Nigerian Times

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (Urdu: مرزا مسرور احمد) (born September 15, 1950) is Khalifatul Masih V, the spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. 14 Feb 2012 18:52 Africa/Lagos Muslim Leader Speaks of Islamophobia at Opening of New Mosque LONDON, February 14, 2012/PRNewswire/ -- Muslims urged to cast aside differences of religion, ethnicity and nationality for the sake of peace and unity A clarion call to Muslims to set aside differences and work relentlessly for peace and unity in the UK has been made on the occasion of the opening of a new mosque in South East London. To mark the opening, and as part of its ongoing commitment to serving mankind, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community donated thousands of pounds to British charities. Representatives of all major religions had gathered for the inaugural ceremony of the new GBP675,000 mosque in Catford, which had been funded entirely from voluntary donations from the Ahmadiyya Muslim community - many of whom had donated jewellery, savings an...

15 Sep 2011 20:10 Africa/Lagos The Co-Creation Hub of Nigeria, Association for Democratic Reforms (India), Fundacion Ciudadano Inteligente (Chile), Mideast Youth (Bahrain), Centre UA (Ukraine), and Open Knowledge Foundation (UK) have been selected for the Omidyar Network’s $3million grant for advancing government transparency and accountability. The following is the detailed news release. Omidyar Network Supports Technology-Centered Organizations Seeking to Empower Citizens Across Six Countries Announcement coincides with establishment of global hub for Government Transparency in London PR Newswire LONDON and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 15, 2011 LONDON and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Omidyar Network announced today its intent to grant up to $3M to six leading organizations focused on advancing government transparency and accountability. The organizations are: Association for Democratic Reforms (India), Co-Creation Hub (Nigeria), Fundacion Ciudadano Intelig...

Majority of Nigerians overseas are in the US and UK. Do you know that 70 percent of 12 million Nigerians overseas are Igbos? And 30 percent of them are from Abia State. Moreover, these Nigerians abroad remit over N23 billion every year according to Dr. kalu Kalu Diogu, leader of the Abia State Indigenes in Diaspora and a past Chairman of World Igbo Congress (WIC) Last year 30 million Africans across the globe invested $40 billion into the continent's economy. And Nigerians accounted for about 55 percent of the money. Nigerians in in Diaspora remitted total of sum of $18 billion in 2009. Tweet

London riots. Photo Credit: The Telegraph Is the Arab Spring of Blood spreading to the UK as London is engulfed in the inferno of arsonists and looters on rampage? But as London is burning hundreds of children are still dying in the famine ravaging Somalia. Who was the 29 years old bloke that was killed in exchange of gunfire with police in Tottenham in the twilight of last Saturday? Would the death of that man be enough to enrage the hundreds of lunatics burning and looting in Birmingham, Canning Town, Manchester, Salford and still spreading? Well, the pangs of dying children are echoing from Somalia. Releases displayed in Africa/Lagos time 8 Aug 2011 14:58 Dr. Jill Biden Arrives in Kenya to Vi...

Nigerians in UK inspire British Author’s new book for Children A new book Tópé Arrives is about a Nigerian orphan who was forced against his will to continue his life in England. It is a Nigerian story written by a new British author Wendy Hue who told me why she wrote this emotionally compelling children’s book that has been endorsed by Richard Damilola , the father of Damilola Taylor , the 10-year-old Nigerian child murdered on his way from Peckham Library on November 27, 2000, in south London in 2000. The book was on the long list of the The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition . Tópé is suddenly orphaned and against his will he has to leave Nigeria. Worried about starting a new life in England, he feels he is an outsider in his new school. It is a time of tears and tussles. Will his nimble football skills and precious wooden boat somehow help him to carve out a new beginning? Will he ever again be able to believe in himself and drum in with the dundun drums his rene...

22 Apr 2008 01:18 Africa/Lagos Correction of a Mis-Quote by The Daily Mail LONDON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- In the Daily Mail on Friday 18 April 2008, Louise Blouin MacBain, Chairman of Louise Blouin Media and the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, was erroneously misquoted as stating that: "His Holiness is trying to win cultural independence for an area that is the size of the UK, Germany and Portugal lumped together and in that aim he is deluded." This statement as published by the Daily Mail, reprinted in the National Post is categorically incorrect. In her two-part piece on the Tibet Issue and the recent crisis surrounding the riots in Lhasa and the Beijing Olympics published by Forbes.com -- 11/14 April-- Ms Blouin MacBain stated that His Holiness the Dalai Lama is seeking "political" independence beyond the Tibetan Autonomous Region to include two adjoining provinces, Amdo (Qinghai) and eastern Kham (western Sichuan) -- a geography that represents approxi...

Ms. Arianna Huffington , I read your "Who Is Maggie Williams?" posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 | 05:49 PM (EST) on your Huffington Post Blog . It was a bad example of Witch Hunt Journalism. Maggie Williams has a questionable past? How about you? 1997 is gone and gone forever. It is all in the past. How would you feel if I dig up what you did in the UK and why you were not married to the man you lived with for years before leaving for the US and got married to Mr. Huffington and other things? Are you not a better person now than your were in the 1980s? Would it be fair to use your past to judge you now? Like using Barack Obama's years of smoking pot and sniffing coke to denounce him now? Hypocrisy comes in different colors and contours. Do you have a conscience? I wonder why you American intellectuals in the news media like taking advantage of the ignorance and gullibility of most of your less informed readers? What will you gain from such political witch-hunting?

28 Jan 2008 14:00 Africa/Lagos "Certainly Nigeria's persistent notoriety among eCommerce merchants is enhanced by the ubiquitous 'Nigerian Scam' letters," said Doug Schwegman, CyberSource director of customer and market intelligence. "Russia dropping off the list this year may simply mean merchants have given up shipping even digital products to that country due to negative outcomes in the past. But the real message of these findings is that fraud remains a significant issue in the lives of eCommerce merchants. We do see increasing popularity of IP Geolocation, a tool that gives merchants information on the location of an internet-connected computer based on its internet protocol address. But as always, we remind merchants that no one tool is a silver anti-fraud bullet -- that combinations of tools work best to root out cybercrime." NYC Loses Title to Miami - No Longer 'Riskiest City' for Online Fraud CyberSource annual survey: Miami now #...

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Kidnapped British-Nigerian Toddler Released! The BBC reports the good news of the release of the three-year-old British-Nigerian girl Margaret Hill in the Niger Delta. She has been reunited with her parents after being freed by kidnappers who had held her for four days. Margaret Hill's parents, Mike and Oluchi Hill, said she was in good health but "covered in mosquito bites". More details . The parents said no ransom was paid. But the fact is no hostage is ever released gratis in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. The Niger Delta Kidnappers Plc has many stakeholders and shareholders, including prominent chiefs, politicians and gangsters.

Suddenly more Nigerian babes and ladies are blogging and making the Nigerian blogosphere sizzling with hot posts. And they are attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors. Most of their blogs are what I call scuttlebutt blogs or daily social gist and tidbits blogs. And Bella Naija leads the pack, followed by Linda Ikeji and company. Adaure is still in a world of her own, because she is like the Oprah Winfrey of the Nigerian blogosphere in her subject matters. Queen Ebong and others are still exciting and thrilling. The most profiled Nigerian female blogger still remains Sokari Ekine of Black Looks. . And Funmi Iyanda would be more enlightened if she spends some quality time with Sokari. There are Nigerian female bloggers as young as 11. Two of them have left comments on Nigerian Times since 2005. There are over 400 Nigerian bloggers and quite a small number for a nation of over 140 million people. Even South Africa and Kenya have more bloggers than Nigeria. There are over 5 mill...

The BBC has reported the shocking news of a 'UK toddler' Kidnapped in Nigeria .The report said the three-year- old baby girl of a British expatriate worker was seized from a car on her way to school in the oil city of Port Harcourt early Thursday morning.

Nigeria: President Yar'Adua Must Save Nigerian Universities From Total Collapse President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua and Vice President Goodluck Jonathan were university lecturers before dumping their academic gowns for Nigerian politics. And millions of their old boys expect the best things to begin to happen to Nigerian education, because of these two former academics that are now in power. That is why they are not surprised that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is going to end the three months old strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).The pragmatic measures of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua ended the last nationwide workers strike and he is employing the same pragmatic approach to end the protracted ASUU strike. President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua knows the cause of disagreement between the government and Nigerian university lecturers, because he had been through similar trials and tribulations of Nigerian academics in the past. And it would be unfortunate ...