A journey through life
Posted in Africa on Oct 30th, 2008
Zambians began voting early today in what is expected to be a hotly contested election. The election to replace the late president Levy Mwanawasa pits acting President Rupiah Banda from the ruling Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) against the leader of the opposition Patriotic Front, Michael Sata. Polls are expected to close early this evening [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 28th, 2008
A woman has been stoned to death for committing adultery after being found guilty in an Islamic Sharia court in the southern Somali city of Kismayo. The woman, Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow, was buried up to her neck in sand and then killed in front of thousands of people in one of the city’s squares. A [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 24th, 2008
The Nigerian secret service has detained a US-based Nigerian news blogger. Jonathan Elendu was picked up when he arrived in the country on a family visit. No-one has been allowed access to him since Saturday. According to Nigerian law anyone arrested must be charged in court within 48 hours. The secret service has told his [...]
Posted in Children on Oct 20th, 2008
The abuse of Children is fast becoming an issue in the country, which needs to be urgently addressed. Children who are either sexually or physically abused suffer silently for crimes that are committed against them. Crimes often perpetuated by family members or people known to them.
To properly define what child abuse is like, in the [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 17th, 2008
The practice of female genital mutilation has been banned in a district of eastern Uganda. A community leader in Kapchorwa district said the ritual was no longer considered useful for the community’s women. The Sabiny are the only group in Uganda that practises FGM, which involves cutting off a young girl’s clitoris. The local council [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 15th, 2008
A Nigerian high court has ordered the oil giant, Shell, to return land housing an oil and gas terminal to its original owners. Shell Nigeria agreed to rent the land on which it built Nigeria’s largest oil export terminal in 1958 from the residents of Bonny in Rivers state. But the customary land owners took [...]
Posted in Events on Oct 13th, 2008
Communicating for Change, a non governmental organisation put together a three day international conference, in a bold move to reposition the Nigerian film industry Nollywood, in the global entertertainment industry. The three day conference will have key note speakers such as Ms. Andrea Calderwood, producer last king of Scotland, currently working on the adaptation of [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 12th, 2008
Two weeks ago one of Nigeria’s broadcast icon passed on. The news had blown me away mainly because I had felt Uncle Yinka would overcome Lymphoma, blood cancer. Besides, he had been optimistic.
Though, I never got to see him before he died, we kept in touch via email and his up beat attitude left me [...]
Posted in Africa on Oct 10th, 2008
Libya says it has stopped delivering crude oil to Switzerland and is threatening to withdraw its assets from Swiss banks. Libya was furious when Hannibal Gaddafi, the youngest son of the county’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi was arrested for assault in July. This sparked a series of diplomatic recriminations which included Libya recalling diplomats from Switzerland, [...]
