February 23, 2012
- Mid-night inspection catches deserting doctors, nurses unawares
- Sierra Leone: US$40m in private pockets due to procurement flaws
- Fuel subsidy crisis triggers higher inflation rate in Nigeria
- Obasanjo in Senegal to ‘‘prevent what is preventable’’
- CPJ says world’s media 'under siege,censorship widens'
Mid-night inspection catches deserting doctors, nurses unawares
Sierra Leone's Health Minister Zainab Bangura
By Mohamed Konneh/WADR Correspondent
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health and Sanitation has taken doctors and nurses at public hospitals by surprise by conducting mid-night inspection of conditions at the facilities.
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Obasanjo in Senegal to ‘‘prevent what is preventable’’
February 22, 2012With tensions mounting and concerns of serious threat to Senegal’s long political stability looming, former Nigerian President Olasegun Obasanjo has arrived in the capital, Dakar as a Special envoy of the African Union and ECOWAS to observe Sunday’s presidential polls and what he called ''prevent what is preventable.''
Fuel subsidy crisis triggers higher inflation rate in Nigeria
February 22, 2012Inflation is on the rise in Nigeria. Since December, inflation in the country has jumped from 10.3% to 12.6%, according to the country’s National Bureau of Statistics.
Sierra Leone: US$40m in private pockets due to procurement flaws
February 22, 2012Studies show that appropriate procurement reforms could save Sierra Leone’s government an estimated US$40m a year, money which allegedly ends up in private pockets due to improper procurement procedures.
CPJ says world’s media 'under siege,censorship widens'
February 21, 2012A yearly survey conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) shows that local censorship has gone global and the world’s media are under siege, with the watchdog role of a free press being publicly tarnished and critical reporting deemed anti-patriotic.
Liberia oil firm optimistic of ‘’potentially significant discovery’’
February 21, 2012Liberia has said a ‘’potentially large accumulation of oil deposit’’ has been discovered off the country’s coast.
“This news is good news for Liberia, and we are cautiously optimistic. We do not yet really know how much is down there. But we know, according to African Petroleum, that this discovery is of very good to excellent quality oil,’’ said Dr. Randolph McClain, President of the state-owned National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCOL).
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