Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has significantly moved up in the World billionaires’ list. His fortune has increased to $17.8 billion as against last year’s $14.8bn to emerge as the only Nigerian in the Bloomberg’s yearly top billionaires’ list. A total of 120 billionaires made the prestigious list released by Bloomberg on Monday. Other Africans […]
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Nigeria’s North Needs Jobs, Not Oil
Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Bill was passed on 1 July, potentially ending a 13-year stalemate since it was first introduced in 2008. It is expected to radically reform Nigeria’s oil and gas industry and ensure that its citizens benefit more from its oil wealth. However some provisions appear to contradict this objective. One of these is […]
Not too long ago, Desire Oparanozie, then captain of the Nigerian women’s football team, again demanded equal pay for female Nigerian players. In Nigeria, female players are paid woefully less than their male counterparts in comparable international roles and her call had come after her team’s sit-in over unpaid bonuses and allowances for the 2019 […]
As part of Women’s Day celebrations, Western Cape MEC of Human Settlements, Tertuis Simmers visited the Conifers Infill Development in Malibu Village, where a female contractor, Ms Faith Mabena completed 91 Financed Linked Individual Subsidy (FLISP) units. The project was awarded to Nokhanya Services, who is 51% black woman owned, in 2017. The last 4 […]
This week in civil society, the 1956 Women’s March is commemorated, AMCU remembers Marikana at its annual lecture, the HJI launches its TRIPS waiver webinar series and Corruption Watch discusses active citizenry and accountability in local government. Monday, 9 August marked the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March to the Union Buildings led by […]
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) welcomes the arrest of Mpumalanga man by the Hawks on Monday, 09 August 2021 for trying to ‘bribe’ an SIU investigator in Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) tender investigation. The man was arrested by the Hawks’ National Serious Corruption Investigation in a joint operation with the SIU after he arranged […]
TOP Harare businessman Ken Sharpe Friday received the Forbes Best of Africa Awards Innovative CEO of the Year Award. The Forbes Best of Africa Awards are held annually in connection with the Best of Africa Event held in New York, the US during the United Nations General Award (UNGA) meetings in recognition of business people […]
Monrovia — After days of protests by the Student Unification Party (SUP), a student-based political party at the state-owned University of Liberia, the President of the university, Rev. Prof. Dr. Julius Julukon Sarwolo Nelson, announced that the university will allow some traditional in-person classes instead of the 100 percent E-Learning activities that was proposed by […]
Barclayville — In an effort to tackle the shortage of armed chairs and repair the sagging roof, the Government of Liberia’s through the Office of the Deputy Speaker Hon. Cllr. Fonati Koffa submitted two cheques in both currencies of thirty thousand United States Dollars (US$ 30,000.00) and three million four hundred and fifty-two Thousand Liberian […]
Today, I had the privilege of joining a women-led walkabout with members of SAPS, the local neighbourhood watches and Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (LEAP) law enforcement officers along Delft Main Road in Cape Town. The walkabout further signaled the deployment of an additional 191 LEAP officers to communities including Kraaifontein, Mfuleni and Harare. I was […]
Monrovia — The commander of the pressure group Economic Freedom Fighters of Liberia (EFFL), Emmanuel Gonquoi, and three of his deputies, have spent their first night behind bars at the Monrovia Central Prison. Gonquoi and his accomplices were incarcerated after they failed to file their criminal appearance bond to secure their release. They were sent […]
Monrovia — Family members of some of those who lost their lives when a dilapidated vessel capsized on the waters in Maryland County have taken issue with the Government of Liberia (GOL), particularly the Liberia Maritime Authority (LiMA), over the alleged lukewarm attitude and delay in providing regular updates on its investigation launched into the […]
Maputo — The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported many more recoveries from the Covid-19 respiratory disease than new cases, thus bringing down the number of active Covid-19 cases. A Ministry of Health Monday press release said that 4,486 people were declared to have made a complete recovery. The great majority of these – 3,389 […]
Maputo — A further 500,000 doses of the VeroCell vaccine, produced by the Chinese company Sinopharm, for the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, arrived in Maputo on Monday. According to a Ministry of Health press release, Deputy Health Minister Lidia Cardoso verified the vaccines at the government’s Central Medical Stores in the outlying Maputo neighbourhood […]
Maputo — Maputo, 10 Ago (AIM) – Nearly 1000 former guerrillas from Renamo, Mozambique’s main opposition party, in the central province of Sofala, have expressed concern at the non-payment of their allowances for about six months, reports the independent television station STV. Speaking in the district of Dondo, the party’s General Secretary, Andre Magibire, who […]
Maputo — The Mozambican Minister of Mineral Resurces and Energy, Max Tonela, speaking to reporters on Monday, said that the re-establishment of security conditions in the northern province of Cabo Delgado will be determinant for the resumption of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in Palma district. Raids by terrorists linked to the “Islamic State” […]
The Association of Rwandans Living in Senegal on Monday, August 9 elected a new executive committee that will be headed by Jovith Ndahinyuka and deputized by Antoinette Habinshuti. Also elected was Bellancile Musabyemariya who will be the Secretary-General of the committee. Others who were elected were leaders of the youth organ and a special team […]
Maputo — Four armed men attempted to kidnap an Indian businessman in central Maputo on Monday afternoon, but the crime was foiled by the victim’s family, according to a report on the independent television station, STV. The businessman, Adir Mansur, had been at lunch with his wife and two children in a restaurant on Olaf […]