It is another Friday and we are glad to produce an edition that will soothe your nerves for the weekend. Our line-up in News in Africa Online for today is great – Media, Education, Tourism, the Southern Africa sub-region, Health, Aviation, Agriculture, World Report and Sports. We also have Personality Profile and Spotlight on an important Nigerian public agency.
Let’s touch some teasers. President Donald Trump apparently believes totally in the philosophy that the Chief Executive can hire and fire. He hired Mr. Tillerson and has now fired Mr. Tillerson. Case closed. Well, the case is not quite closed. Reactions will flow from around the globe. Click on our entry in World Report.
Around the globe, commercial bus operators do a yeoman’s job, providing essential services to humanity. But they usually get their pay in cash. In Tanzania, research shows that those who want their pay in kind from school girls – of all the genre of patrons at their disposal – are adversely impacting on the country’s public education system. See where we are headed? Go to Education column.
The debate in African circles on the place of herbal treatment in medicine in the face of conventional drugs will not abate any time soon. But a research scholar has analyzed the situation, using the relevant tools and indices. Read our entry under Health column.
Today our Personality Profile swings to a quiet Nigerian achiever, Audu Ogbeh, a successful farmer, politician and administrator. On Spotlight, we have zeroed in on an agency that collates and analyzes data in the Nigerian public sphere – the National Bureau of Statistics.
That is it, as far as teasers go. Lest we forget, in Sports, we have broken away from the inclination to report football or soccer every week. Today, we serve you cycling. It is not just that the sport is entertaining but the preparation the Kenyans are making to flaunt their act at the world stage can captivate you. Take your mouse there and read it up. Have a great weekend!
Pat I. Chukwuelue
Editor-in-Chief
