Archive For: The Crunch
23rd March 2015 And three schools in Uganda will be rehabilitated through a grant donated to the country by the Japanese government. The six hundred and fifty five million shilling grant, this is a little more than two hundred and forty six thousand US dollars, was given to rehabilitate three schools in northern Uganda as ... Read More
23rd March 2015 The efforts of teenage girls Oyinlomo Quadri and Charity Patrick at the ongoing 38th ITF/CAT African Junior Tennis Championship in Tunisia has seen Nigeria qualify for the quarterfinal of the girls’ U14 doubles as the pair of defeated Evelyn Kwizora of Rwanda and Jackline Kayuga of Tanzania 6-0, 6-1. Patrick was defeated ... Read More
20th March 2015 The latest austerity measure by the Nigerian government is the order from the presidency that thirty percent should be severed from the welfare package of government officials in the country. The cut will affect the President, his ministerial appointees, and heads of government agencies and parastatals. In a statement by Dr. Bright ... Read More
20th March 2015 And still on Nigeria, an official of the Switzerland government has said the Swiss will return about three hundred and eighty million dollars allegedly looted by former Nigerian military Head of State, Sani Abacha. Switzerland had previously returned seven hundred million dollars after appeals from Nigeria. This payment will end a 16-year ... Read More
20th March 2015 The Director General of the Communications Authority of Kenya Mr. Francis Wangusi, has said that the country’s government has issued a directive to Television broadcasters to increase the transmission ratio of local content on local TV stations from forty to sixty percent. He shared this information at a gathering where the amendment ... Read More
20th March 2015 Angola has been diversifying its economy, from oil to other sectors, and these efforts appear to be paying off, as the country’s food industry has attracted a fifty one million dollar investment from Portugal for a factory launch by food and Beverage Company, Sumol + Compal. The company has said that the continent ... Read More
Former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, has said that African universities will have to be more involved with Research if they are going to impact the continent. He said this in an address at the African Higher Education Summit in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. The Ghanaian diplomat who is serving as ... Read More
19th March 2015 And the matter between Kenya’s president, Kenyatta Uhuru and the International Criminal Court will officially be dropped, unless Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda can come up with concrete evidence against Kenyatta. The Judges of the court assigned to the case have officially terminated the charges of crimes against humanity which President Kenyatta was accused ... Read More
19th March 2015 And in a hand-over Ceremony at the FMCT secretariat in Abuja Nigeria, The Korea International Cooperation Agency submitted a master plan which has been developed for Nigeria’s e-Government. The plan was developed in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Communication Technology, and was handed over with witnesses present from both countries. The ... Read More
17th March 2015 The 17th century bones of three African slaves that were found at a beach-side construction site on the Caribbean island of St. Martin, recently have been traced to their countries of origin for the first time. Scientists have had a hard time finding out the exact origins of the 12 million African ... Read More
