The United Nations Development Programme(UNDP) has emphasized the importance for Africa to tell its numerous success experiences and achievements. The lack of positive narratives perpetuates negative stereotypes. Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa at the UNDP, Ms Ahunna Eziakonwa, said this at the ongoing 2024 African Economic Conference...
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Nigeria Macro-Economic Outlook released by a data-driven company, Veriv Africa, has said economic growth is projected to increase to 3.64 per cent in 2025, due to government’s policies. It projects that government policies can positively impact the economy with a 3.64 per cent GDP growth rate in 2025. Mr...
By KAYODE ADEBIYI, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) What had been a hectic, rigorous and sometimes divisive campaign trail for months climaxed on Tuesday with former President Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential election to become the country’s 47th president. Trump defeated his main rival and current Vice-President, Kamala...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated his call for global institutional reform, highlighting the need for two permanent seats on the Security Council for Africa and stronger financial support to address the continent’s challenges. Guterres said this on Monday at the inauguration of the renovated Africa Hall in the...
The President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), Philémon Yang, has said Africa would need $194 billion dollars in additional financing annually to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Yang, said this at a joint debate on the New Partnership for Africa’s development at the ongoing 79th...
Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu says the African Continent is richly endowed but most of its potential are yet to be fully tapped. Tinubu said this while declaring open a two-day maiden edition of a programms: “Elevate Africa” on Thursday in Abuja. The theme of the programme is:...
The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Wednesday in Ilorin advised African nations to guard against reliance on overseas-developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. Oloyede gave this advice in his presentation at the University of Ilorin (Unilorin) Lecture Series, titled “Artificial Intelligence and the...
The World Bank has approved a 500 million dollar loan to support the Sustainable Power and Irrigation for Nigeria (SPIN) project aimed at reducing climate-induced challenges. Mr Chakib Jenane, World Bank’s Regional Director, Sustainable Infrastructure Development for West and Central Africa, announced this during a visit to Water Resources...
President Bola Tinubu says Africa holds a significant portion of the world’s mineral reserves, including 92 per cent of global platinum, 56 per cent of cobalt, and 54 per cent of manganese, yet underdeveloped. The president attributed the continent’s underdevelopment to the fact that, the resources were primarily extracted...
U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged 500 million dollars to African countries to help prevent and respond to mpox, and will donate one million doses of vaccine. Biden said this in his farewell address to world leaders at the general debate of the 79th session of the General Assembly...
President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Dr Ike Neliaku, has said Africans must reject the narrative of being a second fiddle continent in global affairs. Neliaku was speaking on Monday at a virtual engagement titled: “Globalisation of African Peace and Security Strategies, Laying the Foundation,” organised...
The European Union (EU) has said that it supported Nigeria and five other Sahel countries affected by flood with 5.4 million Euros. In a statement issued by the bloc and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday, the other countries that benefitted are Chad, Niger, Cameroon, Mali and...
World Data Lab, in collaboration with Mastercard Foundation, has unveiled the African Youth Employment Clock in Nigeria to help create 30 million jobs in Africa by 2030. Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Sen. Abubakar Bagudu, said on Tuesday in Abuja that the inauguration of the clock aligned with...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday called on African countries to pool their resources together toward forming stronger pan-African economic ties. The traditional economic concept of Pan-Africanism has usually entailed the call on African people – in the African continent or the Diaspora – to pool their resources in...
As Mpox continues to devastate countries, especially in Africa, the WHO Africa Region says African countries are capable of diagnosing Mpox, thereby making for early detection. Dr Abdou Gueye, Regional Emergency Director, World Health Organisation Africa Region (WHO AFRO), made the assertion in a virtual interview with the News...
Labour Party presidential candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, Mr Peter Obi, has said that prioritising investment in agriculture is a sure way of tackling hunger and insecurity in Africa. The former Governor of Anambra was speaking as a panellist at an international conference on food security in Kigali,...
Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, has said Nigeria gets the largest intervention fund spent by the foundation in Africa. Gates said this during an interview session with selected journalists on the sidelines of the 2024 NutriVision Dialogue on Tuesday in Abuja. According to him,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Nigeria is the first country in Africa to receive mpox vaccines, aimed at combating the spread of the new strain of mpox virus. WHO in a statement stated that Nigeria received 10,000 doses of mpox vaccines on Tuesday. On Aug. 14 the chief...
European governments need to show strong political commitment to eliminate Mpox, while standing in solidarity with Africa, a top official of the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. Briefing journalists in Geneva, Dr Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, insisted Mpox is which “not the ‘new...
President Bola Tinubu has pledged to make significant investments in the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) to ensure it achieves its mandates before 2030. Tinubu said this in his remarks at the 60th anniversary celebration of DICON and the maiden African Defence Industries Conference holding in Abuja....