Top potential investors meet as President Koroma expresses confidence in African Minerals
African Minerals (SL) Limited has held a successful meeting with potential investors from different reputable backgrounds abroad. The team was accompanied to Sierra Leone by AML’s top executives who took them to the company’s flagship iron ore project in Tonkolili. The delegation was later received by President Ernest Bai Koroma who expressed confidence in [...]
15 school children kidnapped by Nigerian gunmen
15 school Children have been kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria Abia State in the southern part of the country. The incident took place when their school bus was hijacked on Monday morning. It is reported that $100,000 has been demanded as ransom payment for the release of the children by the kidnappers. But the assistant [...]
INEC: Anything worth doing is worth doing well
When on Tuesday, 21st September, 2010 the speculation was everywhere that the Prof. Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may postpone the heralded January 2011 elections in Nigeria for April, as against the Nigeria’s electoral umpire’s initial timetable released barely two weeks ago, political parties are to conduct their primaries from September 11 to [...]
Soyinka: Can he be a laureate in politics?
Known widely in Nigeria for his social and political activism, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has launched a political party, Democratic Front for Peoples Federation (DFPF), which he was unopposed elected the chairman on September 25th. The DFPF was said is launched “to provide a platform for people of unblemished character who have been frustrated [...]
Nigeria’s 2011 elections: The proposal for IBB to withdraw
Newstime Africa is not in the best position to say that General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is a coward or not, but one Abiola Oluwatoyin, reacting to an article we published, titled “IBB’s 2011 presidential ambition raises Nigerians eyebrows” said: “IBB is not a coward and can never be regarded as one, he is highly intelligent, [...]
Sierra Leone has made impressive advances to consolidate peace and rebuild its economy
The progress being made by the government of president Ernest Bai Koroma in Sierra Leone, is being full acknowledged by other African media houses. Speaking to some of my colleagues in the continental media, I have been amazed at the admiration that most of them have expressed at the way Ernest Bai Korma is managing [...]
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. [...]
The blind rage of Dr Sama Siama Banya
Dr Sama Siama Banya should have been advised to take a disguised vacation trip to Brockley in South London and hire the services of a corrupt legal practitioner to check my records, as others have so laboriously done with ill-gotten wealth, and he may discover that I am an expert in denting peoples credibility [...]
Somali Prime Minister resigns over inability to work with the country’s president
The Somalia prime minister, Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, has resigned due to a prolonged dispute with the country’s president, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed. In a statement on Tuesday, Sharmarke said ” I resigned as the prime minister of the transitional federal government of Somalia after being unable to work with the president. After considering the political crisis [...]
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