismissed a motion filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) praying that the preliminary objection to ...
OPINION
Minorities, Jonathan’s presidency and the majority bigotry
By Uruma Omatseye
The extended interview granted by Alhaji Isyaku Ibrahim, who was a member of the Nigerian Parliament in the 1960s, is an outright diatribe on the minorities of this country, President Goodluck Jonathan a...
LIFE STYLE
Global ban on land mines: How is Nigeria conforming?
By Emmanuel Acha
The United Nations, at a convention in Ottawa, Canada in 2001 placed a total ban on the laying of landmines during wars the world over. The ban was informed by the deaths and maiming of innocent civilian...
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