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The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), the umbrella body for Muslims in the North, alleged Thursday that Christians were disguising as Muslims to burn down churches and indulge in terrorist activities. But the spokesman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)  in  the 19 Northern states and Abuja, Mr. Sunday Oibe, in a reaction maintained that no right thinking person can insinuate that Christians will disguise as Muslims and go about  bombing churches and killing people. The JNI in a communiqué issued at the end of its three-day retreat in Kaduna also accused the CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, of…

  A LETTER FROM GERMANY: Finding our economic role in Germany –         Prof. Brando Okolo As the saying goes, “the market which you are unaware of will still trade” Consider what might happen if all the people of Turkish origin were to depart from Germany; there will be no Kebab shops, piles of garbage will accumulate in the country, fewer taxis will be on the roads, low cost grocery shops with fresh Halal meat will also depart with them. Also consider what might happen if all east Europeans decide on going back home; the offices will be dusty and…

My life’s ambition was to become an independent and successful business man Tony Nwankwo- CEO Nwankwo Export GbR, N.T. Europe GmbH Tony Nwankwo is a successful business man, one of the pride of Nigerians and Africans in Germany, with a dealership in car and spare parts standard certificate. In addition he possesses the prestigious and all important licence as a shipping agent, making him one of the most competent and much sort after car dealer and shipping agent in Bayarn-Germany, the economic power house of Germany. Mr. Nwankwo defiantly understood what corporate responsibility means and has supports his immediate…

The Golden generation of Africans in Germany: Ivy Quainoo is “The Voice of Germany” The 19-year-old Ivy Quainoo has won the talent show “The Voice of Germany”. The Ghanaian-German from Berlin-Neukölln convinced the audience at the final show on Friday night with three very strong songs. Her coach, Alec and Sasha from the band BossHoss were very proud of her performances throughout the show. From the beginning neither Ivy nor her coach, The BossHoss musicians were regarded as favorites in the final show. Ivy competed against three very strong candidates from the coaches Nena, Xavier Naidoo and Rea Gavey -…

HANY AZER: The African who wrote Architectural History in Germany Engr. Hany Azer, an African of implacable engineering talent is the Architect of one of the world most modern and most expensive train station, costing about 700 million Euro. The construction which swallowed up 500 000 cm3 concrete and 85 000 tone of metal was finally opened to traffic on the 26th of May 2006. The train station is the New Berlin central station. It has 54 moving steps, 43 lifts, over 15 000 m2 shopping centre and 42,000 m2 office block spread over three floors and the station is…

Nana Akufo-Addo expresses confidence in Ghana’s Electoral Commission The presidential candidate of New Patriotic Party (NPP)Ghana’s main opposition political party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, stressed inBerlintoday thatGhanahas a satisfactory electoral structure to conduct credible elections. Speaking at a one-day conference themed: Stability or Crisis – Has Africa A Choice? Organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Nana Akufo-Addo said he was “reasonably satisfied with the quality of the people running the electoral commission,” stressing that “it can be trusted to conduct future elections”. “I may have to re-visit the question as to the quality of the people running the commission, when,…

Photo: Cross section of main speakers (back row) Kenneth Alakwe, Kenneth Gbandi, Franncis Emele, Dr.  Lere Shakunle, Heicent Nduka Maduadi (front row) Luke Etoh, Obiora Nweke, Osaze Irowa, Chief Johnson Shoyoye, Mrs. Tonia Egbuna, Engr Emeka Udeajah, Sunday O. Ajala: The forum which is the brain child of the African Heritage Magazine team represented by Hon. Kenneth Gbandi and Mr Obiora Nweke and the African Courier Magazine Team Represented by Mr. Femi Awoniyi and  Mr Kenneth Alakwe, held in Nigerian House,  Oranienburg Str. 159 Berlin. It drew lots of stakeholders from various German cities and officials of the Nigerian…

– Dr Emmanuel Franklyn Ogbunwezeh,  heads the Africa desk in Human Rights Watch, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany. History has shown that almost all the voices that ever “cried in the wilderness”, calling for change to a rotten status quo, ended up having their decapitated heads offered as gifts of tyranny to adultery. To this end, every John the Baptist must lose his head to the daughter of an adulteress. Tyranny knew that by making peaceful evolution impossible, it constructs breweries of discontent across the land; which grows to make violent revolution inevitable. In spite of this, tyranny seeks every…

Guinea’s newly accredited ambassador to Federal Republic of Germany, Ibrahima Sory Sow, presented his Letters of Credence to President Christian Wulff at the Castle Bellevue in Berlin. After taking ceremonial salute by a detachment of the German Marines (Navy), Ambassador Sow signed the official Guest Book and was ushered in by officials of the German Foreign Ministry and the Presidential Office to the Presidential Suite where he was received by the president. President Wulff and Ambassador Sow later met behind closed doors for discussions believed to centre on bilateral relations between Germany and Guinea, regional as well as international issues.…

Africa-Fair-Hamburg from 25 – 27. Mai 2012The “Afrika-Africa association” commissioned the company “Franke Spezialreisen UG” to organize the “Afrika-Messe-Hamburg” (Africa-Fair-Hamburg). Purpose of the association “Afrika-Africa association” is to help needy orphans and street children in Africa by raising funds and donations. These funds will be in the construction and maintenance of orphanages used. “We want to show the visitors also the continent with all its wealth of African art and culture, its diversity of peoples and landscapes, but also its opportunities, problems and changes”, siad the organizers. Besides the exhibition we offers an interesting program of presentations, more opportunities to…