Gunmen Bomb Gombe Mopol Base, Four Dead
A policeman and three attackers were killed yesterday when gunmen launched a pre-dawn bomb attack on a Mobile Police base in Gombe State.
View ArticleACN Asks Yakowa to Hold Poll
Kaduna State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has threatened to instigate the state House of Assembly to commence impeachment proceedings against Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa if he...
View ArticleMosque Attack - Al-Makura Visits Churches, Allays Fears
Nasarawa State Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura yesterday visited churches in Lafia, the state capital, to allay fears of probable attacks by churches some angry Muslim youths over last Friday's...
View ArticleNESG Worries Over Non Communicable Disease
President, National Economic Summit Group (NESG) Mr Funsho Philips has warned that not taking drastic actions to prevent the spread of Non communicable diseases will not augur well for Nigeria as an...
View ArticleInflation Rises Despite CBN Rate Hikes
Nigeria's headline inflation rose outside the central bank's notional single-digit target in September, data showed on Friday, despite six official interest rate rises this year.
View ArticleLocal PC Users Ranked Second in Software Piracy
A study ever undertaken on users' behaviours and attitudes toward software piracy and intellectual property rights has revealed that 82 percent of personal computer users in Nigeria acquire software...
View ArticlePolice Probe Banda's Son Over Gold
Zambia's investigators have searched the residence and office of former president Rupiah Banda's son and summoned the ex-ruler's press aide for questioning over a scam involving gold worth about $7...
View ArticleUniversities Close, Students Try to Survive
Soon after Ouattara's ascension to power in the Ivory Coast, university buildings were vacated so that renovation work could commence. In the meantime, students have found a new life for themselves far...
View ArticleKenya: Somali Militia Threaten Revenge Attacks Over 'Incursion'
Somalia militia al-Shabaab has threatened revenge attacks against Kenya if the government does not withdraw its troops from the war-torn country.
View ArticleAfrica: A Third of Malaria Affected Countries on Course for Elimination
Seattle, October 17th 2011 - A new report released by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) just prior to the opening of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Malaria Forum in Seattle, reveals that...
View ArticleArmy Faces Major Battle in Somalia
Kenyan forces are likely to see action in a major battle in the Somali town of Afmadow, 620 kilometres south of Mogadishu, in the coming days.
View ArticleLiberia: Hague Prosecutor Warns Politicians Against Violence
The International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has reminded Liberian politicians that the court was closely watching the developments in the country and "will not tolerate violence".
View ArticleOpposition Plans to Block Biya Polls Victory
Seven of the 22 opposition candidates in the October 9 presidential election met at the residence of SDF candidate John Fru Ndi to fine-tune a joint strategy to fight against any Biya victory that may...
View ArticleNew Global Hunger Index Report Calls for Action to Curtail High and Volatile...
Growing demand for biofuels, extreme weather and climate change, and increased financial activity through commodity futures markets are the main causes of high and volatile food prices, according to...
View ArticleWorld Food Day Focuses On Swinging Food Prices
United Nations Agency chiefs and top international personalities met today to celebrate World Food Day, whose focus this year is on the recent wave of food price swings which threatens to push millions...
View ArticleAfrica: No One Should Die From Malaria, Say Experts
Only four African countries have eliminated malaria so far but Gambia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe and Madagascar are accelerating efforts to eradicate it and in southern Africa the disease could...
View Article'We Are Not Dictated to By Other Countries' Says Zuma
While South Africa has every right to determine who can and can't enter the country, the government should have been more hands-on, communicative and transparent with regards to the outcome of the...
View ArticleAfrica: Data Moves Centre-Stage - the Delights and Perils of Wi-Fi...
In Africa, mobile operators are finding themselves in a situation where their data traffic exceeds their voice traffic but the income from data is much smaller. The crunch is that data also congests...
View ArticleAfrican Release of Viva Riva! May Be the First Sign That African Film Is
Nollywood is a huge continental film phenomenon but it has survived with a business model that clunks along the bottom as it is largely seen (by the yard) on television or on pirated VCDs. At the other...
View ArticleGCD Ghana Ltd Inaugurates Board of Directors
The newly-established Great Consolidated Diamonds Ghana Limited (GCDGL,), a member of the Jospong Group of Companies at a brief ceremony in Accra last Friday, inaugurated a seven-member Board of...
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