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Hadiza Bala Usman shot to prominence as a leading figure of the “Bring Back Our Girls” campaign, a driving force of what became a global movement to secure the return of 276 schoolgirls abducted by terror group Boko
Opposition parties in Togo have called for two days of anti-government protests in the country, starting Wednesday, October 18 to Thursday the 19th. Today’s protest means that the opposition coalition is defying a government order banning protests during the weekdays. …
Continue readingGabon on Saturday officially inaugurated a new port harbour. The project is part of a plan to modernize the existing Port of Owendo located near the capital Libreville.
It took 18 months to complete at an estimated cost of $300 …
Continue readingWhen Afrobeat beat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, made the now historic submission that corruption in the form of authority stealing constituted a far greater threat to Nigeria’s development than armed robbery, little did he know that he was being prophetic. …
Continue readingIf news and reports coming out of the Democratic Republic of Congo are anything to go by, the baton of big brands and their failure to create value for local (smaller) partners in Africa is now being held by telecoms …
Continue readingIn the next few weeks, the annual ritual of budget presentations by the federal government and sub-national governments would commence and Kaduna State from every indication will be the first to present its budget. Kaduna State has undoubtedly given a …
Continue readingDemocracies have been on the wrong end of the publicity stick in recent decades. The rapid economic expansion in relatively autocratic countries like China, Singapore, and South Korea in the 1970s has implanted the idea that democracies might not be …
Continue readingFormer A.C. Milan soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai lead in Liberia’s presidential election as the electoral commission released provisional results of the Oct. 10 vote.
Weah won 39 percent of the vote, while Boakai got 31 …
Continue readingSouth Africa’s state-owned airline SAA has been given until the end of October to settle 5 billion rand ($374 million) of maturing debt to domestic lenders, although the relief may be extended a further two years, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba …
Continue readingSouth Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a High Court ruling to reinstate nearly 800 corruption charges filed against Jacob Zuma before he became president.
Zuma, who has faced and denied numerous other corruption allegations since taking office, …
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