The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, yesterday flagged off his campaign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, promising to rescue Nigeria from its myriad of problems and restore unity to the country. He assured that the PDP would rescue Nigeria from hunger, poverty, insecurity, lack of jobs and disunity. He said […]
The Chairman of Gboko Local Government Area (LGA) of Benue State, Isaac Mtom, has built a 1,000-shop market in Gboko less than five months after assuming office. Mtom, during the commissioning of the market by Gov Samuel Ortom at the weekend, said he was five years old in 1991 when the market was started but […]
A foundation member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State, Okelo Madukaife, has lambasted the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, for attacking the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige. Ajaka, an indigene of Kogi State, had in a press statement last weekend, told Ngige […]
The Osun State Chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has reiterated its call for the outgoing administration of Governor Gboyega Oyetola to drop the idea of going ahead with the scheduled local government election in the state because illegally elected officials would not last beyond November 27. A statement that was issued yesterday in […]
Big Brother Naija Season 7 sponsor and makers of WAW laundry products, recently, brought the entertaining, dramatic and vibrant housemates of the just-concluded Big Brother Naija show under one roof once again. This happened during the WAW-themed party on Wednesday, 5th of October 2022, at Terraform Bar and Restaurant, Lekki, Lagos. The event, which served […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said there is no alternative to the victory of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023. The president said this during the inauguration of the APC Women Presidential Campaign Committee led by his wife, Hajiya Aisha, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari, who was represented by his Chief of […]
The Kaduna State High Court presided over by Justice Edward Andow has asked the state government to reinstate 4,600 shop owners back to Kasuwan Bacci market and pay them compensation for demolishing their shops in 2017. The court had on the 28th of September 2022 given judgment in favour of the plaintiffs (shop owners), instructing […]
The ongoing construction of the second runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, got another N5bn allocation in the 2023 budget. This is a far cry from the N20bn budgeted for the project in the 2022 budget amidst the slow pace of the project over the years. The details of the 2023 budget estimate […]
Burundi’s president, General Évariste Ndayishimiye, recently sacked the country’s prime minister Guillaume Bunyoni after alleging that Bunyoni was plotting a coup against the government. The dismissal was a public display of divisions within the ruling party (CNDD-FDD) about what direction the country should go in, and what the government’s priorities should be. In the preceding […]
Ghana is struggling with managing its debt, 20-year high inflation, a weak currency, and rising inequality. For example, inflation rose to 33.9% in August 2022 from 9.7% a year earlier, while the cedi has depreciated by 41% year-to-date against the US dollar. These vulnerabilities have been worsened by the aftershocks of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, flagged-off its presidential campaign in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, saying that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has failed. The opposition party assured that its presidential candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, were ready to take challenge of rescuing te […]
… HoS to spend N250m on purchase of vehicles The Federal Government has proposed to spend a total of N4.3 billion its N20.51 trillion budget on the purchase of trains, in its efforts towards expanding the railway services across the country. This is according to the budget details of the N20. 452 billion Nigerian Railway […]
As is the case in any other country, adolescents in Nigeria experience different sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges, including, access to quality and age-appropriate reproductive health information. In this age group, knowledge about SRH in areas such as menstruation; sexually transmitted infections (STIs) other than HIV; sex and pregnancy, is limited, particularly among younger […]
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Africa, the Looted Continent
Madrid — Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The origin of farming. The richest region in terms of natural resources. And human capital. Home to over 1.3 billion humans, continues to be looted. With 500 million plus people living in extreme poverty, Africa has also been transformed in a sort of […]
There can no longer be any doubt that Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the legendary Nigerian musician, activist and father of Afrobeat music, has become an easy career booster for today’s Afrobeats artists who are undergoing creative droughts. Fela’s invention, Afrobeat, is an ensemble and performance-based category that blends jazz, funk, rock and traditional West African chant and […]
Johannesburg — Since assuming office in January 2021, the Biden administration has appreciably walked the talk with regards to robustly re-engaging Africa. Review Biden’s Africa moves over the last twenty-one months, and you will see a pattern to the resetting of relations, one step at a time! A review of documented U.S. policies towards Africa […]
Since assuming office in January 2021, the Biden administration has appreciably walked the talk with regards to robustly re-engaging Africa. Review Biden’s Africa moves over the last twenty-one months, and you will see a pattern to the resetting of relations, one step at a time! A review of documented U.S. policies towards Africa shows that […]
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African Social Movements Baraza 2022
The world’s failure to deal with COVID-19 equitably stands as an ultimate indictment of a global system that prioritises profit over people and ignores the needs of the most vulnerable in society. There is a big contestation underway already to define and shape the future, including strenuous efforts by elites and those who have always […]