Author : Jide Adesina
World Cup 2014: Nigeria assured by President over bonuses
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has assured the country’s senior players at the World Cup that the squad will be paid their bonus money. The president’s...
West Africa needs to wake up to threat from drugs trade
West Africa has become a major drugs route but a new approach can stop it being scarred by the carnage elsewhere Officials of Uganda’s anti-narcotic...
In Equatorial Guinea, Ban pledges closer collaboration with African Union
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (righ) and President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe 26 June 2014 – The United Nations is proud...
Libyan activist shot dead in Benghazi, 3 killed in eastern Libya
Libyan activist shot dead in Benghazi, 3 killed in eastern Libya Human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis died in hospital after succumbing to gun shots...
Ekiti and Osun are not the same!
By Kola Folorunso In the wake of euphoria of apologists of power-power on the outcome of the recent governorship election in Ekiti where contrary to...
Suleiman Bisalla, New Telegraph Editor died in Bomb Blast , Abuja Today
The Managing Editor (North) of New Telegraph newspaper, Suleiman Bisalla, is among the 21 persons that died in Wednesday’s bomb blast in Abuja. Bisalla, who...
Central African Republic: UN official urges strong action to protect women, girls
With women and girls in Central African Republic (CAR) falling prey to a raft of “terrifying” violations ¬perpetrated by armed groups – from rape to...
Mozambique Presidential Candidate Campaigns From Bush Hide-Out
The former rebel chieftain, who returned to the bush in 2012 and embarked on a low-level insurgency, was anointed presidential candidate for October polls by...
Abuja Under Bomb Again at EMAB plaza wuse II
Information reaching Afrika Herald that EMMAB Plaza was under siege this afternoon 3.45pm; as bomb blast exploded at EMMAB plaza Wuse , Abuja. According...
women in Politics ;Problems Militating Against Women In Politics
Nigerian women have encountered a number of problems while venturing into politics. There is large scale discrimination from the men folk, both in voting for...
Argentina And Nigeria Face Off; Winner Takes All
Group F concludes this week with the top two battling it out in Porto Alegre, with our tipster backing the South American side to win...
Clotilde Delavennat, French Actress Eyeing Nollywood
Odera Ozoka,the award-winning Hollwood-based Nigeria filmaker , who co-produced the highly funded $2 million film, Ije: The Journey, starring two of the country’s greatest...
Tension In Libya As The Country Heads For The Polls In An Attempt To End Anarchy And Conflict
By the time Ayman Al-Barasa saw the body of Muammar Gaddafi in the meat warehouse in Misrata he had been fighting almost every day...
Released Sudanese Christian woman detained at airport
A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her faith — and then released — was detained with her family on Tuesday as they...
Released Sudanese Christian woman detained at airport
A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to die for refusing to renounce her faith — and then released — was detained with her family on Tuesday as they...
'Grass cutter' gang rape: Kenyans protest after rapists told to 'cut the lawn' outside police station as punishment for brutal attack
Hundreds of protests have took to the streets in Kenya to march for justice for a school girl who was brutally gang raped, and whose...
‘Grass cutter’ gang rape: Kenyans protest after rapists told to ‘cut the lawn’ outside police station as punishment for brutal attack
Hundreds of protests have took to the streets in Kenya to march for justice for a school girl who was brutally gang raped, and whose...
Plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon ''missing''
A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroun has disappeared, according to Cameroun aviation sources on Tuesday. The plane, owned by the U.S....
Plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon ”missing”
A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroun has disappeared, according to Cameroun aviation sources on Tuesday. The plane, owned by the U.S....