Paleontologists have found some strange crocodile cousins beneath the sands of the Sahara in present-day Niger and Morocco. The creatures roamed during the Cretaceous period on the landmass Gondwana before it broke up into the...
Last Saturday, President Umaru Yar'Adua reportedly met and dialogued with persons nominated by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to negotiate on its behalf towards working out a lasting peace in the...
Abuja — Chief Ojo Maduekwe, the chairman, ECOWAS Council of Ministers, on Friday, said the transportation of gas from Niger Delta to Benin, Togo and Ghana would begin in 2010. Maduekwe, who is also Nigeria's minister of Foreign...
Many out there, especially those engrossed in the hustle of city life, may not appreciate the magnitude of the impending food crisis. For such and more, agriculture appears secondary on the scale of things that require urgent...
Imo State Governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has faulted Federal Government's N6 billion post amnesty compensation to militants in the State, saying the amount was grossly inadequate. Saturday Champion recalls that the Federal...
After every operational tour of combat zones or theatres of operation, be it internal security or foreign peace support, by service chiefs of the military to their officers and soldiers on ground, there are usually traditional...
analysis Abuja — On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action it does appear, still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Yet global warming comes primarily from...
Port Harcourt — Militancy in the Niger Delta region has been linked to the failure of Niger Delta leadership and not the Federal Government. Professor Ebiegberi Alagoa, Emeritus Professor of History of the University of Port...
THE Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Ishaya Ibrahim has restated that the Navy is committed to policing the Nigerian waterways more effectively for maximum security of all marine operations. Admiral Ishaiya Ibrihim made this...
WASHINGTON — A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs — like wild boar tusks — roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported last week. The three new species, along with new examples of...