Google’s search engine is still number one for Africans looking for news across the internet
Google has done an impressive job in its news search engine’s ability to provide Africans around the world with access to thousands of information resources that delivers vital content and breaking news from across the continent. The recent complaints by rival search engines that Google is manipulating search results don’t seem to have any foundation. [...]
Babangida’s aide arrested over Abuja car bombings
Nigerian Media mogul Raymond Dokpesi, a close aide of former military ruler Gen Ibrahim Babangida, has been arrested over Friday’s Abuja car bombings. Babangida’s spokesman, Kassim Afegbua, has condemned the arrest and called it “frivolous”. Babangida is competing against President Goodluck Jonathan to be the governing party’s presidential candidate in elections that are scheduled for [...]
Sierra Leone’s president Koroma demands permanent seat for Africa on the U.N. Security Council
The president of Sierra Leone, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, has demanded that Africa gets permanent representation on the United Nations Security Council. The Head of State who is credited for transforming the economic and social circumstance of his country, and for his role in mediating on regional conflicts, made the call on Thursday as he addressed the UN [...]
Elections in Guinea are now set for October 10
October the 10th has been proposed as the revised date for the presidential election run-off by the election commission in the West African State of Guinea The elections which was due last Sunday was postponed following violent clashes between rival supporters. Guinea’s interim leader, Gen Sekouba Konate, must approve the date before it becomes official. [...]
Goodluck Jonathan uses Facebook to declare his intention to run for the presidency in Nigeria’s forthcoming elections
“Today I confirm that after wide and thorough consultations… I Goodluck Ebele Jonathan by the grace of God hereby offer myself and my services to the Nigerian people as a candidate for the office of president in the forthcoming 2011 elections,” These are the powerful words of the Nigerian president as he declared his intention [...]
Liberia’s President Johnson-Sirleaf reconciles the wives of Samuel Doe and Thomas Quiwonkpa
History is once more being made in the West African state of Liberia. The country’s president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has met with the widow of the late Brigadier General Thomas Quiwonkpa in an effort to reconcile their differences. General Quiwonkpa was a key member of the 18 non-commission officers who in 1980 overthrew and assassinated President [...]
Nigeria set for presidential election showdown
Five more candidates have come out saying they will challenge President Goodluck Jonathan for the ruling PDP’s nomination in next year’s presidential elections. They include a powerful former Intelligence chief and four serving PDP governors. They are all from the north and say they are running to preserve the party’s zoning formula. Under zoning, the [...]
Democracy takes center-stage in Sierra Leone as President Ernest Koroma re-affirms his commitment to good governance
I am left with nothing but admiration for the Sierra Leone Head of State as he moves to strengthen the institutions that are the guardians of the human rights of his people and democracy in the country. I took upon myself to find out whether the head of state has ever interfered in the running [...]
Peace beckons in Somalia
Somalia Transition Federal Government has been urged to develop a road map for allocating funds through the Somali National budget, for the payment of salaries to the Somali Security forces. This comes as the TFG government plans to have 10,000 police officer and a fully furnished military headquarters in place by 2011. This was disclosed [...]
EAC consoles Kampala blasts victims
The East African Community has highly condemned the bomb blasts in Kampala on July 11, 2010 that has so far claimed 74 lives. In a condolence message to the President and the people of Uganda, EAC termed the act as a heinous and deliberate act of terrorism condemning it in the strongest terms possible. A [...]
