STEPANAKERT (Tiraspol Times) - Despite Armenia’s declared position that Kosovo independence will not be
Kosovo's authorities plan to declare independence unilaterally,against the will of Serbia. The United States and most of the EuropeanUnion members have voiced their readiness to recognize Kosovo’sindependence despite Serbian objections.
Will dependence-seeking Kosovo set a precedent for other conflicts elsewhere? The answer is yes, if Kosovo becomes independent. In that case, "extrapolation is inevitable" says Bulgarian Professor of History Nina Dyulgerova.
The World Bank has approved a credit of $500 million about N83 billion for Nigeria to increase access to finance by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
Anambra State Government yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an indigenous organisation, Ekcel Farms Limited, for the production of tomato and cassava. It was gathered that the undertaking would provide no fewer than 5,300 jobs in the first phase of its take off.
Apex Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo yesterday vowed that the South East would produce the next leader of the country after President Gooodluck Jonathan’s second term.
Three people yesterday lost their lives, while 30 others sustained various degrees of injuries yesterday when a gas laden tanker reportedly had a brake failure on Nkpor Bridge in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State and hit the protector pillars before bursting into flame.
Personnel of the Nigerian Army, the police force and other security operatives yesterday foiled a reprisal attack allegedly planned by members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN).
THREE students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, Agbani were Friday night shot and wounded by suspected armed bandits who invaded their hostel.
The affected students are currently undergoing surgery at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu where they were rushed in the early hours of Saturday.
Tragedy struck at the Christ Aposlotic Church (CAC), Otumara, Warri in Delta State yesterday, as five members of a family, with the exception of the father, who is a pastor in the church, died in a midnight fire, believed to have been caused by an electrical fault.
Shortly after IS called on followers to kill Westerners, including the 'dirty French,' tourist Hervé Gourdel was beheaded in Algeria. France saw its first mass rally of Muslims today against the barbarism of the Islamic State.
At least two officials of the Ondo State Ministry of Natural Resources are currently in soup for allegedly aiding and abetting cultivators of cannabis (Indian Hemp) at the Government Forest Reserve in Epele in the eastern part of the state.
By Soni Daniel, Clifford Ndujihe, Adekunle Aliyu & Kingsley Omonobi (with agency report) ABUJA—Nigeria and Cameroon were, yesterday, locked in an argument over who killed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and where he was killed.
Tragedy struck at the weekend when a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) (names withheld) shot himself dead after killing his wife and son at the Sango Ota area of Ogun State. The ACP, his wife and other family members had attended a wedding of a friend’s son and arrived home safely.
Luck ran out on a suspected kidnap gang as three of them were lynched yesterday by an angry mob along Ette Agbor road in Calabar municipality of Cross River State for allegedly kidnapping three women.