Chinua Achebe is dead, long live Chinua Achebe!
By: Samwin Banienuba* The Nobel laureate that never was and the poster face of modern African literature is no longer with us. Alas! Chinua Achebe is reported to have joined the ancestors at 82 on 21st March 2013. Chinua Achebe News of his transition to the ancestral world has been received across the world with a deep sense of loss and bewilderment. Many More...
Arik Air partners with Sierra Leone to establish national carrier, known as Leone Airways
By: Chinedu Eze Nigeria’s biggest carrier, Arik Air is providing technical support to the government of Sierra Leone to establish a national carrier, known as Leone Airways. Chairman of Arik Air, Joseph More...
BENIN ARTEFACTS:- Will this miserable project be the last word on the looted Benin artefacts?
By: Kwame Opoku The Benin Plan of Action is no plan of action and does not deal with restitution of the looted Benin bronzes. After 50 years Africans must demand a concrete time frame within which the artefacts More...
Sierra Leone:- The Creoles in Nigeria
By: Eric Teniola I watched the second inauguration of the President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Earnest Bai Koroma, on television recently. Koroma who is of the Temri tribe was the former Managing Director of Reliable More...
Chinua Achebe:-One of Africa’s towering men of letters died on Thursday in Boston.
By: Jonathan Kandell Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who was one of Africa’s most widely read novelists and one of the continent’s towering men of letters, died on Thursday in Boston. He was 82. His More...
Fifteen Russian sailors appear in Nigerian court for arms importation
APA, Abuja (Nigeria): Fifteen Russian sailors on Tuesday appeared before Justice Okechukwu Okeke of the Federal High Court in Lagos, to stand trial on a four-count charge of unlawful importation of firearms More...
Four Nigeria opposition parties agree to merge to challenge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.
ABUJA — Nigeria’s four main opposition parties have announced a merger, forming a coalition that could pose the biggest threat to President Goodluck Jonathan’s ruling party since the end of military More...
Nigeria to prosecute 15 Russian sailors for arms smuggling
LAGOS (AFP) Nigeria’s navy has transferred for prosecution 15 Russian sailors detained since October for allegedly transporting illegal arms, a navy spokesman said Tuesday. Weapons seized by the Nigerian More...
Nigerian leader disowns 2015 re-election campaign posters
As Nigerians react to controversial posters pasted in strategic places in Abuja, the Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr Reuben Abati, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan More...
Nigeria repatriates over 16,000 migrants from ECOWAS sub-region
APA, Abuja (Nigeria): No fewer than 16, 738 illegal migrants mainly from the ECOWAS sub-region were repatriated from Nigeria this year, although in line with the free movement protocol of the bloc, Mrs Rose More...