Since 9/11 the whole world has been staring at the war on terror, completely ignoring the small battles which have been much more successful then the most technologically advanced military and paramilitary campaigns.
In a world in which more and more people are getting what they want by the power of gun, West Africa is [...]

When I saw the Nigeria Daily Champion news headline To hell with your oil, North tells South, I thought it was an intentional ploy to capture a reader’s attention. But reading through the whole post, I discovered that this was no crafty ploy to sell the paper but a new dispute seems to be brewing [...]

Nigerian Nobel Laurette Wole Soyinka and American photo-journalist and author of “Curse of the Black Gold” discusses oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria.

The NCA is an agency of the government with oversight to, in effect, regulate the telecommunications sector and implement terms of Ghana’s National Telecommunications Policy. According to the policy (2004) that can be downloaded from the Internet, while the Ministry of Communications is “responsible for the definition and elaboration of Government policy regarding telecommunications”, the [...]

Nigeria’s main militant group says it has blown up two more oil pipelines in an overnight attack. In an email to journalists giving details of the overnight attack, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta says the pipelines in Rivers State are operated by a unit of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
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On Thursday, July 24, 2008, a 50-year old Nigerian man Michael Collins Iheme shot and killed his 28-year old estranged wife, Anthonia Iheme, in her work parking lot. Witnesses say Michael fired several shots into her car then ran into another car and drove away. Shortly after the crime, he called 911 and [...]

No one would be surprised to learn that children, the most essential ingredients for most people of a happy, stable existence are expensive.
I was two weeks late being born. The trees on Unter-den-Linden in Berlin back in 1959 were gently scattering their blossoms across the wide pavements in the shade of buildings still [...]