By: Augustine N. Myers – The Bishop of the Evangelical Congregational Church (ECC) the world over at the head of a 4-man high power Team has paid his first visit to the Republic of Liberia to get acquainted with the Church’s activities in the Country. Rt. Rev. Bruce D. Hill speaking to the press at the close of a week-long visit to Liberia said he was happy to be in the country. “I feel very good, the Liberian people have been friendly, so welcoming, and so generous” Bishop Hill asserted”. The ECC Bishop said during his visit he noticed that... Continue Reading
By: Augustine N. Myers – Liberians on Monday, February 11, 2013 woke up to a shocking news on the death of the Chief of Staff of the Guinea’s Armed Forces and other senior military officials from the West African state of Guinea. The Guinean Army Chief with four other military personnel and five civilians including a journalist were killed on Monday when their aircraft crashed in Charlesville, 3 miles from the Roberts International Airport (RIA) in Margibi County, outside Monrovia. Guinean Ambassador accredited near Monrovia, Abdoudaye Dore, confirmed the death of his statesmen to reporters in Monrovia minutes following the... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa: A Nigerian graduate is celebrating after being awarded a Doctorate for his research from Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, Scotland and securing a prestigious teaching fellowship in the US. Dr Nuka Nwiabu (43) from Ogoniland, Rivers State graduated from RGU’s School of Computing Science and Digital Media in December 2012 with a PhD in Software Engineering. A former pupil of the County High School Ahoada and Government Secondary School Kaa, Nuka gained a BSc Computer Science from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana in 2002 and an MSc Computer Science from the University... Continue Reading
International SOS marked a milestone in its effort to provide mobile travel assistance solutions for business travellers and expatriates by announcing that the company’s travel assistance application* for members has achieved over 100,000 downloads. The announcement was made as International SOS launches its new ‘Spot the Risk’ campaign to drive awareness of health and travel security issues that travellers and expatriates may face whilst abroad. ‘Spot the Risk’ campaign launched In order to further promote health and travel security awareness whilst travelling, International SOS has launched its new ‘Spot the Risk’ campaign, which includes an online interactive game to test... Continue Reading
Political analysts in Tanzania have always been claiming that if the ‘spark in waiting’ in Kenya is always tribalism, then in Tanzania it is religion bigotry, and they are not quite wrong. On Monday February, 2013 one small town of Buselesele which is closer to Geita, a town which was promoted recently from being the headquarters of a district to that of a region has become another Kosovo after a bitter battle between Christians and Moslems. By 11 A.M. when this news reached Dar es Salaam one person had lost his life after the so called Islamic activists (fundamentalists?) had... Continue Reading
