UK elects new laboup party leader, Ed Miliband

Sep. 26 | Britain’s newly appointed opposition leader Ed Miliband insisted Sunday he won’t force his Labour Party toward the political left-wing after he harnessed the support of leftist labor unions to beat his better-known brother in a dramatic...

Soyinka, others launch new political party -Democratic Front for a People’s Federation

Sep. 26 | Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka launched a newly formed Nigerian political party Saturday, using the power of rhetoric to challenge apathetic voters in the oil-rich nation to overcome a government he called cynical and brutal. Members of the Democratic...

Terry G, Banky W others to storm Benue for Naija @ 50 concert

Sep. 22 | Entertainment has no doubt taken the centre stage in Benue, but the ante of entertainment in the state is about to be taken a notch higher as Terry G, Banky W, J Martins, Basket mouth, Zaaki Azzay, Omotola Jalade Ekehinde, Desmond Elliot, Uche Jumbo,...

Nigerian-Britons Idowu, Ohuruogu pull out of Indian Commonwealth Games

Sep. 22 | The Commonwealth Games, to be held in New Delhi from Oct 3, has suffered another blow after three of England’s high profile athletes – Phillips Idowu, Christine Ohuruogu and Lisa Dobriskey – withdrew citing security and injury concerns. British...

Commonwealth Games prep in crisis

Sep. 22 | The Delhi Commonwealth Games were plunged into crisis Tuesday 12 days from the start after the athletes’ village was described as “uninhabitable” and a footbridge collapsed at the main stadium. Adding to the sense of chaos that has...

U.S Feds burst a Nigerian-Mexican drug smuggling ring

Sep. 21 | Cracking an international drug-smuggling ring netted 44 pounds of heroin in what authorities believe is the biggest seizure of the drug in Ohio history, officials said Tuesday. Twenty-four suspects, named in an indictment, face charges including heroin...

U.S economic recession declared over!

Sep. 20 | It turns out the recession ended more than a year ago. Feeling better now? The panel that determines the timing of recessions concluded Monday that this one ended — technically, anyway — in June 2009, and lasted 18 months. The duration makes it...

Abuja rally fired up Goodluck Jonathan supporters

Sep. 19 | Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan formally declared his bid for the 2011 presidential poll on Saturday, three days after launching it on his Facebook page, ending months of doubts over his ambition. “I, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan...

INEC to review election timetable, needs more time to register voters

Sep. 19 | Nigeria’s independent electoral commission has asked for more time to prepare before the oil-rich nation’s presidential election. A spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission told The Associated Press on Sunday that the...

Security Adviser Aliyu Gusau resigned to contest ’2011 presidential election’

Sep. 19 | A powerful security adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan has resigned his post to seek the nation’s highest office himself, a spokesman said Sunday, as questions swirl about Jonathan’s power base as the October party primaries near. Meanwhile,...