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  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:03:07 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:45:20 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:56:40 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:39:28 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:39:23 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:38:19 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:21:57 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:59:46 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:59:40 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:59:37 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:59:31 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:59:28 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:59:21 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:23 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:21 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:19 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:17 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:14 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:42:08 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:13:19 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:51:47 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:46:04 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:37:36 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:30:46 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:06:26 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:02:01 +0000: 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.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:15:14 +0000: Nigeria: New Voters' Register Or No Elections, Says Electoral Chief
    Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Atahiru Jega, yesterday warned that the absence of a new and credible voters register may scuttle the 2011 elections.
  • Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:28:19 +0000: Nigeria: Zoning Can Cause 'Deeper Crisis', Says Group
    ORGANISERS of the northern political summit under the aegis of G20 (19 northern states and Abuja), yesterday, warned that the country risked a deeper crisis if the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, prevented Dr. Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the presidency in the 2011 elections on the grounds of zoning.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:06 +0000: Nigeria: Electoral Body Chairman Revises Estimate on Cost of Elections
    NATIONAL Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, said what the commission needed to compile a credible Voters Register was N84 billion and not N74 billion as he earlier said.
  • Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:50:20 +0000: Niger: Food Crisis in the Sahel - Real Problem, False Solutions
    When we talk of a 'food crisis', what are we referring to? Beyond cold and disembodied statistics, a Malian journalist has visited a few parts of Niger and reports on means of life, indeed, to surviving.[1]

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