Professor Sylvester Monye (MFR), Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on performance evaluation and monitoring can best be described as an erudite scholar who believes in the Nigerian project. Monye demonstrated his uncommon patriotism when he left a lucrative academic career in the Diaspora to serve his fatherland. Since that epochal decision, Monye has remained as constant as the Northern star in the corridors of Government and has helped to fashion out reforms that have repositioned Nigeria’s economy and bureaucracy. Monye comes with an impressive portfolio of service and result-oriented background in the act of Governance. Described as an astute... Continue Reading
By Hassan Abbas, Dar es Salaam – President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania on Friday addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in a speech he categorically reminisced on Tanzanians fifty years of independence and its contribution to the international relations. “I’m happy that fifty years now after the independence of Tanganyika, the country under the new United Republic of Tanzania has continued to be a bonafide member of this noble organization,” he said in a speech availed to Shout-Africa.com over the week end. The president said as the founding father of the nation, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere informed the... Continue Reading
NAIROBI, 23 September 2011 (PlusNews) – Computer gamers, glow-in-the-dark cats and neutralizing viruses sound like the stuff of science fiction but they may be the key to eliminating HIV. More than 33 million people are infected with HIV globally, and while combination antiretroviral therapy is enabling people to have near-normal life spans, a cure has so far evaded researchers. IRIN/PlusNews lists three recent developments in HIV research: Computer gamers – The authors of a recent study published in the journal, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, say they challenged players of a computer game known as Foldit – where gamers “fold”... Continue Reading
By: Augustine N. Myers – After several months of work on the newly constructed Vai Town Bridge in Monrovia, followed by rigorous foot assessment by key government officials and partners, the convoy of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has finally plied the bridge amidst jubilations from community dwellers and onlookers. The bridge assessment was part of several road projects dedicated and inspected by President Sirleaf over the week-end in around Monrovia. The Bridge which connects the Commercial District known as Vai Town to that of the popular commercial area of Waterside collapsed in 2007. The Government of Liberia through the World Bank commenced the... Continue Reading
MTWARA, 19 September 2011 (IRIN) – Near the coastal town of Mtwara, Tanzania’s border with Mozambique is marked only by the River Ruvuma which is wide and relatively shallow at this point just before it drains into the Indian Ocean. Young men loll in small, wooden boats checking their cell phones and waiting for passengers to ferry across to the other side, but business has been slow in the last two months since groups of migrants desperate to complete a journey that began thousands of kilometres to the north stopped arriving at the river’s banks. “For the last two or... Continue Reading
