Liberia: World Bank Gives U.S.$63 Million Grant
The World Bank has provided US63 million (Sixty Three Million United States Dollars) grant to the government of Liberia for the implementation of Employment and skills projects in the country.
Côte d'Ivoire: Yellow Fever, Dengue Kill at Least Three
Ivorian health officials are vaccinating people against yellow fever in Abidjan, the commercial capital, and two other major cities, after the disease killed two people and struck nine others in recent weeks.
Liberia: Deputy House Speaker Charged With Felony
When Deputy House Speaker Tokpa Mulbah allegedly ordered the brutal flogging of police patrolman Lexington Beh late last month, darted into the sanctuary of his mansion with police in tow, got the spontaneous help of CDC officials and foot-soldiers to help him escape arrest, and claimed to be politically victimized by the Sirleaf Administration, it was all politics ? Liberian style. And the day went to the swift. However melodramatic and revealing that police-deputy speaker encounter was, it did very little to shield and give the deputy speaker the carte blanche immunity he and his supporters assumed he has or should have. The deputy speaker came to that grim reality this week, when only the agility of his lawyers stood between him and an arrest order on criminal charges. The Analyst, reports.
Nigeria: Interpol Wades Into Senator's Marriage to Minor
The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has directed the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to furnish it with information on Senator Ahmed Yerima's alleged marriage to a minor.
Nigeria: Senate Passes Harmonised Electoral Bill
The Senate yesterday passed the conference report of the Electoral Act (INEC) 2006 (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill 2010.
Nigeria: How to Repatriate U.S.$400 Billion Stolen Fund
The African Diaspora Initiative (ADI) says Nigeria will recover a whopping $400 billion looted public funds if the Federal Government grants unconditional amnesty to present and former government officials willing to repatriate such funds from foreign countries.
Nigeria: Team Reach U-20 Women's Final
Nigeria national U-20 women's team, the Falconets yesterday continued their impressive run in the FIFA organized football tournament by edging out hard fighting Colombians 1-0 to book a place in the finals to be decided this on Sunday.
Nigeria: Grounded by Graft 50 Years After Independence, Says Waziri
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Farida Wazirir, has regretted that Nigeria has performed very badly, 50 years after Independence, because of the crippling effect of corruption and other related vices.
Gambia: Another Successful 'Dialogue With the People Tour'
The 2010 presidential Dialogue with the people tour has finally ended with great success. During the tour, people from all walks of life, young and old, male and female, came out to welcome the Gambian leader and his entourage.
Ghana: Abolish Death Penalty
A recent judicial incident of momentous implications has gone unnoticed and that is the setting free from prison of one Benard Tagoe who had been on death row for the past 24 years. The noteworthy event was engendered by an Appeal Court decision which overturned a lower court's Death Penalty sentence slapped on Benard when he was then a student at age 18.
Ghana: Accra Water Shortages
Much of the acute water shortages experienced in some parts of Accra in the last couple of weeks can be blamed on road contractors, says Dr Hannah Louisa Bisiw, Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing.
Nigeria: 'Preventing Jonathan Would Create Crisis'
Organisers of the Northern Political Summit under the aegis of Chief Solomon Lar-led G20 (19 northern states and Abuja) yesterday warned that the country risked being thrown into a deeper socio-political crisis if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) used zoning to prevent President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the presidency in the 2011 elections.
Nigeria: Higher Oil Output, Prices Boost Country's Economy
Rising oil prices and increased production are expected to drive Nigerian economic growth higher, even as inflation is seen remaining in double digits, a Reuters poll showed.
Nigeria: PPPRA Blames Cartel for Fuel Import Scam
The raging controversy over alleged shady deal in the award of the second quarter fuel import allocation leveled against Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) by some depot operators took a new dimension as the Executive Secretary of the Agency, Mr. Abiodun Ibikunle described the campaign as the handiwork of a cartel that wanted to take over the industry through the back door.
Nigeria: Diversion of Funds - ICPC Absolves Gov Oni
The Independent Corrupt Practices Offences Commission (ICPC) has absolved the governor of Ekiti State, Engr. Segun Oni, of diversion, misappropriation and hijacking of local government statutory allocations.
Nigeria: 400,000 Infected With HIV/Aids in Rivers
The Rivers State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Sampson Parker, has disclosed that about 400,000 individuals are living with the dreaded HIV/ AIDS in the state.
Nigeria: Economy Grows By 7.68 Percent
The Nigeria's economy grew by 7.68 per cent in the second quarter, the Central Bank has said.
Nigeria: Zoning - Obasanjo, Greatest Albatross - Ibm Haruna
Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, General IBM Haruna (rtd), rose from a meeting of the forum which he chaired in Kaduna last Wednesday, dissatisfied that the issue of zoning was not critically tackled to the expectations of Nigerians by the umbrella body of the North. GEORGE AGBA confronted him for more clarification on the issue of zoning.
Nigeria: No Hiding Place for Bank Debtors - Sanusi
Cleansing imminent at CBN || Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday stated that there was no hiding place for bank debtors, declaring that the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) would employ all legal means to retrieve monies owed banks to forestall further deterioration of the system.
Nigeria: FG to Provide N20 Billion for Jos, Haiti Victims - Jonathan
To alleviate the sufferings of the victims of the recent Jos crisis which claimed hundreds of lives and those who suffered the earthquake in Haiti, President Goodluck Jonathan has promised a palliative relief of N20billion to be made available soon.
Nigeria: It's N74 Billion Now Or No Elections - Jega
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday warned that if the commission was not provided with the N74 billion it demanded within two weeks for the compilation of a fresh voters' register, the 2011 elections might not hold as scheduled.
Liberia: RUF's 'Operation Free the Leader' Was Not Planned in Monrovia, Issa Sesay Testifies
An alleged operation which aimed to free the leader of Sierra Leone's main rebel leader from jail was not planned in cahoots with Charles Taylor in Liberia.
Gambia: The July 22nd Revolution and Democracy
It is now 16 years since The Gambia came under a leadership that restored its pride by not only embarking on infrastructural projects but also engendering democratic and political reforms. Almost on a constant basis, we have seen the leadership either establishing new democratic institutions or strengthening the existing ones.
Nigeria: Where Was the Senate?
MUCH furore has attended debates the financial status of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. The much telling of the revelation is the confirmation that NNPC budgets have not been available to the National Assembly since 1999.
Nigeria: Helping Kidnapping Thrive
WE are expected to applaud the police over measures they have taken after the kidnap of the four journalists. It does not take a discerning observer to note that the prompt attention - by police standards - the incident got was because the kidnapped were from the media.
Gambia: New Complex for the National Assembly
We wish to commend the government of the Gambia particularly His Excellency the President for signing a US$10 million contract with M/s Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Ltd of the Republic of India, for the construction of a new National Assembly complex, the foundation stone of which was laid recently by the president as part of activities marking the 16th Anniversary of the July 22 Revolution.
Nigeria: National Assembly Passes N240 Billion NDDC Budget
Despite objections to some of its projected expenditure by many Senators, the N240.553 billion 2010 budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) scaled through the Senate crucible yesterday.
Nigeria: 2011 - Expect Crisis Without Jonathan, Gana Warns
Northern politicians championing that President Goodluck Jonathan should contest the 2011 presidential election said yesterday that Nigeria would be thrown into a "deep political crisis" should the proponents of zoning succeed in stopping the president from running.
Nigeria: CBN - 10 Banks Have N1.5 Trillion Negative Capital
Ten banks that failed a joint examination conducted last year for 24 of them by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) currently have a negative capital of N1.5 trillion, the apex bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has said.
Nigeria: Elections Boss Urges Police to Prevent Ballot-Snatching
Ahead of the 2011 general election, the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has appealed to the police high command to ensure there is no snatching of ballot boxes.
