All Africa (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
THE Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) said yesterday that if the country must achieve its set target of becoming one of the largest twenty economies of the world, there was the urgent need for President Umaru Yar'Adua to show more commitment to deliver on his seven-point agenda.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 29/12/2008
Nigeria: Orji Accuses Opposition Over Abia KidnappingsAnayo Okoli26 December 2008|| Share this on: Umuahia — GOVERNOR Theodore Orji of Abia State has accused the opposition in the state of being behind the spate of kidnapping in the state.Governor Orji who spoke while addressing members of the ruling Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), alleged that the opposition sponsor the kidnapping...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 15/12/2008
Nigeria: Politician Lauds Orji Over Christmas Security PlanPaul Ohia14 December 2008|| Share this on: Lagos — A prominent Abia politician, Chief Onyekachi Onyekwere, has praised the recent decision to restrict traditional rulers and council chairmen to their domain during the Christmas celebrations.Speaking in Lagos over the Weekend, Onyekwere a member of Progressive Peoples Alliance...
Standing FIRM (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
The African People Alliance is organzing a discussion forum that will explore issues facing African immigrants in the New York area. “Harassment and Mass Deportation of African immigrants.” Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008 Time: 12 noon Venue: Auditorium, Cardinal Hayes Memorial High School. 650 Grand Concourse - Bronx, NY 10451 The African community has noticed an increase in the [...]...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia State has alleged plans by some group of persons to cause breach of security in the next few days by attacking supporters of the party in Umuahia, Abia State and later blame it on the PDP in the state.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Welcome to the Thai government: Wealthy families with puppets in power, election fraud, refusal to compromise in the face of mass dissent from your own people. Sound familiar?
Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
... use the opportunity, broadcast live over the radio, to indicate his feelings about the so-called People Alliance for Democracy, who occupied Thailand's biggest airport for a week until the dissolution of the government on Wednesday. Instead of the King, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn and his sister, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, made brief statements explaining that their father...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The Peace and Reconciliation Committee set up by the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to reconcile aggrieved members of the party have recommended that the party should quit the Government of National Unity of President Umaru Yar'Adua, as a measure of re-inventing the party.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... international airport has killed a PAD supporter and wounded 20 others. Earlier leaders of the Peoples Alliance for Democracy ended their three-month sit-in at the Thai prime minister's offices.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
From Times OnlineDecember 2, 2008Thai protester killed as court decides government's fateAnne Barrowclough An anti-government protester has been killed and antoher 22 wounded in a grenade attack on a Bangkok airport. The explosion at Don Mueang airport, which ahs been occupied by members of the Peoples Alliance for Democracy (PAD) for the last week comes ahead of a crucial court decision...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Thai anti-government protestors have relocated the focus of their activities to two Bangkok passenger airports. Leaders of the Peoples Alliance for Democracy said they were abandoning a three-month sit in at the prime minister's offices for security reasons. Grenade attacks on PAD supporters at Government House have killed two protestors and injured dozens more in recent weeks. Meanwhile,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... and suppression.Orji-Kalu, who was a former presidential candidate of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) and the chairman of the party's board of trustees said that even though women in Nigeria were still being held down by unwholesome norms and practices, they have proved their mettle in the key positions in both political and economic spheres of life."The undisputable consequence...
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... up to 100,000 tourists. Police commanders on the ground had said they were not ready to evict the Peoples Alliance for Democracy supporters by force, despite authorisation from Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. The PAD is demanding that Somchai and his government resign, accusing it of being a puppet administration for former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... up to 100,000 tourists. Police commanders on the ground had said they were not ready to evict the Peoples Alliance for Democracy supporters by force, despite authorisation from Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. The PAD is demanding that Somchai and his government resign, accusing it of being a puppet administration for former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... no signs of dispersing. Police commanders on the ground had said they were not ready to evict the Peoples Alliance for Democracy supporters by force, despite authorisation from Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. The PAD is demanding that Somchai and his government resign, accusing it of being a puppet administration for former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
