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."
by Orji Sunday It is a bright morning in Lagos, Nigeria. Babatunde Ogunmefun, 24, limps around the soccer pitch, chasing the ball, hands firmly gripping his crutches. When he heaves his single leg forward to kick the ball, he staggers and smiles before regaining his balance. “From childhood I always loved football,” he says. But […]
US President Donald Trump has extended sanctions against Zimbabwe by a year, saying that the new government’s policies continue to pose an “unusual and extraordinary” threat to the American foreign policy. The renewal on Monday comes despite calls by African leaders, including South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, for the sanctions to be lifted to give […]
by YINKA AWOSANYA In 2018, a total of $25.08 billion was remitted by Nigerians in diaspora into the country, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) estimates. This represents about 14% increase from 2017 and 83% of the federal government’s 2018 budget in value. This is almost $3 billion higher than the World Bank’s previous estimate which, at $22 billion, […]
Cameroon’s High Court refused to release opposition leader Maurice Kamto, as well as six of his supporters, who were arrested in January on politically motivated charges. The Mfoundi High Court, located in Cameroon’s political capital, Yaoundé, made this decision following a habeas corpus request led by the detainees’ defence lawyers. Kamto and his party, the […]
Liberian police have formally charged the son of the country’s former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in connection with the unlawful overprinting of local currency worth millions of US dollars. Charles Sirleaf, the 61-year-old former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Liberia, was ordered by a court in the capital, Monrovia, on Monday to be […]
by Rashid Thomas President Julius Maada Bio was welcomed in Boston by the State Representative – Shawn C Dooley of the House of Representatives of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he was praised for his impressive leadership in transforming Sierra Leone. The State Representative congratulated president Bio for fostering a great friendship between Sierra Leone […]
by Kofi Ayim Ghana’s Consul General in New York, Professor Samuel Amoako, has reiterated the need for Ghanaian unity both in Ghana and elsewhere. Speaking under the theme Celebrating Peace and Unity at a flag-raising ceremony at City Hall, Newark, New Jersey, to commemorate Ghana’s 62nd independence anniversary, the ever-conspicuous Consul General pointed out that […]
Christian doctrine calls for giving back to the community. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has committed to a project akin to the Akan proverbial SANKOFA to help African Americans reconnect to their ancestral roots. Meanwhile, one-man African megachurches who claim a God-given call to rake in thousands of tax-free dollars abound throughout […]
LOVA RABARY The World Health Organization says that an epidemic of measles in Madagascar has caused more than 900 deaths. According to WHO figures, over 68,000 cases were reported in which 553 deaths were confirmed and 373 suspected from measles since the outbreak began in September. Madagascar has launched a nationwide campaign to try to […]
Like the tsetse fly, Western Europe and the U.S. have been sucking the lifeline off Africa since slavery time. From Cecil Rhodes who thought he owned Zimbabwe and named it after himself – Rhodesia – to King Leopold II whose atrocities to the people of Congo is on par with Adolf Hitler, most Western countries […]