Book Chains Better Watch Out: Amazon Is Coming To Town

Online giant Amazon is creeping into the physical realm with 13 brick-and-mortar stores -- including in Manhattan, pictured -- and one soon to come in Bethesda

Bookstores are a go-to for the procrastinating gift-getter, a one-stop shop that has a little something for everyone.

Amazon says it will stock bestselling or highly rated titles, but also feature local authors

How To End Lingering Fuel Scarcity — PENGASSAN

Fuel queue at a filling station at Central Business District Area, Garki, Abuja. Photo: NAN

●‘Why situation persists’ ●‘Kwara monitors sale of petrol
“The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and other relevant government agencies should go out to enforce sale of fuel at filling stations that are hoarding the product. Virtually all stations have petrol but they are not ready to sell so as to exploit the people.”

Trump Jerusalem Recognition Harms Christmas: Catholic Leader

Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, speaks to the press in Jerusalem on December 20, 2017

The Catholic Church’s top official in Jerusalem on Wednesday criticized Donald Trump's controversial recognition of the city as Israel's capital, saying it damaged Christmas celebrations and led to hundreds cancelling trips.

Buhari Extends Tenure Of Service Chiefs

General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin, the Chief of Defence Staff (2nd right) and other service chiefs

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin and all other service chiefs.

FOR THE RECORD: Osinbajo Seeks Remedy For Poor Media Remuneration

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday criticized the non-payment of salaries of media practitioners by their employers and called for full debate on the whole orientation of media salaries.

A Donkey's Tale: Nigeria Becomes Key Hide Export Hub

Boys work with their precious donkey at an excavation site in the far northern state of Kano, digging sand for market. Locals are alarmed that the donkey hide trade has led to soaring prices for working animals

Abubakar Ya'u digs sand from vast, sweeping dunes and loads heavy hessian sacks of the fine, golden bounty onto the backs of donkeys which carry it to market.

A man leads donkeys to the abattoir in Ughelli, where their hides are skinned for sale. Uses are found for all the flesh and bones. Many beasts are smuggled from countries that take measures to prevent the illicit export trade

Tense Vote Count As South Africa’s ANC Party Elects New Leader

The two contenders are Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa. REUTERS/AFP

Vote counting began on Monday after thousands of delegates from South Africa's ruling ANC party cast ballots to choose their next leader, in an election seen as a decisive moment in the country's post-apartheid history.

African National Congress (ANC) supporters camp outside the ANC's 54th national conference on December 18, 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Thousands of delegates from South Africa's ruling ANC party began voting for their new leader in the early hours of Monday morning, officials said, shortly after saying the vote had been delayed. Photo | Gulshan Khan | AFP 

Fuel Queues Return To Lagos, Persist In Abuja, Others …As Oil Workers Begin Strike Today

Motorist queue for fuel in Abuja... on Sunday Dec 17. Photo: Olatunji Obasa

The lingering petrol scarcity in many parts of the country grew worse on Sunday in Lagos, Abuja, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger states as many filling stations were shut.

Nigeria Turns The Page On Literary Past

Nigeria is seeing a "thirst for literature" to which publishers are responding, says Lola Shoneyin, organizer of the annual Ake Festival

Mention Nigerian literature and the first names likely to spring to mind are Chinua Achebe, the author of "Things Fall Apart", or the venerable Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka.

Nigerian writer Leye Adenle is among a new crop of writers helping to turn the page on the post-colonial era of their esteemed predecessors