The European Union (EU) this week sought to entice African countries with “better choices” in infrastructure and energy transition projects, issuing an indirect dig at China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which has similar ambitions. The EU gathered leaders from more than 40 countries from across the world, seeking to...
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The Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr Bashir Jamoh, has described the country’s maritime sector as one of the fastest growing on the African continent. Jamoh said this during the interactive session by the Senate Committee on Marine Transport with the Chief Executive...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the current spate where civil governments are being overthrown across the African continent shows that democracy needs to be ”rejigged” and put in a proper direction. Jonathan made this known during a Democracy Dialogue 2023 organised by the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation...
President Bola Tinubu has implored the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies in Africa to renew the fight against substance abuse. Tinubu made the call, while declaring open the 31st meeting of the Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Africa (HONLAF), on Tuesday in Abuja. ...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Federal Government of Nigerian has called for a free and secure Internet for Africa, which is capable of bridging the digital divide and creating innovative opportunities within the continent. Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, made the just-concluded...
A Cross River born Partner of the Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), Mr Christian Idiodi, says Africa needs African solutions to its challenges. Idiodi disclosed this on Saturday when he led a team of Information and Communication Technology, (ICT) experts from the United States and Europe to Gov....
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday called on world leaders to affirm democratic governance as the best guarantor of the sovereign will and well-being of the people, saying military coups are wrong. Tinubu said this in his inaugural statement to the 78th session of the General Assembly at...
Google on Thursday highlighted five ways it has improved search on Africa. The Communications and Public Relation Manager, Google, West Africa, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, said in a statement that the five ways of improved searches were for users best experience. Speaking on the occasion of its 25th anniversary...
In the past three years, at least eight African countries have witnessed military coup d’états. This is coming when it was thought that Africa’s democracy had come of age when we were beginning to think that coups had gone for good, consigned to an era in the past when...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said coups only make crises worse, emphasising the need for durable governance and the rule of law. Guterres said this on Thursday while highlighting the succession of military coups unfolding across Africa at a press encounter at UN Headquarters, in New York. ...
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has firmly condemned the ongoing coup attempt as a means to resolve the post-electoral crisis in Gabon. UN Spokesperson Stephanie Dujarric disclosed this at a news conference on Wednesday at UN headquarters in New York. Gabonese military officers have canceled elections results...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – A coalition of UK and Nigeria based NGOs has used the International Day Against Witch Hunts on 10th August to call for government and key partners to join hands to implement the UN resolution on the elimination of witchcraft. According to the coalition,...
Nigeria’s D’Tigress on Wednesday in Kigali, Rwanda extended their winning streak in Africa to 22 straight wins by over-running Mozambique 59-52 to advance to the 2023 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket semi-finals. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the hard-earned win means the Nigerian senior women national basketball...
Vice President Kashim Shettima says Nigeria is at a new dawn to chart and re-position its destiny for greatness, considering the measures adopted by the President Bola Tinubu administration to diversify the nation’s economy. Mr Olusola Abiola, Director, Information, Office of the Vice President, in a statement, said...
Prof. Maurice Okoli, the President, Africa Russia Community in Russia, has emphasised the need for Africa to leverage on Russia’s huge reservoir of goodwill to develop the continent. Okoli said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the 2nd Russia-Africa Economic...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, says Russia will supply 50,000 tons of grains to some African countries in the next three months in its bid to ensure food security. Putin said this on Thursday while declaring the Second Russia–Africa Summit and Economic and Humanitarian Forum 2023 open in St. Petersburg,...
Former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, has said that coup should be seen as an organised crime and punished accordingly to allow democracy to survive in Africa. Buratai said this at a One-Day International Conference on Organised Crimes put together by the Tukur Buratai Centre for...
Ms. Emmanuelle Blatmann, the French Ambassador to Nigeria, said Nigeria was France’s first trading partner in Sub-Saharan Africa She added that Nigeria’ trading alone accounted for 75 per cent of French investments in West Africa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the envoy made this known at...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has identified poverty as major determinant of whether a child has access to immunisation against vaccine-preventable disease or not. The fund disclosed this in its ‘State of The World’s Children 2023’ report, adding that there are millions of such children in Africa, referred to...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), an international agency funded by the Rockefeller, IKEA Foundation and the Bezos Earth Fund have appointed the immediate past Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, GCON, as a Global Advisor. This announcement was made at a...