Africa News - .geographical media - RSS

Syndicated content powered by .geographical media

RSS syndication makes it easy to receive content updates in My Yahoo!, Newsgator, Bloglines, and other news readers.

Current Feed Content

---

Banutu College Ends Leadership Training

Banutu Business College (BBC) is an institution that has a particular distinction in offering skilled trades to its pupils in the form of learning and discipline. The college recently ended a week-long for members of various security units, civil servants and the commercial industry on leadership quality at its campus in Lamin. The theme of the training was appreciative enquiry. According to the organisers, this opportunity will allow the participants make better use of the positive things...

Paramount chief awarded honorary diploma

Alhaji Demba Sanyang, the paramount chief of The Gambia, has been awarded an honorary diploma in management and leadership for his “extensive and excellent services” to communities and in social development by the Banutu Business College (BBC) in Lamin village. The paramount chief was bestowed this honour together with the Alkalo of Lamin Village, Mbemba Bojang at the colleges first graduation ceremony in recognition of his efforts and services rendered to the community. Kalilu Sanneh, a...

BBC holds graduation ceremony

Banutu Business College (BBC) held, on Saturday,  its graduation ceremony. About 30 students graduated in various fields, during a ceremony held at the college grounds in Lamin Village. The ceremony provided the opportunity to the college’ s authorities to unveil their strategic plan to start a bachelors degree programme, scheduled for September 2008. In his address, Dr Michael Banutu Gomez,  president and proprietor of the college, gave a brief overview of the college, noting that it was...

NATION = CULTURE

(Edited by Dida Halake for Progressive Africans, Sep 2, 2006) (Italicized comments in brackets are by DidaHalake) "Colonial domination (nowadays CNN/BBC?), because it is total and tends to over-simplify, very soon manages to disrupt in spectacular fashion the cultural life of a conquered people. This cultural obliteration is made possible by the negation of national reality, by new legal (and psychological) relations introduced by the occupying power (nowadays World Bank, IMF), by the...

The Promised Land

This year’s US presidential nomination process has so far accentuated a great lot about "The Promised Land" than the world had expected long before Senator Barak Obama announced his revolutionary intention of running for the highest office in the land. We said revolutionary because of the inevitable potential mÍlÈe that is now apparent - racist persecution of all sorts. In fact it was never a surprise when pictures and comments of Obama were consistently put under tight scrutiny. His dressing...

GOVT. REACTS Responds to BBC/FOROYAA

The Government of The Gambia, through Neneh Macdouall-Gaye, Secretary of State for Information, has reacted to the continuing efforts by opposition elements and the BBC to tarnish the good name of our peaceful Gambia. In a press release sent to all media houses yesterday the Secretary of State had this to say. “The Department of State for Communications and Information Technology has reacted to a BBC Focus on Africa report on Ghanians protest over killing in Gambia and FOROYAA’s issue of...

Tainting The Gambia and Africa!

- through biased British reporting Below is an example of biased British reporting" on Africa, a most common example – a common feature even at the almighty BBC. I hear that this week the British and the Americans are giving "journalism training" in The Gambia. Once you have read the piece below, you may agree with me that balanced "journalism training" is more needed in the UK itself. Here is the story from the South Wales Echo (the italics are mine): Aids all-clear for boy hurt in freak...

TAIWAN: UN referendums in March

Reports reaching the Daily Observer revealed that Taiwan will hold two referendums next month on joining the United Nations, the island's election commission says.   The commission's secretary-general, Teng Tien-yu, said the votes would be held on 22 March, the same day as the forthcoming presidential election. According to reports monitored from BBC, the two referendums have been proposed by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the opposition Kuomintang. Taiwan has no seat at...