Nigeria: MOPPAN responds to cell-phone pornography story
REPORT ON CELL-PHONE PORNOGRAPHIC CLIP INVOLVING A POPULAR HAUSA FILM ACTRESS
BACKGROUND
Six months ago, there had been several media reports both locally and...
Daby Toure’s tough life
Daby's story goes back two generations and has a fairy tale beginning. Once upon a time, there were four brothers who lived in a...
Addis Ababa Airport to use bar coded boarding passes
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport is to become the first airport in Africa to fully operate bar-coded boarding passes (BCBP) for all international and...
Addis Ababa Airport to use bar coded boarding passes
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport is to become the first airport in Africa to fully operate bar-coded boarding passes (BCBP) for all international and...
Uganda offers qualified Kenya refugees teaching jobs
Uganda has said it will recruit qualified Kenya refugees in the country as teachers for nursery and primary schools. Head of the United Nations...
Rabat int’l athletics meet holds 14 June
The Rabat International Athletics meet will take place on 14 June, the Moroccan Royal Athletics Association (FRMA) said here on Tuesday. The competition, supported...
AI Senegal opposes legalised homosexuality
The chairman of the national Council of Amnesty Senegal, Samba Guissé, has called on all affiliate groups of the Senegalese chapter of Amnesty International...
End of world records ?
Bad news for sportsmen and sportswomen! According to French researchers, the Olympic motto Citius, Fortius, Altius, will soon be a thing of the past
Bad...
‘Nigeria lost about 26,000 people to road accidents in 5 years’
Nigeria lost 25,939 people to over 55,000 road accidents that occurred in the country between 2003 and 2007, according to statistics unveiled at the...
Italy gives 100,000 euros to flood victims in Zambia
The Italian government has given Zambia 100,000 euros to help flood victims in Zambia, the Italian Embassy here said in a statement. The statement,...
Egypt deports Palestinians as security situation worsens
Egypt has deported 350 Palestinians from the Sinai Peninsula to Gaza, PANA reported Tuesday. The deportations came as Egyptian police discovered hundreds of kilogrammes...
Striking Nigerian university teachers risk losing pay
The Nigerian government has warned striking university teachers they risk losing their pay if they fail to return to work immediately. Education Minister Aja...
First ladies fight for peace
In a bid to support initiatives to restore and strengthen peace on the unrest-prone continent, wives of African heads of state or their representatives...
Moroccan security arrest 23 terrorists
Moroccan security services have "dismantled a vast terrorist network of jihadists", which was planning to perpetrate acts of violence in Morocco, the government press...
Kenya: US may support civil society to “check” Kibaki
The US Monday warned that failure to strike an accord to end the political crisis in Kenya would push the US to support the...
The new scramble for Africa’s resources
In the past decade, Africa has seen an unprecedented boom in oil and gas investment.
By Dino Mahtani
With big companies shut...
Zimbabwe: Short profiles of presidential hopefuls
The Countdown to the Zimbabwe elections, marked for March 29, 2008, is on. Zimbabweans are getting prepared to hit the polls to elect a...
Cote d’Ivoire hosts first Anglophone, Francophone business talks in March
The first International Business Conference (IBC), organised by the New Partnership for Africa Development (NEPAD) Business Group of Cote d'Ivoire, in collaboration with their...
Brief report on the state of film industry in Kano State, Nigeria
Preamble. Motion picture industry in Northern Nigeria popularly known as Kannywood was founded in 1990 when the first Hausa home video titled "Turmin Danya"...
US pressures Kenya
Visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has sent the strongest warning yet that Washington would only do business with a legitimately constituted government...
CAF Confederation Cup results
Following are some results in the CAF Confederation Cup which started off across Africa at the weekend:
US Masseda (TOG) 2 0 UNB (BEN)
Express...
African Champions League playoffs
The Gabonese Football Club 105 thrashed Ghana's Hearts of Oak 3-0 in an African Champions League qualifying match here on Sunday. The goals were...
Malian soccer league: Djoliba maintains lead
Djoliba has continued to maintain its lead in the Malian national football league, despite the posponement of its match against Stade de Bamako at...
Nigerian army spokesman dies in road crash
Nigerian Army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen Solomon Giwa-Amu, has died in a road accident, PANA has learnt. The accident occurred Monday (today) morning as Giwa-Amu was...
Southern Africa power crunch: Namibia to build nuclear station
The Namibian government Monday announced plans to construct a nuclear power station within a decade, as it seeks an independent power supply status amid...
Mauritania reiterates attachment to Maghreb Union
Mauritania has reiterated its attachment to the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) as a strategic choice for political, economic and social integration of its member...
Jean Ping hails Kadhafi’s role in Africa
The new Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Gabonese national Jean Ping, has hailed Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi's role in establishing the AU...
World Bank gives Nigeria $300m for road maintenance
The World Bank has granted Nigeria US$300 million to repair five major highways across the country, according to an official of the Bank. The...
Nigerian university teachers begin ‘warning’ strike
Lecturers in Nigeria's 58 public universities began a week-long 'warning' strike Monday to press for the reinstatement of 49 of their colleagues, who...
Sudan: Hundreds of children missing after Darfur attack
Several days after Sudanese government-backed militia attacked villages in West Darfur, hundreds of children remain unaccounted for, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said.
"There are...