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 Abbas Jimoh The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has asked the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against President Goodluck Jonathan for openly admitting that he solicited for a church built in his home town, Otuoke, from Gitto Construzioni Generali Nigeria Ltd (GCG). National publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said […]
By Abiodun Oluwarotimi The Cameroonian government has blacklisted Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, saying that he is an agent of Satan hoodwinking unsuspecting members of the public with “diabolical miracles”. Cameroon Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Henri Eyebe Ayissi, in an official communiqué he issued titled: “The Devil Is In […]
By Felex Share CHURCH leaders yesterday said controversial Nigerian prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua was not welcome in Zimbabwe. The churches argued that prophet TB Joshua’s teachings were of no help to the country as they were judgmental, partisan and unorthodox. TB Joshua heads the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria and was said […]
Yolande Knell By Yolande Knell BBC News, Cairo Egypt set to hold its first-ever live debate between presidential candidates. It features the two expected front-runners in the presidential vote later this month – former Arab League head Amr Moussa and moderate Islamist Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh. Millions of Egyptians are expected to tune into the […]
A British man on trial in Kenya for an alleged bomb plot was linked to the widow of one of the 7/7 London bombers, the prosecution has said. It says Jermaine Grant, aged 29, was working with fugitive Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of London underground bomber Jermaine Lindsay. The charges come as Grant’s trial opened […]
Murtala Mohammed Kamara, AfricaNews reporter in Freetown, Sierra Leone Annette Sam, now 13 was diagnosed with a hole in the heart in 2006. His father a teacher by then could not afford funds to treat the young Annette. Nearly at the point of death, a local charity organization Pikin Bizness gave Annette another chance to […]
CAIRO — Two weeks before Egypt’s presidential election begins, the leading candidates are adopting a deferential tone toward the current military rulers even as the generals make clear that they expect to maintain much of their autonomy and influence after their pledged handover of power. Fifteen months after the generals seized power at the ouster […]
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 […]
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 […]