Author: Segun Adebowale

Justice Minister Wynter Kabimba read out a list of allegations against Banda in Parliament on March 15, including “abuse of authority of office, fraud and misappropriation of public funds,” leading lawmakers in Africa’s largest copper producer to remove his immunity. Banda became president in 2008 after Levy Mwanawasa died, and he was elected later that year

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He called on motorists to avoid panic buying, adding: “There is no threat of fuel scarcity, we are working round the clock to surmount any distribution challenge and I can assure that the measures we have put in place are proving effective. So we call on motorists not to engage in panic buying which can result in unnecessary queues and create hardship for Nigerians, which is what we are trying to avoi

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Dear friends and compatriots, you will recall that in our End-of-Year State of the Nation Press Conference in 2012, we confronted the nation with information regarding the mind-boggling issues of corruption, profligacy and the scared-cow syndrome, including the unprecedented marginalization of the Yoruba by the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, focusing on the issue of lopsided recuitment and promotion in the public service

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But if the sheer force and range of Achebe’s fiction gave Africa a voice, the fearless truth of his critical interventions challenged so many myths and deliberate falsehoods about the most misrepresented and recklessly abused continent in the world. Achebe knew, and he tried to get us to know, that Africans will remain mere objects of the stories told by others, until they, Africans, have started to tell their own story their own way

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