Archive for the Africa Category

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

13 Muslim countries produce higher percentage women science graduates than United States - UNESCO report

13 Muslim countries produce higher percentage women science graduates than United States - UNESCO report

There is an ingrained value in every Muslim, man and woman alike, to pursue knowledge and to learn about God’s truth by studying the surrounding world. Prophet Mohammad (saws), advised his followers to seek knowledge wherever it can be found. In keeping with this value, Muslim women are continuing to make headway in the field [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Nigerians Making Free Phone Calls

Nigerians Making Free Phone Calls

August 12, 2010
NewsRescue- Little surprise, people love free things. And with the telecommunications burst that is not such a burst on the pockets, Nigerians keep seeking ways to reduce their phone call costs.
As the Nigerian telephone company mogul, Mike Adenuga is purported to have said- ‘phone business is like ritual(voodoo) money’. It makes so much!
Countries [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

What You’re Not Being Told About Liberia and Charles Taylor

What You’re Not Being Told About Liberia and Charles Taylor

Aug 17th, 2010
Del Walters Says it’s about More than Diamonds
EbonyJet-
Look for the question. What question? In the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, I am waiting for someone to ask the question that thousands of Liberians have been waiting to be asked. How did Taylor wind up in Liberia to terrorize the [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

10 Easiest States to Do Business in Nigeria

10 Easiest States to Do Business in Nigeria

July 14, 2010
Doing Business in Nigeria 2010 is the result of collaboration between the World Bank Investment Climate Team for Africa, the subnational Doing Business team and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The Government of Germany, through the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and the Government of Switzerland, through the State Secretariat for [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Nigeria and its extravagant weddings

Nigeria and its extravagant weddings

Aug 12th, 2010

NewsRescue- Weddings are no small matter in Nigeria. A nation of over 150 million peoples of diverse cultures, Nigerians as a whole take marriage very seriously.
Last week, CNN presented a beautiful show about Nigerian weddings in America, the pump and fanfare, and the culture of extravagance, including the popular ’spraying money’ culture. Nigerian [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Wyclef Jean says he will run to be president of Haiti

Wyclef Jean says he will run to be president of Haiti

August 4th, 2010
Wyclef Jean, hinted this decision earlier in a press interview he granted while in Nigeria for a United Bank of Africa(UBA) occasion for the outgoing MD of the UBA conglomerate, Tony Elumelu with important dignitaries, like the former president of Nigeria, Obasanjo, state governors, representatives of the current president, Goodluck Johnathan, representatives of [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Temporary Import Embargo in Nigeria - Updated

Update, Aug 7, 2010:
Air freight cargo services are gradually resuming to Nigeria, as airlines and the Nigerian customs are reaching positive resolutions. There is an expected severe backlog and clog from the month long shipment delay.

Delta Cargo is pleased to announce resumption of cargo service into Lagos, Nigeria (LOS) and Abuja, Nigeria (ABV), beginning [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Uganda Pastor Ssempa To Obama: You ran on a change theme, don’t you believe Gays too can change

Uganda Pastor Ssempa To Obama: You ran on a change theme, don't you believe Gays too can change

June 13, 2010
A Ugandan pastor has said US President Barack Obama’s comments at a prayer breakfast in Washington condemning the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda signifies a disappointment to Africans.
In a statement to 256news.com, Sempa who heads the Family Policy and Human Rights Center, based at Makerere in Kampala said Obama, a descendant of Kenya in [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Nigeria among worst violators of freedom - Washingtontimes

Nigeria among worst violators of freedom - Washingtontimes

April 29th 2020
Washingtontimes- Nigeria has risen to the top tier of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom, according to an annual report to be released Thursday by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
The independent bipartisan governmental agency, whose report details abuse in 28 nations, singled out Nigeria for not punishing religiously motivated violence, [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Finland sentences Rwanda preacher to life for Tutsi genocide

Finland sentences Rwanda preacher to life for Tutsi genocide

June 11, 2010
BBC- A Finnish court has sentenced a Rwandan preacher to life in jail for his participation in Rwanda’s genocide.
Francois Bazaramba, 59, moved in 2003 to the Nordic country, which allows prosecutions for crimes against humanity wherever they are committed.
The court said he had intended to “destroy in whole or part the Rwandan Tutsis [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

African-American Founding Fathers! A suppressed history -Fox news

African-American Founding Fathers! A suppressed history -Fox news

Watch the latest news video at <a href=”http://video.foxnews.com/” mce_href=”http://video.foxnews.com/”>video.foxnews.com</a>
Glenn Beck has been looking at the founders of American on “Founders Friday.” This week, he and some historians looked at black Americans who were present at the founding of America and had important roles in our country’s independence.
One of those was Peter Salem, who can be [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Beyonce to attend wedding of Bella Adenuga, daughter of Nigerian billionaire Otunba Mike Adenuga, and Jameel Disu

Beyonce to attend wedding of Bella Adenuga, daughter of Nigerian billionaire Otunba Mike Adenuga, and Jameel Disu

April 19, 2010
A top story on global media outlets like MediaTakeout.com; American born singer, Beyonce Knowles popularly as Beyonce will be packing her things and getting set  for yet another wondrous attention grabbing occasion as she performs at the wedding of Bella Adenuga, daughter of Nigerian billionaire Otunba Mike Adenuga, and Jameel Disu.
Niyitabiti.net earlier reported that [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Nigerians win world young scientists competition

March 30th, 2010
SIX Junior Secondary School (JSS) students from Bauchi State have emerged winners of the International Exhibition of Young Scientists competition held in Spain, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.
The students, who invented a solar-powered electric car automated module, represented Nigeria at the exhibition which was attended by young scientists from 120 [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Solution to Nigeria riots

Solution to Nigeria riots

March 10 2010
NewsRescue- Contrary to what many might think, there is a sure and easy solution to the repeated riots that usually erupt in the North-central part of Nigeria.
These riots, usually supported by religious differences are actually centrally hemmed on resource, land and social deplorable existing conditions. The root cause of the characteristic deadly problem [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Nigeria cracks down after attacks in Jos

March 8th, 2010
Aljazeera- Nigerian authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection with attacks near the central city of Jos that killed more than 500 people.
Police and soldiers surrounded the village of Dogo Nahawa, about 15km south of Jos, as survivors buried the dead in mass graves on Monday.
Residents said herders from nearby hills [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

HIV Still Plagues the U.S.: Some Areas Have Higher Rates Than Africa - Newsweek

HIV Still Plagues the U.S.: Some Areas Have Higher Rates Than Africa - Newsweek

Feb 17, 2010
Newsweek-
HIV Still Plagues the U.S.: Some Areas Have Higher Rates Than Africa
By Jaime Cunningham
In December, NEWSWEEK argued that new signs of life were showing in the AIDS activism movement. Let’s hope so. Recent research published in The New England Journal of Medicine shows that within certain populations in America, the prevalence of HIV-infected [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Military coup in Nigeria?… as ailing President Yaradua returns

Military coup in Nigeria?... as ailing President Yaradua returns

Feb 23, 2010
NewsRescue- Nigeria’s president, Musa Yaradua has arrived back in the capital Abuja three months after seeking medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, raising fresh questions over the leadership of Africa’s most populous nation.
He arrived in a Saudi jet accompanied by the presidential jet in the late hours of Tuesday night.
Reports reaching our desk [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Haiti A History Of Intervention Occupation And Resistance

February 2nd, 2010
Andrew Flood- As predictions for the death toll from the Haitian earthquakes rise over 200,000, ABC News have reported that planes carrying medical equipment and relief supplies are having to compete with soldiers for the valuable slots at Port-au-Prince airport which was taken over by the US military after the quake. Since the [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

US to review hasty inclusion of Nigeria to terror watch list

January 23rd, 2009
Guardian- WITH the intensity of criticisms within the US government circles and outside, the Americans may soon review the inclusion of Nigeria on its terror watch list of countries of interest, according to a senior White House official.
Speaking at the US Foreign Press Centre in Washington DC on Friday afternoon, White House National [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Generation Doom! Should we be scared of our youth?

Generation Doom! Should we be scared of our youth?

December 30th, 2009
NewsRescue- From the Nigerian kid who recently set his pants on fire trying to detonate a bomb aboard the Detroit headed Delta airliner, to the riots in Iran, the Somalian Pirate captured at sea and brought to the US for justice{MSNBC, April 21 2009}.
Through the five United States citizens captured last week in [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Soros at Cop15: Wanted developing countries to take “green loans” with SDR’s from the IMF (Bank of the World)

Billionaire George Soros has suggested that poorer nations be persuaded to take on what he describes as “green loans” in the name of combating climate change, a policy that would land the already cripplingly poor third world with even more debt, payable to globalist institutions such as the IMF.
Speaking yesterday at the climate summit in [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Why did US security ignore Mutallab warning and allow attack?

December 28th 2009 {Updated Dec 30}
NewsRescue- As seen in the CNN report below, the father of the attempted Delta airline bomber, Umar Mutallab warned the US embassy in Nigeria and several other US security forces of his sons radicalization and intent to commit terrorist atrocities.
Related: Newsrescue- 911 Building 7 BBC report of fall, before it [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

EU ‘grants’ Nigeria $1Bn; Nigeria rejects new ‘unfair’ trade deal with EU

EU 'grants' Nigeria $1Bn; Nigeria rejects new 'unfair' trade deal with EU

November 20, 2009
Related: NewsRescue- How The IMF-World Bank and Structural Adjustment Program(SAP) Destroyed Africa
NewsRescue-
According to the BBC, the European Union will give Nigeria the sum of 1 billion US dollars as a ‘peace and anti corruption’ initiative and trade and resource deal. Story(BBC) This not surprising at a time of increasing battle with the Russians [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Ancient ‘200,000BC’ Human Metropolis Found in Africa

Ancient '200,000BC' Human Metropolis Found in Africa

Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa
By Dan Eden for viewzone.
They have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could remember who made them — or why? Until just recently, no one even knew how many there were. Now they are everywhere — thousands — no, hundreds of thousands of them! And the [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

African Civilizations of ancient America

BLACK CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA (MUU-LAN),MEXICO (XI)
Gigantic stone head of Negritic African during the Olmec (Xi) Civilization
By Paul Barton
The earliest people in the Americas were people of the Negritic African race, who entered the Americas perhaps as early as 100,000 years ago, by way of the bearing straight and about thirty thousand years ago [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Shell promises it will fight Nigeria if it hands fields to Chinese

October 29, 2009
NewsRescue- According to a new release on Reuters, Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) has promised to fight any possible efforts by the Nigerian Government to reallocate fields currently in its control to Chinese oil companies.
Related: NewsRescue- Shell settles Nigeria killings suit; $15.5 Million
“One thing you probably will have seen, and can be sure [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

The Truth About Foreign Aid; Where It Really Goes & Not To Africa

The Truth About Foreign Aid; Where It Really Goes & Not To Africa

by Paul I. Adujie; Lawcareer2007@aol.com
New York, United States
No wise military commander would attempt in good sense, to feed a battalion or a brigade with the same amount of food which is only sufficient to feed a platoon.
This is just as no intelligent farmer would in all good judgment, attempt to feed 200,000 chickens [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Female youth corps member strangled to death by her colleague, in Niger State, Nigeria

October 28, 2009

Tribune- A female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Niger state, has been reportedly strangled to death by her male colleague . Nigerian Tribune learned that the deceased and her assailant were both from the South Eastern part of the country.
During the on-going service year, according to [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

Conflicts in Africa- Introduction

Conflicts in Africa- Introduction

October 29, 2009
by Anup Shah, Global Issues

Despite decades of conflict, death and tragedy, coverage of issues in Africa has often been ignored, oversimplified, or excessively focused on limited aspects. Deeper analysis, background and context has often been lacking, so despite what seems like constant images of starving children in famines, news of billions in aid [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

New criminal gangs in US target Medicare. Nigerian’s among the busted

October 22, 2009
(CNN) — Organized crime gangs are exploiting a new target for illegal profit: Medicare and Medicaid.

Federal agents arrest two suspects last week in Los Angeles on charges of Medicare fraud.

Experienced in running drug, prostitution and gambling rings, crime groups of various ethnicities and nationalities are learning it’s safer and potentially more profitable to [...]

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16

What Maketh A Northerner? - North Nigerian

By Abubakar Suleiman
This is the story of my life. I am a black man and those that share my skin color know what a burden than can be. It is the shame of centuries of slavery for which even a decent apology is too much to expect and the pain of knowing that of all [...]

 

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