Some members of the Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) say they are recording huge losses following the closure of the Nigerian border with Benin. They fear this may escalate further if the government does not fix the issue immediately. Nigeria has closed its borders to neighboring Benin over issues of smuggling of […]
Nigeria’s First Lady Aisha Buhari has returned to the country after two months abroad, telling reporters when she arrived on Saturday that “fake news” was a scourge that will “lead us to something unimaginable”. While away, Mrs. Buhari had been on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia and spent time in the UK. On her return, […]
Ghanaian actor and Ayawaso West Wuogon parliamentary aspirant, John Dumelo has said that Africa needs technological approach to achieve agricultural revolution. He said this on his Facebook page after speaking at today’s edition of this year’s Sahara Sparks ongoing in Tanzania He said Africa cannot compete with the rest of the world if it continuously rely […]
An American preacher who was arrested on Monday in Rwanda for holding an “illegal meeting with journalists” has been deported, New Times of Rwanda newspaper reports. Rwandan Director General for Immigration and Emigration Regis Gatarayiha is quoted by paper as saying evangelist Gregg Schoof was removed from the country for being a “prohibited immigrant” adding that he […]
Ethiopia’s president Zewde Sahle-Work on Monday said more than 90,000 nationals had returned to the country because of her government’s citizen-centered diplomacy. Sahle-Work, who was appointed to the role in October last year, was delivering her maiden speech to the country’s parliament. Since taking office in April last year, the country’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed […]
The University of Lagos, Nigeria, says it is highly embarrassed by an undercover investigation which featured one of its lecturers, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu, sexually harassing a “female student.” A statement signed by Principal Assistant Registrar (Communication Unit), Mrs Taiwo Oloyede said the university “dissociates itself totally from this act(s) and any inappropriate behaviour of staff […]
A 30-year-old pilot has been killed and a passenger injured after a light aircraft crashed into the garage wall of a house in a residential area in South Africa’s North West province, police say. The passenger was admitted to hospital following the crash in Huhudi, a neighbourhood near the agricultural town of Vryburg, which is […]
Few in Nigeria’s socio-political history rose swiftly on the ladder of prominence yet died not in the evening of their lives but rather in the noon when there was so much more to do. This was the case of Olabode Akanbi Thomas, popularly known as Chief Bode Thomas. Thomas, born October 1919, died tragically on […]
A Nigerian Governor is claiming that nationals of the oil-rich country who are engaged in various crimes in Ghana are handed a minimum of 500 years imprisonment. It is not known where he got those jail terms from but David Umahi who is the Governor of Ebonyi State maintains that the least sentence slapped on […]
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party will transfer ownership of the palatial home in which the late President Robert Mugabe lived in the capital, Harare, to his family, the state-owned Herald newspaper has quoted a party official as saying. The “clarification” by Zanu-PF’s secretary for administration Obert Mpofu followed speculation that the party intended to turn Mugabe’s […]
A collection of supercars confiscated from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president have been auctioned off in Switzerland. The cars were seized by Swiss authorities as part of an investigation into Teodorin Nguema Obiang. He is vice-president to his father, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea for 40 years. Twenty-five of Mr Obiang’s […]
Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja has won the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Serwanjja is a presenter at Uganda’s NBS TV, where he hosts one of the channel’s prime-time shows. He has also produced award-winning reports, including one for BBC’s Africa Eye programme about the illegal sale of prescription drugs. The […]
