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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, December 12th, 2013
December 11, 2013 Pretoria, South Africa In honour of Nelson Mandela, Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced support for several new scholarships that will allow gifted Canadian students as well as early career public sector professionals from Africa to pursue further studies in Canada. “Nelson Mandela believed that education, more than anything else, improved the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Written by Sulaimon Olanrewaju Wednesday, December 11, 2013 President Jonathan advertisement <a href=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=12386&m=6&c=1″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=12386&m=6&tp=8&d=s&c=1&vcm_acv=1.3″ width=”300″ height=”250″ border=”1″></a> The din of the voices of world leaders drowned the thud of the rains on Tuesday as they defied the early morning showers to pay poignant tributes to the late global icon, Nelson Mandela, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Delta, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
FORMER Goldman Sachs banker, Elias Preko, was yesterday, sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison by a London court for laundering $5 million on behalf of James Ibori, the former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori. Ibori is serving 13 years in a British jail after pleading guilty last year to 10 counts of fraud […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
“IT is better to help a friend pay his fine, than tell a lie to help him cover a crime.” – Nigerian proverb. It was literally a life-long ambition, and I used every opportunity to meet the old man in person. I was finally in a position to press buttons and call old friends to […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Presidential Spokesman, Dr Reuben Abati has said that President Goodluck Jonathan was not billed to speak at the Mandela Memorial service. According to Abati, only six out of the 100 world leaders at the event, were slated to speak and Jonathan was not one of those chosen to render any speech. “The late Madiba’s burial […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, December 9th, 2013
Fan kills himself over United loss A Kenyan fan unable to cope with Manchester United’s loss to Newcastle United committed suicide over the weekend, according to police. John Macharia, 28, plunged to his death from a multi-storey apartment block in the capital, Nairobi. This followed United’s 1-0, their second home defeat in four days. Newcastle’s […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Monday, December 9th, 2013
The Peoples Democratic Party has attracted public criticisms for comparing its founding members with the late South African anti-apartheid leader, Nelson Mandela. The ruling party contested that just as the late Mandela fought and won the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, its founding fathers achieved a similar feat that “liberated” Nigeria from the shackles […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, December 7th, 2013
-Punch The Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nigeria, Foaud RaJeh, has disclosed that 189 Nigerians are currently being held inside various prisons in his country. He therefore sought exchange of prisoners that will see the Nigerians returning to their country to serve their prison terms. A statement on Friday by Umar Sani, spokesman of […]
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Africa & World Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Saturday, December 7th, 2013
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday arrived Paris, France after his two-day private visit to Germany. Jonathan, who arrived in company with his wife, Patience, is in the country to participate in the Summit on Peace and Security in Africa. Although the nature of his private visit to Germany was not disclosed, there were indications during […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Top Stories
Thursday, December 5th, 2013
South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa’s president says. Mr Mandela, 95, led South Africa’s transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after 27 years in prison. He had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital. In a statement on […]
