Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament on Monday and called a snap election, but anti-government protest leaders pressed ahead with mass demonstrations seeking to install an unelected body to run the country.
About 100,000 protesters marched through Bangkok, extending...
Abia State under the stewardship of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji is not developing. This is elementary to say, because of the pummeled social and economic life in the state, orchestrated by touts, charlatans in government and street urchins.
No human...
Sometimes, I sit and look: sometimes I look and sit: and sometimes, I just look, I don’t sit…and some other times I don’t sit, I don’t look…I just stare at the distance spaces, not looking, not sitting, just staring—Segun...
I pledge to Nigeria my country, to be faithful, loyal and honest…
I have kept my pledge, being faithful and loyal; now it is time I am honest. We need to all come forward in the interest of life, to...
Email was predominantly the avenue they use in getting at us. If yours isn't set to shut out junk messages, you'd always see their mails informing you that through your mail address you've been randomly selected to win mouth-watering...
When soccer teams battle for the World Cup in Brazil next year, another fight for global supremacy will be played out on the pitches - between Adidas and Nike.
In the next round of their tussle to be the world's...
Chinese regulators will clamp down on banks' and companies' use of foreign currency for trade finance by ensuring that trade deals are authentic and by monitoring for unusual cross-border cash flows, state media reported.
The report did not specify the...
DIRECTOR-GENERAL ROBERTO AZEVEDO GESTURES AS HE IS CONGRATULATED BY DELEGATES AFTER THE CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE NINTH WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE IN NUSA DUA, ON THE INDONESIAN RESORT ISLAND OF BALI
The World Trade Organization reached its first...
Libya has lost more than $7 billion and faces new competition from Algeria and Nigeria in oil markets due to strikes at oilfields and ports drying up exports, Oil Minister Abdelbari al-Arusi said on Saturday.
A mix of militias, tribesmen...
The recent death of one of Africa’s greatest legend, the man who led the struggle against and eventual elimination of South African white domination in government, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, is painful and, indeed a great loss to the family,...