5060676Social networking may sound fluffy, until you begin to realise that it can actually boost your company’s profits. Aside from the light hearted moments people share with each other on social networking sites, many companies today rake in billio...

500164 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he is ready to confer with his US counterpart President Barack Obama on global developments at the upcoming UN General Assembly.President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian nat...

In the 1968 Mexico City Olympic games, a young African runner from Tanzania, named John Stephen Akhwari, would compete in the last event of the games - the 26 mile, 385 yard marathon. Although he would ultimately finish last, nearly an hour behind t...

This past Sunday I preached on the 10 plagues of Egypt during the reign of history’s most ego-maniacal pharaoh; Ramses II. It will air in a few weeks and I predict it will have you saying, “Oh my”, “Oh ya” or “Oh no.” I specifically ...

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50502 The GambiaThe soaring food prices and high cost of energy has put the Gambia’s inflation outlook at the risk despite the Dalasis stability and growth in Agriculture, Central bank Governor said in a recently tightly-held press briefing at the ba...

50205 MauritaniaAl-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique a annoncé vendredi que l'humanitaire espagnole gardée otage 100 jours en Mauritanie avait été libérée car elle s'était volontairement convertie à l'islam. Dans un communiqué diffusé sur les sites...

Senegal-50423OPERATION TEMPETE DU DESERTL’Etat du Sénégal attrait devant la Cpi par des anciens militairesLe président Abdoulaye Wade, est le premier chef d’Etat sénégalais à être attrait devant la Cours pénale internationale (Cpi) de la Ha...

50032 AfranThe Chair of Iran's Red Crescent Society asserted that in the recent report of the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies, Iran was ranked fifth in disaster management. Ahmed Esfandiari said emergency encampm...

50319 – 09042010MUSLIM LEADERS remained cautious on going public with their stand on the Proposed Constitution.They said they were still consulting and holding meetings before taking a position. Prof. Abdullghafoor H.S. Elbusaidy, Chairma of Supreme ...

50114Nigeria’s acting president Goodluck Jonathan has left the shores of the country on his first foreign trip to the United States of America where he is expected to meet with US president Barrack Obama.Jonathan’s fly to the United States was his ...

50054 AfranIRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a meeting with Central African Foreign Minister Antoni Gumbi said Iran is ready to boost its cooperation with the country in all fields.Referring to numerous potential and resources of Central Africa, he ...

50120About ten inmates were said to have been killed in a failed jailbreak yesterday at the Kaduna Convict Prisons in Kaduna state, north-central Nigeria when they attempted to escape during the rancor that greeted the prison in early morning hours.The...

50076 AfranPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Ugandan counterpart President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Saturday in Kampala, Uganda, called for further expansion of all-out relations between the two nations.Heading a high-ranking politico-economic delega...

505 12 President Jammeh attends Senegal's 50th independence anniversaryPresident Jammeh was among 22 Heads of State from across the continent who attended Senegal's 50th Independence Anniversary Celebrations held Sunday morning in Dakar. At the center ...

50607Kampala.Visiting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said it is treason and betrayal of mankind to deny nations who need access to nuclear energy that right.“We think it is the right of all nations to use nuclear en...

50129The 36 states governors in Nigeria have pledge to support the administration of the country’s new President Goodluck Jonathan to sustain the legacy left behind by the late President Umar Yar’adua.Jonathan who was busy receiving Very Important ...

505 30Barry L Wells, the US ambassador to The Gambia yesterday wrapped-up his three-day tour of project sites in the country with a visit to projects in the Upper River Region (URR).At Demba Kunda in Jimara District, the community named their health ce...

505 37The Community Driven Development Project (CDDP) Tuesday disbursed 28 cheques amounting to three million nine hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-nine dalasi, ninety-four bututs (D3,943,399. 94b) to 22 villages and 6 wards i...

501 50Two commissioners of Police were promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspectors-General of Police. The Police Service Commission approved promotion at its 15th plenary meeting held in AbujaThe officers promoted to the rank of AIGs are Messrs Mohamm...