Witness Denies Being the Strongest Criminal in the Country
Nema Ceesay, the eighth prosecution witness (PW8) in the ongoing drug trial of the former inspector general of police (IGP) Ensa Badjie and two former military officers: Kuluteh Manneh and Mam Matarr...
View ArticleCountry 'Should Tread Carefully On Constitution'
When Tanzania decided to embark on the difficult journey of overhauling the constitution, it was hoped that the government had done its homework, weighed its options, and took a deep breath to ensure...
View ArticleKenya: Regional Cooperation On Health Issues Vital
Finally we may be waking up to the huge health burden facing Kenya and its poor neighbours in eastern, central and southern Africa.
View ArticlePoor Student Loan Handling Is Costly
Tanzania government, in a move to encourage students to go for university education, offered subsidies on their tuition, to be paid later by the beneficiaries. However, since 1994, over $463 million...
View ArticleNigeria: NDLEA Destroys N350 Million Forfeited Drugs
Over 4,688.48kg of narcotic drugs seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, at various locations of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA)...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Voodoo, Snakes, Condoms and the Pope's New African Reality
The Pope was in Africa this weekend, visiting the little West African country of Benin which is producing priests a lot faster than anywhere in Europe. It seems the future of the Catholic Church is in...
View ArticleAre Our People Aware of World Toilet Day?
COULD you imagine not having a toilet? What if for one day only, no-one in our country had a toilet - it's pretty unthinkable isn't it? Yet for 2.6 billion people in the world having no toilet is a daily
View ArticleNigeria: NUJ Confers Award On Oshiomhole
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has conferred the "Icon of Democracy" award on Governor Adams Oshiomhole for "changing the face of Edo State within three years".
View ArticleFour Win SBL Scholarships
FOUR students emerged successful out of 250 others who applied for Serengeti Breweries Scholarship for this year.
View ArticleLaw Bill - Parties Plot Next Course of Action
Political parties and other public organisations opposed to Parliament's passing of the Constitution Review Bill 2011 are likely to pronounce their likely course of action from today, it was learnt...
View ArticleGrace Naburi - Lady Behind Essay Competition
Tanzania had hardly won any international secondary schools essay competition award before 2002. But things started to change gradually thereafter when officials from the Ministry of Education and...
View ArticleGEAPP, World Bank Officials Embark On Nationwide Visibility Tour
Officials of the Gambia Emergency Agricultural Production Project (GEAPP) and the World Bank last week embarked on a nationwide visibility tour of GEAPP project intervention sites.
View ArticleBeakanyang to Observe November 24th Presidential Election
Beakanyang, a local NGO based in The Gambia, has been accredited by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to observe the November 24th Presidential Election as independent domestic observer, a...
View ArticleAngola: Tocoist Bishop Calls for Believers to Update Electoral Registration
The bishop of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the World (Tocoista), Afonso Nunes, appealed on Saturday to all faithful of his congregation to massively join the electoral registration process...
View ArticleSoaring Inflation Dogs Insurance Industry
SOARING inflation and depreciation of the shilling have been cited among factors which have adversely affected the country's insurance industry.
View ArticleCommonwealth Team to Observe the Gambia Presidential Elections
A Commonwealth Expert Team will observe the presidential elections due to take place on 24 November 2011 in The Gambia, Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced today. The Team has been...
View ArticleNigeria: Selfish Yoruba Elders Defacing Awoism
THE late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, till date remains one of the most revered and respected politicians in all the regions of the entity called Nigeria, just as he remains a god of a kind in the...
View ArticleKiang West Declares the Opposition 'Dead'
Once an opposition stronghold, Kiang West in particular, the people of Kiang have declared as "dead" the existence of the opposition in the area, and thus indicated their readiness not to be left...
View ArticleKenya: State Law Office Defends Cancelling Isahakia Letter
The government has defended cancelling an allotment letter for a 4,000 acre piece of land it had issued to the Isahakia community in Naivasha. The office of the Attorney General yesterday told the...
View ArticleUganda: Court Tells Interdicted Land Boss to Face Trial
Interdicted Lands Commissioner Sarah Kulata Basangwa yesterday watched gloomily as the lifeline she clung on to avoid trial before the Anti-Corruption Court was snapped.
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