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This month, the African Union will strengthen its bid to ensure freer movement across the continent by issuing electronic passports to heads of states and other government officials. These passports will allow them access to any country in Africa, the …
Continue readingThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission “carry” you? What’s there? It simply means you have arrived! Whatever you do, never plead guilty! The EFCC’s budget is not even up to N15bn, yet as a bonafide big thief worth N25bn, you …
Continue reading#BenueMassacre comes on the heels of repeated killings by herdsmen. So far, government’s response has been a disaster. There is a feeling of, ‘this too shall pass,’ on the side of the government but we cannot always wait for the …
Continue readingGambia’s President Yayha Jammeh announced that anyone marrying a girl below 18 would be jailed for up to 20 years. In Tanzania, the high court imposed a landmark ruling outlawing marriage under the age of 18 for boys and girls.…
Continue readingTanzania has just taken a huge step toward eliminating child marriage. Now, a man who marries or impregnates a school-age girl faces up to 30 years in prison.
Sex with underage girls was already a criminal offense, but previously …
Continue readingThe fallout from the UK referendum that ended in victory for those wanting the country to exit from the European Union (EU) is still reverberating around the world. But what does it mean for Africa?
The decision will fundamentally affect …
Continue readingMost Nigerian states presently battle for survival. The Federal Government who from allocations has saved them time and again battles even bigger demons; foreign exchange unavailability, currency instability, low oil prices, militant activity on its oil pipelines amongst many other …
Continue readingA large part of my time this last weekend was spent traveling to Kenya where I made a presentation on the ill-effects of corruption in Nigeria and how the introduction of subsidies by different governments on the continent has proved …
Continue readingThe National Anti Corruption Agency of Cameroon with French acronym CONAC released its 2014 anti corruption report on Monday the 27 of June 2016. Reverend Dr. Dieudonne Masi Gam, President of CONAC revealed to the public that the state of …
Continue readingCameroon and France have signed a third contract for development and debt reduction (C2D). The intended amount for financing of the projects is estimated at 400 billion CFA francs. A significant amount in relation to the cumulative sum of the …
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