PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki yesterday apologised, on behalf of South Africans, to the families of the victims of xenophobic violence who were killed or displaced during attacks in May at various places around the country.
A World Council of Churches (WCC) delegation led by the Anglican Archbishop of Burundi raised questions about German arms sales and about whether wars can ever solve the world's problems.
In an effort to build a professional army, 21 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) yesterday graduated from a ten-month military police (MP) training at the Edward Beyan Kesselly (EBK) Barracks outside Monrovia.
Three reports in the media in recent weeks portend grave implications that should bother the Nigerian political class. The first was the report that Angola, a brother African country, has overtaken Nigeria as the largest producer of crude oil in
Ondo State Deputy Governor, Otunba Omolade Oluwateru, has said the need to professionalise the mediating skills of traditional rulers is needed now than ever, if Nigeria is to make meanignful impact in crisis resolution.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole, has said that the House will continue to support the Federal Government through the enactment of relevant laws that would guarantee enduring peace, security and development in Niger Delta.
IT is said in the Nigerian military that you will never find a poor admiral. It is easy to see why. Nigeria loses between $4 billion and $18 billion worth of oil a year to illegal bunkering, depending on the
WHILE the fury over whether to attend or not attend the planned Niger-Delta Summit and tension build in the creeks over the attack and counter attacks by both the militants and security agents are still on, the Northern group, Arewa
With the support of MONUC's Gender Office, the DRC Gender, Family and Children Ministry from 28 June to 1 July 2008 trained the heads of the provincial Gender ministries and civil society activists from all the DRC's 11 provinces on
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday reaffirmed his continued commitment to the proposed Niger Delta Summit as a critical first step and take-off point for the implementation of his administration's agenda for peace and rapid socio-economic development in the region.
The Niger Delta issue has gone beyond thuggery as most Nigerian newspaper columnists put it. It has gone beyond the grasp of the insincere and unimaginative Nigerian government. The flame has been ignited and it will continue to burn and
As opposition continues to mount against the proposed Niger Delta submit, Chief Peter Wanogho has called on the Federal Government to organized a Sovereign National Conference, describing the summit as a ruse and diversionary.
THE Conference of Ethnic Nationalities in the Niger Delta has urged the federal government to declare the region a disaster area on the strength of the extreme deprivation of the people as well as the repealing of all obnoxious laws
MORE than 60 Somalis gave themselves up to the Zimbabwean police this week, seeking asylum after sneaking into the country and yesterday they were handed over to the Department of Social Welfare for assistance.
The Nigeria Army is planning to provide about 3,500 houses in both Abuja and Lagos state in its efforts to provide houses for retired soldiers, says the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Luka N. Yusuf.
Angola's Oil minister Desidério Costa on Wednesday in Madrid, Spain, said that the six years of peace in Angola have enabled the rebuilding of the country and various infrastructures, then destroyed by the war.
The barbaric acts of violence against foreign African nationals in South Africa over the past month appears to have drawn to a close. However, thousands remain displaced and face the daunting task of putting their lives back together. Government indecisiveness,
