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By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Coming straight after this week, Cameroon’s government will organize an event it has named as a ‘National Dialogue’ on the separatist crisis in its Northwest and Southwest regions. Apparently, U S and Europe, based separatist leaders invited to the dialogue say, they will not take part in any dialogue unless it is held outside Cameroon with non-Cameroonians as mediators. In this regard, the government of Cameroon has declared that; it will not entertain a foreign mediator. This dialogue on the separatist crisis is due to commence on Monday the 30th September, 2019 in Yaoundé. The government says, it has invited more than 1,000 people including lawmakers, clergy, teachers and civil society activists. Eric Tataw...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development says, Malawi cannot stop tobacco farming though the World Health Organization (WHO) leads an anti-smoking lobby that threatens the leaf’s growing. Kondwami Nankhumwa  said  on Thursday 26th September, 2019 that government is prepared to fight for the welfare of tobacco farmers the reason being, the crop contributes to the social and economic development of Malawi. WHO is leading an anti-smoking campaign that derails tobacco farming, an activity that contributes 13% of Malawi’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), earns in around 60% of foreign currency earnings and accounts for 25% of tax revenue. Nankhumwa pronounced in a Tobacco Coalition for Eastern and...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Alonzo Herndon, made history as the first Black – American to become a millionaire. Initially, he sharecrops later to a hairstylist and finally settled as a real Estate Agent. Herndon was born in 1858 to an inter-racial couple, a black mother and a white father. Catapulted from a sharecropper to a professional hair-stylist in 1878, Herndon inevitably initiated a chance to operate three large barber’s shop in the Atlanta, Georgia area that serve the prominent white men. Alonzo Herndon’s journey to becoming a millionaire in the 1900 commenced at a time he became a founding member of Booker T. Washington’s National Negro Business League. Following a riot, Herndon diversified and started investing in real estate and...

BY ANIN AGYEI- NEW AFRICA DAILY  NEWS, Accra, Ghana- THE National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has organized a stakeholders forum in the Eastern regional capital, Koforidua with a call on government to scrab the 23% tax levied on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). According to the participants, the current high cost of LPG could affect the policy objective of the Cylinder Re-circulation Model (CRM) seeking to increase the usage of LPG from current 25% to 50% by 2030. Currently, about 75% of Ghanaians use alternate fuel mostly biomass -charcoal and firewood depleting the environment. Speaking at the forum, the Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Oil Marketing Companies, Kwaku Agyeman Duah, expressed grave concern over the high cost of LPG in Ghana adding that it is among the highest...