Proceeds from Liberia's timber industry reportedly helped to fuel the Charles Taylor bush war that decimated the country and sent thousands to their unwanted graves.
Three monasteries, some of the oldest in the country, as if on cue and one after another, saw their old-growth forests go up in conflagration for days on end, if not for weeks. The forests at the 3 or 4
UGANDA is among the four countries that will participate in a $47m (sh80b) project that will develop drought-resistant maize for Africa. Others are Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.
The art of writing could be completely different from what contemporary journalism requires of information gatekeepers, especially newspaper journalists.
As the nation continues to celebrate the U-23 Olympic ticket, a battle of authority is about to be witnessed by Nigerians over the rightful owner of the broadcast rights of the match between Samson Siasia's team and the Amaglu-glu of
One of South Africa's internationally accredited creative talents, Dan Barker, was recently in South Africa discussing his experiences working on 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studio's animated pic, Horton Hears a Who!, which began showing locally late last week.
DOES the mass media have control over public opinion? The emergence and use of new technologies like the internet - and the accompanying weblogs - has also led to the emergence of an opportunistic media.
The editor of Desert Herald, a Kaduna-based monthly newspaper, Mallam Tukur Mamu, has petitioned the inspector-general of police, Sir Mike Okiro, over threat to his life by agents alleged to be supporters of Yobe State governor, Senator Mamman Ali.
Following the inability of New Nigerian Newspapers management to meet up with the demands and other entitlements of the company's staff, the joint unions of the company, comprising the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the National Union of Printing
At a press conference in Village Urugwiro yesterday, a journalist sought to know from President Paul Kagame the reasons behind the arrest of Rwandair Director General.
Metro FM is handing over the microphones to hip-hop artist Proverb and former e.tv news anchor Nothemba Madumo, who will be joining the station in April 2008 as part of the new lineup. In addition station music compiler and house
No, YFM CEO Kanthan Pillay has not been fired. It was all an April Fool's joke, according to the newly relaunched YFM website, "to expose the lunacy of recent reports that YFM is in financial distress, is losing listerners and
The case in which the former secretary general of the National Youth Council (NYC), Pohamba Shifeta, is suing New Era newspaper for defamation of character started in the High Court yesterday.
