Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm forty year old Abdulrasheed Bawa as the substantive Chairman of the country’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Femi Adesina,
Nigeria’s annual inflation rate climbed for a 17th straight month to 16.47% in January of 2021, according to figures released by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics. It was the highest inflation
Healthcare workers in South Africa are eagerly awaiting the first jabs of the Johnson&Johnson vaccine amid a coronavirus variant which is spreading fast across the country. [bc_video video_id=”6232629246001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”CJdhmO46zo”
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated a former Nigerian Minister of Finance and Economy Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her election as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. Ms Okonjo-Iweala will assume office on 1
Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has accused officials of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) of violating the procedures of the ongoing membership registration and validation exercise of the party.
The 64-year-old father of rapper Nicki Minaj has died after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in New York. Robert Maraj was walking along a road in Mineola on Long
South Africa on Monday confirmed the reopening of 20 land border crossings that were closed over a month ago to limit the spread of Covid-19. The land border points with Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique,
A former South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday defied summons to appear before a commission investigating corruption during his presidency. Mr Zuma was scheduled to appear before the commission from 15
Rwanda has started immunising its health care workers against Covid-19, the health ministry said on Sunday. An official in the ministry told the BBC that immunisation with the Pfizer vaccine
The first coronavirus vaccines have arrived in Zimbabwe as an Air Zimbabwe jet carrying 200,000 doses arrived from China. [bc_video video_id=”6232305825001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”CJdhmO46zo” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px”
Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will be formally appointed as the director-general of the World Trade Organisation on Monday. The WTO has called a special general council meeting at which the former
Asian shares advanced to record highs on Monday as successful coronavirus vaccine rollouts globally raise hopes of a rapid economic recovery amid new fiscal aid from Washington, while oil prices
Nigeria’s federal government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as well as bank chiefs under the aegis of the Bankers’ Committee on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)
President Muhammadu Buhari has flayed the reported cases of ethnic violence across the country, saying his government will protect all religious and ethnic groups in line with the provisions of
The Nigeria Police have launched a probe into allegations that people arrested on Saturday over the protest of the reopening of the Lekki Tollgate were molested. They warned that errant
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Sunday that he supports major holders of the meme-based digital currency dogecoin selling most of their coins, adding that he felt too much concentration in
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has linked the current challenge of internal security in the country to uncontrolled influx and use of psychotropic medicines
Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday, with the ship’s captain describing how they faced death threats and
Fifty-one billion and zero – the two numbers Bill Gates says you need to know about climate. Solving climate change would be “the most amazing thing humanity has ever done”,
Pro-democracy protests resumed in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, on Monday two weeks after the military seized power in a coup, despite a heavy military presence that has increased concern of
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