Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan has withdrawn the Super Eagles from international competition until 2012 following their disappointing performance at World Cup 2010. The Super Eagles finished bottom of Group B at the tournament after drawing with South Korea and losing to Argentina and Greece. Lars Lagerback’s side had been expected to fight to make the [...]
Jun 30 2010 | Posted in
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Nigeria’s last-minute decision to scale down a massive delegation due at a business summit in London on Monday may have appeased some critics at home but it left foreign investors less than delighted. President Goodluck Jonathan had been expected to lead dozens of ministers, state governors and government officials to the conference, where they were [...]
The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute between Nigerian families and Pfizer, Inc., over the drug maker’s use of a new antibiotic on children during a deadly outbreak of meningitis in the mid-1990s. The justices on Tuesday rejected the pharmaceutical giant’s appeal of a court ruling that allowed the lawsuits filed by the [...]
I am one of those men who hardly go near the kitchen or go to the part of markets where food items are sold. I am quite aware that many Nigerian men do not do the opposite. Likewise, a reasonable number of the highly placed women do same. They do not go to buy food [...]
If the Nigerian nation were a woman…and most nations are; I believe. She’d be an angry woman. Fine woman…but angry woman. Voluptuous woman…but angry woman. Symphonic woman…but angry again.
Jun 29 2010 | Posted in
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Unlike what most farmers cherish because of its good work on the soil and subsequent large production of crops,rainy season is dreaded by motorists because of the bad shape it gives our roads and the direct effect of the bad roads on their vehicles,due to poor maintainance or inexpert construction of these roads. Unfortunately,rain,an inexorable [...]
Jun 28 2010 | Posted in
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Mr President, Nigerians have a loud mouth and they know how to use it. Don’t think that they will spare you on Facebook when you deviate
On a performance scale, these legislators have done more damage to the nation’s image than they have done to serve the interests of the people who elected them.
Jun 27 2010 | Posted in
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In the 12 years since Nigeria’s corrupt dictator General Sani Abacha died in office, investigators have struggled to find out what happened to the estimated £2.2bn he siphoned out of his country’s coffers during his brutal five-year rule. Though at least $700m (£470m) has been returned to Nigeria, only a handful of people have ever [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan’s biggest and most urgent challenge is to stop the violence in the Niger Delta, where last year’s amnesty for militants is fraying
