A Sudanese court convicted deposed president Omar al-Bashir of graft on Saturday and sentenced him to two years’ house arrest in a social care facility. The charges stemmed from millions of dollars received by the toppled strongman from Saudi Arabia. Bashir, who was deposed by the army in April after months of mass protests against […]
Dantata Universal Services Nigeria Ltd. (DUS) in partnership with VFS Global, an outsourcing and technology services specialists for governments and diplomatic missions worldwide, has opened a centre in Accra to offer enrolment services for Nigerians residing in Ghana wishing to obtain their National Identification Number (NIN). The opening of the centre, according to DUS and […]
President Yoweri Museveni led a march in efforts to stamp out corruption in public offices on Thursday. The Ugandan leader was accompanied by politicians, members of civil society organisations and religious leaders. Several people were forced to walk to work as they were caught unawares by the traffic restrictions. President Museveni pointed out that obesity […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s personal blog site is down after he published a post revealing he had been on a diet to lose 30kg (4st 7lb). In the post, he dismissed rumours of ill health or being tired and said he lost weight as part of a deliberate attempt to shed fat, the Ugandan news […]
No fewer than 100 fake professors have been uncovered in Nigerian universities by the National Universities Commission, NUC. Prof Abubakar Rasheed, the commission’s Executive Secretary, disclosed this in the NUC’s November bulletin. Rasheed said the NUC published the details of the fake professors on its website and also sent the names to the various universities […]
Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe died with $10m (£7.7m) cash in the bank, a legal letter from his daughter quoted by state media says. But he appears not to have left a will, according to the family’s lawyer. Mugabe, who died in September aged 95, was ousted in 2017 after 37 years in power. Separately, […]
75-year-old Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni has stated that he is not tired of holding on to the country’s Presidency after 33 years of being in power. The Ugandan President who got into power on January 29, 1986, disclosed in an open letter published on his Blogspot that he deliberately lost weight by shedding off the […]
Police in Mozambique have reportedly issued a warning that bald men may be attacked for the purposes of witchcraft and rituals associated with local superstitions. The warning comes after two bald men were brutally killed in the south-east African country’s Zambezia province, according to the Agence France Presse (AFP). One of the men had been found with his […]
A Nigerian man, identified as Comrade Mohammed, has suggested that President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, should provide his share of the 2020 budget in cash. According to the entrepreneur, he is not interested in the utilities outlined in the budget because he does not benefit directly from them. “I do […]
Flamboyant Malawian Pastor, Shepherd Bushiri seems to be having issues with the Botswanan government as all branches of his church in the country have been closed down following its deregistration in 2018. This came weeks after the government of Botswana lifted a visa travelling ban imposed on the founder of the Enlightened Christian Gathering church during former president […]
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, has awarded an Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs in Nigeria for rejecting bribe. Bashir Abubakar, according to Mr. Buhari, rejected a bribe of $412,000 per container offered him by drug traffickers seeking to bring 40 containers of Tramadol into Nigeria. That amounts to about $16, 480,000. President Buhari, in a statement, described […]
At least 182 Kenyans living in the United States of America illegally were arrested while applying for citizenship to avoid deportation and become eligible for work permits. The figures were released by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an immigration policy that allows those with […]
