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The war on piracy in the Horn of Africa has received a major boost following the capture of one of the world’s most wanted Somali pirate leaders, Mohamed Garad. Garad, a former British soldier, is said to have been arrested together with 12 other suspected pirates on April 4 by Iranian commandos after they hijacked a Chinese cargo ship. The ...

The United States President, Mr. Barrack Obama, through the Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Ambassador Johnnie Carson has described the Boko Haram sect as a frustrated group. Stating this in his Keynote address during the event organized on the United States engagement with Nigeria, Mr. Carson added that the frustrated terrorist group is capitalising on popular frustrations with the nation’s ...

At the anthill beside Uncle Joe’s fence, I inserted a straw into a termite’s tunnel. The soldier ants gripped the straw and tried to drag it inside, but I pulled it out. Dozens of soldier ants clung to it. I picked up a plumb ant, lined its big golden head on my lower molar and crushed it. Warm fluids splashed ...

By Idris Akinbajo Despite being in hiding from the law by virtue of a controversial court injunction, Peter Odili, a former Governor of Rivers State, who the EFCC says “misappropriated billions of naira” while he was governor, is about to be made even richer through a state legislation. The proposed legislation is courtesy of a bill tagged the “Rivers State ...

Gloves are off between Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai and Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere with the latter declaring he will not be stopped by anyone, calling himself “a Hitler tenfold”. Kasukuwere remained defiant yesterday, saying he was responsible for administering the Indigenisation Act hence he will not take orders from Tsvangirai whom he labelled a “mouthpiece of British Prime Minister ...