NEWS & REPORTS

Nigeria releases 70 out of 100 Chinese arrested

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei has confirmed the release of about 70 out of over 100 Chinese citizens arrested by Nigeria's immigration authority.

COMMENTARY

A sad moment for Africans & Africa

ByKwame Okoampa-Ahoofe

As someone who has forged and maintained cordial, romantic and fraternal relationships with Africans of Kenyan nationality for some three decades, I was visibly horrified to learn about the brutal murder of a fellow Ghanaian in Maryland, here in the United States, by a fellow African of Kenyan nationality (See “U.S. Student Admits to Eating Ghanaian's Heart, Part of Brain” CNN/Ghanaweb.com 6/1/12). 

HUMAN RIGHTS & JUSTICE

Free Linda Nakibbuka

Friday, June 1, 2012. EveryOne Group supports the campaign launched by the Movement for Justice, for the life of Linda Nakibbuka, an Ugandan lesbian at risk of deportation from United Kingdom to Uganda, a nation where both female and homosexual activity is illegal. Here, the petition promoted by the Movement for Justice.

NEWS & REPORTS

 Mubarak jailed for life for protest deaths

Verdict moment (bbc)

An Egyptian court has sentenced ex-President Hosni Mubarak to life in prison for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising.

NEWS & REPORTING

 Nigerian appointed police commander in UK

Olisa, a Chief Superintendent with the London Metropolitan Police, whose grandfather was a police officer in Nigeria, said his focus was on the job rather than on being the ‘first black’ to hold the position.

TRIBUTE

Appreciation

Death is funny. I was initially crying that I lost my maternal mother who was interred on 29th May, 2012. But I am laughing today, at least, she has lived. My maternal mother lived and died, unlike many who died before they lived. 

INTERNATIONAL EVENT

Happy International children’s day

The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, proclaimed June 1 to be International Children's Day in 1925.

MIGRATION & DEPORTATION

Activists protest the German Police Blockade of Nigerian Embassy and Against Deportation Collaoration in Berlin

PRESS RELEASE

Football Unites at Euro 2012

With a week to go until the start of Euro 2012, the FARE network programme for Poland and Ukraine is making final preparations ahead of a launch in Warsaw next Friday (8 June). 

COMMENTARY

The Biafran war veterans

By Odimegwu Onwumere

Biafran war veterans

Two years ago, the Nigerian government guaranteed to reimburse veterans of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war. On the side of Biafra, the ex-war experienced persons pleaded with the Federal Government on 14^th May, 2012, to honour the assurance of the N1.5 billion it said was going to be given to them.

EXCLUSIVE NEWS

Racial violence against Indians in Ukraine

Hindus are concerned about the reported incidents of racist violence against people of Indian descent in Ukraine. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that if Ukraine could not ensure the safety of people of Indian descent from such incidents, Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) should withdraw the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2012) from Ukraine.

COURT & JUSTICE

Austria: Nigerian cries for justice after imprisonment for drug offence

 By Uzoma Ahamefule

Pastor Joshua Esosa

This is a sad story of a Nigerian who is a pastor in one of the new generation churches in  Vienna  called Grace Ministries International. Pastor Joshua Esosa is from  Edo  State  and in the narration of his unbelievable ordeal, he recounted how he was arrested, framed up and jailed for a crime he said that he had never committed.

COMMENTARY

South Africa's African agenda 

By Pusch Commey, Humanitas Afrika

The Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Mothlanthe paid a rare visit to Ghana in April at the invitation of John Dramani Mahama , Vice President of Ghana. It is significant in terms of a growing realisation of the need for South Africa to develop with Africa. The visit was within the context of consolidating the African Agenda through enhancing and deepening political, economic and social relations.

OPINION

Abia & the abuse of Monorail  

 By Odimegwu Onwumere

Theodore Orji

When the news filtered into the Nigerian environment that Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Canadian company, Globim Corporation, for the construction of a monorail transportation system in the state, many saw it as a welcomed development and expressed happiness with the novelty. 

FOOTBALL

How African strikers fared in Europe

Drogba

Though their newly crowned UEFA Champions League winner Drogba has turned 34, Côte d'Ivoire fans need have no worries about the future of the national team, not with Seydou Doumbia around. Ten years his junior, Doumbia has even managed to outscore Drogba this season, finishing the Russian Premier League season as leading marksman with 28 goals, ahead of luminaries such as Samuel Eto'o, Kevin Kuranyi and Alexander Kerzhakov. 

NEWS & REPORT

Ghana: Foreign retailers cited for currency depreciation

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is attributing the sharp depreciation of the Ghana cedi against major currencies to the illegal activities of foreigners in the retail sector. GUTA President, George Ofori, has cited this as one of the justifications in the renewed drive to flush out foreigners operating in the retail business, emphasizing their threat to the Ghanaian economy.

OPINION

Unemployment, frustration & crime
By Nwaorgu Faustinus
 

Unemployment can be defined as state of being jobless.  An unemployed person is one who is searching for job, ready and available to work, but cannot find it.

OPINION

Rivers & the security achievements
By Odimegwu Onwumere

Onwumere

Governor Chibuike Amaechi did something unbelievable of a distinctive Nigerian governor on 17th May, 2012. His speedy response through a television broadcast quelling the minds of the residents on the explosion which nearly sent the residents packing does not only require commendation but has taught the residents that the governor was not ruling the state from abroad as was a speculation in many quarters before the incident.