Nigeria: FG Yet to Inaugurate Public Procurement Council
The Federal Government is yet to inaugurate the National Council on Public Procurement, three years after the law establishing the Bureau for Public Procurement, BPP.
Nigeria: Govt Moves to Check Illegal Trafficking of Artifacts
An artifact is any object made or modified by a human. It is part of the evolution of man in all its ramifications. It tells the greatness of a civilization and its age. Hence, artifacts are of immense value to archaeologists and historians. They give glimpses of what life was like within certain people or region long before written history.
Peacekeepers to Withdraw From Parts of Congo
Thousands of troops will leave Congo’s troubled east, United Nations officials said, but the peacekeepers will pull out of the more stable central part of the country.
Nigeria: Artists’ Killing Shocks Oshiomhole
Edo State governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has expressed deep sorrow over the killing of two movie practitioners, Erharuyi Ogbeide and Eghosa Idehen, by unknown gunmen in Benin City, on Tuesday.
Questions For Archbishop Desmond Tutu: The Priest
The South African archbishop talks about his country after the Mandela era.
Ravaged Nigerian Village Is Haunted by Massacre
After ethnic violence flared in January in Jos, the military patrolled the city, but neglected nearby villages where reprisals took place over the weekend.
Nigeria: Court Nullifies Dangote’s Election as Stock Exchange President
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, today (Friday) nullified the August 6, 2009 election of Alhaji Aliko Dangote as the President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE. Meanwhile, Dangote’s counsel, has meanwhile said he will appeal against the ruling.
AfDB and Founder of New Faces, New Voices Network Co-Host of the African Women Economic Summit (AllAfrica.com)
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Ushahidi – Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis
A small Kenyan-born Web site is bringing crowdsourcing to disaster relief and other humanitarian causes.
Nigeria: Police to Press Murder Charges Over Jos Killings
THE police said, yesterday, that 49 people are to be charged with murder after communal violence left scores of villagers dead. Most of those facing charges are Muslims from the Fulani group, police spokesman Mohammed Lerama told the BBC.
