At the Michael S. Ansari Africa Center on Tuesday, January 30, problems currently besetting the Nigerian state would be the topic of a panel discussion put together by the Atlantic Council.

At the daily media briefing of the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C., Nigeria was on the front burner last week with Victoria Nuland, spokes person saying that Boko Haram is trying to rip the country apart.

With two Mormons in the Republican presidential race and one of them leading the pack, Mormons in the United States are fast bracing up to have their man in the White House.

As several reasons are being advanced for the removal of Mrs Farida Waziri as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC)  last week, the United States connection became even more plausible.

Nigeria’s market share in the United States in non-oil products will shrink as three West African countries reopen to feed small businesses in the States.

The intrigues that characterize mergers in the information technology market have not spared mega service providers AT&T and T-Mobile as their merger bid ended abruptly on Thursday last week, at least for now.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s  advocacy on the elimination of the proliferation of small arms and piracy may have been adopted by the United Nations. Indications to this emerged  as the United Nations Security Council last week called on all nations in the world to continue their cooperation in the investigation and prosecution of all persons responsible for acts of piracy, armed robbery at sea, and Kidnap for Ransom off the coast of Somalia.

Bothered by the incessant problem of religious killings in sub Saharan Africa and Nigeria in particular, the  US Department of State’s Office of International Religious Freedom and the Religion and Peacemaking program at the U.S. Institute of Peace last week sought  a solution to the festering crisis through a Washington premier of “An African Answer.”