Despite the withdrawal of Professor Ibrahim Gambari from chairing the federal government's proposed summit, Niger Delta leaders still insist that they do not want the summit.
Tuesday, June 17 will for a very long time remain evergreen in the memory of the villagers of Opokuma, in Kolokuma local government area of Bayelsa State. It was the day the sleepy community hosted Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka,
Indications emerged yesterday that economic and social activities in the country might soon be crippled, following the suspension of lifting of petroleum products from depots by Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), an affiliate of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
NATIONAL Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), which Thursday began an indefinite nationwide strike to protest government refusal to address the soaring diesel and Kerosene prices, fix the deplorable condition of the nation's public highways including access roads
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf stressed the importance of transparent, accountable government and the need to fight corruption in Africa, in a wide-ranging address delivered as the 6th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Kliptown, Soweto, this afternoon.
It is our considered view that imposing sanctions would indeed have impacted negatively on the current dialogue process among Zimbabwean political parties," a foreign ministry statement said.
