Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The United States embassy in Nigeria has condemned the incessant attacks on defenseless citizens in the past week in the country. In a press statement issued on Monday by the U.S embassy in Nigeria, the U.S government condemned in strong terms the spate […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The Nigerian film industry, popularly known as Nollywood, recently made huge strides on the international scene, when one of it’s epic movie, “Invasion 1897 (Nogbaisi Ovonramwen),” was adopted by the American government through its agency, Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Several bomb blasts have struck three Afghan cities, including the capital Kabul, leaving at least 10 policemen dead on Monday. In Kabul, a magnetic bomb planted in a flowerbed near a university killed seven policemen and wounded three people, while in eastern Logar […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow By AKIN BANJOKO As a writer of Nigerian descent living in the United States, US, whenever I attend writers’ conferences, workshops or book festivals, my American colleagues always ask me if I have read certain books about Nigeria. There are few I have […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Charles Upham, father of missing actress, Misty Upham has confirmed to authorities that the body found in a ravine near Seattle, US, is that of her 32-year-old missing daughter. Misty Upham, known for her roles in “August: Osage County” and “Django Unchained,” had […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The US-led coalition has targeted oil refineries in Syria during a third night of air strikes against Islamic State, IS, militants. The raids, carried out by US, Saudi and UAE aircraft, killed 14 IS fighters and five civilians in eastern Syria, activists said. […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The United States and its allied Arab nations have carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, in Syria. The strikes were aimed at key targets of the ISIS, including its base of operations in Raqqa, Syria, as well […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, is to announce plans on Tuesday to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to help in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. It is understood that the US military will oversee the building […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The United States government, on Friday, confirmed the killing of Ahmed Abdi Godane, leader of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab in an attack carried out on Monday, September 1, 2014. According to Pentagon’s report, Godane was killed in a US attack of a […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow The United States government has implored Nigerian Government to send assistance to the three other countries in the West African sub-region that are affected by the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak. The Secretary of State on African Affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who stated this in […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, two North Carolina men were declared innocent and ordered freed on Tuesday after more than 30 years in prison for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl that recent DNA tests linked to another man. Mentally disabled […] More
Follow ( 0 Followers ) X Follow E-mail : * Follow Unfollow Officials of the United States said intelligence experts are working to determine the authenticity of a video released on Tuesday portraying the beheading of another US journalist. Two weeks after the gruesome murder of James Foley, American war reporter by members of the […] More
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