"America Means Well for Nigeria?"

America Means Well for Nigeria?
America has clearly setout to undermine Nigeria, to create instability and disintegration!

Massive Fuel Price Hike Takes Effect
Botswana's consumers and transport sector are braced for an oil price hike that took effect today. The price of fuel has increased 34 percent in the last year.

Thousands Forced to Go On Leave As Fuel Crisis Bites
As many as 300 000 drivers and conductors in the public transport sector around the country have been sent on forced leave as effects of the crippling fuel situation worsen.

Keep your distance, defiant Mugabe tells West

SA Gets Mugabe off the IMF Hook
SOUTH Africa has negotiated a five-week International Monetary Fund reprieve for Zimbabwe - which faces imminent expulsion over arrears totalling $290-million - and may settle part of the debt.

Uneasy Calm in Khartoum As Garang Successor Named
Most streets in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, were calm on Tuesday morning, a day after dozens of people were killed in violent riots that followed the death of First Vice President John Garang in a helicopter crash near the Ugandan border.

Illegal Mining Fills Air With Harmful Dust

UN: Why Nigeria dropped bid for veto power
The Minister of Foreign Affairs said “half a loaf is better than none” was what informed the decision of Nigeria and South Africa to drop the earlier demand for two permanent seats with the veto power and five non- permanent seats in the envisaged expansion of the United Nation’s (UN) Security Council.

The G8 And the Rest of Us
Africa’s fundamental problem it must be remarked is not material poverty.The material poverty of Africans is the consequence of the psychological trauma of many African politicians that has created a mental lacuna in their minds owing to many years of colonization and enslavement to the developed world.

Not “Conspiracy Theories” They Are, in Fact, “Discoveries”
Information related to such important topics such as 9/11, election fraud, the new world order, secret societies, or globalization is too often ignored as part of a baseless conspiracy theory even before any of it is ever presented, discussed, or evaluated.

Grassroots Reparations Organizations Blast Wachovia's Pledge of $10M
Major grassroots organizations, scholars and activists today dismissed the July 28th announcement by Wachovia highlighting its $10 million in new funding to national partnerships.

Philadelphia Schools First to Require African-American History
The Philadelphia School District, the U.S.'s seventh-largest, will become the nation's first to require the study of African-American history, over objections from critics, including Pennsylvania's most-powerful legislator.

US Army battling decline in black recruits
"Most of the kids say they don't want to fight for a country that's pickin' on other countries"

Nigeria's president celebrates emancipation in Trinidad
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, on a four-day visit to this two-island nation, yesterday joined the annual celebration of the abolition of slavery in the capital.

Bush Won't Block Abuse of Detainees
President Bush, who bills himself as a "compassionate conservative," refuses to rule out cruel, abusive treatment of prisoners of war and detainees.

World breast feeding day: Lagos tasks parents

The Faulty Logic of "Terrorist" Profiling

Why Bono and Geldof Got It Wrong: War and Global Poverty are Linked

Pounds fall off, but so do the dollars

IMF and EU are blamed for starvation in Niger

U.S. warns Iran on nuclear threat

CIA Analyst Roasts Bush

Paper: Police Helped Hide Abuse Claims

Yellowstone's deep secret

Halliburton announces 284 percent increase in war profits