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What is going on in the world? Why the series of murder? When did revenge or retaliation replace common sense? Just this week alone there has been 2 reports gruesome murder in the US and now this murder in Gambia. The body of William West, the 76-year-old millionaire retired computer... [view entry]
Aďcha Ech Channa, the founder of an organization in Morocco that provides services to unmarried women with children has been awarded a $1 million from the University of St. Thomas and the Opus Prize Foundation [view entry]
I wrote one of the chapters of the novel in a taxi, on my way home. It was real there and then... [view entry]
Thousands of victims of a toxic sludge dumping scandal could fail to receive their share of a 45 million dollar compensation package due to corruption in Ivory Coast, a British lawyer claims. Tens of thousands of people fell ill after a contractor for Dutch oil trader Trafigura dumped 500 tonnes... [view entry]
Sierra Leone has launched a satellite link-up to connect doctors around the country to their colleagues in India. The system enables doctors in Sierra Leone to consult doctors in India and benefit from data analysis in better-equipped Indian hospitals. For now the telemedicine link-up has been launched in Sierra Leone’s... [view entry]
A powerful and poignant drama based on real events, “Skin” is the true story of a black child born in the 50s to white parents in apartheid South Africa [view entry]
A debit card service was launched for the first time ever in Somaliland this week. The region broke away from Somalia in 1991, when the country’s government collapsed, and has been relatively stable ever since. The new debit cards will allow customers to pay for goods and services at any... [view entry]
The EFCC must not stop at this conviction. The Commission must head on back to Court to ask for the confiscation of all the properties acquired with this ill gotten wealth. [view entry]
Chimamanda Adichie, award-winning Nigerian novelist gives a brilliant talk about stories and stereotypes at TED. [view entry]
The Nigerian Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Sanusi Lamido noted that whenever Nigerian banks failed, it was only the poor depositors that suffered while the rich were never touched. He said the CBN was fully out to protect depositors’ money and shareholders “Those found culpable in this dastardly acts... [view entry]
