The Sultan of Sokoto’s recent visit to Enugu State where he went to felicitate with Enugu Rangers as champions of the 2015/2016 NPFL season has been described by a section of the media and some...
Libyan authorities on Tuesday deported around 140 African migrants, who had previously arrived in Tripoli illegally via the Mediterranean. Head of Protocol at Libya’s Illegal Immigration Body,...
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has intercepted some counterfeit drugs that were being transported from Niger to Kpando in the Volta Region. The four Nigeriens, who were nabbed on Monday, were...
“Famine and thirst sigh like a scythe across the field of statistics and the desert is a moving mouth”—Derek Walcott (The Fortunate Traveler) During the electioneering campaign, I hardly heard...
Twelve soldiers have been killed and two are missing after an attack by Islamist militants near Burkina Faso’s border with Mali, the army has said. Insurgents who carried out the attack did so on...
EU leaders have agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for six more months. Earlier, France and Germany complained that the Minsk peace deal for Ukraine was still not being fulfilled....
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presented a record 7.298 trillion naira ($24 billion) budget for 2017 to lawmakers which is aimed at pulling Africa’s biggest economy out of its...
Senator Danjuma La’ah, the Senator representing the good people of Southern Kaduna continued. He said that according to the Leadership Newspaper of 4th December, 2016 under the headline:...
By Akwasi Brobbey The political process does not end on election day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders...
The approval of a Gas Master Plan by Cabinet would address the country’s infrastructure gaps and clarify areas of priority in the power sector, Mr Emmanuel Kofi Armah-Buah, Minister of Petroleum...
A leading African economic think tank expects Ghana to have economic growth of 8.7 percent in 2017, the fastest of 54 countries ranked on the continent. Cote d’Ivoire (8.3), Congo (8.0), Ethiopia...
Whiles Licensed Forex Bureau operators are struggling to keep up with their businesses , the businesses of illegal forex market players popularly known as “black marketers” are gaining root in...
After the National: Preparing for with Ecowas’ financial agency E. K.Bensah Jr Proponents of multilateralism may feel emasculated by the election of newly-elected US President Donald Trump's win,...
By 146 B. C., the Mediterranean Sea, a hotbed of endemic battlefield between ancient navies had successfully become the imperial Roman “Mare Nostrum” - our common sea. Rome’s hegemony around...
Two young female suicide bombers attacked a town in Cameroon's Far North region early on Thursday, authorities said, the fourth strike near the Nigerian border by suspected Boko Haram militants this...
Why does it still take so long to drive across Africa? There is no rail network connecting West and East Africa, and there are relatively few flights. Google Maps very optimistically estimates that...
Ghana has signed two separate loan agreements with the Export-Import Bank of India, totaling $422.87 million for financing the construction of a railway line and a sugarcane development and...
She stops by a motorbike or “Mahama Kambu” – the tricycle taxi in the Wa Municipality – she stretches one hand for money, and puts the other on her stomach – she says, “give me money to...
Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by...
She stops by a motorbike or “Mahama Kambu” – the tricycle taxi in the Wa Municipality – she stretches one hand for money, and puts the other on her stomach – she says, “give me money to...
