Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel
Posted in Africa on Jun 23rd, 2010
I was deliberately taking my time to comment on the BBC report Welcome to Lagos when an email from a friend asking my opinion and what could do be done about the negative report spurred me to probe and look deeper. The report Welcome to Lagos is a must watch for every Nigerian, it is [...]
Posted in Africa on Jun 18th, 2010
The Super Eagles were supposed to go for goals. One of the only African team left standing but it bowed out when it lost to Greece. Nigeria lost to Greece 2-1. Earlier in the day, tension was high, many had prepared to watch the match at designated places, those who thought electricity may fail had [...]
Posted in Africa on Jun 12th, 2010
After the recent showing of the film, the mighty heart with Academy award winner Angelina Jolie at the United States Information service, I began to ponder on the security risk journalists in the country face, particularly with the rising spate of brutal killings of journalists in recent months. First, many years back, it was Dele Giwa, [...]
Posted in Africa on May 4th, 2010
Africa’s first conference to discuss the specific impact of HIV and AIDS on grandmothers will begin in Swaziland on Thursday. The African Grandmothers’ Gathering aims to shed light on the plight of one of the forgotten special interest groups affected by the disease. Some of the issues to be discussed include the impact of losing [...]
Posted in Africa on May 2nd, 2010
The Senate member and former Zamfara state Governor, Sanator Admed Yarima who recently married a thirteen year old girl from Egypt says he was not bound by the provisions of the child Rights Act, a state he governed for eight years. He said his home state did not domesticate the law and as such could [...]
Posted in Africa on Apr 23rd, 2010
Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world not on track to meet the target of reducing poverty by half by 2015, according to the World Bank. The bank’s World Development Indicators 2010 report, released on Wednesday, assesses progress towards the eight Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations. Fifty countries around the [...]
Posted in Africa on Apr 16th, 2010
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN ANCHOR: Tonight, we have Nigeria’s acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, leader of Africa’s most populous nation and its biggest oil exporter.
Good evening, everyone. I’m Christiane Amanpour, and welcome to our program.
Nigeria’s acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, is in Washington for the nuclear security summit, and he gave us his first interview since assuming power. [...]
Posted in Africa on Apr 14th, 2010
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has condemned the recent expulsion of 36 Congolese refugees by the Zambian government. UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said on Tuesday that the organisation had sent a letter to Zambian authorities to protest against the deportation of 36 residents from the Meheba refugee settlement. The group had taken [...]
Posted in Africa on Apr 12th, 2010
Somali Islamist group al-Shabab announced on Friday that it has banned local radio stations from retransmitting broadcasts from the Washington-based news service Voice of America and the BBC’s Somali language service. The insurgent group claims the news services have been broadcasting anti-Muslim propaganda. The BBC has said that all of its transmitters inside Somalia have [...]
Posted in Africa on Apr 8th, 2010
The European Union announced on Wednesday that it has withdrawn its poll observers from Sudan’s conflict-ridden Darfur region because of safety concerns. The decision came as one of the country’s main opposition party joined a growing boycott of national elections due to start on Sunday. A spokesman for the Uma party said on Thursday that [...]
