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 Eleanor Whitehead As the US announces a new strategy for Africa, its delay in extending a crucial preferential trade agreement has cost thousands of African jobs. Is America losing competitiveness on the continent? Three years after President Obama visited Ghana on his first state trip to Africa, amid rising criticism over the lack […]
By Oluwaseun Oluwarotimi Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu has called on the International Criminal Court [ICC] to try former British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair and George Bush, a former American President for their role in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Tutu, the retired Anglican Church’s archbishop of South Africa, wrote on […]
By Sir Fazle Hasan Abed “We need to put the child student where she belongs, at the center of the learning process, where she can harness her skills and look forward to a prosperous adulthood,” says Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Across the developing world, more children are enrolled in formal education than ever before. […]
By Julius Phiri CARITAS-Chipata Good Governance Programmes Coordinator, Mthaziko Zulu has appealed to the judiciary to mete out stiffer punishment to anyone harassing journalists in Zambia. Mr. Zulu said the victimization and harassment of journalists was not health adding that meting out stiffer punishment would stop people victimizing journalists. He said in Chipata yesterday […]
Mogadishu, Somalia — President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed announced on Saturday that candidates rejected as members of parliament by the selection committee will be judged by Mogadishu’s high court, Garowe Online reports. President Sharif at a press conference on Saturday night stated that Mogadishu’s high court would be giving the final judgment on candidates rejected by […]
Lafia, Katsina, Minna, Yola — Floods wreaked havoc in several states in the North at the weekend, killing at least 15 people in Adamawa State and another four in Niger State. Hundreds of homes and farmlands were destroyed in floods in Katsina State, while roadways and bridges were submerged in Nasarawa State. The Adamawa flood […]
By Jide Ajani and Joseph Erunke The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, last week groaned under the multiplier effects of the threat of a strike action by members of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG. As workers struggled to get to their offices, even the effect of the power outage was […]
President Yahya Jammeh has vowed to execute all death row prisoners by mid-September. Reports from The Gambia over the weekend said the authorities had executed nine prisoners on death row. The alleged executions followed President Yahya Jammeh’s promise to carry out all death sentences by mid-September, Al Jazeera Television said. It is understood that among […]
Police would not comment on Monday morning regarding reported allegations that workers killed during the Marikana shooting were fleeing from police. “We cannot comment until the outcome of the commission of inquiry. We have to respect the process,” said Captain Dennis Adriao. Independent Police Investigative Directorate spokesman Moses Dlamini was not immediately available for comment. […]
By Siki Kigongo On July 29, the Government of Uganda confirmed the Ebola hemorrhagic fever had resurfaced in western Uganda, with a large number of cases reported in Kibaale district. The knee-jerk reaction would have been to panic, as this killer disease that had claimed many lives before had returned. However, this was not […]