Nigeria: Uzor Kalu's N59 Billion Alleged Loot - EFCC Accuses Trial Court of...
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has again blamed the court for delaying the trial of some former governors who are standing trial over alleged misappropriation, embezzlement, theft...
View ArticleBK Is Determined to Take Services Closer to People
Bank of Kigali (BK) is arguably the fastest growing commercial bank in Rwanda today. Currently expanding into the rural areas where the population has limited access to financial services, BK is...
View ArticleScribes Lukewarm On Self-Regulation
The roadmap to a self-regulated media industry in Rwanda is still not clear even as the government and stakeholders propose that a new body that will enforce ethical conduct will be in place by March...
View ArticleNigeria: Siasia Can Keep His Job - Board Members
Two members of the NFF executive committee, Effiong Johnson and Leye Adepoju said Samson Siasia should be allowed to continue as Super Eagles coach since he started what they called 'rebuilding...
View ArticleUganda: Teenage Births On the Increase in Gulu District
There is an increasing number of teenage deliveries in most Gulu hospitals with at least three cases out of five delivery cases daily reported in the hospital being of persons under 18.
View ArticleBrother Muammar Gaddafi's Reign - From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
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View ArticleSouth Africa: Cape Town - World Design Capital 2014
In what is described as a "win for Cape Town, South Africa and the African continent", Cape Town was named World Design Capital for 2014 this morning, Wednesday, 26 October 2011, at the International...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Discovery Magazine Is Taken to New Heights
Long-distance cold water swimmer, environmental activist and anti-fracking campaigner, Lewis Pugh, is the face of Discovery magazine's new-look October issue, published by John Brown Media.
View ArticlePreserving History and Culture Through Films
When documentary film makers, film students from various film institutions and other film enthusiasts gathered at the Nigerian Film Corporation, Ikoyi Lagos to show their respect for the memory of Fela...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Fronting in Fish Quotas
Black economic empowerment companies in the fishing industry are demanding that they get higher quotas in a sector that has failed to transform itself in line with the rest of South Africa according to...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Game Breeding Centre Situation Critical
The situation at the Pretoria Zoo 6 000 hectare Lichtenburg Game Breeding Centre in North West Province is critical, The New Age reports. Wild animals are dying, watering holes and dams are drying up,...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Mobile Technology for Better Teaching
According to SAinfo, several local and international ICT companies have teamed up with the Department of Basic Education to launch a mobile education programme, enabling teachers across South Africa to...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Pete Seeger Joins Occupy Wall Street Movement
Music legend, Pete Seeger, now in his 90s and armed with two canes instead of a guitar and a banjo, accompanied his grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger on a march down New York's Broadway as part of the...
View ArticleSouth Africa: New Van Coke Kartel Album Track List Announced
The track list for the new Van Coke Kartel album, "Wie's Bang", the band's fourth which will be released by Supra Familias at the end of November, 2011, has been announced. The album art was designed...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Sandton Welcomes Trendy Baby Exhibition
The SABC Education Baba Indaba is coming to Sandton from 28 to 30 October 2011 and marks the end of yet another super successful year for SA's most loved baby event!
View ArticleSouth Africa: Jacaranda 94.2 Supports New Hall of Fame
South African Sport & Arts Hall of Fame (SASAHOF), a vision of rugby star Naas Botha, is dedicated to identifying and shaping great performers and sports persons by recognising their talent and...
View ArticleSouth Africa: New Sponsor, Logo for Absa Cape Epic
The Cape Town office of The Jupiter Drawing Room has designed a new logo for the Absa Cape Epic and Craft, known worldwide for its expertise in designing sport-specific garments for optimal function,...
View ArticleNigeria: Jonathan Woos Australian Solid Minerals Investors
President Goodluck Jonathan has invited Australian investors to the solid minerals sector of the economy where Nigeria is said to have 33 minerals in commercial quantities.
View ArticleNigeria: House Claims '$50 Billion Trapped in NNPC System'
On a day it had programmed to begin a probe into the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over the N450 billion unremitted funds to the Federation Account, the House of Representatives...
View ArticleOkorocha - Leave Abia State Alone!!!
Your Excellency, my dear Governor Rochas Okorocha, It is with a great sense of responsibility that I respectfully request you to leave Abia State alone and concentrate on the very many realities...
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