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This article was first published in The Vanguard Newspaper, Nigeria by Writing Fellow, Muneer Yaqub.
The Rwandan government recently commissioned eleven disabled-friendly buses to ease transportation for People with Disabilities (PWDs). In contrast, it is already nine months since the …
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During the recent 7th annual conference of the Renewable Energy Solutions for Africa Foundation in Ethiopia, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Vera Songwe, gave an all too familiar advise when she said the continent needs to …
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President Paul Kagame of Rwanda recently rekindled the African quest for digital transformation at the Transform Africa Summit held in Kigali. President Kagame and President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya called on other African leaders to speedily invest in technology across …
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Over 2,000 people have lost their lives in the ongoing crisis in Cameroon. Hundreds of thousands are displaced while about 30,000 have crossed the southern border into Nigeria. Unfortunately, Nigeria has its own Internally Displaced Persons problem to deal with …
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The Nigerian government is fond of disobeying court orders with often damning consequences to follow. Abuja, the capital city of the country recently witnessed a violent protest by a Shiite group demanding the release of their leader, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky …
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Since its release in March 2019, BET International Best Act, Burna Boy’s song, Dangote, has continued to record impressive playtime in Nigeria. The song was inspired by the personality of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote. Dangote is …
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The recent protest by officers of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) over unpaid six-year promotion arrears has unfortunately brought the badly run prisons system into the news again. Prisons across the country are ravaged and congested, with up to three-quarters…
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After decades of economic stagnation and poverty, the Zimbabwean economy is on the rise again. This economic growth is premised on measures deployed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, which include the Vision 2030 and the Transitional Stabilization Program. Although …
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The bill recently passed by the lower chamber of the Nigerian National Assembly to prohibit the use, manufacture, and importation of plastic bags will likely fail to solve the country’s plastic pollution problem. Although plastic pollution is a global environmental …
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The Kenyan Ministry of Transport is proposing a review of fares for Public Service Vehicles, also known as Matatu, in a move to reduce the cost of transportation for poor citizens. Despite the good intentions of this proposal, state regulation …
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