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.
Abdullahi Umar, By Aronke Olayiwola, Okechukwu Obeta
Saudi Arabia has announced a ban on hajj visa for citizens of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, after the countries recorded Ebola infection, the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reports.
One of the nurses that attended to the Liberian, Ebola Virus victim, Patrick Sawyerr, has been confirmed dead of the virus. She is the first Nigerian casualty of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease in Lagos.
The Imo State Government has denied ever giving a dud cheque of N50 million to the Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, Most Revd. Anthony Obinna, describing the allegation by a popular priest, Fr. Ejike Mbaka, as a calculated attempt to blackmail Governor Rochas Okorocha and the government of the state.
Dethroned Chairman of Enugu West traditional rulers’ council and monarch of Amadim Olo, in Ezeagu local government area of Enugu state, His Majesty, Hayford Agana has threatened to drag the state government to court over his removal as traditional ruler.
Three suspected human parts dealers, two of them Islamic clerics, are now helping police detectives to break the demand and supply chain of a trans-border syndicate which trades in human skulls.
No fewer than five churches have been burnt in some communities south of Borno in separate attacks by Boko Haram terrorists, an official in the area said yesterday.
The corpse of Chief Theodore Ezeobi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who died about four months ago, was yesterday morning stolen from the mortuary of Mother of Christ Specialist Hospital in Enugu.
Barely seven days after Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian, died in a private hospital in Lagos, one of the personnel, who helped him out of the aircraft on his arrival in Lagos, has shown signs of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
The leader of the Movement for the Actialisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, yesterday gave what he called last warning to all Igbo resident in the northern part of Nigeria to leave the zone or face dire consequences.
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, yesterday came down hard on the All progressives Congress (APC), alleging that its northern members are sponsors of Boko Haram sect.
Several Igbo youth groups under the auspices of Igbo Youth Coalition met in Enugu at the weekend and endorsed former Chief of General Staff Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe (retd) as the new Igbo leader to take over from the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.