Marvel Studio’s latest production, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is set to premiere in Nigeria. The film distribution company, FilmOne Entertainment confirmed the premiere will hold in Lagos ahead of the movie’s highly anticipated theatrical release globally on November 11, 2022. The Walt Disney Company, in association with Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) and FilmOne Entertainment, […]
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The health of women and children including adolescents is currently under threat following the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and conflicts, a new United Nations, UN, report, revealed Tuesday. The report also found that in Nigeria despite the decline in under-five mortalities by 20 per cent since 2013, 1 in 10 children […]
Nigeria’s political aspirants have officially started their election campaigns for the 2023 Presidential elections. There is no better time than now, during this political transition to remind political leaders that health is as critical to a nation’s development as the economy, infrastructure, security and other priority issues and health must take its rightful place of […]
Libreville — Over the past few years, Gabon has been successful in its forest conservation efforts. The country has also been able to work hard to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global temperatures to the 1.5-degree target. Minister of Water, Forests, the Sea, and Environment, Lee White, talks to IPS Correspondent Francis […]
Good policy and stable macroeconomics won’t drive industrial innovation – tech hubs, start-ups and manufacturers must be involved. Digital innovation enables transparency in public services and new opportunities in commerce, health, education and agriculture. But Africa lags behind the rest of the world in nearly every digital-related indicator except mobile money. It is especially behind […]
The secretary said that there were too many students coming into the UK and need to be cut down. The UK’s Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has expressed her office’s intentions to cut immigration numbers, potentially affecting a path for many Nigerians seeking a new life in another country. In an interview with The Telegraph, she […]
The death toll from heavy flooding in Nigeria has now surpassed 600, with more than 1 million people displaced from their homes. The flooding has covered farms and roads and slowed shipments of food and fuel. Authorities are struggling to free up the gridlock, as a jump in prices is already making life more expensive […]
The Rosetta Stone, an ancient Egyptian artefact that unlocked the secrets of hieroglyphic script and birthed Egyptology, has been part of the British Museum’s plundered collection since 1801. Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed calls for its return. One of Archaeology’s Greatest Treasures, the Rosetta Stone and other valuable Egyptian artefacts, was handed over to Anglo-Ottoman […]
The 25 states have threatened to take no action on the bills unless four more constitutional amendment bills are considered and passed by the National Assembly. Only 11 of Nigeria’s 36 state legislatures have considered and voted on the 44 constitution amendment bills passed by the National Assembly earlier in the year. The states whose […]
As the conflict enters its deadliest phase, U.S. leadership and collaboration with African partners are desperately needed to stop the slide. In August, the devastating conflict in northern Ethiopia resumed, effectively ending the March 2022 humanitarian truce between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigrayan forces, which many hoped would pave the way for a negotiated […]
Senegal has a rich history of social movements, but they have done more to resolve political conflicts than open up new horizons… at least up to now. Senegal’s radical movements have forced change many times in the nation’s history. In 1968, for instance, student strikes snowballed into a mass nationwide uprising that forced then President […]
Cape Town — The number of people living in poverty in sub-Saharan Africa has overtaken that in South Asia, says a new study. Nearly 579 million Africans live in what the study calls “acute multidimensional poverty”. This year’s Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), released on Monday (October 19, 2022) by a United Nations agency and […]
Monrovia — President George Weah is expected to formally open a high-level meeting organized by Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Liberia’s Revised Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) today. Liberia’s ambitious revised NDC, as trumpeted by President Weah during his address at the United Nations General Assembly last September, is intended to reduce its Green House […]
Whein Town — The Managing Director of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) Mike Doryen and top managers of the agency award export permits to logging companies outside of the legal channel for the exportation of timber, documents obtained by The DayLight have revealed. By the National Forestry Reform Law, all export permits and certificates of […]
Monrovia — A FrontPageAfrica investigation has uncovered that the gun used in the shooting incident involving George Kailondo Jr, the son of popular Liberian businessman George Bobby Kailondo, belongs to a ranking officer of the National Security Agency whose identity is yet to be established. Last week, Kailondo Jr. shot Mohammed Kamara, causing serious injuries […]
Monrovia — The Partnership for Environmental Action on Climate Change and Ecosystem Protection (PEACCEP) in partnership with the Liberian Youth and Civil Society Environmental Secretariat has ended a two-day national climate change leadership training for several Liberian youths. The training which ran from 13-14 October 2022 brought together approximately 30 participants who are youth, environmental […]
Gbarnga — Businessman Johnny K. Kpehe is amongst more than 10 aspirants vying to become senator of Bong County. In this interaction with FrontPageAfrica’s Selma Lomax, Johnny speaks on the essence of governance, his programs plans of action for the people of Bong County and the imperatives for commitment, integrity and a rounded knowledge base […]
Monrovia — Enemurators recruited for the 2022 National Population Census are finding it difficult to find a center to undergo the five days of training before the commencement of the population census on October 24, 2022. According to some enumerators, since the names were posted on LISGIS official website with an exact location, LISGIS supervisors […]