adminKenya to tour Namibia, Zim
NAIROBI -Kenya will tour Namibia and Zimbabwe ahead of the World Twenty20 qualifier next year. They will play eight
Pakistan duo guilty of spot-fixing
LONDON – The jury in the spot-fixing trial has found Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif guilty, by a unanimous verdict, on the
Bobby Motaung has lost it
Neal Collins
“Everything we do is in order. If there is a baby crying in the house, it does not mean there are issues between the father and
More sexual harassment questions for Herman Cain
Herman Cain, one of the front-runners in the Republican race for the White House, faces more questions over allegations of
Digitising revolutions: Africa’s major challenge
We are living in a fast-changing terrain. If you snooze, you lose. As I watch the popular embrace of information communication technologies by all and sundry, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity and belief systems, it is as if the Internet, with its accompanying familiarities such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yookos have always been a part of our lives.
We have become the touch-button generation that can easily talk about bits and bytes, cyberspace and virtual reality.
Despite using them daily, I’ve often remarked that sometimes I feel so ancient. It was in the early 90s that our small class on information networking (the Internet) turned some of us into cyberpunks – literally living on the Internet – netizens as one of our professors loved to call us.
We even laughed at a New York Times article of June 5, 1994 headlined, “On the Internet, dissidents’ shots heard ‘round the world'”.
To the print media, this was a major discovery, which we had since discovered as we witnessed struggles finding their way on the Internet.
When social media finally became the acceptable term, it
Lifestyle guru wins damages over Blair sex story
LONDON. – A style guru, whose friendship with former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s wife caused him embarrassment during his
SABMiller launches commercial cassava beer
JOHANNESBURG. – SABMiller, the world’s second-biggest brewer, launched a cassava beer on Tuesday in Johannesburg,
Court throws out challenge to Jonathan’s election victory
ABUJA. – A Nigerian court threw out a challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in an election in April, upholding the
New site on journalists
ABUJA. – A Nigerian court threw out a challenge to President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in an election in April, upholding the
Anti-gay marriage Bill polarises debate
ABUJA. – Nigerian legislators started hearings this week on a Bill that would criminalise same-sex marriage and could make it