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.
By OSA AMADI His mother named him Onwuegbuchulam, and that was the name he was known by everyone, until he became a young man and began to project his second name, Robert.
There was jubilation yesterday when the National Conference overwhelminghly endorsed the recommendation for additional states for the South-East. The delegates also approved the creation of 17 new states nation-wide. The zone presently has five states.
THE National Conference on Thursday voted for the creation of 18 more states in the country.
The creation of new states was one of the decisions taken by the delegates at their plenary while considering the report of the Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government.
The home of Ana Maria and John Conley is pictured in Arvada, Colo., on Thursday, July 3, 2014, is where their daughter Shannon Maureen Conley, 19, lived until her arrest by the FBI in April.
Intensive debate on Wednesday greeted the Report of the National Conference Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government, presented to the Conference on Tuesday by the Committee’s co-chairmen, General Ike Nwachukwu and Hon Mohammed Kumalia.
Ojo M. Maduekwe The curtain, at last, drew on the life of Alhaji Umaru Dikko, the once colourful, powerful and influential Second Republic politician and former Minister of Transport during the President Shehu Shagari administration.
Before the advent of crude oil, agriculture was the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy. Then, the country’s economy thrived; food was available and affordable. People, therefore, did not go hungry, except in extreme cases occasioned by a serious factor.
Former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, yesterday said he stood by the allegations and assertion he made against the All Progressives Party (APC) in a television programme in Lagos on Monday.
Fani-Kayode had alleged that the leaders of the APC were sympathetic to Boko Haram terrorists.
Nigeria's national soccer team coach Keshi attends a training session ahead of their 2014 World Cup game against France, in the Mane Garrincha...
Nigeria's national soccer team coach Stephen Keshi attends a training session ahead of their 2014 World Cup game against France, in the Mane Garrincha National Stadium in Brasilia, June 29, 2014. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The prospect of an independent Kurdish state has kept Kurds occupied, since Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani called it time for the Kurds to decide their own future.
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani arriving in Kirkuk on Thursday, June 26, 2014. Photo: Rudaw
KIRKUK, Kurdistan Region— President of the autonomous Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani made an unannounced visit to Kirkuk on Thursday where he met with Kurdish Peshmerga and security forces and pledged to protect the city and make it “an example of coexistence.”
“Kurdistan respects other ethnicities of these areas and we will conduct a transparent referendum and for this we ask the UN to help,” Barzani told Nikolay Evtimov Mladenov, head of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI). Photo: KRP.org
The latest attacks took place near Chibok, from where the schoolgirls pictured were abducted Photo: Boko Haram/AFP
By Colin Freeman
Suspected Islamist militants launch simultaneous attacks on villages close to town from which more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in April, killing at least 30
An Abuja Federal High Court has granted an ex-parte application filed by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for substituted service against its five governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has described the incident at the funeral church service for the late Justice Chikwudifu Oputa, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Oguta where he was not allowed to speak as a conspiracy of Abuja based politicians against him.