The US has warned that the Euro 2016 football championship being held in France next month could be a target of militant attacks. “The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists,” the State Department said. The event is being hosted from 10 June – 12 July at…
By Milton Nkosi, BBC News, Johannesburg (26 May 2016) South Africans are wondering how serious President Jacob Zuma is about austerity after it emerged this week that the state had spent about 8.6m rand ($550,000; £374,000) on new cars for his wives over the past three years. In response to a parliamentary question from the…
By M. Babajide Alabi Published in the Sunday Vanguard of May 22, 2016. To be candid, I still do not understand the false confidence that came over the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) when it announced a nationwide strike in protest against the recent fuel price increase in the country. I am very…
By M. Babajide-Alabi (Published in the Sunday Vanguard May 15, 2016) This past week the attention of the international community was turned to Nigeria. For this period, the subject, Nigeria, became the leading news in the western media. At the same time, the search engines got really busy as two keywords – ‘Nigeria’ and ‘Corruption’…
By M. Babajide-Alabi Published in the Sunday Vanguard May 1, 2016. Click HERE. It is not really a hard exercise to judge the mood of Nigerians at this time in point. Generally, one can say, it is at the lowest ever in the history of the country. In doing this simple exercise of “placing” the…
By M. Babajide-Alabi (Published in the Sunday Vanguard of April 17, 2016) I know this may sound strange, but every time I see the United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron on television lately I wish he was a Nigerian. This is against the backdrop of condemnations arising from the revelations in the Panama Papers that…
By M. Babajide-Alabi Many times we get carried away with world or national politics, business and issues that we are literally lost in the commotion of ideas and events that follow. We are deeply involved in what is directly or indirectly happening around us that we often neglect the most important things that we should…
By Mo. Babajide-Alabi Published in the Sunday Vanguard (April 3rd, 2016) Terrorism has again managed “front row attention” in the international media. In the past two weeks, there have been terrorist attacks that claimed innocent lives, leaving the world and the leaders baffled and shocked with unspoken questions on their lips. They also momentarily brought…
