Archive For: The Crunch
25th March 2015 A non-profit organization in Ghana, the Junior Chamber International in Ghana, is set to host this year’s Africa and Middle East Conference in Accra. The conference is to encourage collaboration and exchange of ideas of young Africans, which will impact their respective communities. The dates put aside for the four day event ... Read More
25th March 2015 As part of efforts to curb wildlife poaching in the country, Ethiopia has destroyed its entire stockpile of illegally poached ivory. The six tonnes of tusks, carvings and jewelry were burned in the country’s capital, Addis Ababa. The move is also mainly to protect the Ethiopia’s wildlife by discouraging poachers who have ... Read More
25th March 2015 Kejetia Central market, the largest single market in West Africa with over ten thousand stores and stalls, is the subject of crucial discussions between a thirteen member stakeholders’ delegation in Brazil and the architect designing the new Kejetia-Central Market project. The delegation consists of representatives of the traders and is expected to ... Read More
25th March 2015 Twenty nine year old Johnny McKinstry from Northern Ireland is the new coach of Rwanda’s national football team. He was picked from a shortlist that contained former Chelsea assistant Jose Morais, Turk Engin Fırat and German Hans Michael Weiss, to land the job. McKinstry now takes over from Englishman Stephen Constantine who ... Read More
24th March 2015 Comptroller of Nigeria Immigration service Mrs. Funke Adeuyi, has told members of the service to remain neutral and impartial during the elections. She said this in Cross River State at a one day sensitization workshop aimed at educating some personnel of the institution that have been shortlisted to participate in the elections. ... Read More
24th March 2015 And in a totally unusual move, especially in the context of African politics, President Macky Sall of Senegal, has confirmed his plan to shorten his seven year term by two years. This is one African leader who has no plans of manipulating his privileges to extend his office. The President didn’t indicate whether ... Read More
24th March 2015 The African Higher Education Summit may have come and gone, but the outcomes of the discussions and resolutions will definitely be felt in higher education institutions across the continent for days to come. The event saw Vice chancellors of public and private institutions, lecturers, heads of regulatory commissions and members of supporting ... Read More
24th March 2015 And in Ghana the Gomoa West District Co-ordinator of Special Education, Madam Maggita Ama Mill, has appealed to parents of children with special needs not to ignore them, but to invest in educating the children by equipping them with tools for improving their teaching and learning. She made the appeal at the ... Read More
23rd March 2015 Ahead of Nigeria’s elections on the twenty eighth, the country’s Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba has given his word at a strategic meeting with the Assistant Inspector General of Police and Commissioners of Police of various divisions and States that the force will be impartial in the course of their duties ... Read More
23rd March 2015 And still on Nigeria, the people at the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS have said that there has been a steady decline in the spread of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria in the past five years. The institution’s Investigations that were independently conducted by the UNAIDS, Health Systems Strengthening, Integrated Biological and Behavioral ... Read More
