Monthly Archives: April 2014
Mr Rana Plaza will face murder charge
An owner of Rana Plaza, the Bangladesh factory complex where a nine-storey building collapsed last year, killing 1,135 textile workers, is to face murder...
Nyanya bomber identified by Security agents
The Counter-Terrorism Unit (CTU) of the Nigerian security forces may have identified and recovered the body of the suspected bomber, who set-off the bomb...
Supreme Court overturns Igbo custom
The Supreme Court of Nigeria has voided an age-old Igbo law and custom forbidding a female from inheriting her late father’s estate, on the...
Nigeria pays Ghana $10m for unsupplied Gas
When the deal to supply Ghana with gas was signed, the least expectation was to supply Ghana hard earned foreign exchange rather than receive...
The Acholi of Northern Uganda
The Acholi are a Luo people, who came to northern Uganda from the area now known as Bahr el Ghazal in southern Sudan. Starting...
World Port Harcourt Book Fair & Africa 39
The world of books and those who spend their lives and resources comes to berth soon as Port Harcourt, Nigeria celebrates the concept and...
Passengers stranded as Ebola nations flights axed
Hundreds of passengers were stranded in Gambia on Monday after the West African country banned flights from countries linked to an outbreak of the...
Our leaders are free, insist rebels
The South Sudanese rebel group SPLM/A-Nasir has dismissed speculation that some of its leaders were arrested by Ethiopian authorities in the country’s western region...
Somalia: Not all our people are terrorists
Somalia has reminded Kenya that its illegal migrants must be treated humanely and not all presumed to be terror suspects.
Somalia ambassador to Kenya, Mohamed...
Jailed star warns fans not to avenge him
Jailed Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel has distanced himself from death threats made against journalists for their reporting on his case, calling the perpetrators...
