Nigeria's Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka says he will cut up his green card if Donald Trump emerges as winner of the US presidential election. The green card is a permanent residence permit
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Nigeria to miss out as FIFA announces Africa’s World Cup seeds
May 23, 2016 Comment Off 274 ViewsNext month, the world football governing body, FIFA, will confirm the top five seeds for the African zone of the 2018 World Cup qualifying series. The seeds will be announced between
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Met officer removed from corruption post over Nigeria case
May 20, 2016 Comment Off 120 ViewsA police officer has been removed from a UK anti-corruption unit after claims he was paid for information about a case against a Nigerian politician. James Ibori is in prison for fraud and
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Steven Johnson Syndrome not discovered in Nigeria – Health minister
May 15, 2016 Comment Off 215 ViewsThe Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, has said contrary to reports making the rounds, Steven Johnson Syndrome, SJS, a rare medical condition caused by adverse drug reaction, is not a new
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Gov’t ask black workers to share discrimination experience
May 15, 2016 Comment Off 61 ViewsBLACK and minority ethnic workers are being urged to open up about challenges in the work place by Business Secretary Sajid Javid who has called for a fresh investigation into why BAME people fail
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Amanpour interviews Nigerian President Buhari
May 13, 2016 Comment Off 177 ViewsNigerians now know, the Nigerian President tells Christiane Amanpour, that his campaign slogan that corruption could kill Nigeria "was no exaggeration."
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Nigeria rebuffs David Cameron over corruption remarks
May 11, 2016 1 Comment 90 ViewsNigeria's government has rejected comments by the UK prime minister that it is "fantastically corrupt". President Muhammadu Buhari said he did not want an apology from David Cameron, but said
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David Cameron calls Nigeria and Afghanistan ‘fantastically corrupt’
May 10, 2016 1 Comment 153 ViewsDavid Cameron has described Nigeria and Afghanistan as "fantastically corrupt" in a conversation with the Queen. The PM was talking about this week's anti-corruption summit in London. "We've
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I Would Die 4 U – Purple Rain
April 22, 2016 Comment Off 89 ViewsPrince, who defined the sound of the '80s with songs such as "Kiss" and "Purple Rain" and defied the music industry in a fight for creative freedom, died Thursday. The
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