Nigerian governor under fire
LAGOS. — Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomole is under fire for hosting Big Brother The Chase winner Dillish Matthews at a lavish party where the beauty not only turned heads…
CAPS face tricky How Mine
Augustine Hwata Sports Reporter FOR the first time in three months, CAPS United will be hoping to get at least a decent crowd when they host How Mine in a…
Age is just a number for Filipino legend
MANILA. — Music legend Freddie Aguilar has acquired supporters following a raging debate about his love affair with a 16-year-old girlfriend.
Climate change: It’s not all doom and gloom
Tichaona Zindoga Features Correspondent Due to the global rise in mean temperatures, the occurrence of severe events like droughts and floods will be frequent while insect borne diseases like malaria…
Burna strips on stage
POP sensation Burna Boy must have had seen Fela in his dreams or had one blunt too many as he stripped to his underwear while performing at the Afrika Shrine…
10 US bosses break pay record
New York. – For the first time ever, the 10 highest-paid chief executives in the US all received more than US$100 million in compensation and two took home billion-dollar pay…
How Iraq was turned into a mercenary war
Patrick Cockburn They were detested as freelance gunmen with licences to kill or maim Iraqis, safe in the knowledge that they had the same immunity from Iraqi law as US…
Op-Ed: Who buys the spies: the hidden corporate cash behind America’s out-of-control national surveillance state
By Thomas Ferguson, Paul Jorgensen and Jie Chen Long before President Obama kicked off his 2008 campaign, many Americans took it for granted that George W. Bush’s vast, sprawling national…
US may be spying on Merkel’s mobile phone: chancellery
BERLIN – Germany has received information that US intelligence may be spying on the mobile phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who called President Barack Obama to protest, her spokesman said…
Beijing to ban half of private cars on high-pollution days
BEIJING – Chinese capital Beijing will ban half of its private cars and 80 percent of public vehicles from the roads if a red alert is issued on days of…




