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According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States Justice Department has on Wednesday moved to seize a Malibu mansion, Gulfstream jet and Michael Jackson memorabilia belonging to Equatorial Guinea’s agriculture minister. Prosecutors in the U.S. say the Minister amassed a fortune through theft of his country’s resource wealth. Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, is the son of Equatorial Guinea President ...

Currently, the disagreement between the Federal Government and Labor over the planned removal of subsidy on petrol has deepened as Labor insisted on mass action against the policy even as it advised President Goodluck Jonathan to resign from office. The Nigeria Labor Congress, NLC, made the call for Jonathan’s resignation against the backdrop of government’s disclosure last week that it ...

The condition of Bakassi Peninsula indigenes from Cross River State is sorrowful, pitiful, disgraceful and unbelievable because of the injury cruelly inflicted on them by the Mafia Judgement of the International Court of Justice and carelessly sealed by the arbitrarily use of power of the then Nigerian government. It is really pathetic and tragic to know that perhaps they have ...

The Emirates Partners of the Walter Sisulu Paediatric Cardiac Foundation, WSPCF, was launched in Dubai in the presence of WSPCF’s Global Patron HRH Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The four founding Emirates Partners – Dubai Duty Free; Atlantis The ...

President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday reiterated strong cooperation among African nations to enable them to utilize resources on the Continent, with assistance from foreign partners to improve the living standards of the people. He stressed the adage that “Charity begins at home” and said nobody could fault African nations for using their potentials to lift the people up. ...