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.
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.
This Oct. 14, 2013 photo provided by the St. Paul's and St. George's Foundation shows workers preparing to install a statue of Jesus on Mount Sednaya, Syria.
I do not subscribe to people playing politics over the lives or death of human beings. I have read many claims and insinuations about this or that political party being responsible for or having masterminded the tragic death of several worshippers at a Christian worship ground in Onitsha on friday, November 2, 2013.
Reported By Vincent Ujumadu, Awka, Okonkwo Eze, Enyim Enyim, Onitsha
Photo: The Adoration Ground after the stampede.
NO fewer than 28 persons, who attended the weekly crusade at the Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry, Uke, in Idemili North local government area of Anambra State, lost their lives during a stampede at the end of the ceremony in the early hours of yesterday.
Tom Lee claims he knew where bin Laden was hiding (pic: Mlive)
A gem dealer claims he gave the FBI details of the al Qaeda chief's secret compound in 2003 - eight years before he was killed. A businessman who claims he tipped-off the FBI about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden's secret compound is seeking a reward of $25m (£15.6m).
For over a decade, calls for a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) had reached a deafening crescendo in Nigeria. Proponents of the conference saw it as an avenue to find and address the key problems afflicting Nigeria since 1914 to present. The ace constitutional-lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memory put it succinctly in the year 2000:
THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has said that contrary to claims by the family of the released sister of President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide, Mrs. Augusta Douglas-Ayam, the sum of $200,000 (N32m) was paid as ransom.
While the conflict on the purchase of the N255million by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, for the Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah, a Ghanaian based website has alleged that Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola purchased three sport utility vehicles, SUV, with special specifications valued at N600million.
Any society where people allow themselves to be ruled not by common sense, objectivity or the dictates of justice but by base primordial emotions and other forms of tribalism is doomed.
In a recent rejoinder to his revealed Nupe ancestry published by Naija.com on-line news out-fit on August 24, 2013, Chief Femi Abdulatef Fami-Kayode in his usual namby-pamby exhibition of intellectual trumpery goofed by describing the present water is not just ‘some confused Igbo person who Claims to be an academic”, but “the usual 419”. But that is far from the truth Dr.
A Syrian refugee woman gives sweets to children during the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha at the Arbat refugee camp in the northern Iraqi province of Sulaimaniya (Picture: Reuters)
On the 24th of May 2013, Professor Pat Utomi in an article titled “nation building: how we missed the plot,” decried the absence of nation building in Nigeria. No one can doubt the necessity of nation building; more so in a nation like Nigeria that has been torn by unrelenting ethno-religious conflicts and held down by the contradictions of her ethnic, cultural and religious diversity.
The Imo State Police Command has called on residents of Umuchime Ubahu community in Okigwe local government area to remain calm and resume their normal business as the command’s anti bomb squad has deactivated a propelled rocket.
The command added that the element has been certified and it does not contain any toxic or radio-active material.
A NEW postcode system is being rolled out countrywide – but householders won't be obliged to use it.
Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte announced that a postcode system with a different seven-character code for every single home would be rolled out by 2015.
Attempts to defend Nigerian legislators’ outsize pay must crash as spectacularly as the ignoble third term lobby of the Obasanjo administration seven years ago.
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.
