Bode George Jailed
on Oct 27, 2009 in AFRICAN BUSINESS AFRICAN CRIME AND JUSTICE AFRICAN JUDICIARY AFRICAN NEWS AFRICAN POLITICS Bode George EFCC Festus Keyamo NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NPA Contract scam PDP Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja has sentenced Chief Olabode George; former chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) and five others to two and half years imprisonment each without an option of fine. They were sentenced...

Gov. Elechi assents death penalty for kidnappers
on Oct 21, 2009 in AFRICAN CRIME AND JUSTICE AFRICAN JUDICIARY AFRICAN NEWS AFRICAN POLITICS NIGER DELTA NIGERIA Abakaliki Death penalty for kidnappers Ebonyi State Governor Martins Elechi National Daily Peoples Democratic Party FOLLOWING spate of kidnappings witnessed in Ebonyi state, in recent times, Governor Martins Elechi has finally assented into law, a bill stipulating death penalty for anybody convicted by a competent law court of jurisdiction for hostage taking an...

AU peacekeepers warn of military build up in Darfur
on Oct 21, 2009 in Uncategorized AFRICAN UNION Darfur region Sudan government Sudan Liberation Army UNAMID United States REBEL and Sudan government forces have been massing in Sudan’s Darfur region, raising fears of new violence, peacekeepers sREBEL and Sudan government forces have been massing in Sudan’s Darfur region, raising fears of new violence, peacek...

NIGER VOTES IN CONTROVERSIAL POLLS
on Oct 20, 2009 in AFRICAN NEWS AFRICAN POLITICS ECOWAS MOHAMMED TANJA NIGER REPUBLIC WEST AFRICAN NEWS Voters in Niger are going to the polls in the first parliamentary elections since President Mamadou Tandja forced through changes to increase his power. He has been criticised for introducing a new constitution earlier this year enabling him to stan...

SOMALI PIRATES SEIZE CHINESE VESSEL
on Oct 20, 2009 in AFRICAN CRIME AND JUSTICE AFRICAN NEWS AFRICAN POLITICS DE XIN HAI SOMALI PIRATES SSEIZE CHINESE VESSEL SOMALIA Somali pirates have hijacked a Chinese cargo ship with 25 crew on board, the EU’s anti-piracy naval mission says. The De Xin Hai, which was transporting coal, was seized early on Monday in the Indian Ocean, about 1,100km (700 miles) east of th...

1 DEAD, SEVERAL TRAPPED IN COLLAPSED BUILDING
on Oct 20, 2009 in AFRICAN HEALTH AFRICAN NEWS BUILDING COLLAPSE IN KENYA EAST AFRICAN NEWS KENYA At least one person has died after a multi-story building collapsed on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Dozens of people are feared trapped in the ruins of the building in Kiambu town, which was under construction. Red Cross official...

HIV VACCINE HOPE FLICKERS
on Oct 20, 2009 in AFRICAN HEALTH HIV VACCINE HIV/AIDS Doubts have been raised about the reliability of a trial suggesting success for a vaccine against HIV. In the large-scale trial in Thailand, a combination of vaccines seemed to give volunteers a protective effect of 31%. The US military and Thai gov...

BOTSSWANA’S PRESIDENT IAN KHAMA WINS ELECTION
on Oct 19, 2009 in AFRICAN NEWS AFRICAN POLITICS BOTSWANA BOTWSANA NATIONAL FRONT IAN KHAMA SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS The chief justice of Botswana says the governing Botswana Democratic Party has won the parliamentary election. The victory gives President Ian Khama another five years in power in the world’s largest diamond producer. So far, the BDP has won 3...

ABDUCTED DARFUR AID WORKERS FREED
on Oct 19, 2009 in AFRICAN NEWS AFRICAN POLITICS DARFUR DARFUR AID WORKERS FREED DARFUR GENOCIDE HILDA KAWUKI PRESIDENT OMAR HASSAN BASHIR SHARON COMMINS SUDAN Two aid workers who were kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region more than three months ago have said they are “thrilled” to be released. Irish citizen Sharon Commins, 32, and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki, 42, were working for the...

WHO KILLED DELE GIWA?
on Oct 19, 2009 in AFRICAN CRIME AND JUSTICE NIGERIA AGHOGHO OBOH DELE GIWA GANI FAWEHINMI IBRAHIM BABAGINDA JOURNALISM IN NIGERIA OCTOBER 19TH 1986 TONY MOMOH WHO KILLED DELE GIWA “Immediately he saw me, he screamed in agony o ti pa mi- meaning they have killed me. I was distraught, I couldn’t stand the horror before; his entire mid-section blown away. His voice was the pained dying embers of a flame that once burnt fiery.