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We’ve been witnesses to frequent government shutdown of the internet in several parts of Africa in recent years. Earlier this year, it was Cameroon, and just recently, Ethiopia. It is however necessary to remind one another as well as relevant …
Continue readingThe recent expansion of the mandate of the Economic Community of West African States Military Intervention better known as ECOMIG comes at a controversial and sensitive moment in The Gambia. The expansion was announced a day following clashes between the …
Continue readingStudents For Liberty (SFL) is the largest libertarian student organization in the world with student leaders spanning well over 100 countries on every inhabited continent. Our mission is to educate, develop, and empower the next generation of leaders of …
Continue readingIf the rest of Africa expect Nigeria and South Africa to chart a pathway and provide some sort of economic leadership, they would have to look elsewhere for the time being. Africa’s two biggest economies, with a combined Gross Domestic …
Continue readingElections in Africa have seen remarkable improvements since the 2000s. However, the democratic process of electing leaders into office which is now a norm in many parts of the continent is not without its own challenges, the most obvious being …
Continue readingThe average Nigerian is tired of being tired of Nigeria, so they are exploiting escape routes from their everyday unwholesome Nigerian realities. You can safely put your last naira on a bet that every other person reading these words knows …
Continue readingCollapsed state-owned Botswanan copper and nickel producer BCL Limited will be sold off piecemeal after the company failed to find a buyer, its liquidator said on Friday.
BCL was placed under provisional liquidation in October after the government said it …
Continue readingKenyan lawmakers on Thursday approved a government proposal to guarantee $750 million worth of debt owed by Kenya Airways, part of a broader financial restructuring, parliament said in a statement.
The loss-making airline, in which Air France KLM and the …
Continue readingNigeria incurred subsidies for petrol and kerosene estimated at $65 billion between 2011 and 2015, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Dr. Ibe Kachikwu said on Thursday.
The minister said this in a presentation at a 2-day African modular refinery …
Continue readingNigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, was voted out of office two years ago, but fresh revelations continue to emerge on the widespread corruption that characterized his five-year reign. The latest revelation as contained in a memo seen by online news …
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