PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has, over the years, adamantly refused to choose a successor, notoriously playing ambitious lieutenants against each other to his advantage by seeming to encourage one faction and then brutally putting them down for misreading his intentions. But insiders suggest Zimbabwe’s Machiavellian leader is finally moving to resolve the age-old question, hence the current commotion in his Zanu PF party which has seen the merciless destruction of a faction aligned to former Vice President Joice Mujuru. Analysts claim Mugabe’s hand has been forced by the three key issues; the fact that he is 90 years-old, the term limitation…
Author: Pride Team
Parents and pupils in Ghana have been reminded of their obligations to create a conducive, enabling environment to enable their children focus exclusively on their education. Ashanti Regional Minister Samuel Sarpong who gave the reminder, urged pupils “not to ruin their academic careers” through acts of indiscipline and other social vices. On an official tour of basic schools in the Ejisu-Juaben municipality to welcome kids enrolled into the mainstream school system for the first time, Sarpong advised the pupils to “stay focused and work hard on their books” to assure themselves of a fulfilling future. “Beware of absenteeism, truancy, drug…
The STEELE siblings of South Africa – Clive and Susan – are literally hopping mad as a court order has stopped an auction sale that would have earned them at least R100,000. The court order was sequel to an “urgent application” filed by late Steve Biko’s son, Nkosinathi, that the document that the Steeles had offered for auction was not theirs to sell. The document is the autopsy report on Steve Biko which the duo had found among their mother’s papers after her death. Their mum, Maureen Steele had come by the Biko autopsy report when she worked as personal…
Remember Nkandla? It is South African President Jacob Zuma’s private home which last year underwent alleged irregular multi-million rand upgrades and became a source of controversy which culminated in the SA Police raiding Parliament to sack an opposition MP. It is still tending, but it appears to have assumed a more sinister, and dark aspect. Supposed armed robbers have gruesomely murdered two close family members of two contractors who handled some aspects of the hugely profitable upgrading, one after the other within 40 days. Two close family members of high-profile people linked to the allegedly irregular multimillion-rand upgrades to President…
The Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency has donated Le20 million to President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma as the organization’s contribution in the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone. SLIEPA Chief Executive Raymond Gbekie, who handed over a cheque for the amount to President Koroma at a colourful ceremony at State House, accompanied it with large amounts of rice and palm oil. Gbekie told President Koroma that the donation was to complement government’s efforts in the ongoing fight against Ebola. Raymond Gbekie is well known for his humanitarian spirit. Last year when irate youths in his home district of…
The Democratic Republic of Congo now has a unity government drawn from the ruling party, the People’s Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) and three opposition parties, namely the Movement for the Liberation of Congo of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the Union of Forces for Change and the Union for Democracy and Social Progress. This unity government is sequel to a promise President Joseph Kabila made in October 2013 following talks with the opposition and civil society. The new team, to be headed by incumbent Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo with 47 other members, will still be dominated by the ruling party.…
Mr. Duncan Latimo Naidoo, the landlord of a house where police recently seized R32 million worth of drugs, has denied any drug dealing. Naidoo, an uMhlanga businessman who owns a string of properties and assets, made the denial when he appeared in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court last month. He is charged with four other men for allegedly dealing in or alternatively, being in possession of, methaqualone, the active ingredient in the manufacture of mandrax. The four men arrested at the house at Kloof in June – Wing Lik Wong, 58, Kin Hung Yip, 56, Warren Daniels, 24, and Junaid Rasool,…
After conquering the world of football, Liberian Senator-elect George Weah has appointed a Chief of Staff to superintend his second foray into the world of politics. Speaking in Monrovia Saturday (Jan 3) after receiving his certificate as Senator-elect for Monstserrado County of Liberia from the National Elections Commission, Weah named a close associate, Mr. Frank O. Grant, as his chief of staff. He said he would use his first 90 days in office to ascertain the needs of his constituents from all the 17 districts in his county, for which purpose he would appoint a committee, because his platform is…
Dear Dorothy, My boyfriend is needy. He’s always asking for one assistance or the other. We’ve dated for eight months, initially I thought he had some hiccups with his business and things would turn around eventually. I have noticed he is a bit slothful and maybe the reason why his business is slow. He keeps barging into me for quick loans that are mostly non-refunded. I am not too comfortable with this, what do I do? Bella, Warri. Dear Bella, I would be uncomfortable too if I were in your shoes. A slothful man would always be broke and need…
It was a tragic day for the family of one of Nigeria’s society matriarchs and Hon Dimeji Bankole’s step mother, Iyalode Adunni Bankole, who passed away on Saturday. The Gbagura high chief had been ill for days. A reliable source informed us that she was in comma for five days before she finally gave up the ghost on Saturday, January 3, 2015. Sadly, she died on the wedding day of one of her daughters, Mopelola, who is heavily pregnant. We confirmed that the daughter’s Nikkah was on going at The Event Centre, near Afrika Shine, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, while…