The World Bank has budgeted 300 million dollars for Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO) scheme in Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Mariel-Nelly, Country Director of the World Bank in Nigeria said. Mariel-Nelly made the statement in Abuja on Tuesday at the 53rd Annual conference of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES). “We are preparing a Youth Employment […]
A former Somali prime minister denied diplomatic immunity must pay 21 million dollars in damages to the victims of his alleged torture and human rights abuse, a U.S. federal court ruled on Tuesday. Mohamed Ali Samantar, who served as Somalia’s defence minister in the 1980s and prime minister from 1987 to 1990, agreed in February […]
SECURITY EXPERTS from the United Kingdom and United States of America have joined forces with the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta, code-named ‘Operation Pulo Shield’, to tackle oil platform vandals and illegal bunkering gangs operating in the region. It was gathered that the latest move followed concerns by the government and non-government agencies […]
The Federal Government on Tuesday signed a $1.487bn (N234.95bn) agreement with a Chinese company, CCECC Nigeria Limited, for the modernisation of the first phase of the Lagos-Kano rail line. Specifically, the contract is for the modernisation of the Lagos to Ibadan standard gauge rail double track, covering a distance of 156.65 kilometres. The signing of […]
The Premier’s death removes one of Africa’s most prominent leaders and will test the unity of the country and the ruling party The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on 20 August has triggered a constitutional succession mechanism which he personally designed, having led the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front for 21 years. His […]
Mombasa is a scene of chaos as Muslim youth protest the killing of controversial cleric Sheik Aboud Rogo. A crowd of rowdy youth overpowered police, who had gone to the scene of the killing to collect the body of the Sheik, and buried the deceased. The protests are fast spreading to the northern part of […]
From DAVID MOLOMO, Adamawa Corpses of 15 persons swept away by flood, which followed heavy rains and unexpected release of water from Lagdo Dam in the Republic of Cameroon have been recovered from River Benue in Adamawa State. Daily Sun gathered that relations of victims recruited divers to help fish out bodies from the river. […]
Yahya Jammeh of Gambia Amnesty International yesterday said that Gambia had executed nine death row prisoners, after President Yahya Jammeh vowed to carry out all death sentences by mid-September. “Amnesty International has received credible reports that nine persons were executed last night (Thursday) in Gambia and that more persons are under threat of imminent executions […]
The African Union has asked Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh to renounce plans to execute all death row prisoners next month. Mr Jammeh made the comment during a speech he gave to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid. A Gambian pressure group says many of the 47 death row inmates are political prisoners or have faced […]
Ethiopian army soldiers escort the body of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to the presidential palace as it arrives at Addis Ababa International Airport, Wednesday,Aug. 22, 2012. Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-time ruler who held tight control over this East African country but was a major U.S counter-terrorism ally, died of an undisclosed illness after not […]
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