NEWS & REPORTS

Gays are criminals, says Zimbabwe minister 

Zimbabwe’s justice minister, Patrick Chimamasa on Monday accused people who practice same sex marriage as being criminals.

NEWS & REPORT

Egyptians vote in historic election

Egyptians began voting freely on Wednesday for the first time to pick their president in a wide open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak. The contest is a novelty for a nation where elections during the 30-year rule of a man some called "Pharaoh" were thinly attended rigmaroles in which the result was a foregone conclusion.

OPINION

Stop to think, be patient                                                                                                                                                                                      By Stella Damasus

Have you ever done something then afterwards you sit down and wonder ‘why did I react like that, was it necessary?’ If you find yourself in this position most of the time, then this article is about you.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Xenophobia on the rise

The number of people who would refuse all asylum seekers to Hungary has increased by about 10% in the past five years according to a March poll, Tárki reported on Wednesday.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Africa is making progress, says Takalani Netshienzhe

This year’s Africa Day was marked in Budapest at the Central European University on May 22.

BUSINESS & WEALTH

Meet world’s richest woman, Gina Rinehart

According to Business Review weekly, Australia‘s richest person, Gina Rinehart is currently the world’s richest / wealthiest woman.

SPORTS

Olympics: Drogba mobbed by fans

SWINDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Chelsea’s Champions League hero Didier Drogba  was given a rapturous welcome as he carried the Olympic flame on Wednesday, the day after announcing he was leaving the club.

OPINION

The modern man in Kenya

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

The essential question of the role of a man in modern Kenyan society continues to generate more questions than is readily answerable. Surely but gradually, the archetypal masculinity of man is being windswept into the ocean of gender equality.

HUMAN INTEREST

 Ressurrected woman happy for new life

 By Ron Recinto

 

Whitney Cerak lives a pretty normal life nowadays. Which seems just fine with her. Six years after being mistaken for dead, Cerak is now a wife and mother. In fact, she married her soldier boyfriend, Matt Wheeler, in the same church where her family had held her funeral.

BUSINESS & DIPLOMACY

S'Africa Nigeria tidy trade ties, free entry for nationals
By Oghogho Obayuwana

Nigerian FAM, Aishiru

THE Federal Government is leading the campaign for free entry into South Africa and Nigeria for diplomats and holders of the two countries' official passports. The proposal was presented to South Africa yesterday at the on-going Eighth Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) confab in Cape Town. 

OPINION

Africa Day 2012: a moment for reflection & celebration

                  By Samwin Banienuba

Late Dr. Nkrumah

25th May is Africa Day. For many years it has been a celebration of African unity. It dates back to 1963 when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in Ethiopia on the 25th of May. Before then 15th April, which marked the first Conference of Independent African States held in Ghana in 1958, was upheld as African Freedom Day.

VIDEO NEWS

 Journalist interrupts Ethiopian prime minister at G8 meeting

Journalist and activist Abebe Gellaw protest the presence of Meles Zenawi at the G8 summit in front of leaders & participants.

COMMENTARY

Examination malpractice: who is to blame? 

By Nwaorgu Faustinus

The is one ill which has bedevilled the educational system and if honestly confronted head-on and eliminated will change the perception which the comity of nations do have about Nigeria certificates and thus make our certificates acceptable and by extension Nigeria good place where honesty and transparency is venerated. 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Attack on Jega’s convoy uncalled for

By Nwaorgu Faustinus

Sir, the attack on the convoy of the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega while emerging from the palace of Emir of Kazaure, Alhaji Najib Hussaini Adamu in Jigawa State is unwarranted. One now questions when it has become a crime to attend or honour wedding invitation of an Emir whose daughter is being wedded. 

NEWS

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe ‘tired of ruling’

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe reportedly told a former minister in his government that he wants to retire but fears his party would disintegrate, an independent weekly said on Sunday.

OPINION

Kalu’s purported house in Gambia

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

 I contacted Emeka Obasi, the Chief Media personnel to Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the unconquerable former governor of Abia State, immediately I saw the report on a blog.

OPINION

The Princewill’s example  

By Nwaorgu Faustinus

Individuals of Charisma are often sincerely called to mind, eulogized, remembered and or immortalized while still alive for their colossal humanitarian disposition not only to the poor, the less privileged, the unemployed but also to persons who genuinely needed to be helped given the availability of resources at the givers disposal and prompting of the donor’s spirit.