5060674Tullow Oil is yet to find a suitable date to start selling its shares at the Uganda Securities Exchange (USE) where a dozen other companies are listed for tradingMr Jimmy Kiberu the company’s spokesman in Uganda said Tullow is reviewing new ti...

50123The Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said that the northern part of the country will still produce the next president in 2011 when the current tenure of President Umar Yar’adua who is sick is finished next year.The statement cam...

500107 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the Zionist regime is preparing for a massive attack on Gaza strip in order to make up for its previous defeats.The President said that existence of the Zionist regime is intertwined wit...

500122 AfranArmenian Prelacy Archbishop Sebouh Sarkissian in Tehran and a number of Armenian MPs on Monday met and conferred with Ayatollah Mohseni Gorgani, Head ofIRI Supreme Court.Ayatollah Gorgani said, "Noting that we have a common enemy who tries ...

HTML clipboard IntroductionThe word ZANZIBAR is of Persian or Arabic origin. The Persians derive the name from Zangh Bar, meaning "the Negro Coast." On the other hand the Arabs deduce the name from the Arabic Zayn Z'al Barr, meaning "Fair is this l...

TODAY is a special day for every Zambian whereever they may be. In the history of any nation, Independence Day is a defining moment when the collective sense of nationhood shifts back to recollect the genesis of an auspicious start at being an equal...

505 27Gambian youths have been urged to desist from all practices that might prove endanger the environment as The Gambia joins the rest of the world to mark the World Earth Day. Scores of Gambian youths had gathered at the Brufut Beach Sunday to cele...

50049 AfranIRI Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday the Islamic System of Iran bears a new message for the world.Speaking to university students in Sharif University of Technology, the Minister said in the past century, several governments c...

505 26 Monday May 3, 2010 was World Press Freedom Day and the occasion was observed by the Gambia Press Union who organised a symposium at the Alliance Franco Gambiene institution along the Kairaba Avenue.The gathering was chaired by Mrs. Ami Bojang ...

505 29 World leaders have failed to deliver commitments made in 2002 to reduce the global rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and have instead overseen alarming biodiversity declines. These findings are the result of a new paper published in the leading...

50610 NasserThere were snap calls for Africa’s youth to embrace hope ahead of doubt, and have the self-belief that only they can shape their destiny, as the World Economic Forum on Africa came to an end in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.The calls were prov...

50608 NasserOn her way to Dar es Salaam early this week for the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa, the World Bank Vice President for Africa, Ms Obiageli Ezekwesili, paid a courtesy visit to Uganda. She spoke to FREDRICK MASIGA about specific issues o...

50122The total aggregate accumulation by all contributors to the contributory pension fund now reached N1.6 trillion as at the end of March 2010, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Pension Commission (PENCOM), Mr. Muhammad Ahmad has disclosed....

505 16 Workers Day observedThe Gambia Saturday joined the rest of the world to observe Workers Day also known as May Day at a ceremony held at the Independence Stadium in Bakau. About 58 companies/institutions took part in the event, which began with a...

50801It should not surprise most Ugandans that for the last six years of Museveni’s rule, political controversies have often turned violent and am sure Ugandans are likely to witness the disintegration of our country and continued ethnic tensions if ...

506088President Museveni on Friday night gave reasons why he kept outgoing Principal Private Secretary (PPS) Amelia Kyambadde for 31 years, praising her for being a loyal servant and keeping his “secrets.”While attending the official State House se...

50617Kagame on accountability“In addressing the problems of Rwanda that we have faced and I think which extend beyond our borders in politics or in our social and economic lives I believe strongly, I have a conviction, that there is one element that ...

505 25The World Health Organization (WHO) country representative in The Gambia, Dr. Thomas Sukwa has saluted Gambian Journalists for their giant strides in covering health issues. He said that the WHO Country Office has been closely monitoring the acti...

505 33Farmers from the various farming organisations within the West Africa sub-region along with stakeholders in the agriculture sector has called on regional institutions such as West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) and the ECOWAS as well as the pr...