NIGERIA: M.I. Okoro & Associates Real Estate make public their new website

M.I. Okoro & Associates Real Estate launches their new website, the website that features amazing user experience has become one of the fastest growing real estate listing website in Nigeria.

BOLD: Nigerian woman lawyer and human right activist storm the streets of Asaba to rally against sexual violence in Nigeria:

The whole city turned up to join Awele Ideal Esq on her walk against sexual violence in honour of a sexual violence victim whose news has flooded the whole internet.

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AWELE IDEAL Esq Nigerian lawyer to sponsor a walk against sexual violence

Earlier today we received a call from from Nigeria over a trending news about a young girl who was repeated raped by her cousin and her aunty's husband.

The Principal of Ideal Chambers Awele Ideal Esq. declared a Walk Against Sexual Violence in other to seek justice for the little girl who later died from mental disorder and sexually related decease.

Quick Tv Africa Botswana finally began broadcast

BISYL HOTEL & SUITE, ABRAKA DELTA STATE GRAND OPENING

PHOTO CREDIT: Quick Tv Africa Limited, Lagos
BISYL HOTEL & SUITES, ABRAKA, DELTA STATE

NIGERIA: "Tony Richie will have 99% of the world Visa" by Victor Vote

We saw a post on Facebook just some few minutes ago and what we saw was genuine prayer from a man to a fellow man. Kindly read and learn.

GHANA: "I really appreciate Quick Tv Africa for this opportunity" - Ibrahim

We just got a report this afternoon that Quick Tv Africa TUNES just got a whooping promotional deal with Ghanaian reggae/hip-hop singer Ibrahim Bandigu.

Ibrahim Bandigu

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Minister Juliet from Nigeria asked about her music career

It was a great time with one of Nigeria's upcoming gospel artist Minister Ezemonye Juliet Amaka also known as Juli Gold Music.

Hello, good day ma. Can we meet you?

Juliet: I am Minister (Mrs) Ezemonye Juliet Amaka, I am married by God grace and His mercy has always been there for me and my household. I have a music company, I'm a chorister and a born-again christian.

(MUSIC) Ijo by Micah Songs Now Available for download

DOWNLOAD SONG HERE

GHANA: Deposit-taking Oboanipa Ventures not licensed – BoG

The Bank of Ghana has warned against “unlicensed deposit-taking activity” by Oboanipa Ventures Limited.

In a statement signed by Secretary Caroline Otoo, the bank said Oboanipa Ventures Limited is operating a deposit-taking business without the requisite licence.

It said Oboanipa is operating contrary to section 6 (1) of the Banks and Specialised Deposit-Taking Institutions Act, 2016 (Act 930).

The central bank has, thus, through the statement, informed the general public that Oboanipa Ventures Limited has “not been licensed” by the Bank of Ghana “to engage in any form of deposit-taking business.”

“Anyone who does business with Oboanipa Ventures Limited does so at his/her own risk,” the bank warned.

Long antecipated song by newly signed Quick Tv Africa Tunes dropping today

The long anticipated song Ijo by Micah Songs will be dropping any moment. Speaking with Micah Songs today over the phone he expressed his gratitude to God making this a reality and also promised to bring out the best in the near future.

Asaba Massacre The Blood Dance

Cash crunch risks grounding UN air ops in Sudan

UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi arriving at Al-Nimir camp in the Sudanese state of East Darfur on August 15, 2017. By ASHRAF SHAZLY (AFP)

Khartoum (AFP) - UN humanitarian air operations in Sudan face being grounded because of an acute cash crunch, aid officials say, affecting the delivery of relief to thousands of people in conflict areas.

The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has funding that will barely keep it flying until the end of November, raising the possibility that operations may have to cease from December.

UNHAS has two fixed wing aircraft and three helicopters, but has already stopped flying to five out of 41 locations in the African country.

"We are currently funded until end of November and we require one million dollars more to continue operations until the end of the year," Bianka Zyra, Sudan spokeswoman for the World Food Programme which manages UNHAS, told AFP.

"If we don't receive that one million dollars then operations will cease."

Aid workers say UNHAS is a vital service for delivering humanitarian supplies, especially medicines, in Sudan's conflict-wracked regions such as Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan.

The UN helicopters can access deep field locations that are extremely difficult to access by road.

"Although primarily a passenger service for aid workers, UNHAS delivers perishable vaccines which by road either take too long or due to bumpiness would shatter," Zyra said.

UNHAS also ferries international delegations, foreign diplomats and Sudanese officials to war-wracked areas to assess relief work.

'Full funding' needed

The current financial situation is critical for UNHAS as it now has to raise funds almost on a weekly basis.

"We are getting $500,000 from here or $250,000 from there," Zyra said when the service needs about $1.4 million a month.

"What UNHAS really needs is full funding, not only to the end of the year but extra money in terms of being able to plan strategically to be able to meet rising needs."

Those needs are increasing in part because the Sudanese authorities are offering relief workers more access to several previously no-go areas after Washington made it a condition that Khartoum must meet for a permanent lifting of decades-old US sanctions against Sudan.

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Modern Ghana

Community Based Rehabilitation uplifting physically-challenged children

Zambia Daily Mail 
WOMEN continue to bear a heavier burden when it comes to balancing work and family. Mothers spend about twice as much time with their children as fathers do. Very few fathers care about housework and childcare in their homes.

We will not allow Pres. Mutharika and his minions to drag our country Malawi back to days of death and darkness

For 30 years Malawi suffered under dictator Hastings Kamuzu Banda. Political parties were outlawed. Books such as Jack Mapanje’s Of Chameleons and Gods and George Orwell’s Animal Farm were banned, and anybody found in their possession was bound to be jailed. Heck, we were not even allowed to listen to such an innocuous 1970s Simon and Garfunkel song as “Cecilia”, just because the dictator’s mistress was known by that name. Worse, the affliction known as the Youth League and its twin the Malawi Young Pioneers, could beat, rape, maim, burn houses or even kill all those deemed to be enemies of state.

In 1992, Malawians decided they had had enough of the nonsense. Catholic Bishops initiated the fight with their pastoral letter. Chakufwa Chihana showed up to give a face to the liberation struggle. Bakili Muluzi and others joined in. By 1994 we kicked the dictator into the dustbin of history, and thought we had said bye to oppressive tendencies.

Throughout that time, Peter Mutharika was a lecturer at a private university in the United States, where he benefitted from other people’s democracy. He only came onto the scene after his brother, Bingu wa Mutharika, won the 2004 elections. Of course, he did make a brief showing at the constitutional conference in 1995, where he was one of the resource persons, but by that time the struggle against the dictator was already done and dusted. In essence, therefore, Peter Mutharika came to simply enjoy the fruits of our newfound freedom.

It appears, however, that he is not contented with merely enjoying what others fought for. By unleashing the so-called Youth Cadets on the opposition as he did today in Rumphi, he seems intent on dragging our country back to the days of death and darkness.

We will not let him.

Government lost plot on fighting corruption

As expected, Malawi is not making any progress on the ease of doing business with corruption, access to financing and tax rates being the country’s biggest dents. This is according to a new World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report.

While the country needs to improve on these and many other issues such as inadequate supply of infrastructure, inflation and inefficient government bureaucracy, my interest is on corruption where the country is ranked 132 out of 137 economies. Last year, Malawi was ranked 134 out of 138 economies.

That Malawi continues to perform badly on fighting corruption should not be a surprise. In the past four years, the country has slipped eight steps from 112 in 2012 to 120 in 2016 out of 176 economies with a score of 30 on the Transparency International (TI) Corruption Perception Index (CPI) rankings. Ranked lowly, Malawi is among countries that are plagued by untrustworthy and badly functioning public institutions. Even where anti-corruption laws are on the books, in practice they’re often skirted or ignored. People frequently face situations of bribery and extortion, rely on basic services that have been undermined by the misappropriation of funds, and confront official indifference when seeking redress from authorities that are on the take.

As many people have said time without number, Malawi’s poor ranking keeps away potential investors and development partners who use the corruption perception index as a basis for estimating the levels of risks for business and investment in a country.

The lack of progress in the country’s present ranking on ease of doing business does not also come as a surprise. Put simply, there is no political will to fight the vice. The momentum registered in 2013 when over 70 people were arrested for their alleged role in the massive plunder of public resources at Capital Hill has completely evaporated. All there is now is just noise, noise and more noise about fighting corruption with nothing to show for it on the ground. No wonder even after Malawi held the biggest ever investment forums in the past two years, potential investors are still taking a back seat to come and invest in the country because they have lost confidence in government policies.

The problem is that government always wants to wear a political mask. It keeps heaping all the country’s woes on the 2013 Cashgate as if that is the only problem. Everyone knows that the 2013 Cashgate is just a tip of the iceberg. I have said this before and I will not tire to say so.

RSM Risk Assurance Services, a British audit and advisory firm established that apart from the K24 billion, there was a bigger Cashgate spanning 2009 and December 2014 amounting to K236 billion. While there has been remarkable progress on prosecuting cases involving the plunder of K24 billion from the public purse, investigations into the K236 billion Cashgate to establish culprits have been swept under the carpet.

The RSM audit report disclosed that there are businesses linked to families which took part in rampant bid rigging and that 13 files were handed over to the Anti-Corruption Bureau for further investigations. But government is shamelessly looking away. It is this reluctance on the part of government to sustain the momentum shown on the K24 billion cashgate in fighting corruption that has seen the country slipping further on the CPI. The adagekhose akakhla pa mkhate sapheka is very true.

This selective justice and procrastination is the cause of the grand abuse of billions of Kwacha for the country’s major local development financing mechanisms for improving the poor’s livelihoods such as the Local Development Fund (LDF), the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and the District Development Fund (DDF) during the past few years.

After shielding culprits of the K236 billion Cashgate, and losing the plot to arraign looters of the LDF, CDF and DDF funds, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is now thieving from cash-strapped parastatals in broad day light. All the while the world and potential investors are watching.

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U.K. vs Nigeria: Two media companies fights over online presence

Media production and promotion company in Salford United Kingdom in a war with a media production and promotion company in Asaba Nigeria.

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UPDATE: Sergio Aguero news: Car crash leaves Manchester City ace out for TWO MONTHS after cheating death in horror smash

The Argentine striker had been at a concert in Holland when the taxi he was in careered into a pole while taking him to the airport on Thursday night.

Sergio Aguero was involved in this smash and could be out for up to two months after breaking ribs

 

Malawi President Mutharika’s return date from New York announced: Oct 2

Malawi’s government has confirmed  that President Arthur Peter Mutharika will return to the country Monday October 2  – days  after attending the U.N. General Assembly meeting of heads of state and government in New York.

I’m back Monday- Mutharika a alighting from a plane (C) Stanley Makuti

A cross-section of Malawians have demanded information on when the President will return home after the 72nd Unga for the world leaders’ meet officially ending on Monday.

Why should air time, data expire? And data mysteriously vanishes in Malawi

Buying airtime or dat should be treated like nonperishable items

Once subscribers buy airtime or data, companies should have nothing do with it. They have sold the data or airtime and recouped their money.  What else do they need?  People buy airtime or data so that they can use it. Even without expiry date customers will still use it anyway.  It is exploitative and atrocious to impose a negative condition on consumers such as expiry date.