Monthly Archives: August 2013
Mawejje aims to fly high with Cranes
Tonny Mawejje, who plays his club football in the Icelandic first division for IBV, has played an integral part in Uganda's quest to qualify...
Big Brother Africa – Namibian beauty wins ‘The Chase’
For the first time in a decade of Big Brother Africa – the show first aired in May 2003 - the winner this year...
H&M looking to Ethiopia in quest for cheap labour
Swedish clothing retailer H&M has expressed a desire to set up a production facility in Ethiopia, prompting fears that the Horn of Africa nation...
Ogun State debuts at Notting Hill
Ogun State of Nigeria is making its debut and corporate presence felt at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival in London come 26th August, 2013....
Rivers Float and Afro Beat at Notting Hill Carnival
Carniriv, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Carnival will return to Notting Hill Carnival for a second year with a resplendent creative float depicting Rivers culture and...
It’s all for show-Immigration advisor warns gov’t over playing to the grandstand
An Oxford University economist who advises the Government on immigration has cautioned the government against engaging in policies which 'have an element of spectacle';...
26,000 new businesses set up by entrepreneurial jobseekers
Entrepreneurial jobseekers have set up more than 26,000 new businesses thanks to a Government scheme that helps unemployed people turn their dreams of becoming...
London tuberculosis rates are highest in west Europe
London was declared the European capital of tuberculosis today with almost 3,500 new cases last year.
Public Health England’s annual TB in the UK report...
Club petitions FIFA over Wanyama’s move to Southampton
The battle to earn millions of shillings from the recent move by Kenyan midfielder Victor Wanyama to English side Southampton has moved to Fifa...
‘I Would Have Married Femi Fani-Kayode’
One of the news items that has raged in the last week or two on the Nigerian front has been the reactions to the...
