Nigeria: Mediocre leadership and the legalised treasury looting by cheap politicians

What many of those who were around during the First Republic saw as extra-ordinary has become much less than the norm now.
Gani Fawehinmi Stand up for what is right even if you are standing alone
Thomas Sankara While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas!

What many of those who were around during the First Republic saw as extra-ordinary has become much less than the norm now.

A murder hunt was launched today after a young butcher was stabbed to death in his shop following a dispute.

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, the former Minister and one of nation’s elder statesmen has said that the ruling People’s Democratic Party has failed the nation in meeting the objectives with which the party was founded.

A former Minister and father of Nigeria’s Federalism and Africanist, Alhaji Bamangar Tukur has called on the Africa Union to keep its house in order so that a new imperial takeover of Africa will be effectively resisted.

Nigeria’s foremost statesman and and New Partnership for Africa’s Development, (NEPAD) chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has described Nigeria as a failed state.

An email, saying it was sent by a Nigerian militant group based in the oil-producing Niger Delta, said on Wednesday it would bomb the capital Abuja on Independence Day on October 1.

Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has net assets worth 541 million baht ($17 million), an anti-corruption body said Wednesday, far less than the wealth of her fugitive brother Thaksin.

The first military aircraft designed and built by African companies was unveiled today by a South African arms company which said it had already received orders for the lightweight plane.

The feeling’s still strong, the passion still burning and sleepless night result of genuine love but a medical expert who proposed marriage to his fiancee wants the engagement ring returned. He is apparently hurt because his fiancee eloped with the ring after faking a genuine relationship.

Jessica Tata, the American woman facing murder charges following the death of four children in a fire accident at her Houston home day care has again been charged with food stamp theft. A Harris County criminal complaint filed this month says Jessica Tata (TAH’-tah) is accused of unlawfully acquiring benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The Houston Chronicle reports [...]
“We are the World”: Boris Becker’s family show of love is good example to human race
London aglow with with old time Route Master buses just unveiled by the Mayor, Boris Johnson
Black and Proud: Celebrating the best of African styles in the world of hair and fashion
Photosplash! Sarah Odedele’s finest hour as Otunba Adewale Adenaike gave daughter in marriage
Betrayal: The faces of alleged nation’s axis of evil whose terror activities killed hundreds
GAB Award 2011: Some pictures of the event…