Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court upheld his signature health care law’s individual insurance mandate in a 5-4 decision, upending speculation after hostile-seeming oral arguments in March that the justices would overturn the law. The mandate has been upheld as a tax, with Chief Justice John Roberts, a Bush appointee, […]
By Duro Ikhazuagbe Team Nigeria’s party to the 18th Africa Senior Athletics Championships arrived neighbouring Cotonou, Benin Republic with 46 athletes ahead of Wednesday’s opening ceremony of the competition scheduled to hold between June 27 and July 1. The contingent departed the National Stadium in Lagos in a convoy of a luxury Marcopolo Buses […]
By Salifu Usman One of the main features of the 18th African Athletics Championship (AAC) which kicks off today at the Stade d’Lamite in Port Novo, Benin Republic will be the rekindling of the age long rivalry between Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya in the track and field. Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) under […]
By Abdulkadir Badsha Mukhtar and Misbahu Bashir Nigerian soldiers serving in the United Nations African Union Hybrid Missions in Darfur, Sudan have threatened to go on rampage if they are not paid their allowances and airlifted back to Nigeria on or before July 3, 2012. Radio France International Hausa Service report monitored last night in […]
New Era Africa: Euro Crisis led to decreasing of visitors to Africa. The European economic crisis poses a serious threat to African airlines and is causing a dramatic decrease in the number of air passengers. Speaking during a media briefing here on Friday, Deputy Director for Aviation, Administration and Navigation for the Namibian Civil Aviation […]
By Jocelyne Sambira By selling the presidential jet and getting rid of 60 limousines driven by high-ranking officials, Joyce Banda, Malawi’s new president, is making waves. But even before trimming the fat from the state budget, Ms. Banda made headlines when she announced her intention to repeal the country’s anti-gay law shortly after her […]
South Africa’s president says the country needs radical economic transformation to promote equality. Jacob Zuma was speaking at the policy … ( Resource: Economic Equality Still Elusive in South Africa Johannesburg — President Jacob Zuma received a mixed welcome when he delivered his opening address at the ANC’s four-day policy conference in Midrand […]
President-elect Mohamed Mursi has started negotiating with political forces to form a presidential team and new government, Al-Akhbar reported. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) may elect Mohamed ElBaradei, former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, to head the new government, said FJP deputy Mohamed al-Beltagy. Former […]
The development bank planned by members of the BRICS group of influential emerging economies could help South Africa finance its state-led infrastructure drive, says Business Unity SA CEO Nomaxabiso Majokweni. According to I-Net Bridge, Majokweni told an African National Congress (ANC) business forum in Johannesburg on Monday that an immediate benefit of a BRICS bank […]
By Army Sergeant 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. Arlington, Virginia — U.S. Africa Command’s top military officer detailed existing and emerging threats from extremist organizations on the continent in a speech at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C, June 25, 2012. Army General Carter F. Ham also explained the U.S. […]