Nigerian oil marketers to begin lifting of fuel in six hours
May 25, 2015 Product petroleum marketers in Nigeria have agreed to call off their strike, and to ensure restoration of normal supply of fuel throughout the country within the next six hours. The agreement was brokered by the Nigerian senate after a meeting between the oil marketers and the federal government at the national assembly
How Oil Tanker Drivers Have Shut Down Africa’s Largest Economy
May 25, 2015 Airlines in Nigeria said on Saturday they had been forced to cancel flights due to lack of fuels, as motorist across the west African nation queued for hours to get a few litters of the commodity. This was a culmination of a two-week strike by oil tanker drivers and other industry workers
Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa’ – Thomas Sankara
May 24, 2015 A week before he died, Sankara said, “revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, but you cannot kill ideas”. And so, for us today, the final challenge rests not in finding more Sankaras, but in becoming them – in bringing these ideas to life. Thomas Sankara, former leader of Burkina Faso, was the
Grant amnesty to Boko Haram, Northern elders tell Buhari
May 23, 2015 SOME prominent northerners including the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Mohammed Uwais and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe and former Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations, Ibrahim Gambari have asked the President -elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd, declare amnesty for Boko Haram insurgents when he
Africa In Perspective: How Big is Africa?
May 22, 2015 One way to measure the size of Africa is from the North—the coast of Tunisia—to the South—the tip of South Africa, which is a total of 4, 989 miles. The distance from East to West, Somalia to Gabon, is 4,655 miles. The total population of the continent is about one billion. A
Tough Luck For Immigrants In Africa As ‘Xenophobia’ Goes Regional
May 21, 2015 IT probably has never been a more inopportune time to be an immigrant in Africa than now. All around the continent countries are pushing back guests from other African nations, suggesting the integration dream has many kinks to iron out. While the contribution of immigrants to host economies is relatively unchallenged, they are
China Used Ebola Crisis For Systematic Pillaging Of W. Africa Fisheries, Greenpeace Says
May 20, 2015 Chinese fishing companies are engaged in systematic pillaging of West African fisheries on a huge scale, according to a new report from Greenpeace, which also says the companies took advantage of weak and chaotic governance resulting from last year’s Ebola outbreak in the region. A two-year investigation by the environmental group Greenpeace found that
The return of the death penalty to South Africa
May 19, 2015 I was a young primary school pupil on March 2 1978. It was the morning uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operative, Solomon Mahlangu, was executed by the apartheid government at the then Pretoria Central Prison. I will never forget the feeling I had that morning when my late elder brother told me about
Best places for expats with kids
May 18, 2015 If the kids are happy, mum and dad are, too. That’s why when it comes to moving abroad, expat families say a welcoming environment for their children is at the top of the list of must-haves. Moving abroad can be both exciting and scary for children, but is often balanced out by
Burundi coup bid: Some coup leaders arrested
May 15, 2015 Three leaders of a failed coup against Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza have been arrested, his spokesman says. However coup leader Gen Godefroid Niyombare is “still on the run”. He told the AFP news agency that he and his followers were going to surrender, adding: “I hope they won’t kill us.” The president