Friday 18th May, 2012

• Anambra to feature over 200 masquerades for 2012 New Yam Festival

  Vanguard

  Abuja – Chief Martin Ezeh, the Idu II of Igboukwu, on Thursday said that the 2012 New Yam Festival in Anambra would feature over 200 different masquerades. He said this when a delegation of ...

• Capello not in talks with Chelsea – son

  Vanguard

  ROME (AFP) – Former England coach Fabio Capello is not in talks with Champions League finalists Chelsea, his son said Friday. ';Unfortunately, these are just wonderful inventions by ...

• Nigerian pastor to visit this month

  General Sources

  EAST WENATCHEE -- Rev. Kola Emiola, president of Word of Righteousness Ministries International, founder and senior pastor of the Dominion Impact Church in Oyo, Nigeria, will speak in East Wenatchee ...

• Why Salami should not be reinstated

  Vanguard

  LAST week's decision of the National Judicial Council (NJC) to recall the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, has continued to generate mixed reactions. Not ...

• VIDEO: Niger faces malnutrition crisis

  BBC

  Save the Children says serious malnutrition has spread throughout the West African state of Niger, despite giving warnings about the situation for many months. The charity says the crisis, which ...

• Nigeria: Governors Back Former Military Leader

  All Africa

  Our focus is on Nigeria where a political storm is blowing after 19 northern state governors offered strong backing to former military leader Mohammadu Buhari, in the wake of his remarks threatening ...

• US mulls Nigeria's Boko Haram for terror watch list

  Christian Science Monitor

  The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has killed more than 1,000 in a three-year insurgency, and may have ties with Al Qaeda. Will putting the group on a terror watch list ...

• Bombs target Nigerian primary schools

  IOL

  Abuja - Nigerian authorities found improvised bombs in two primary schools in the northern city of Kano on Thursday, hours after the schools were attacked using explosives and gunfire by suspected ...

• Cash-strapped G8 looks to private sector in hunger fight

  Reuters

  WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - Buffeted by the euro zone crisis and distracted by political problems at home, the leaders of the world's industrial powers are turning to the private sector ...

• Jonathan now eats locally produced rice from Abakaliki – Maku

  Vanguard

  Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan now eats locally produced rice and bread made from cassava as part of efforts to encourage indigenous production and stop capital flight, says Minister of ...

• Nigeria: Islamic School Bombed

  All Africa

  Kano - A government-run Islamiyya primary school was attacked with home-made explosives in Kano on Wednesday evening, damaging some classrooms, in the first such incident affecting an Islamic ...

• Nigeria: FCT Board Makes Entrepreneurship Education Compulsory in Schools

  All Africa

  In a bid to tackle unemployment in the country, the Federal Government has made entrepreneurship education a compulsory subject for students in secondary schools, an official said. The Director, ...

• Keshi Picks Utaka, Moses for Eagles, Snubs Aiyegbeni, Mikel

  All Africa

  Wigan Athletics of England sensation, Victor Moses is among the 11 foreign-based players invited by the Super Eagles Head Coach Stephen Keshi for Nigeria's 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2013 Africa ...

• Okocha Not Authority in Technical Matters - Baribote

  All Africa

  As reactions continue to trail ex-Eagles captain Jay Jay Okocha's comments that players in the country' domestic league are not ripe enough for the senior national team, Chairman of the ...

• Nigeria: Biafra Group Files Complaint Against the Country at ICC

  All Africa

  Just as secessionist leader Odumegwu Ojukwu moved in 1967 to declare the independence of Biafra to protect his people from genocidal killings, the group is asking ICC to intervene on their behalf ...

• Nigeria: Reflections On the Lagos State Government's Onslaught On Doctors

  All Africa

  A recent crackdown on doctors in Nigeria is symptomatic of a wider state attack on the working class. The recent mass sacking of over 788 medical doctors by the Raji Fashola/ACN-led Lagos state ...

• DON JAZZY FINALLY BREAKS SILENCE ‘My integrity was never damaged’

  Vanguard

  Since his shocking break-up with his erstwhile partner, and co-owner of Mo' Hits, Dapo Oyebanjo a.k.a D'banj, prolific music producer, Don Jazzy whose real names are Collins Edjereh has ...

• TRIBUTE: My Y Mother, My Mentor

  Vanguard

  By Kayode Fayemi As the last child in the Fayemi household, my arrival was heralded with song and dance. Although my birth elicited genuine excitement on the part of my siblings, it was for my ...

• 2015 - Northern Governors Unite for Presidency

  All Africa

  Kaduna - Ahead of the 2015 elections, the 19 Northern Governors, yesterday, expressed determination to sink their differences and unite to produce the president from the region in 2015. This was the ...

• Nigeria: Buhari's Statement Treasonable - Arewa Youths

  All Africa

  Abuja - The Arewa Youth Forum yesterday slammed the former Military Head of State and 2011 Presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari over his ...

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