A 14-minute YouTube video is heightening tensions between Nigeria‘s government and a violent Islamist sect President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to destroy. Analysts say the video has revealed the president’s miscalculation of the extremist threat. The YouTube video opens with graphics of spinning flowers and crossed AK-47s. Bubble letters identify it as a message to [...]
Africa.com: This week, Malawi appointed Joyce Banda, a noted women’s rights activist, as its president, after the death of former president Bingu wa Mutharika. Mrs. Banda is the continent’s second female president, after Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. We’re also reading about the Mr. Gay World pageant, which for the first time in its history [...]
JOHANNESBURG – The spokesman for South Africa’s polygamous president says Jacob Zuma will be “formalizing his relationship” with his longtime fiancee. Mac Maharaj said Sunday that 70-year-old Zuma and Bongi Ngema-Zuma will hold a private, traditional ceremony in Nkandla, Zuma’s home village in eastern KwaZulu-Natal province this coming weekend. Maharaj said he had no further [...]
Former president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, Mr. Dan Ngerem has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to task those managing the country’s sports to anchor all future sports activities on schools sports as it was the surest way to revive the sector. According to Ngerem, who said he is pained by the seeming [...]
A 14-minute YouTube video is heightening tensions between Nigeria‘s government and a violent Islamist sect President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to destroy. Analysts say the video has revealed the president’s miscalculation of the extremist threat. The YouTube video opens with graphics of spinning flowers and crossed AK-47s. Bubble letters identify it as a message to [...]
By Felix Mponda (AFP) – 16 hours ago LILONGWE — A sombre mood fell over Malawi as scores of people welcomed home the body of late president Bingu wa Mutharika, flown back from South Africa Saturday following his fatal heart attack. Thousands of Malawians waited with new President Joyce Banda as a South African military [...]
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Jose Antonio Ocampo, former finance minister of Colombia, has ended his bid to become World Bank president, leaving two candidates to challenge a US stranglehold on the multilateral development bank. Ocampo said he hoped emerging-market nations would rally behind Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in a race that he said had turned highly political. The [...]
This is the first in a series of reports from West Africa by the editor of the FT, who has travelled through Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone, from the oil-contaminated Niger delta to teeming Lagos and a new rice farm project on Ghana’s Volta river. Further instalments from these three countries will follow over the [...]
By Patrick Omorodion Former president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, Mr. Dan Ngerem has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to task those managing the country’s sports to anchor all future sports activities on schools sports as it was the surest way to revive the sector. According to Ngerem, who said he is pained [...]
Traces of the 2012 U.S. Republican campaign will no doubt imprint politics for years, particularly for its virulence against women and minorities: attacks on food stamps, claims that women aren’t fit for combat, callous remarks on women’s health, and barely suppressed racism. But foreign policy has yet to figure into the candidates’ debates, a sector [...]
AYOGWIRI- As the gubernatorial election campaign in Edo state gradually gathers momentum, the people of Ayogwiri in Etsako West local government area under the aegis of Ayogwiri Osireghemhe Union (AOU) have declared to work relentlessly towards the re- election bid of the Comrade governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. Arising from its general delegates conference (GDC), held [...]
Eddie Adams / AP Take a look at the country’s tumultuous path since independence. Launch slideshow Zimbabwean officials on Tuesday dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was critically ill in Singapore, saying he was well and on vacation there with his family, and was expected to return home this week. Mugabe is one of Africa’s [...]
NFF President Aminu Maigari The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has conducted the first children clinic to promote beach soccer in the country when over 50 kids in the Federal Capital Territory were introduced to the game during the Easter break. The two- day clinic held at the FIFA Goal Project, was flagged off by NFF [...]
The continent of Africa now has a second woman holding the top leadership role in her country. Joyce Banda was sworn in Saturday as the new president of the southern African nation of Malawi. Following the death of Malawi president, Bingu wa Mutharika, who died on Thursday April 5th following a heart attack at the [...]
BY PATRICK MCGROARTY JOHANNESBURG—Business executives and civil-rights activists in Malawi expressed hope that their new president would mend ties with foreign donors and pull the country out of an economic crisis, following her predecessor’s heart attack and a delay announcing his death. Joyce Banda was sworn in as president Saturday, two days after President Bingu [...]
AFP/Getty Images/Newscom The continent of Africa now has a second woman holding the top leadership role in her country. Joyce Banda was sworn in Saturday as the new president of the southern African nation of Malawi. The peaceful transition of power is a great relief in Malawi where a political crisis seems to have been [...]
BY PATRICK MCGROARTY JOHANNESBURG—After nearly two days of keeping the death of its president secret, Malawi moved Saturday to clear up uncertainty over who was running the country. Vice President Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi’s new president, in line with the country’s constitution that outlines the course of succession. Ms. Banda is expected [...]
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UK Prime Minister to Lobby President GoodLuck for Gay People in Nigeria
The Britain Prime Minister, Mr David Cameroon whilst reacting to questions from a Nigerian, Name, Bisi, living in Britain, who asked for his reaction to a bill approved by Nigerian lawmakers last month banning same-sex marriage – setting jail terms of up to 14 years for offenders – and making it illegal to form gay [...]
Death Of Nans Senate President And Four Others In Auto Crash Erc Condoles With Nans And Students
PRESS STATEMENT Death Of Nans Senate President And Four Others In Auto Crash Erc Condoles With Nans And Students The death of the Senate President of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Donald Onukaogu Sunday, Dimeji Azeez (a.k.a Fagbocious) and three others is indeed shocking. Reportedly, they died in an auto crash while on their [...]
Taming the Ghost Workers Abdullahi M. Seidu For years, ghosts’ workers in Nigeria are not meant to be seen on their duty post but clearly visible on the payroll. They crawl under the shadow of darkness to suck dry our common wealth. They are reapers where they have not sown anything! Going by the [...]
Condoms, narcotic drugs flood Boko Haram camps
More of the dirty sides of the insurgents’ lifestyle are being revealed as troops continue to stumble on strange and bizarre objects such as several used and unused condoms as well as charms and amulets of various shapes in the captured terrorists camps. Defence spokesman, Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade, who made the revelation, said that [...]
Clarifying Nigeria’s Debt Position
Clarifying Nigeria’s Debt Position There has recently been a lot of misinformation and misconception in our public debate on debt. My goal in this article is to shed some light on the public debt, to clarify the real state of Nigeria’s debt position, and hopefully, provide a knowledge platform for constructive debate. Let me say [...]
Governor Yari: An Excellent Performer in search of “Result-Oriented SSG”
Governor Yari: An Excellent Performer in search of “Result-Oriented SSG” I do not live in Zamfara but passively at the moment, so my view is shaped from what opinions of pundits gathered and my research. As I moved round, the enormity of work done was not only amazing and revealing but very exciting to behold. Good networking, expansion [...]
Africa’s mobile youths drive change Cell phones reshape youth cultures
Africa’s mobile youths drive change Cell phones reshape youth cultures By Jocelyne Sambira The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cell phone–based curriculum, told the TechDailyNews that most of these children have never even used a [...]
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