Omar Al-Bashir, a political hardliner and controversial leader of Sudan, has stepped down after 30 years in power, reports said on Thursday. United Arab Emirates-based Al-Arabiya network reported that Mr Al-Bashir resigned his position with immediate effect. The 75-year-old has reportedly handed over to the country’s supreme military council controlled by the armed forces. His […]
“Our factory in Nigeria is only 28km into the Republic of Benin but the Republic of Benin, does not allow us to take cement into the Benin Republic, but they import from China”, the owner of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has said. According to him, it is not a matter of the Dangote cement being […]
Twenty Technical and Vocation Education and Training (TVET) providers from eight Africa countries stand the chance of benefiting from a €60 million fund under the Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA) project. Each of the lucky beneficiaries to be selected will receive a grant up to €3 million. Grantees will be required to make a counterpart […]
A selfless act by a 71-year-old woman has caught the attention of Zimbabwe’s richest man, who called the grandmother’s several-mile trek while carrying clothing and household items for cyclone survivors “one of the most remarkable acts of compassion I have ever seen.” Plaxedes Dilon is being praised in Zimbabwe and beyond after she lugged the […]
A fake lawyer identified as Beatrice Nnamuoh who has been practicing the profession without a license and won several high profiled cases for five years has been arrested by the Lagos State Police. According to the source, Beatrice confirmed that indeed she has no law background because she offered sociology at the tertiary level but […]
In 1992 at just age 25, Captain Valentine Strasser had seized power from His former boss President Joseph Momoh and had become Sierra Leone’s Head of State making him the youngest ever in West Africa. Strasser sat on wealth and many opportunities but he soon allowed his youthful exuberance to be his waterloo .He engaged […]
After rejecting a mouth-watering 420 thousand US Dollars as bribe from smugglers of Tramadol, a customs officer in Nigeria has earned a promotion. Comptroller Bashir Abubakar of Apapa Area Command has been promoted to an Assistant Comptroller General (ACG), by the Comptroller General of The Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (rtd). Mr Abubakar rejected […]
A Nigerian Police officer who was captured by kidnappers in the Rivers State is counting his blessings and thanking his rescuers who happen to be a local vigilante group. The policeman, along with other victims were rescued by ONELGA Security, Planning and Advisory Committee (OSPAC) in Rivers State who also arrested a young suspect in […]
Gambian President Adama Barrow has in a latest reshuffle of his cabinet fired the Vice President Ousainou Darboe and two ministers, a statement by the presidency confirmed on Friday, March 15 2019. This is the second major cabinet reshuffle by Barrow since 2017. The Minister for Health Minister Dr. Isatou Touray has been appointed as […]
Ghana has officially been invited to the maiden edition of the Arab-Africa Youth Summit billed for the 16th through to the 18th of March 2019 at Aswan in Egypt. The Egyptian Ambassador to Ghana Emad Magdy Hanna extended the invitation to the Minister for Youth and Sports Isaac Kwame Asiamah when he called on him […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has sent a message of condolence to the Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, on the news of the Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday, 10th March, 2019, which killed all on board. In his message, President Akufo-Addo stated that “Like all […]
For many Algerians it is difficult to understand how their 82-year-old president, who suffered a stroke six years ago and can hardly walk or talk, can run the country. This turned to disbelief when it was announced that Abdelaziz Bouteflika was running for a fifth term in April – he did not even turn up […]
