In a humid coastal stretch near Lagos, trucks still crawl through narrow links and rough edges. And that daily grind sits behind a big headline now. Nigeria secures USD 1.26 billion financing for Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a major funding step tied to a key section of the planned coastal road. The deal signals serious money […]
Across African campuses and training rooms, the term “language” gets treated like a daily tool, then suddenly like a technical object. Linguistics does that. It takes ordinary talk, street signage, radio call-ins, and prayer chants, and studies the hidden system behind them. The goal is clarity, not drama. And yes, students still want a clean […]
There are now more than 700 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.According to the latest data, of the WHO onCOVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when. The […]
Zimbabwe recorded its first confirmed case of coronavirus. Health minister Obadiah Moyo made the shock announcement on state television Friday. Moyo said the patient diagnosed with the dreaded disease lives in Victoria Falls and had travelled to the United Kingdom where he presumably got infected. “The National Microbiology Reference Laboratory at Sally Mugabe Central Hospital […]
A Kampala court on Wednesday remanded Ugandan presidential aspirant Lt-Gen Henry Tumukunde in Luzira prison until March 30 on charges of illegal possession of firearms and treason. City Hall Court Grade One Magistrate Valerian Tuhimbise advised Tumukunde not to take plea as the court had no jurisdiction to hear the capital case. The retired general […]
After hours of waiting, some 600 migrants stranded on the tourist island of Kea in the Aegean Sea were able to reach the mainland on a ferry chartered by the Greek government. On Thursday, they were quoarantined in an abandoned hotel in the port due to a suspicion of coronavirus among the group. The migrants […]
Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Umahi, has directed for the immediate close down of all private and public nursery, primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in the state. The directive was part of measures to contain any possible spread of the ravaging dreaded Coronavirus in the state. In a statement issued by the Secretary to Ebonyi […]
South African Airways (SAA) said on Friday that it would immediately suspend all intercontinental flights until the end of May in response to a government travel ban aimed at stopping the spread of the coronavirus. State-owned SAA, which is under a form of bankruptcy protection, flies to the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia and Brazil […]
The government of Mauritania has imposed a night curfew to prevent spread of the coronavirus after two cases were confirmed. The measure came into force on Thursday evening at 8 p.m. local time and lasts until 6 a.m. the following morning until further notice. This measure is in addition to those already taken a few […]
Authorities in Gambia on Friday begun a hunt for 14 people who broke out of a hotel in Banjul where they had been quarantined for COVID-19. The group was among 32 passengers who arrived from the United Kingdom on Wednesday. “Those people who fled, we are following them and we are getting information. Because the […]
Controversial reality star Symply Tacha may have caused a social media meltdown, with her new Instagram video.. Recall the Reality TV star recently flew to the United Kingdom amidst the coronavirus pandemic. In a new update to her followers, Tacha, has said she’d not be returning to her homecountry. Stating that Lockdown in the UK […]
Bayero University Kano(BUK) has suspended lectures for one month and asked students to go home, as part of measures to contain coronavirus. The university suspended lectures following a circular from the Federal Ministry of Education through the National Universities Commission (NUC), ordering the closure of universities. BUK Public Relations Officer, Malam Lamara Garba, said on […]
The Ruling on the appeal the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole filed challenging his suspension has been adjourned indefinitely. The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal made the adjournment on Friday. The court had on Monday stayed the execution of the judgment of the High Court of the Federal […]
Government will not return land to the white former commercial farmers but only to the indigenous farmers and those that were under the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) who were affected during the land reform, Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Perrance Shiri has said. Minister Shiri was explaining the Statutory Instrument […]
African Union peacekeepers in Somalia have liberated the first major town since the beginning of the year. The African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) announced that they captured Jannale — a stronghold of al-Shabaab — on March 17, 2020. Amisom Force Commander, Gen Tigabu Yilma Wondimhunegn said the operation in the south eastern Lower Shabelle […]
Mobile phone giants, MTN, are tweaking their tariffs in the area of mobile money transfers in some African countries with the aim of reducing contact with cash amid the coronavirus pandemic. The latest developments are in Uganda and Cameroon where the operator is waiving costs on transfers done with their mobile money platform. The MTN […]
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Southwest chapter, has urged the Federal Government not to tackle Coronavirus pandemic with deceit. This was contained in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kazeem Olalekan Isreal, and made available to POLITICS NIGERIA on Friday. While hailing the federal government for various proactive measures, Mr Isreal queried why […]
A glut of unsold, high quality Nigerian crude continues to build up with weak global demand caused by coronavirus and surplus supplies by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Russia and other OPEC nations. Nigeria, which produces some of the easiest-to-refine crude that typically commands a premium, has 30 or more unsold April-loading cargoes, traders say, equal to […]
There’s growing concern in Ivory Coast over a government decision to quarantine passengers from countries with 100 or more cases of the coronavirus in a sports centre and a new plan called ‘home quarantine’. Some Ivorians have condemned the decision saying that there is no evidence that these people who are supposed to be confined […]
