The Daily IIJ

REPORTS REACHING the Chronicle on Saturday indicate that President John Evans Atta Mills  summoned all his security heads to the Castle, to urgently dilate on issues bordering on the recent bus rape incident at a location near Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region and the security situation in the country in general. Read more on [...]

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THE INSPECTOR General of Police (IGP) Paul Tawiah Quaye has cautioned 124 police personnel selected to undergo a Cadet Officers’ course at the Police College in Accra that, the administration would not tolerate mediocrity and for that matter they should be up and doing to achieve excellence. Read more on www.nayank80.blogspot.com

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By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya In other to continue to strengthen the present peace and tranquility in the country, Sierra Leone will from December 11th-15th 2010 hold an international conference with the theme religion and peace at the Taia Resort Hotel in Freetown. The international peace conference is going to be organized by the West African [...]

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Bangladesh Press Council, the newspaper watchdog in Bangladesh has recommended arranging an entrance examination for those willing to take up journalism as a profession. The council made the observation in the verdict of a case against a weekly Bangla newspaper Sheersha Kagoj, said a handout of the Press Information Department.

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At a public debate about the journalism of the future organized by ZEIT online in October 2010,  IIJ alumni James Ratemo asked The Guardian‘s editor in chief, Alan Rusbridger, about his thoughts regarding the future of newspapers in Africa. I filmed the interview with a Kodak Zi8 pocketcamera and an external microphone. Watch the full [...]

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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday slammed 57-count charges on suspended Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority for corruption and misappropriation of donor funds, among others. Mr. Sesay’s wife and three others have also been charged with corruption. All the accused persons should make an appearance in court next week in a matter dubbed:

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By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya The Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) has held a two seminar on economic and financial crimes reporting for journalists in the Anglophone countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana and the Gambia. The two day seminar from the 25th and 26th of October is being held [...]

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By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya The Old Prince Walleans from the Diaspora in collaboration with the home based ones on Saturday October 23, 2010 introduced the Teaching and Learning Situation Survey Project at the School’s computer laboratory department in a bid to see possible pitfalls that led to the present falling status of the school.

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It was in 1994 that Nigeria successfully obtained approval for the acquisition of the first nuclear research reactor through a Technical Cooperation Project from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after series of negotiations.

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Several prominent politicians across the country are considering defecting to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the National Secretary of the party, Dr Usman Bugaje told Sunday Trust yesterday. He said that the opposition party is cashing on the internal party wranglings in the other parties to woo their disgruntled members to its fold.

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