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 Chika Otuchikere and Salisu Ibrahim A man suspected to be the operations commander of the Boko Haram sect was yesterday arrested by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano. Suleiman Mohammed, who hails from Ogbomosho in Oyo State, believed to have masterminded several deadly attacks in Kano, has been moved to Abuja for […]
Johannesburg — Social networking site Twitter was abuzz on Friday morning following comments made by former president FW de Klerk during a CNN interview. “Can’t sleep after FW De Klerk interview on CNN. Counting to 10 isn’t helping. Justifying apartheid in 2012? And apparently homelands were great!” Talk Radio 702 host Redi Tlhabi wrote on […]
Togbewo, Nananom, Mamawo, novinyewo, medo gbe nami I am very happy to be here and I want to thank the President of the House for giving me this opportunity to address this august House of Chiefs. For sometime now, I have been hoping to to meet with you and I was mightily pleased when this […]
Speech Delivered by: Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia 2012 NPP Vice-Presidential Candidate At the: Ferdinand O. Ayim Memorial Lecture May 2, 2012 Accra Mr. Chairman, H.E. John Agyekum Kufuor, Former President of the Republic of Ghana H.E. Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Former Vice President […]
27 April 2012 As reported by Al Arabiya News, the women of Egypt are up in arms with two proposed controversial laws: legalizing the marriage of girls starting from the age of 14, and permitting husbands to have sex with their dead wives within the first 6 hours following their deaths. Controversial in this […]
By Wesonga Ochieng CHIEF Justice Willy Mutunga has warned that Chapter Six of the new constitution will be strictly enforced in the next general elections. “That chapter (Six on leadership and integrity) talks about leadership across our society. The values are clear. Those husbands who are beating their wives must know that you cannot […]
By Owen Gagare/Wongai Zhangazha Harare — SECUROCRATS are increasingly tightening their grip on Zanu PF amid further indications several members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), police and retired army officers are battling to become candidates in the next general elections President Robert Mugabe wants this year. The securocrats are challenging Zanu PF heavyweights whom […]
Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko yesterday condemned the bombing of the Abuja Corporate office of Leaders and Company, Publishers of ThisDay newspaper, submitting that it’s high time perpetrators of the dastard act have a change of heart and allow Nigerians enjoy their freedom. Two persons were confirmed killed and six injured in the explosion […]
By Chika Otuchikere, Abiodun Oluwarotimi, Isaiah Benjamin, Nanna Selkur, Bode Gbadebo, Omotola Oloruntobi, Kehinde Ajobiewe, Ruth Tene, Pembi Stephen-David, Midat Joseph, Usman Ahmed, Geoge Agba, Patience Obhafuoso, and Zoe Attat, 27 April 2012 For the first time since it began a series of deadly bomb attacks, the Boko Haram sect yesterday turned its attention […]
International judges have found former Liberian leader Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone civil war. Taylor, 64, has been on trial in The Hague at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone for almost five years. He was accused of backing rebels who killed tens of thousands of […]