South Africa’s police service is coming under intense criticism for allegedly doing little to tackle the country’s rampant gun violence. But the police say that they are taking citizens’ concerns seriously. Many South Africans are outraged at the police service, accusing it of doing very little to tackle the country’s escalating crime rate. The latest […]
Guimarães — The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. The accelerating pace of digitalization has ushered humanity into a whole different era of information and communication. Today, digitalization permeates every aspect of our lives, socio-economically and politically. People can leverage digital technology to scale up activities to […]
Nina Nyirampeta, a chilli farmer from Rulindo District, recounts how she lost at least Rwf4 million because of a lack of a ready market for her chilli produce back in 2019, leading to it rotting on the farm. That situation almost made her quit chilli farming, despite the income potential of the crop when it […]
In January this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, an indication that humanity is closer than ever to destroying itself. The existential threats it identifies also impact the people of Africa. The Bulletin, founded by a group of scientists including Albert Einstein, introduced the Doomsday […]
-Sup. Walker Discloses Amid controversy over the alleged squandering of funds for the Gbondai’s Health Center construction, Bong County Superintendent Esther Walker has disclosed that the Liberian Government has already placed into the budget some money to construct a health center there. Over the past weeks, there have been claims and counter claims between the […]
Monrovia — One hundred amputee individuals in three of Liberia’s fifteen sub-political divisions are benefiting from a Prostheses Initiative through Sheng Medicom Physiotherapy-Liberia in collaboration with First Rate Charity Foundation – Ghana with support from Giving Dignity-the Hand Project-Germany. Prostheses are a medical term of replacing an individual limb with artificial limbs as well as […]
Monrovia — The Eddie Mantu Gibson-led Liberia Movie Union (LIMU) has attracted the European Union (EU), and two EU’s member-States (France and Germany) toward LIMU’s Film Education (or Performing Arts) education in Liberia. The Partners met at a four-day (1-4 March, 2023) Brainstorming, Practical, and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)-signing ceremonies, and certifications ceremonies. Titled “Training […]
Monrovia — A former Liberian soldier has told a Finnish Appeals Court in Monrovia that Gibril Massaquoi, a former commander of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary Front (RUF) “ordered” his soldiers to put civilians into a house and burn them alive in Kamatahum Town, Lofa County. “Soldier 50” (the name given to him by the court for […]
Monrovia — Liberia’s historic cemetery, the Palm Groves cemetery, has turned from a burst gravesite to a forest right in the heart of the capital city of Monrovia – making it impossible for relatives to clean their deceased family members’ graves on Decoration Day, March 8, 2023. Every second Wednesday in March is set aside […]
Monrovia — Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott and the Chief Musu family have expressed dismay over the manner in which the Inspector General of the Liberia National Police is going about the investigation of the attack on her home resulting in the death of one of her wards, Charloe Musu. The former Chief Justice along with […]
Monrovia — Monrovia City Mayor, Jefferson Koijee’s life is being threatened. Some political activists want him dead. They profess that he is an element of insecurity but Koijee believes their motive is to get him out of the way in their quest to break the CDC ahead of the October elections. “Why would someone be […]
“I heard people yelling because of the fire,” said soldier 50, who claimed he was an officer of the Anti-Terrorist Unit, a deadly force loyal to then President, Charles Taylor. Monrovia — A former Liberian soldier has told a Finnish Appeals Court in Monrovia that Gibril Massaquoi, a former commander of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary Front […]
Recurring coups and protracted military rule should spur regional actors to explore other ways of achieving stability. Since August 2020, five coups have occurred in three West African countries – Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea. The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau have weathered attempted overthrows. And in neighbouring Chad, an unconstitutional change of government was led by […]
Internal bickering has intensified within the National Patriotic Party (NPP) as two factions of the former ruling parties have are at each other’s throat over alleged breach of the party’s constitution. Two press releases have hit the public with each contradicting the other. One of the releases is announcing the suspension of the party’s chairman, […]
COALITION of support groups for Peter Obi in Delta State has pitched a tent with the gubernatorial candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, ahead of the March 11 governorship election in Delta State. Speaking at an interactive session with Senator Ovie Omo-Agege in Asaba, the Lead Coordinator of the […]
The minister noted that a total of N869 billion ($1.88 billion) will be required for the census including post-census activities Seventeen years after the last national census (2006), Nigeria is set to conduct a fresh green census. The green census, an approach to conducting a census that causes little or no damage to the environment, […]
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, were at loggerheads, over the conduct of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the protest embarked upon by the opposition party leadership against the outcome of the February 25 presidential election. Atiku, alongside National Chairman of the […]
The battle for Katsina State’s governorship seat is realistically between two politicians with ties to the late President Umaru Yar’adua. This could be Katsina’s most competitive governorship election since 2003 when Umaru Yar’adua was seeking a second term as governor. That year, the future president faced a stiff opposition from Nura Khlail, an engineer with […]