In the year 2026, more Nigerian students from various fashion, technological, vocational, and mechanical-related courses are included in the government’s NELFUND student loan program for students attending university or polytechnics in Nigeria. NELFUND student loan 2026, This student loan program, which was created by the government to increase access to tertiary education and training, provides […]
Following another addition of businesses to its blacklist, South Africa’s National Consumer Commission (NCC) has recently issued a warning about the increased risk of being scammed by so-called ghost companies, which are now 110 businesses added to the list. South Africa ghost companies 2026, According to the NCC, consumers face the risk of being scammed […]
Nigeria – Nigeria will destroy one million Coid-19 vaccines amid the new variant of the Covid-19 virus, Omicron. Faisal Shuaib, head of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) announced the news on Monday. He further said that his agency was working with drug regulator NAFDAC (National Agency for Food & Drug Administration & […]
South Africa – Amidst escalating numbers of African infections because of the Omicron variant, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has himself been declared Covid positive. Isolated in Cape Town, the 69-year-old President is in quarantine and receiving treatment for mild symptoms. As the Omicron variant grips the continent, it has been noted that the symptoms […]
Burkina Faso -Following the resignation of Christophe Dabire, the government of Burkina Faso has announced the selection of a new prime minister. Lassina Zerbo, the former head of a top nuclear watchdog, has been appointed as the country’s next leader. President Kabore, who is facing an increasing threat from Islamic terrorists, has pleaded for assistance […]
Liberia – The United States of America has slapped sanctions on Liberia’s ex-warlord and current senator Prince Yormie Johnson on grounds of alleged corruption. The sanctions have been imposed under Global Magnitsky Act, according to which the US government has authority to impose sanctions on human rights offenders, and thereby freeze their assets in US […]
South Africa – Government in South Africa is now planning to turn to alternative legislation to redistribute land. This has been confirmed by the South African Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola who said that he is working to provide “equitable access to land” to correct unsustainable, “unequal and skewered patterns of land […]
South Africa – The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa said the number of covid cases has increased five-fold in the past week. Cyril Ramaphosa said that as the country heads into a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections, the country is experiencing a rate of infections that they have not seen since the coronavirus pandemic […]
Beijing – China has got one more country by its collar as it takes over the Ugandan airport when the African country could not pay up its loan to the world’s largest economy. This has obviously led Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to send a delegation to Beijing for a renegotiation with the Chinese government. Earlier […]
Africa – Children in West and Central Africa have become the most recruited by armed organizations, with the largest number of sexual abuse victims in the world, according to a new report released Tuesday by the United Nations Children’s Fund. According to the report, the region has seen an increase in the number of new […]
Zimbabwea – This week, the Central Bank of Zimbabwe presented a new 50-dollar note, the country’s most noteworthy denomination since a re-visitation of utilizing Zimbabwean dollars (ZW$) as the leading currency in 2019. It joins different denominations which have been dissolved by excessive inflation, which took off to 800% in 2020, preceding dialing back to […]
The United States has added Algeria’s name under special watch status into the list of religious freedom guarantees. As per the latest reports the addition is after the US observed that Algeria is violating the rights to follow any particular religion. With this, the US has placed the North African state in the same list […]
Uganda – Police in Uganda announced On Thursday that they had killed at least five people, including a Muslim cleric, who were suspected of having ties to the extremist organization behind Tuesday’s suicide blasts in the capital. As they attempted to return to Uganda, four men were killed in a gunfight in a frontier village […]
Ouagadougou – On Tuesday, thousands of protesters came on the street. They demanded President Roch Kabore resignation as he failed to save 28 soldiers and four civilians that were killed by militants. No less than 32 individuals, including 28 military cops and four regular citizens, were killed in an assault on a gendarmerie station in […]
Nigeria – Nigeria has recently started investing a lot in infrastructure and functional measures that lead the way for ecological transportation. Nigeria is Africa’s largest country by population, which makes it an important factor in determining the transitional environment in the continent. It is now focusing on shared transportation and this business is quickly becoming […]
Tigray – Information flow has been badly hampered in the Tigray conflict, making it difficult for humanitarian organizations to understand the intensity of the loss of human life. Somewhat like the way Houthis were functioning in Yemen, feeding media and human rights organizations with misinformation, rebels in the Tigray region of Africa have used misinformation […]
Madagascar– Environmentalists in Madagascar, which is home to one of the world’s most biodiverse rainforests, are growing concerned that climate change will put indigenous wildlife at risk. Sky News followed a tiny group of guardians of the Analamazaotra Forest in east-central Madagascar, who claimed that deforestation and poaching are being driven by poverty fueled by […]
Sudan – In a crackdown on anti-coup protests on Saturday, Sudanese security forces killed at least one protester. This happened after the military consolidated its grip by forming a new ruling council. The move comes roughly three weeks after top commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan deposed the government and imprisoned civilian leaders. “Live bullets” struck other […]
Sudan – Sudan’s senior general reassigned himself as the interim governing body’s head on Thursday. Pro-democracy groups had no immediate reaction to General Abdel-Fattah Burhan’s departure, which was announced on state television. Several other members of the body served on the previous council, which Burhan presided over before dissolving it in the coup last month. […]
