WHAT could be described as a fairy tale turned real on Wednesday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as a cat allegedly turned into a middle-aged woman after being hit by a commercial motorcycle (Okada) on Aba/Port Harcourt Expressway.
A tribunal in Nigeria has annulled the election of the president of the senate, David Mark. This latest decision comes only days before another tribunal rules on whether President Umaru Yar'Adua should keep his job.
''The gas flare-out deadlines have not been backed by any legislation, so they are more or less voluntary targets the the government and oil companies agreed to and which they violate at will''
Nigerian democracy completed a milestone today following the first civilian-to-civilian democratic transition in the country's history. Earlier this morning, Nigeria's President-elect Alhaji Umaru Yar'adua placed his hand on the holy koran to take his oath of office.
WHEN the members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meet in Abuja on Thursday next week, December 14, top on their agenda will be how to raise the current prices of the product at the international market.
BUT for the intervention of President Olusegun Obasanjo, a diplomatic face-off between Nigeria and Libya as well as a clash of their security forces would have been ignited in Abuja yesterday.
We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades now, and know that our sun is one of over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. It revolves around the galactic centre once about every 250 million years.
iFormer President of the United States of America, "Randy Bill" Clinton, President Obasanjo of Nigeria and others at the Sullivan Summit . As if another celebration of mediocre will change selfish ideology.
China's drive to secure energy supplies in the tight global market for oil seems to be succeeding.
Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stated that world renowned Internet search technology giant, Google, has selected Abuja as one of about seven African cities to be fully connected with wireless network.