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.
DSS on Nyanya BombingThe Department of State Service, DSS, has arrested five men for the April 14 bombing of Nyanya Park in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory.
The DSS has also declared wanted one Rufai Abubakar Tsiga and Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche for allegedly masterminding the bombing.
Boko Haram has released a new video claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted last month, alleging they had converted to Islam and would not be released until all of its prisoners held by Nigeria were freed.
Tragedy struck at the weekend in Aba, Abia State, when one of the bales of second-hand clothes popularly known as okirika, being conveyed by a cargo truck fell off and killed a woman.
It was gathered that the truck was conveying the bales of used clothes from a warehouse in the city to Ngwa Road market when the incident occurred.
Residents of Gamborou, a commercially thriving border community in Borno State have threatened to migrate to the neighbouring communities in Cameroon should the Federal Government fail to stop incessant attacks on their town and mindless killings by Boko Haram.
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The Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade has said that Abubakar Shekau, known as the leader of the terrorist Boko-Haram sect is more of a title than a name.
A major hotel in Lagos is said to be under real threat of being attacked by a terrorist group, the French press agency, AFP, has revealed in a report, quoting United States Consulate General in Lagos.
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has accused those in President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle of being a hindrance to the resolution of the crisis posed by the Boko Haram insurgency.
The Consensus Committee of the National Conference has approved an additional state for the South East geopolitical zone. Demand for additional state for the South-East is not listed among the contentious issues before the National Conference.
BY Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North ABUJA—Even before the proposal for the creation of one more state for the South-East geo-political zone is tabled at plenary for discussion, the North has rejected the plan, saying the zone does not have the required landmass and population to warrant the new state.
A Lagos State High Court sitting at Igbosere yesterday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Victor Effiong, to 42 years in prison for conspiring with others at large to rob one John Ukadike in 2009.
The alliance forged by the South West, South East and South South geo-political zones of the country prior to the commencement of the National Conference in Abuja may have collapsed over the latest decision by the Yoruba delegates from the South West to drop their initial demand for a regional system of government for confederation.
Commercial activities were temporarily paralysed in Ado – Ekiti yesterday, as people thronged the state capital to welcome Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Dan Iwuanyanwu, and other dignitaries to join the party’s standard bearer, Hon Michael Opeyemi Bamidele ( MOB), in his mega rally.
Ahead of the move by women to march on the Federal Capital, Abuja, today to press for the release of over 200 schoolgirls abducted at the Government Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State, a group, United Alliance, has said Northern elders should be held accountable for the missing girls.
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.
