Business Eye

Thursday, 07 June 2012 | Administrator

The absence of information on the part of South Africans on the relationship between Nigeria and their country before apartheid was abolished has been blamed for the harsh treatment of Nigerians in South Africa.

Recently, some overzealous officials at the entry ports in South Africa deported some Nigerians on the flimsy excuse that they were travelling with fake yellow fever cards, this action attracted a retaliatory response from the Nigerian government before the two countries took steps to ha...

ECOWAS orders deployment of standby force in Mali, Guinea Bissau

Friday, 11 May 2012 | Administrator

The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the ECOWAS has approved the deployment of the ECOWAS Standby Force in Mali with immediate effect.

A communiqué issued at the end of an extraordinary Summit session in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, on April, 26, 2012 to examine the political, security, and humanitarian situations in Mali and Guinea Bissau, the Authority called on all States, especially the non-ECOWAS core countries, and partners wishing to support ECOWAS in the efforts to...

Alassane Quattara, new boss of ECOWAS

Tuesday, 06 March 2012 | Yomi Ojo

At the end of the two-day summit of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, which took place between the 15th and 17th February, 2012, in Abuja, Alassane Ouattara, the president of Cote d’Ivoire was elected by the regional body as its new chairman, a successor to Nigeria’s Goodluck Jonathan, who had served the regional body for two tenures.

The body also voted Desire Ouedraogo, a former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, as its new President. Desire Ouedraogo succeeds...

A turbulent year predicted for gazprom

Friday, 03 February 2012 | Administrator

For the Russian Federation's state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom, an entity that everyone loves to hate, 2012 is already shaping up as a decidedly mixed year. 2011 was not a bad year for the energy giant, as Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller told journalists that Gazprom's total supply of gas increased by 7.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) to over 513 bcm, while its exports to Europe, its most lucrative market, rose by 13 bcm to over 150 bcm, and the Ukraine, traditionally Gazprom's most troublesome c...

Kerosene Scarcity Hit Lagos As Marketers Threantened Kero-Direct Scheme

Friday, 25 November 2011 | Administrator

There are strong indications that the country will again witness another kerosene scarcity as marketers threatened commencement of the second phase of the Kero-Direct initiative by NNPC.

A source from the Ministry of Petroleum Resources who preferred anonymity disclosed this in a telephone interview on Wednesday in Lagos that some cabals among the marketers are frustrating the initiative to commence.

The source said that the schemes which take kerosene to nock and crannies of the country have not...

Revolution And War: The Nigerian Experience

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 | Administrator

My generation did not witness the Biafran war; we only had a whiff of it, hints which were soon eroded by the realities of the present time. First for curiosity and more from the academic hunch, a journey into those dark moments of Nigerian history yielded a bloodcurdling account, painted in the very words of the Commanding Officer of the Biafran Army: General Alexander Madiebo.

The 411-page of inside narration chronicled a detailed flow of the immediate antecedents leading to the Nigerian/Biafra...

Chief Justice Of Nigeria Loses Wife

Wednesday, 01 June 2011 | Administrator

The loss of the wife of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloysius Kastina Alu, Mimidoo Victoria to the cold hands of death on May 7, 2011 at Mayom Hospital, Gboko, Benue state came as a shock to many. President Good luck Jonathan described the deceased as “humble, charming and loving woman, who died in the fear of Christ at a young age.” The 53-year-old Mimidoo died after a tree fell on her in their compound in Benue state. At her burial on the May 14, , Nigeria's High Commissioner to ...

2010 Top Quotes

Thursday, 10 March 2011 | Administrator

'It is transitional. It is a zero kobo party. It is moneyless. The idea is to see, whether we can, as they say in Nigeria, capture one state and use that as a model of good governance'.

Noble Laurent, Wole Soyinka, responding to question on why he formed a party at a conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

'Well I have no regret. I would most probably have done it all over again because that is my life. But I don't think we have always got the result that we should get or that we fought the battle th...

World Economic Forum on Africa 2011

Thursday, 10 March 2011 | Administrator

04 - 06 May 2011

Cape Town, South Africa

2011 Nigeria Election

Wednesday, 09 March 2011 | Administrator

Legislative - April 2, 2011

Presidential - April 9, 2011

Governorship and State Assembly- April 16, 2011

The Nigerian election will be held in order to enable the Nigerian populace elect new leaders that will hold the helm of affairs in the country for the next four years. The President will be elected by qualified plurality vote to serve a 4-year term. In the Senate 109 members will be elected by plurality vote in single-member constituencies to serve 4-year terms. In the House of Representatives ...

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