Archive for: May, 2012

The African Diaspora

This year’s conference of the African Diaspora in South Africa promises to be a major event in the annals of the African peoples. Its objectives are noble and expectations are high: does African stand to gain its proper place in the world? It is not uncommon to mistake the language of pan-Africanism and the African […]

Nigeria: Lagos – Resident Doctors Threaten Solidarity Protest

By Winifred Ogbebo   The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has threatened to employ all machineries at its disposal to protect the interest of its members in Lagos State, if the government remains insensitive and adamant to recalling the 788 sacked doctors. Speaking yesterday in Abuja, the president of the association, Dr. Chiedozie Achonwa […]

Ghana’s Oil and Pirate Activities in the Gulf of Guinea – a Cause for Great Concern

By Daniel Nonor   THE RECURRENT pirate activities in the Gulf of Guinea and the increasing threat of terrorism in neighboring Nigeria has raised grave security concerns to oil shipments in the West African sub-region and these are invariably too close for comfort to Ghana’s oil installations. Target countries of these pirate activities over the […]

Ghana: Airdrops to Fight Schistosomiasis

Kpong — At the Kpong airfield, a few kilometers from Lake Volta in northern Ghana, Patricia Mawuli, pilot and co-founder of Medicine on the Move (MoM), a local NGO, is preparing her plane for takeoff. She is one of four health workers who fly weekly to isolated communities around the lake to raise awareness of […]

Africa: UN Hits Out at Rulers Over Lack of Food

In its 2012 Human Development Report for Africa, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says that sub-Saharan Africa cannot sustain its … ( Resource: African Human Development Report 2012 Despite rapid economic growth in some African countries in recent years, no government across the continent can rightfully claim that all its citizens have access to […]

Uganda: UN Envoy on Children in Conflict Urges Country to Prosecute Captured LRA Officer

The United Nations envoy for children and armed conflict today urged the Ugandan Government bring to justice a senior commander of the brutal Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA), who was captured over the weekend, saying he is responsible for some of the most egregious abuses against children. Ugandan authorities announced on Saturday that the country’s army […]

Nigeria: Church Gift – ACN Wants Jonathan Impeached

By Abbas Jimoh   The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has asked the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan for openly admitting that he solicited for a church built in his home town, Otuoke, from Gitto Construzioni Generali Nigeria Ltd (GCG). National publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said […]

Nigeria: TB Joshua Officially Banned From Cameroun

By Abiodun Oluwarotimi The Cameroonian government has blacklisted Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, saying that he is an agent of Satan hoodwinking unsuspecting members of the public with “diabolical miracles”. Cameroon Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Henri Eyebe Ayissi, in an official communiqué he issued titled: “The Devil Is In […]

Zimbabwe: Churches Rap TB Joshua

By Felex Share   CHURCH leaders yesterday said controversial Nigerian prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua was not welcome in Zimbabwe. The churches argued that prophet TB Joshua’s teachings were of no help to the country as they were judgmental, partisan and unorthodox. TB Joshua heads the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria and was said […]

Egypt presidential election candidates in first TV debate

Yolande Knell By Yolande Knell BBC News, Cairo Egypt set to hold its first-ever live debate between presidential candidates. It features the two expected front-runners in the presidential vote later this month – former Arab League head Amr Moussa and moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Millions of Egyptians are expected to tune into the […]

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