NEWS & REPORTING

UK: riots in black community stir response

By Fungai Maboreke

Aug. 9 (GIN) - The spectacle of anarchy unfolding in Britain’s low income neighborhoods of Black Africans, South Asians and others, has prompted mixed reactions of worry and concern from African, Caribbean and Asian communities around the world.

NEWS

How Nigeria lost multi-billion dollars to Russian firm

Ms Bolanle Onagoruwa, DG, BPE

Senators probing the activities of the Bureau for Private Enterprises, BPE, were yesterday stunned by the gory tale of how most national assets worth several billions of dollars were frittered away under a bogus privatization exercise from1999 till date.

ENTERTAINMENT

 Sziget Festival opens in Budapest
10,000+ Dutch Guests

Nearly two-thirds of the Sziget festival’s week tickets have been sold to foreigners, and most of them are from Holland, chief executive Gábor Takács told Inforádió on Monday.

OBITUARY/TRIBUTE

Sam Loco Efe: How he died & unfulfilled dream

By Ogbonna Amadi, Daniel Idonor & Olasunkanmi AkoniI

 UPDATED

 The late Sam Loco Efe died apparently sitting on his seat in a hotel room of causes now suspected to be asthma.

WORLD NEWS

25 Africans die on desperate boat journey to Italy

Rescuers on board the boat in Lampedusa where 25 migrants died trying to reach Italy from Libya. Photograph: Alessia Capasso/AFP/Getty Images

NIGERIA EXCLUSIVE

Obasanjo accused of getting money from a governor to buy election

Two cheques, issued in June 2010 and June 2011, provide incontrovertible evidence about how the embattled governor of Delta state, Emmanuel Uduaghan, buys favours and pays off supporters with state funds.

IN RETROSPECT

Blacks during the Holocaust

By Lari Gilges 

   

The photo is the cover of an anti-black and antisemitic Nazi propaganda brochure. Duesseldorf, Germany, 1938...The fate of black people from 1933 to 1945 in Nazi Germany and in German-occupied territories ranged from isolation to persecution, sterilization, medical experimentation, incarceration, brutality, and murder. However, there was no systematic program for their elimination as there was for Jews and other groups.

COMMENT

Visa policies and western hypocrisy

By Uche Igwe

In the past two months, three different embassies have refused me visas. Not because I broke any rules or had no "means of livelihood" but because I refused to submit my passport for two weeks at their embassies.

POETRY

Consensus Voice

By Odimegwu Onwumere

This voice is heard

with words

transient against nature.