Africa

Nigerian Students spend over 1 billion dollars in Ghana every year- Sanusi

By NewsRescue • January 30, 2012

January 30th, 2012
NewsRescue- The intriguing, highly intellectual, controversy spitting governor of the Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN) has dropped another thought provoking bomb on the state of the Nigerian education system and the siphoning of …

Middle Belt holds Nigeria ‘Security Summit’

By NewsRescue • January 29, 2012

The Middle Belt holds Nigeria together
January 29th, 2012
NewsRescue- Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), the Yoruba Ile-Ife chieftan, recently lambasted Nigeria’s former president, IBB (Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida) for professing his readiness to defend a united Nigeria at all …

Violence in Senegal as ‘Democracy fails Africa’ again

By NewsRescue • January 28, 2012

January 28th, 2012
NewsRescue-As the Senegalese court rules that the incumbent president, President Abdoulaye Wade can contest for a third term in the upcoming presidential elections, violence rages in Senegal.
Protesters set fire to buildings and barricades …

The Solution for Boko

By NewsRescue • January 28, 2012

January 27th, 2012
Dr Mustapha Johnson[NewsRescue]- It is only within the capacity of the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan(GEJ) to solve this particular crises, now plaguing our dear nation. I am not going into the …

The End of Boko Haram

By NewsRescue • January 25, 2012

Update, February 1st, 2012
Boko spokesman with nom de guerre Abul Qaqa, arrested in Maiduguri, Borno state.
A police official told the Associated Press news agency the militant was captured after police tracked his mobile phone.
Officials are …

South Africa snubs IMF’s Christine Lagarde!

By NewsRescue • January 20, 2012

January 20, 2012
NewsRescue- According to CNN, IMF (International Monetary Fund) boss, Christine Lagarde received a rather chilly welcome from the South African government, when she visited this January. The global recession and a lack of …

Report: Nigeria Govt. Links to Boko Supplier; Kingpin released

By NewsRescue • January 17, 2012

January 17th, 2012
NewsRescue- Reports from reliable sources indicate a strong campaign among some members of the ruling PDP party of Nigeria, also including pressure from some top military officers, to release the military office suspect, …

Nigeria Under Siege

By NewsRescue • January 16, 2012

‘General Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’- The Photoshopped image of Nigeria’s president is the most common blackberry Avatar and an indication of how Nigerians feel about their ‘civilian’ dictator president.
January 16th, 2011
NewsRescue- Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation …

Democracy Fails Africa

By NewsRescue • January 15, 2012

January 4th, 2012
Social Research

Democracy Fails Africa
The heading is actually a misnomer. Democracy fails everywhere, at least in its popular definition and application today. Multiparty democracy as promoted and appealed for globally today, is a political …

The Damning KPMG Report: Nigerian Government & NNPC Corruption

By NewsRescue • January 12, 2012

January 12th, 2012
The Damning KPMG Report FG, NNPC, Do Not Want Nigerians To See – Premium Times
AfricanSpotlight- On Thursday December 1, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, cringed when the senate joint committee investigating the …

Boko Haram terror group leader speaks on youtube

By NewsRescue • January 11, 2012

January 11th, 2012
NewsRescue- A purported leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram terror group, operating out of Maiduguri in the North East and Niger republic, Abubakar Shekau in a Youtube video release defended the insane acts of …

Nigeria Fuel Hike Fuels Cause for Impeachment of President Jonathan

By NewsRescue • January 11, 2012

January 11th, 2012
NewsRescue- Growing anarchy in Nigeria secondary to the sudden and abrupt government increase in fuel prices and the resulting deadly riots and closing down of the Nigerian work sector, with estimated losses of …

NLC Fuel Riots in Nigeria; Several dead

By NewsRescue • January 9, 2012

January 9th, 2012
NewsRescue- The NLC, TUC fuel subsidy removal riots in Nigeria kicked off all over the federation Monday, despite pleas and negotiations by the Federal Government. All businesses, office, markets including sea and air …

Nigeria Targeted For Destruction: Gordon Duff, US

By NewsRescue • January 7, 2012

January 6th, 2012
NewsRescue- Our readers should ask themselves this simple question- What has the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan done to combat the radical terrorism stemming from the notorious Boko Haram group in North Nigeria? …

‘Nigeria Fuel Riots are Not ‘Occupy’ Riots’

By NewsRescue • January 5, 2012

January 5th, 20012
NewsRescue- ‘The fuel hike riots in Nigeria are not ‘Occupy’ riots as you have in the United States and Europe’, Mr Agbati of Synthetic Nigeria says. ‘These riots are due to a single …

Fuel hike riots: Nigeria Cabinet to hold emergency meeting

By NewsRescue • January 4, 2012

January 4th, 2012
Bloomberg- Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet today to discuss the goverment’s scrapping of subsidies on fuel, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu told Channels Television.
The Nigeria Labor Congress and …

Nigeria; 55 murdered, houses razed in New Year eve Ebonyi communal clash attack

By NewsRescue • January 1, 2012

Sunday, January 01, 2012
Goddy Osuji, Abakaliki; SunNewsOnline- At least 55 persons, including children, yesterday lost their lives in a renewed communal war in Ezillo in Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi State. Among the …

Nigeria’s Nasir El-Rufai tweets about Boko Haram violence

By NewsRescue • December 28, 2011

December 28th, 2011
NewsRescue- The former Minister of the Federal Capital, Nasir El-Rufai tweets about the recent Christmas day Boko Haram carnage in North Nigeria. He blames separatists, both Governmental and foreign interests for the unrest …

Study documents Nigerian children died from families’ gold mining

By NewsRescue • December 21, 2011

Large numbers of infants and toddlers have died from lead poisoning in Nigerian villages where their parents process gold ore inside their family compounds, according to a report published Tuesday by an international team of …

Amnesty urges African nations to arrest George Bush

By NewsRescue • December 2, 2011

(AFP) December 1, 2011
LUSAKA — Amnesty International on Thursday urged Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia to arrest former US president George W. Bush for violating international torture laws, during his African tour this week.
Bush is touring …

Fela Kuti, Dim Ojukwu, Two men, One great Legacy

By NewsRescue • November 28, 2011

If you can’t fix them, leave them!
NewsRescue- It initially seems odd, that these two remarkable, great men, could leave a single, same legacy. One,- the most famous Igbo man in history, worldwide, and the other, …

Boko Haram linked to Qatar, Western Powers

By NewsRescue • November 23, 2011

November 22nd, 2011
NewsRescue- The radical Islamist group allegedly responsible for a spate of bombings across the Northern region and capital of Nigeria, Boko Haram(Western civilization is bad) has finally begun to reveal its long sought …

World’s First University: Timbuktu

By NewsRescue • November 10, 2011

Unknown to many in the educated world. The first University in the world was the Sankore University in Timbuktu, capital of Mali.

The University was organized around three great Masajids or Mosques. The Masajid of Jingaray Ber, The Masajid of Sidi Yahya, The Masajid of Sankore. Masajids are places of worship for Muslims. Not only did students seek knowledge, but they also purified their souls through the sciences of Islam. Islam breeds leaders that are God fearing, just, honest, trustworthy and of excellent moral character. Graduate students were the embodiment of the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and the traditions of the Mohammed, the Prophet of Islam. The great library of Sankore boasts of a collection of over 700,000 manuscripts.

Birom Christians eat Roasted flesh of Muslims they Killed in Jos, Nigeria

By NewsRescue • September 29, 2011

Highlight: BBC reporter, Rob Walker witnesses Christian cannibalism {Audio link below}
At a point as the flesh is being roasted, someone says in Hausa language “…ni zuciyan na ke so…” meaning: “I want the heart”, while another person goes further to ask “…ka sa gishiri?” meaning: “…did you put some salt”?

ISLAM, PROBITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

By NewsRescue • August 4, 2011

A Critical Essay in History, Philosophy and Law
Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (Lecture given Ramadhan 2006)
The topic I was given by the organisers of this lecture was “Islam, Probity and Accountability”. It is a topic whose choice …