The AirAsia flight that crashed in the Java Sea, killing 162 people, climbed too fast before stalling, Indonesia’s transport minister has said. Ignasius Jonan told a parliamentary hearing in Jakarta that flight QZ8501 had ascended at a speed of 6,000ft (1,828m) per minute. No passenger or fighter jet would attempt to climb so fast, he […]
More criticisms have trailed the abstention of Nigeria from casting a vote in favour of Palestinian statehood at United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday night. The trio of Rasheed Adesokan, a defence analyst, Wahab Egbewole, Professor on Jurisprudence and International law and Femi Abbas, a media consultant, expressed shock over the sudden shift in […]
Tragedy has occurred in central Somalia as two broadcast journalists were injured due to grenade attack at a radio station. An unknown assailant reportedly hurled two grenades late Wednesday at the Radio Galkacyo station’s complex, leaving the victims to suffer injuries, while the entire staffs were thrown into confusion and ran for safety. The injured […]
The former football star George Weah has won a landslide victory in Liberia’s senate elections, in polls disrupted by the Ebola outbreak. Mr Weah got 78% of the vote for the Montserrado county seat, which includes the capital Monrovia. He beat Robert Sirleaf, the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took nearly 11%. Low […]
Oyewale Oyelola, United States President, Barack Obama has congratulated 88-yeae-old, Beji Caid Essebsi Essebsi on his election as the new Tunisia President. Obama in a statement issued by US embassy in Tunis urged Essebsi to run all inclusive government. The statement readS in part; “The strong commitment by Tunisia’s leaders and the Tunisian people to […]
Gunmen believed to members of the Pakistani Taliban group, Tuesday invaded and opened fire on a Military School in Peshawar and killed not less than 132 children. The attack, which consumed estimated 141 people, the Pakistani officials and Military confirmed, has been curtailed, while those sustained injuries have been taken to the hospitals for treatment. […]
”It is a monumental breakthrough”- Ekweremadu Ayodele Afolabi, Abuja – The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Monday finally adopted and signed into law the Supplementary Act on the Enhancement of the Powers of the ECOWAS Parliament. The highest decision-making body of the ECOWAS, […]
In line with the public anticipation, the South African prosecutors Tuesday appealed against the Justice Thokozile Masipa of the Pretoria High Court culpable homicide ruling against the Paralympic medalist, Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius who killed his late girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp last year February 14, after seven months of trial was sentenced to five years imprisonment, by […]
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has been re-appointed as leader of the ruling party, while his wife Grace has been given a top position in the party. Grace Mugabe’s promotion to head of Zanu-PF’s women’s wing puts her in a good position to succeed her husband in the future, analysts say. The first lady has criticised […]
Johannesburg – MTN Group on Monday announced the launch of a mobile money cross-border remittance service between Ivory Coast and Benin, to further enable the cheaper and easy movement of money in the West Africa region. The Ivory Coast-Benin mobile money cross-border corridor follows the successful introduction of a similar service in April this year […]
After striking out the charges against the former President Hosni Mubarak and two of his sons, Egyptians have trooped out in protest against the Saturday’s court ruling. The former North African country leader was responding to a case of instructing the killing of protesters in 2011 three – week siege which consumed his almost 28 […]
Title: Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Sierra Leone ISBN: 978-4917—0609-1: 978-1-4917-0610-7: 978-14917-0611-4 Publisher: iUniverse LLC Date published: November 2013 Author: Dr. Cyrus Macfoy Reviewer: Roland Bankole Marke I’m hopeful, if not delighted about writing reviews of books written by Sierra Leonean authors that are increasingly making encouraging and steady progress. Though the culture of […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has unveiled the official match ball for 2015 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) to be hosted by Equatorial Guinea. The official ball which was named Marhaba (hello) has a distinct gold and blue colouring and its features are similar to the 2014 World Cup and Champion League […]
Célestin Monga, a Cameroonian national, an internationally recognized economist and currently Director of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Africa and Economics, has accepted the post of Managing Director at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the UN body mandated to promote and accelerate inclusive and sustainable industrial development in developing countries and economies […]
Leader of the African Union Commission, Dlamini Zuma, has commended ECOWAS Chairman and Ghanian President, John Dramani-Mahama and Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on their sterling roles in restoring peace and constitutional order in Burkina Faso. The commendation was made in a statement released Tuesday, from the Commission’s Information and Communication Directorate in Addis Ababa, the […]
Political and military leaders in Burkina Faso have chosen a former foreign minister, Michel Kafando, to be the country’s interim president. The move follows the signing of a charter on Sunday mapping out a year-long transition to elections. Mr Kafando was one of four possible candidates for the post, including two journalists and an academic. […]
Oyewale Oyelola Thousands of South Africans attended the burial ceremony of South Africa Captain, Senzo Meyiwa who was murdered in his girlfriend’s house earlier in the week. Senzo Meyiwa was shoot death by robbers as he tried to protect his girlfriend when three-robbery gang attacked her apartment. The burial ceremony held at the Durban Stadium, […]
Following stiff opposition to his attempt to extend his almost three decades of reign, Burkina Faso’s President, Blaise Compaore has resigned from office. In a press statement Friday, the former President declared that the number one office of the country was now vacant and directed general elections to hold in the next 90 days. Consequently, […]
By Niyi Adeyi The world football governing body, FIFA has announced its latest ranking, with Nigeria Super Eagles being placed 42nd in the globe and Algeria leading in the African continent. The senior National team in the ranking released Thursday, is presently placed ninth in Africa – trailing behind Algeria, Cote d’Ivoire, […]
South African Paralympic athlete medalist, Oscar Pistorius has been slammed with the five years imprisonment over the killing last year, of his former girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Delivering the judgement Tuesday in a Pretoria court, Justice Thokozile Masipa, gave the convicted Pistorius a three-year suspended sentence on a firearms charge. Earlier, the prosecution had argued for […]
