Dilemma X

Army kills 59 Boko Haram members in Damaturu attack BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI Vanguard  The Joint Task Force set up to quell the Boko Haram menace rocking the Northern part of the country, in the early hours of yesterday, launched a successful operation on the sect’s operational stronghold in Damaturu, Yobe state, killing 59 of  the […]

Turkey Freezes Relations With France Over Genocide Denial Bill By Steve Bryant and Emre Peker Bloomberg Turkey froze political and military relations with France in retaliation for the approval by the French parliament’s lower chamber of a measure that makes it a crime to deny genocide against Armenians a century ago. The government recalled its […]

Brazil’s jobless rate hits nine-year low The Economic Times RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s unemployment rate fell in November to 5.2 percent, its lowest level of the past nine years, authorities said Thursday. Last month’s jobless rate was the lowest since the Brazilian government began measuring unemployment under more rigorous criteria in March 2002. The previous […]

Ghana imports $2.6 billion worth crude, oil products one year after becoming oil producer Emmanuel K. Dogbevi Ghana Business News Ghana joined the ranks of oil producing countries one year ago, December 15, 2010. And according to the Bank of Ghana, in the 11 months of 2011, the country has imported crude oil to the […]

Nigeria coast braces for biggest oil spill in 13 yrs Around 20,000 barrels, worst spill since Exxon in 1998   By Tim Cocks and Emma Farge Reuters LAGOS/LONDON – Nigerian authorities were putting emergency measures in place on Thursday to prevent an oil spill from a Royal Dutch Shell facility, the biggest leak in Nigeria […]

Jacob Zuma blames Christianity for South Africa’s problems Jacob Zuma is at the center of a religious storm in South Africa after reportedly blaming the introduction Christianity in the 19th century for the continent’s current problems South African President Jacob Zuma By Barney Henderson Daily Telegraph Mr Zuma, South Africa’s first Zulu president, told an […]

Airlines jostle for Nigeria’s burgeoning aviation market   Wole Shadare The Guardian   LAGOS- The Nigerian aviation market is considered a big market. With over 160 million population, it is natural that the market will remain where the population is. As airlines jostle to control larger market share of the nation’s industry, these airlines are […]

Christian population shifting away from Europe   Associated Press   NEW YORK — The Christian population has shifted dramatically over the last century away from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Americas, yet Christians overall remain the largest religious group in the world, according to a new analysis released Monday.   Europe is home to […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead, state TV reports CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is dead, North Korean state TV said Monday. Kim, 69, died Saturday, state TV said. South Korean news agency Yonhap — which based its reporting on its monitoring off North Korean state television — said that Kim had […]

Egyptian woman beaten, exposed