A journey through life
Posted in Africa on Sep 29th, 2008
Local residents in Durban, South Africa are taking the owners of two oil refineries to court to force them to cut pollution. Residents and environmental groups have failed over the past decade to persuade the refineries to upgrade their facilities in order to reduce pollution. Activists have been gathering scientific data since 2000 in an [...]
Posted in Africa on Sep 14th, 2008
THE bribery and corruption going on in Nigeria has reached such grave proportions that continued pussyfooting on this subject will ultimately damage the country irretrievably. The situation is so bad that if the current government does nothing else but pursue and prosecute the many paper criminals in our midst, it would have earned full marks [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 14th, 2008
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai may be named the prime minister of the country, while President Robert Mugabe maintains his position ceremonially according to a power sharing deal reached yesterday.
Tsvangirai came out from a long peace meeting mediated by South African President Thabo Mbeki to declare that there was finally a deal on power-sharing in [...]
Posted in Events on Sep 13th, 2008
Gerd Meur is a German journalist, translator and cultural activist whose sojourn in Nigeria began nearly five decades ago, where his friendship with Noble Laureate Wole Soyinka took root. This journey resulted in the writing of a book, journey Around and with Kongi: Half a century on the road with Wole Soyinka. In the book [...]
Posted in Africa on Sep 12th, 2008
The 84 year old man with 86 wives, Pa Abubakar Bello Masaba has denied being a member of a secret cult and debunked the claims of insanity attributed to him by the Bida Emirate Council.
Masaba was described, in a recent interview by the Niger State Chairman of traditional Rulers and Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar [...]
Posted in Africa on Sep 8th, 2008
Preliminary results show that Angola’s ruling party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), is heading for a landslide victory in the country’s first parliamentary elections in 16 years. With more than half of the votes counted, the MPLA has received 81% of the vote, while the main opposition party, Unita, has received [...]
Posted in Africa on Sep 6th, 2008
If Nigeria should mismanage its future, it will be sad because no other African country will be willing to accept Nigerians. First, Nigerian refugees will not have space in many African countries and Nigerians may want to take over people’s countries. This they will not appreciate. Ambassador Olusola, speaking at the fifteenth anniversary of the [...]
Posted in Events on Sep 3rd, 2008
Investing in the lives of prisoners and ex inmates is a top priority for Believers Life in Christ Ministries. The ministry birth in 1999 is today in 38 prisons and 17 states in Nigeria. Because rehabilitating prisoners is such a big deal to the Ministry, it recently established a foundation to run the projects more effectively. The purpose will be to gradually [...]
