tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39070334567383213502012-02-29T23:38:16.312-08:00African News HungaryAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.comBlogger6111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-59704055323568489302012-02-28T22:34:00.002-08:002012-02-28T22:34:19.955-08:00COMMENTARYJerry Rawlings on the enlightenment cylinder
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong
Ex-Ghanian president, Jerry Rawlings
Suddenly, ex-President
Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghanaian/African
enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that
have been demeaning Ghanaians'/Africans' humanity, Rawlings, in the manner of
Archimedes and Isaac Newton, African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-1525519974905841762012-02-28T22:33:00.000-08:002012-02-28T22:33:30.736-08:00FOOTBALL PERSONALITYI left Super Eagles to avoid disgrace
By
Ganiyu Salman, Lagos
FORMER Super Eagles
captain, Austin Okocha, has declared that he left international football to
avoid being disgraced in the face of declining productivity.
Okocha while speaking in Lagos stated that he
received a lot of motivation to continue but preferred to quit the stage when
the ovation was loudest.
"Those I left that
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-60676918371119337762012-02-28T22:32:00.001-08:002012-02-28T22:32:44.208-08:00COMMENTARYKalu, PPA & the politics of ridicule
By Odimegwu Onwumere
Orji Kalu
Even in politics and in the secular
and spiritual business, former governor of Abia State,
Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, who is the chairman Board of Trustee of the Progressive
People’s Alliance (PPA), is a success story. As a strategist who has a wand of
gold, anything he touches turns to gold and his followers are in tremendous
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-49100927628801196762012-02-28T05:49:00.001-08:002012-02-28T05:49:16.867-08:00NEWS FEATURE
Nigerian ladies of easy virtues rampant in Italy, Sweden,
others
By Nnanna Okere
Female Nigerians are being trafficked to Italy,
Sweden and other parts of Europe under the guise of a better life.
This disclosure was made by
an Italy-based Non-Governmental organization, (NGO) known as New Face of
Nigeria (NFN).
The Executive Director of
the NGO, Rev. Augustine Alaribe, said in a pressAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-63958379796805611932012-02-27T09:52:00.002-08:002012-02-27T09:52:20.636-08:00NEWS<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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local roots
KANO, Nigeria — In an imam’s quiet office, two
young men in long hooded robes, their faces hidden by checked scarves, calmly
described their deadly war against the Nigerian state. A
member of Boko Haram, an Islamist group that has staged deadly attacks in Kano, in northern Nigeria. “Millions of people in Kano State
are supporting us,” he said.
The
office African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-5607163200152590872012-02-27T01:35:00.000-08:002012-02-27T01:35:59.132-08:00COMMENTARYSomalia: A failed state but useful lessons
for African countries
By Michael J.K. Bokor, Ph.D.
At long last, there is
something on the horizon to assure us that the decades-long Somali crisis will
be tackled to restore sanity to the Horn of Africa and relieve the world of a
major headache. Somalia may
be suffering the negative backlash of political instability but the world feels
the pinch African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-72799488333567886942012-02-27T01:34:00.000-08:002012-02-27T01:34:58.693-08:00OPINION
Igwe Nawfia’s lack of tradition morality
By Odimegwu Onwumere
A fool will do everything possible
to flatter himself or herself instead of bemoaning his or her incongruous
dim-witted action.
The bellicose Igwe Ferdy
Chijioke Nwankwo of Nawfia, Anambra State, has diminished his stool when he
loquaciously threw caution to the wind to justify his world-wide condemned
sheepish, shamefacedAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-9842730796853450332012-02-26T11:38:00.001-08:002012-02-27T05:34:50.499-08:00INTERVIEWWhen acting becomes a life
By Anthony Obi & Okogbue Ngozi
She is one promising and
dazzling talent that any producer in search of an actress would want to have on
set. Damilola Adegbite started her acting career with Tinsel a M-Net production
over five years ago. According to her, acting has been her childhood dream,
which explains why she dumped her certificate in Business Administration African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-23217899274229224772012-02-25T11:27:00.001-08:002012-02-25T11:27:45.975-08:00VIDEO DISCUSSION
Infidelity
Read the 2nd part: Are men allowed to cheat?
Are men allowed to cheat?
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-66506433773757768902012-02-25T02:25:00.000-08:002012-02-25T02:25:36.321-08:00NEWS<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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airlines' treatment of Nigerians
By John Ameh, Abuja
Aviation minister, Mrs Stella Odua
The House of
Representatives on Wednesday criticised the operations of foreign airlines in Nigeria,
particularly their high fares and alleged maltreatment of Nigerian passengers. A motion sponsored by Mr.
Emmanuel Ekon and 31 others also frowned on the practice of spraying
insecticidesAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-59713377212973980062012-02-24T23:09:00.000-08:002012-02-24T23:09:15.105-08:00COMMENTARYNigeria & the valley of the shadow of death
By Odimegwu Onwumere
There are a lot of works to do. Some people have
found themselves in avoidable circumstances. They no longer care for the welfare
of their culture and humanity. They no longer believe that culture and humanity
relate to community, but individual.
They see their people as ill; they are the only people who
are healthy. They seeAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-54995879255349370942012-02-24T01:26:00.000-08:002012-02-24T01:26:07.867-08:00OPINION<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Ikemba II & the politicization
of Igbo tradition
By Odimegwu Onwumere
It’s not only theatrical, but also
profanity that one of the sons of the deeply revered late Igbo Icon, Dim
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Ikemba Nnewi, has unwittingly chosen to
haul the corridor of disrepute.
Not the quintessential Barrister Debe Sylvester
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu – the applauded first son of theAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-1200421802001109142012-02-23T11:55:00.000-08:002012-02-23T11:59:02.637-08:00VIDEO NEWS
Obasanjo wants wealth created via agribusiness
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-14510553589824344102012-02-23T11:42:00.000-08:002012-02-23T11:43:54.010-08:00NEWS IN BRIEF
Recession returning to Europe
No growth for Italy and Spain, says Bob Parker, senior Advisor, Credit Suisse. But Germany to avoid recession.
The focus is on large cap global companies.
Meanwhile the Swedish Prime Minister, Reinfeldt told CNN that EU has cut 2012 growth forecast for Sweden in half. He also disclosed that Sweden has the best public finances inside EUAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-75972136564170512132012-02-22T01:07:00.000-08:002012-02-22T01:07:47.520-08:00COMMENTARY<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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By Perpetual Umeaku
It is common knowledge that
weight, either gain or loss is a widely discussed issue in marriage especially
as it affects women. Researchers have shown that changes in weight affect both
women and men in different ways. They said that women gain
more weight after they are married while men add weight after they are
divorced, givingAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-86416252409563973862012-02-18T23:58:00.001-08:002012-02-18T23:58:44.440-08:00GENERAL NEWSSouth Africans protest attacks on women in mini-skirt
South African in their hundreds on
Friday marched in Johannesburg
to protest attacks on two women for wearing mini-skirts.
Organizers of the march,
the ruling African National Congress Women’s League said the protest was to
emphasise that women had the right wear whatever they wanted without fear of
victimisation.
Two women were African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-84814998743542881252012-02-18T23:58:00.000-08:002012-02-18T23:58:04.170-08:00COMMENTARYBill Clinton is wrong on
Nigeria
By Musa Luka
Former American President
Bill Clinton, who was in Nigeria,
recently, was quoted to have said that poverty is the main reason fuelling the
deadly activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria.
While he is free to make
such statements, I beg to strongly disagree. Poverty is NOT the reason Boko
Haram exist. For the uninitiated, this may sound absurd but African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-2025764145301152162012-02-18T03:03:00.000-08:002012-02-18T03:03:49.055-08:00HUMAN INTEREST<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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to have baby
By Bukola Adebayo
The saying that “a patient
dog eats the fattest bone,” could be used to describe the experience of a
couple, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Olayiwola, who on Thursday had a set of quadruplets
at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi- Araba, after 17 years of
marriage without a child.
Narrating her experience,
Victoria, a business woman, African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-35146978101939160332012-02-17T12:00:00.000-08:002012-02-16T23:49:25.423-08:00OPINION
The
massacre Of Igbos: Okorocha’s statement unfortunate
By Uzoma Ahamefule
Okorocha
Fellow
concerned Nigerians, whose pain I share with visa-versa, I address you all
under compulsion as a patriotic citizen of the federal Republic of Nigeria
with agony of helplessness and deep sense of responsibility. The aches from my
tears of sorrow are uncontrollably wetting my lips to tremble African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-34165612419811712482012-02-16T23:46:00.000-08:002012-02-19T10:52:29.823-08:00OPINION
Princewill:
Quintessence of service & philanthropy
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
According to Wikipedia, the free
encyclopaedia dictionary, Philanthropy is defined as "the love of humanity"—love in the
sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the
sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In
modern practical terms, it
is "private initiatives for public African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-20501167366064337162012-02-16T09:05:00.001-08:002012-02-16T09:05:09.860-08:00COMMENTARY/ANALYSIS
Reflections on the Libya Catastrophe
Edwin Madunagu
ONE enduring and universal lesson of history, but one that is almost always forgotten or ignored by those in power – until it is too late – resides in that strongest of prime movers of social change called revolution.
This lesson has been formulated in various ways, and by various thinkers, but the formulation with which I am African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-27313534687121236552012-02-16T08:58:00.000-08:002012-02-16T08:58:17.250-08:00COMMENTARYHighlight on traffic challenges in
Rivers state
ByOdimegwu Onwumere
Governor Chibuike Amaechi topically
said that his administration has achieved in building of roads in Rivers State.
Customarily, this means that the Rivers
State government said that it has put
its head in curbing the man-hours’ stalemating traffic state-of-affairs in Port Harcourt, the
capital of the state.
Traffic African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-63453986391240736242012-02-14T02:45:00.000-08:002012-02-14T02:45:37.305-08:00GENERAL NEWS<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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trust her husband &
just let him be
By Anna Okon
Victor Famuyibo is the
Director, Human Resources, Nigerian Breweries PLC. He has been married to
Shade, a former senior manager at NITEL for the past 26 years and the family is
blessed with two boys and two girls. Both of them share fond memories and
ideals of love and relationship.
Where and how did
you meet?
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-17062722335426768642012-02-13T08:13:00.001-08:002012-02-14T01:23:07.134-08:00AFRICAN CUP OF NATIONSZambia win African title
By Hakeem Babalola
Underdog Zambia defeated highly rated Ivory Coast by 8-7 to win their first African Cup of Nations in a dramatic and tension soaked penalty shoot-out.
After the full time which ended 0-0 after Drogba had missed a penalty kick which could have given the elephants an advantage to win the cup.
Both teams scored the first five penalties, andAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-90848423843522351932012-02-13T08:13:00.000-08:002012-02-13T08:13:08.770-08:00COMMENTARY
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actions in retrospect
By Nwaorgu faustinus
Princewill
Often times, few personalities who are prudent have resolved not to
let their personal interest and ambition to supersede that which they
have for their village, community, local government, state or even
their country.
But in a country where majority of politicians are mere
political jobbers, who do not have African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-78211464717148088742012-02-11T23:17:00.000-08:002012-02-11T23:35:16.820-08:00OBITUARY NEWS (1963-2012)Pop vocal legend Whitney
Houston found dead
By Billy Johnson, Jr.
On Saturday, Houston's publicist
confirmed to the Associated Press that the award-winning "I Will Always
Love You" singer died. She was 48. The timing of her death, the eve of the
Grammys, the biggest music event of the year, makes the horrible news even more
tragic. According to CNN, Houston
was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m.African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-40227892144812952312012-02-11T13:15:00.000-08:002012-02-11T13:15:06.319-08:00AFRICA CUP OF NATIONSCan Zambia
fairytale spoil Ivorian party?
It says something about the state of
the continent that Ivory
Coast have been the only big team to hold
their nerve so far at this African Cup of Nations. Egypt, Nigeria
and Cameroon
couldn’t even qualify for the finals; Senegal did (with some fanfare) but were
so abject they may as well have not bothered going to Equatorial Guinea; Ghana, who
beforeAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-71626635577952204112012-02-11T01:24:00.000-08:002012-02-11T01:40:33.386-08:00GENERALSlovakia: Billboards humiliating Gypsies want
removed
Hindus
are dismayed at upcoming parliamentary election billboards in Slovakia reportedly labeling
Gypsies (Roma) as “parasites” and belittling them, and want their immediate removal.
Hindu
statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that these
racist and anti-Roma billboards should not be acceptable in 21st
century African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-17480675410768063652012-02-11T00:45:00.000-08:002012-02-11T00:45:36.866-08:00GENERAL NEWS<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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brink of extinction?
By
Emmy Ejekam
It
has been a puzzle to me as I watch the rate families are disintegrating among
Nigerians living here in Houston
lately. And I can wager that what is happening in Houston,
Texas (where I live) is typical of the rest of
America.
As I attribute this unfortunate trend to the environment and stress associated
with African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-68028256560504716792012-02-10T11:58:00.000-08:002012-02-10T11:58:30.296-08:00NOLLYWOOD<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Our votes not in vain
By
Nwaorgu Faustinus
road construction
The
joy of democracy for me is when politicians who are voted into elective offices
ensure that those that elected them reap the benefit for electing them into
office. Such benefit is not individually centered but people-oriented which is
aimed at reducing the suffering of people, be it in skill acquisition, job
creation, African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-62368848499989030402012-02-09T03:49:00.000-08:002012-02-09T03:51:17.262-08:00GENERAL
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Professor Sam Aluko, Nigeria’s foremost Economist is dead. He died in the UK
on Tuesday at the age of 83.
Those who
can be compared to the late Professor Aluko can be counted on finger tips. He
was a man of many parts, a teacher, a politician and a stickler to principles.
He achieved
a rare feat of finishing his MSc with a distinction at the LondonAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-15351513813628642972012-02-06T21:46:00.000-08:002012-02-06T21:46:13.262-08:00GENERAL NEWS
Religious sect wants soyinka assasinated
By Amos
Fabiyi
Prof Wole Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka
has disclosed that he is one of the prominent Nigerians on the list of Boko
Haram sect marked for assassination.
In a down-to-earth interview with
TheNEWS magazine which is circulated within outside Nigeria this week,
Soyinka revealed that he was not only on the sect’s African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-76035298063413047722012-02-06T06:30:00.000-08:002012-02-08T03:24:58.840-08:00Remembrance
Remembering a true prophet, Bob Marley
By Hakeem Babalola
For a man
or woman to be born great, his or her story must reflect that of an archetype.
It must have a powerful and ever growing resonance that embodies among other
themes: political wisdom, metaphysical and artistic insights. The story of a
legend won’t complete without gangland warfare and periods in a mystical
wilderness.
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-10275924873973125902012-02-06T06:15:00.000-08:002012-02-06T06:16:05.201-08:00VIDEO/AFRICA UNITE
Africans Unite...Unite for the benefit for your people.....Unite for the benefit of your childrenAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-2730318348264843732012-02-06T06:00:00.000-08:002012-02-06T06:47:27.527-08:00COMMENTARY
Nigeria breaks away from African Union at its own risk
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Nigeria has threatened to pull out of the African Union
just because its leader (Jonathan Goodluck) lost his bid to take over from the
Equatorial Guinean leader (Theodoro Mbasago Obiang) as the Chairman of the AU.
He lost to Benin’s Boni Yayi and is so peeved as to contemplate this action as
a way to teach African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-18799486208427293622012-02-06T05:10:00.000-08:002012-02-06T05:10:28.121-08:00GENERAL NEWSLiberia: Ministers to sign performance contracts
By Kemo Cham
Monrovia — Government officials in Liberia
are now expected to sign performance contracts.
President Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf instituted the new policy that is aimed at making appointed
government officials accountable.
The new performance
management policy requires ministers to sign a one-year renewable contract
based on their African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-4314488433012277522012-02-05T12:22:00.000-08:002012-02-06T05:11:18.545-08:00VIDEO/ENTERTAINMENT
"I am arrogantly Nigerian"
Citizen Reporter Kayode Ogundamisi met with Nigerian entertainer
MistaSamaila, aka Naija White Boy in Abuja. He talks about being
Nigerian, music and his inspiration.
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-6398282600917465732012-02-05T11:59:00.000-08:002012-02-05T11:59:54.729-08:00VIDEO/FASHION
It's the final edition of ikenna's inKenya series and it features
Ikenna's trip to see Kenyan top fashion designer John Kaveke, who showed
his collection at London Fashion Week.African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-28024226383050959022012-02-05T10:18:00.000-08:002012-02-05T10:18:41.616-08:00LETTER/COMMENTARY<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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As Amaechi wins at supreme court
By
Odimegwu Onwumere
"Strength
does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go
through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength," said
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The
supporters of one Felix Amadi, the gubernatorial candidate of the African
Political System party (APS), went home on 3rd of February 2012, frowning, African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-57615776444245211812012-02-03T21:17:00.000-08:002012-02-03T21:17:52.534-08:00HEALTH & MEDICINE<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Traffic light camera scam steals your identity
By Jessica Citizen
Traffic light cameras are annoying at the best of times, but while some people manage to escape the fines, most of us simply pay up without thinking about it or questioning whether the charge is valid. Tricky scammers are taking advantage of that lazy human tendency, making a handful of money and stealing identities in the African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-8067469875179112592012-02-03T20:45:00.000-08:002012-02-03T20:45:38.967-08:00POETRY
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By Munyaradzi Huni,
Addis Ababa — PRESIDENT Mugabe has said some African countries have become "just bodies" used by Europe as fronts.He said this yesterday following what transpired at the just-ended 18th African Union summit in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
He said even if Africa had no means to establish a force to stop NATO from bombarding LibyaAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-11012600758715747822012-02-02T23:10:00.000-08:002012-02-02T23:10:16.994-08:00COMMENTARYWhy Africa should mourn Gaddafi's fall
By Irungu Kangata
According to the United Nations Human Development Index and the Africa Development Bank country profile, Libya under Gaddafi rule was rated the best place to live in Africa.
The criteria employed by UN when measuring this index is life expectancy, availability to health and educational services, poverty index and access to other African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-50824547834385058092012-02-02T23:08:00.000-08:002012-02-02T23:08:56.436-08:00ANALYSSISNorth Africa: Lessons from uprisings
By Solomon A. Dersso
The launch of 'The year of shared values' at the 18th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly later this month is taking place in the wake of unprecedented popular uprisings that toppled authoritarian leaders in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
If shared values of the AU are to play a meaningful role in the discourse and African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-22212517645072211512012-02-02T22:56:00.000-08:002012-02-02T23:03:32.966-08:00GENERAL NEWS
Nigeria spends N4.8 billion on ambassadors' children school fees
By
Ini Ekott
Olugbenga Ashiru FA minister
Nigeria
lawmakers were shocked that the foreign ministry spends far above amounts
approved for fees. The federal government
bankrolled the school fees of Nigerian diplomats’ children abroad to the tune
of N4.8 billion in 2011, it emerged yesterday as government officials scrambledAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-61527066724790716942012-02-02T11:01:00.000-08:002012-02-02T12:01:47.981-08:00TRIBUTE
Tributes as 'Soul Train' creator, Don Cornelius, dies at 75
LEGENDARY music impresario, producer and television host who created the dance show "Soul Train," Don Cornelius, was found shot dead in his Los Angeles home early yesterday morning in what appears to be a suicide, the Los Angeles Police Department and the county coroner's office said. He was 75 years old.
Someone African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-39504023679764841842012-02-02T10:12:00.000-08:002012-02-02T10:14:06.212-08:00VIDEO: FOOTBALL
Egyptian violence amongst worst in football history. 223 killed as Egyptian soccer fans riot....223 Killed As Egyptian Soccer Fans Riot on Field Following Al-Masry Versus Al-Ahly Game Football
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-18991413544418623762012-02-02T01:12:00.000-08:002012-02-02T00:32:24.004-08:00RELATIONSHIP
Why do men cheat on their wives?
By Abdulkadir Y. Abdullahi
A lot of questions have continued to be asked as regards reasons why many men cheat on their wives by keeping illegal sexual relationship outside their matrimonial homes. Many a Nigerian couple today have found themselves in this situation which has done a great deal of damage to a united front for a stable and successful family African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-16203554099570599392012-02-02T00:33:00.000-08:002012-02-02T00:33:16.446-08:00WORLD NEWS
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Freed Eritrean refugee to leave Sweden
Rome / Stockholm, February 1, 2012. After the humanitarian campaign against the deportation of the Eritrean refugee Michael Bahre, carried out by EveryOne, ICER and other NGOs, the Swedish authorities have suspended Mr. Bahre’s forced return to Eritrea. On January 27, Michael's family and our organization received the long-awaited news: "Michael has African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-64724531733806198522012-02-01T02:30:00.001-08:002012-01-31T23:28:51.932-08:00DISCUSSION
Can African leaders say 'NO' to David Cameron imposing Western values on Africa?
The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron has threatened Commonwealth countries of withholding general budget support if they do not reform legislation banning homosexuality.
He raised this at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia last week. Ending the bans on homosexuality was one of African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-37451800951729791992012-02-01T02:30:00.000-08:002012-01-31T23:27:48.083-08:00GENERAL NEWS Nigeria:Faces of Boko Haram sponsors
“Most of them (Northern governors), pay us monthly to leave their states alone”…that was one of the spokesmen for Boko Haram, Saidu Umar aka Usman Al Zawahiri.
For eternity these lunatics have unleashed terror on the Nigeria state and its people. As at last Friday, death toll, policemen, soldiers and civilians’ hovers between 950 and 1200…and still African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-37725530703054549712012-02-01T02:00:00.000-08:002012-01-31T23:26:16.143-08:00PRESS RELEASE
I am not working for any political party
By Odimegwu Onwumere
In my media practice of over a decade I have said to myself time without number that things that matter least will never distract me from the things that matter most. But I have seen that it takes good men to keep quiet for evil to take taproot in a society.
It is a scorching allegation hearing from some friends in the RiversAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-64501789639174526712012-01-31T23:30:00.000-08:002012-01-31T00:24:32.189-08:00GENERAL NEWS
UK still gripped by problem of racism
Britain is portrayed as anti-racist and an advocate of race equality in the mainstream media, but it is gripped by the persistent problem of racial prejudice, evidence shows.
First, a UN Resolution calling for the condemnation of all forms of racism and related ideologies was rejected by European countries, including Britain, on December 19, 2011.
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-860314097944302922012-01-31T21:00:00.000-08:002012-01-31T00:24:08.144-08:00GENERAL NEWS
Report reveals trafficking in Scotland
Victims of human sex trafficking have told campaigners how they were tortured and threatened to death in Scotland in a new report investigating the world's fastest-growing organised crime.
In a research commissioned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), nine women from Africa including Somalia, Nigeria, Gambia, Uganda and Kenya and one African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-59819488375840993082012-01-30T23:47:00.000-08:002012-01-30T23:47:05.878-08:00NEWS DISCUSSION
"Europe's migrant policies: Illusions of integration"
By Suzanne Mulcahy
In this edition of the show we discuss the book Europe's Migrant Policies: Illusions of Integration, written by Suzanne Mulcahy.
Europe is becoming increasingly anxious about issues of immigration and immigrant integration. Bans on the construction of minarets in Switzerland, prohibition of the wearing of African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-33145466425353688152012-01-30T22:00:00.000-08:002012-01-31T00:33:08.470-08:00GENERAL NEWSSarkozy attacks UK in fresh outburst
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ridiculed Britain once again by saying that “the United Kingdom has no industry any more”, media reports said.
The recent spat was made during a prime time national TV broadcast, in which Sarkozy was trying to defend his decision to introduce an increase in the Value Added Tax (VAT) in an attempt to boost France's African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-52409766421101773092012-01-30T12:28:00.000-08:002012-01-30T12:28:56.231-08:00YOUR HEALTH3 surprising reasons to give up sodaBy David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding
America has a drinking problem. No, not booze. I'm talking about soft drinks. According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, the average American guzzles 44.7 gallons of the sweet stuff every year. Not sure what 44.7 gallons looks like? It's about what you'd need to fill a small kiddie pool.
But the truth is, you African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-62262405665171475412012-01-30T02:15:00.000-08:002012-01-30T02:15:48.690-08:00GENERAL NEWSNIGERIA: Chadians among Kano attackersHussaini Umar, AfricaNews reporter in Kano, Nigeria
Nigerian police said people speaking a Chadian language were among the attackers who waged bombing and shooting sprees in Kano last Friday, killing a total of 185 people according to the first official tally.
"The extremists are said to be speaking accented Hausa language, Kanuri and Chad languages," African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-68773715958672942192012-01-30T02:09:00.000-08:002012-01-30T02:09:29.864-08:00COMMENTARYWhy are former British colonies performing better?By Dr Fred van der Kraaij
I have read the articles "The Post-Colonial Hangover" and "Why Francophone Countries Are Lagging Behind Anglophones" with great interest. In the first article - of a more general nature - historian Niall Ferguson argues for the positive legacy of the British Empire pointing to the "spreading of liberal values in terms African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-29953640868114016162012-01-30T01:43:00.000-08:002012-01-30T01:43:52.798-08:00GENERAL NEWSUS, EU offer counter-terrorism assistance
In the wake of the growing terrorist threat posed mainly by the Boko Haram Islamic sect, the US and European Union have offered to help Nigeria.
Concerned by the growing insecurity in some parts of Nigeria caused by the Boko Haram Islamic sect, the United States and European Union have offered to provide assistance to contain the situation, the localAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-49127853284149986972012-01-28T22:46:00.000-08:002012-01-29T08:59:59.909-08:00GENERAL NEWS"I am ready to fight to end dictatorship in Angola"
By Arao Ameny in New York
Angolan born Miss Universe Leila Lopes
New York, New York — Lelia Lopes, 25, native of Angola, the second black African woman to win the Miss Universe pageant was at SaharaTV to talk about Angola, her charity work and new life in New York City. She is only the second black African to win Miss Universe, after African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-592014536654247752012-01-28T20:33:00.000-08:002012-01-30T02:08:57.392-08:00VIDEO REPORT
Dancing for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dancing for peace in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-168539062806901552012-01-28T12:35:00.000-08:002012-01-30T12:09:21.653-08:00GENERAL NEWS
China funded African Union new HQ
The African Union has commissioned its Chinese-funded newly built headquarters in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. A huge golden key was handed over by top Chinese officials to declare open the $200m building, which is also 100 m high.
The inauguration of the project was attended by several African leaders who are also expected to hold their first African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-47242270692319564452012-01-28T05:25:00.000-08:002012-01-28T05:26:40.115-08:00GENERAL NEWS
Nigerian gay in the U.S at risk of deportation
By Matteo Pegoraro
Rome / San Diego, January 27, 2012. LGBT refugees in the U.S.: Becley Aigbuza, a young Nigerian homosexual who lives in San Diego, risks being deported back to his homeland where he was raped and tortured. EveryOne Group is appealing to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, the Secretary of State, Hillary ClintonAfrican News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-63567352167230362982012-01-28T05:09:00.000-08:002012-01-28T05:09:40.603-08:00GENERAL NEWSGhanaians urged to remember Nigeria in prayerAccra, Jan. 27, GNA- Global Intercessory Prayer Organisation (GIPO), a non governmental organization, has call on Ghanaians to show more concern for Nigeria’s current instability by praying for that country.
This according to the NGO, was due to the crucial deepening relationship that existed between the two countries.In a statement copied to the GNA African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-89194968491086364642012-01-28T01:28:00.000-08:002012-01-28T01:28:14.228-08:00COMMENTARY
If I were Nigerian new police boss
By Adewale T Akande
First of all, I will thank the almighty God for helping me to reach the highest level of my career and also thank the Presidency and the entire Nigerians for giving me this opportunity to serve as the 16th Inspector-General of Police of the most populous black nation of the world since the appointment of the first indigenous African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-65903425981092092052012-01-27T08:52:00.000-08:002012-01-27T08:52:23.903-08:00YOUR HEALTHSkin bleaching: Confusion or confidence? B y Oluwabunmi Ogunmoyero
THE vague fight against the ignorance of skin bleaching among Nigerians has received yet another boost as Bunmi Ogunmoyero, Public Relations student of University of Westminster, UK, launches her campaign "Love the Skin You Are In" to open a new vista of knowledge into how young Nigerians can stop confusing inferiority African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-41439906498354365402012-01-27T01:27:00.000-08:002012-01-28T01:27:43.848-08:00OPINIONRivers State: Traders & multiple ticketing agents at oil mill market
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
AUTHOR
In the time past, this writer wrote an article with the caption “Nigeria: Rivers State – the Bill on Illegal Development published in some online media sites and a few national dailies where he commented on the collection of all sorts of levy from land developers, borehole drilling companies African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-66615738750582860892012-01-27T01:15:00.000-08:002012-01-27T01:15:37.549-08:00NEWS & REPORTNorthern Christians reject new police bossFrom Noah Ebije, Kaduna
Abubakar
Twenty-four hours after appointing Muhammed Abubakar as the acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Christians in the 19 northern states and Abuja have rejected him.
In a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the Christian Association Nigeria (CAN), Sunday Oibe, it noted that all the Christians in the African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-88454595509349576542012-01-26T16:30:00.000-08:002012-01-26T09:13:00.500-08:00FEATURE
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Palm
wine: A drink the British could not kill
By
Adetokunbo Abiola
In the days of yore, before Britannia came
to the shore of Nigeria, palm wine was the 'mother of
all drinks.' British missionaries, sailors and soldiers came, bringing drinks
such as Jack Daniel's, Old Toms and Johnnie Walker as well as their muskets, ships
and rifles. British drinks soon dominated the market, pushing all African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907033456738321350.post-87235114998852798662012-01-26T03:02:00.000-08:002012-01-26T03:02:46.154-08:00NEWS & REPORT
Rwanda: Eggs are latest weapon against malnutrition
By Rodrigue Rwirahira
For Health Minister Agnes Binagwaho, 2012 must be the year of eliminating malnutrition in Rwanda; this is of capital importance, she says, because an unhealthy diet in an individual or at the community level impacts negatively on people's well-being as well as on society as a whole.
According to the Minister, while African News Hungaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667976521314241312noreply@blogger.com0