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 Uchenna Ekwo With his re-election, President Barack Obama becomes the third Democratic president to win a second term since the past 100 years. The other two are Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Bill Clinton. The triumph of President Obama shares similar historical significance with FDR in relation to being re-elected with high unemployment rate in […]
By Godfried Ebo Arthur Elections are always about the vision and the future direction of a country. Moreover, when there is an incumbent such as the situation we have now, the dynamics change completely. The focus then shifts to the record of the sitting president and his administration; it in effect becomes a referendum on […]
Johannesburg — Platinum mining companies are expected to ramp up operations in Zimbabwe after production dropped to an 11-year low in South Africa, Business Day reported on Monday. Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said it was planning a new mine in Zimbabwe, after it lost at least 170,000 ounces of platinum during an eight-week strike. Amplat’s […]
Johannesburg — The Sunday Times was in shops across the country on Sunday in spite of an eleventh hour attempt by the National Prosecuting Authority to stop distribution of copies leading with a story on the “spy tape” case relating to President Jacob Zuma. The application by the NPA was made in the High Court […]
By Ryan Truscott, 18 November 2012 Harare — A Zimbabwean mining executive has been ordered to pay a huge sum of damages to the country’s spy chief, Happyton Bonyongwe, over comments published by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. Andrew Cranswick, the chief executive of African Consolidated Resources, allegedly told US diplomats that Bonyongwe and other […]
19 November 2012 President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday described as premature and diversionary efforts to make him voice out his political plans after the end of his first term in office in 2015. Jonathan, fielding questions from a panel of editors during a presidential media chat monitored on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), however, promised to […]
By Gilles Yabi, 19 November 2012 The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has agreed on a revised concept of operations for the deployment of an international military force of 3,300 soldiers to help the Malian state wrest control of the northern part of the country from Islamist fighters. This step, taken […]
19 November 2012 The Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) has revealed that sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, with a prodigious average annual growth rate of 44% since 2000. Mobile connections have leapt to 475 million, compared to just 12.3 million fixed line connections, representing the highest proportion […]
By Emma Onyango, 14 November 2012 Kampala, Uganda — Africa needs to adopt a model that suits her development ideologies if she were to achieve economic transformation, an economic expert has said. Speaking during a public lecture organized by the Bank of Uganda in Kampala last week, Dr. Donald Kaberuka the President of the African […]
19 November 2012 The 2012 United Nations World Travel Organisation and World Travel Markets Ministers’ Summit will seek to shed light on how countries can work together to ease entry procedures for tourists as a means to stimulate economic growth and create jobs. “While important steps have been taken over the past few years […]