Lagos | Wednesday THE Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) has signed a long term sales and purchase accord with ENI Spa of Italy for the delivery of 1,5-billion cubic meters of gas per year, an official statement said this week. Under the terms of the agreement NLNG will deliver 1,5-billion cubic metres per annum of […]
Sokot, Nigeria | Monday AN Islamic appeal court in northern Nigeria is expected on Monday to overturn a lower court’s sentence of death-by-stoning passed against a 35-year-old woman for adultery. The Upper Sharia Court of Sokoto State in northwest Nigeria will hold the hearing early on Monday. The sentencing to death of Safiya Husaini here […]
THE trial of Sierra Leone’s notorious rebel leader Foday Sankoh for a slew of vicious crimes resumed in Freetown Monday with a potential death penalty hanging over his head. Sankoh, the elusive leader of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF), appeared on March 4 before the Freetown magistrates court along alongside some 50 other defendants […]
Washington | Tuesday OSAMA bin Laden’s half brother told CNN on Monday that the world’s most sought-after terrorist suspect is not only alive, but does not suffer from a kidney disease that would require dialysis. Sheikh Ahmad also said his brother Osama was not behind the September 11 suicide attacks on the United States. “He […]
LACHLAN CARMICHAEL, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt | Thursday US VICE-President Dick Cheney said on Wednesday that weapons of mass destruction, the “tools of genocide”, were the next target in the US-led war on terror. However, his Egyptian host President Hosni Mubarak predicted that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein would re-admit UN weapons inspectors, in line with Security […]
THE International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said it would unblock $12-million in aid to Sierra Leone, as the West African country achieved adequate results in its three-year poverty reduction plan. “Sierra Leone has made remarkable progress in advancing the peace process during 2001,” said Eduardo Aninat, the deputy managing director and acting chairman of the […]
A SENSE of fatalism gripped Togo on Wednesday, a day after the government deferred long-delayed general elections set for March 10, citing a logjam within the national electoral commission. “We knew about the quarrels, but it’s really bad for the country,” a businessman said in disgust. “They must come to some sort of understanding to […]
LEADING Congolese musician Defao Matumona Lulendo, was charged in a Nairobi court on Friday with obtaining a credit from a Nairobi hotel fraudulently, Kenyan newspapers reported on Saturday. Lulendo, popularly known as General Defao, was charged with obtaining 594 400 Kenyan shillings (about $7 600 dollars) credit from a Nairobi hotel between October 2001 and […]
FIFTEEN people were killed and dozens wounded overnight when two rival Somali factions clashed in the Bulohubey district of south Mogadishu, militia leaders and witnesses said on Thursday. The fighting pitted the militia of powerful Mogadishu warlord Mohamed Qanyare Afrah and those of his rival, little-known Hashi Dhabarey. Dhabarey said that Afrah’s fighters had attacked […]
SIERRA Leone’s electoral body said on Wednesday that nearly 2,3-million voters have been provisionally registered for May’s presidential and legislative elections. A representative for the National Election Commission (NEC) said a list of the 2,276,518 voters would be displayed at registration centres throughout the country from March 9 to 13 for “verification and objection purposes […]