•The Eridu field is the biggest oil find in Iraq in the last 20 years. •March saw Iraq’s state-owned Dhi Qar Oil Company (DQOC) formally approve the development of Block 10’s reserves, including for the whole Eridu field. •Inpex’ decision to sell its 40 percent stake in the Block 10Continue Reading
Henry Kissinger — who as a top American foreign policy official oversaw, overlooked and at times actively perpetrated some of the most grotesque war crimes the United States and its allies have committed — died Wednesday at his home in Connecticut. He was 100 years old. Kissinger’s death was announcedContinue Reading
By Mahdi Waziri Isa For the fourth time in 14 years, ENACTUS Team of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has successfully represented Nigeria in a keenly contested global competition in Utretch, Netherlands, recently, where it emerged the fourth best out of several teams that participated from 36 countries. The NigeriaContinue Reading
By Waziri Isa Adam Ahmadu Bello University Zaria has lost two Veteran Professors of Political Science and Pharmacognosy within a week. The duo, Professor Yusuf Abdullahi Yakubu of Political Science department in the Faculty of Social Sciences, and Professor Ezzeldeen Mukhtar Abdulrahman of the department of Pharmacognosy in the FacultyContinue Reading
By Waziri Isa Adam The former Vice Chancellor of Kaduna State University, and Bauchi State University, Gadau, Professor Ezzeldeen Mukhtar Abdulrahman is dead. He died after a brief ilness in his house n Zaria where he had since returned to, after serving as Vice Chancellor in both Kaduna and BauchiContinue Reading
By Mahdi Waziri Isa Malam Waziri Isa Adam Aliyu, Wazirin Gwantu III, has urged the leader of Gwantu Progressives People’s Union (GWAPPU), Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi Maikano, to use his God’s given position, rare wealth of experience and influence in the country to unite his people who are on the vergeContinue Reading
By Mahdi Waziri Isa Following the intervention and appeal for calm by some concerned and well meaning Nigerians, particularly prominent royal fathers, top government functionaries and leadership of the two leading cultural associations in Gwantu Chiefdom, The Wazirin Gwantu III, Malam Waziri Isa Adam Aliyu, has said that he isContinue Reading
By Waziri Isa Adam The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Abbas Tajuddeen, has given indication that the lower chamber of the National Assembly may propose a bill to look into the persistent calls on the National Assembly by mostly private universities to see the possibility of makingContinue Reading
By Reza Javadi As the Israeli killing machine continues to wreak havoc in the besieged Gaza Strip, the arms manufacturers in the United States are making merry, expecting a big boost in their profits. The United States has vowed unconditional and unwavering support to the Israeli regime in its genocidalContinue Reading