Lagos: Nigeria’s leisure scene is changing a lot because video games are quickly becoming more popular than regular TV and are becoming a billion-dollar industry. Because Nigerians are young, smartphones are becoming cheaper, and internet access is growing, gaming is changing how Nigerians have fun and pass the time. How and why linear TV is […]
Monday saw a very strange chemical spill event which occurred in an industrial site area of Cape Town. The release of a thick orange gas cloud over Montague Gardens created a very disturbing situation for residents and emergency workers. The unexpected reaction was an event that transformed the afternoon into a dramatic crisis for public […]
The ANC parliamentary caucus has vowed to be at the forefront of the fight against gender-based violence. The 259 members of the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces (NCOP), as well as some chief whips and speakers from some provincial legislatures, had their first lekgotla of the sixth Parliament this past weekend, after a […]
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN, popularly known as Shiites have accused Nigerian Police of killing three of its members in Kaduna, during Ashura mourning procession on Tuesday. The group through its media coordinator, Yahaya Muhammed, alleged that three persons, including a minor was killed in Kaduna while they were observing the religious ritual. His […]
The Head of State Paul Biya will address the nation on Tuesday September 10 at 8pm, the civil cabinet at the Presidency has announced. The message will be broadcast on radio and television, the Director of the Civil Cabinet at the Presidency Samuel Mvondo Ayolo said in a communiqué. However, no further details were given […]
Police in Kenya have declared a sitting lawmaker “wanted” for his role in a fracas at a church service over the weekend. Local media reported that security heads in the central Muranga county were looking to arrest Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro. An official of the county’s criminal investigations outfit urged the MP to surrender in […]
Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s body will lie in state at two different stadiums in the capital city for three days, the information minister said Monday, but she did not announce where he would be buried on Sunday. Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power in 1980 when the African country shook off white minority […]
Father Fidelis Mukonori who was the spiritual adviser to the late founding leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has said that he advised both Mugabe and former vice president, Joshua Nkomo to address the Gukurahundi massacres in the public. Mukonori was speaking to Blessed Mhlanga, a senior reporter at The Standard in an exclusive interview. Below […]
The Office of the Attorney General and Department of Justice will on Tuesday launch the accelerating of the Ratification and Domestication of African Union Treaties. In a statement on Monday, the launch aims at enhancing understanding and appreciation of the status of ratification and the domestication of the six treaties in Kenya. Further, the launch […]
Robert Mugabe’s nephew said on Sunday that a delegation was expected to leave Zimbabwe on Monday to collect the hero-turned-despot’s body from Singapore where he died two days ago. Mugabe, a guerilla leader who swept to power after Zimbabwe’s independence from Britain and went on to rule for 37 years, died on Friday, aged 95. […]
The Pope arrived in Mauritius on Monday for the last leg of his African tour that has already taken him to Mozambique and Madagascar. The pope is scheduled to say Mass and meet with civil authorities and civil society at the presidential palace. Thousands of people gathered in front of the monument “Mary Queen of […]
South Sudan’s political rivals, president Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar, are scheduled to meet today, as they seek ways to implement a peace deal signed last year. The two men signed a pact a year ago to end a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced a third of […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to visit South Africa in October to “reinforce strong bonds”, following a spate of attacks against West Africans. The Presidency said on Saturday that the two countries would “jointly develop responses to challenges affecting people and businesses in South Africa and Nigeria”. The South African embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, […]
In a letter to President Emerson Mnangagwa, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, President Akufo-Addo stated that Mugabe will be remembered for his immense contribution to the liberation of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa from imperialism, colonialism and racist rule. “His dedication to the cause of Pan-Africanism is fully acknowledged,” the president added. “Through his marriage […]
President Uhuru Kenyatta made an extensive tour of several development projects in parts of Kwale County, Saturday. Accompanied by Chief of Defence Forces Gen. Samson Mwathethe, the President visited the Shimoni fish landing site which the government through the Kenya Ports Authority is in the process of upgrading into a modern fishing port complete with […]
In a statement issued in Abuja on Saturday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the video of the purported bomb explosion, which is being circulated on the social media, is that of the bomb explosion at Emab Plaza, near Banex, in Abuja on June 25, 2014. The Minister said it is […]
United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said Zimbabwe’s current leadership has an opportunity to set the country on a different path after almost four decades of plunder by the late Robert Mugabe. The U.S. remembers Mugabe for the alleged slaughter of political opponents in the 1980s, abusing the opposition and civil society, massive corruption […]
Anglican archbishop Thabo Makgoba said on Sunday he was “appalled and ashamed” at the violent attacks on foreigners in South Africa last week, as well as the ongoing attacks on truckers. Preaching at church services in Cape Town, the archbishop urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to “demand that the responsible branches of government act firmly, and […]
Eight presidential candidates stood behind their podiums aiming to impress Tunisian voters on Saturday evening in the young democracy’s first ever televised election debate. Although Tunisia has held elections twice since throwing off autocratic rule in the 2011 revolution which triggered the “Arab Spring” uprisings, democracy is still taking root and such direct questioning of […]
Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga on Friday hinted at endorsing Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i for the Presidency, but added that time is not yet ripe for that. Mr Odinga, who was addressing mourners during the burial of former assistant minister Hezron Manduku in Nyanturago, Kisii County, said those pushing for Dr Matiangi’s endorsement […]