Nothing among the proposed amendments to Nigeria constitution has generated argument more than the issue of local government autonomy. Apart from the local governments, the proposed amendments intend to grant autonomy to the state judiciaries as well as the...
There is no country in the world that has been unaffected by climate change, and no continent in the world has been more affected than Africa – and that state of affairs appears unlikely to change anytime soon.
If global...
BEVERLY HILLS, December 13, (THEWILL) – A chieftain of the Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Tonye Princewill, has finally dumped the party.
Princewill who gave a hint of his next political move last week following the lingering crisis...
The head of cabin crew who was kicked off a Korean Air Lines (003490.KS) flight after a company executive raged over the way she was served macadamia nuts said he was insulted and forced to kneel down to apologize...
A landslide destroyed a remote village in Indonesia, killing at least 17 people, an official said on Saturday, as rescuers used their bare hands and sticks to search through the mud for scores of missing in the absence of...
Civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton will meet next week with Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal and decide whether her emails about President Barack Obama's race warrant calling for her resignation.
Pascal is under pressure after her private emails...
China's Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) has been given approval to start its banking operations, the banking regulator said, making the internet firm the first of five recently approved private banks to open its doors to clients.
The launch of Tencent's...
‘Nigeria’s condition today under your watch is, however, too dangerous for silence.’ – Chinua Achebe to then President Olusegun Obasanjo
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s memoirs entitled ‘My Watch’ has just been published and launched. Back in time, he had published My...
We have witnessed different strands of campaigns of calumny as we head towards the 2015 General Election. However, a supporter of Magnus Abe who defected to the camp of Dakuku Peterside following the order by the Emperor of APC...
In fact, one of the constant injunctions given to us in a doctorate class of 1979 at the North Texas State University by one of our professors, Dr. H. L. Thames is this, "always use your education to foster...