President Barack Obama has lauded South Africa’s moral leadership on the issue of nuclear non-proliferation at the just concluded nuclear summit in Washington . Obama praised President Jacob Zuma and his administration for keeping up their unique policy, after South Africa became the world’s only nation to voluntarily give up its previous nuclear weapons program, [...]
Reports from South Africa suggest that racial tensions are at their highest level since 1993. The sentiment comes as an understandable reaction in the context of the recent much-publicised murder of right-wing leader Eugene Terre’Blanche. Evidence of increase tensions can be seen on both sides of the divide. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) youth [...]
Botswana’s Vice President Mompati Merafhe Tuesday 6th April 2010 praised the role of the Church as a ‘moral authority’ in the country. Merafhe spoke at the official opening of the country’s Old Apostolic Church, highlighting how the Church had been a part of nation building initiatives such as the countries ‘Vision 2016’ scheme and its [...]
An ambitious plan to share the proceeds of the country’s oil wealth with its people is underway. The Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Development Bill, also known as the Local Content Bill, would include regulations for the activities of multinationals, bringing more indigenous activity into the sector and addressing issues of unemployment and unrest in [...]
The name Nuhu Ribadu, continues to evoke passion, admiration, hatred and [or] fear. These projected sentiments depend from which side one chooses to look at the name and equate same with the anti corruption fights and/or controversies in Nigeria. The man Ribadu came to lime light when the then President Olusegun Obasanjo established the Economic [...]
Last week, four Muslim clerics led by Sheik Ibrahim Datti Ahmad, the president, Supreme Council of Sharia rekindled the debate over the health of President Umaru Musa Yar’adua by visiting the ailing President. According to Datti, they were at the seat of power- the Aso Rock Villa, following a request to be allowed access to [...]
