THE Board of Directors of the African Development Bank on Friday approved a $288.5 million loan to help Nigeria tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. The loan will also help the Nigerian government mitigate the impact of COVID -19 on people and businesses. According to a statement from the AfDB, “the loan will bolster the government’s plans […]
A 60-year-old surfer was attacked and killed by a 3-meter (10-foot) shark off the coast of northern New South Wales state on Sunday, Australian police said. Several people tried to help the surfer and fought off the shark before taking the injured man to shore at Salt Beach in South Kingscliff, police said. He was […]
Twenty-six people were killed in an attack on a village in central Mali, officials said Saturday, in the latest violence to hit the West African nation. Friday’s attack targeted a Fulani village named Binedama in the volatile Mopti region, said Aly Barry, an official from Tabital Pulaaku, a Fulani association in Mali. Two other local […]
The Education ministry has been directed to prepare for reopening of schools beginning September subsequently hinting on the postponement of KCPE and KCSE exams. President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday said the reopening will be gradual but remained silent on the fate of the exams. However, President Kenyatta further directed a new school calendar be made […]
The government will start allocating 1,370 afforadable housing units next month. State Department of Housing and Urban Panning PS Charles Hinga told the Star the policy and criteria for allocation will be published next week. The criteria will give a clear picture of the basis for allocation. The first batch of flagship houses completed under […]
Grade 12 pupils at one of the country’s top private boys’ schools, Diocesan College in Cape Town, better known as Bishops, held a protest at the school on Friday against “racism and discrimination”. They also delivered a hard-hitting list of demands saying, “we are approaching you as a matric year in its entirety, and not […]
Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa is concerned over the lack of urgency in the transformation of South African sport. In a statement released by the department of sports, arts and culture on Friday, it was confirmed that Mthethwa had met with chairperson of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG), Happy Ntshingila. The EPG, every year, is tasked […]
Nollywood actor and winner of Big Brother Africa Season 5 reality TV show, Uti Nwachukwu, has reacted after a Twitter user accused him of rape. The accuser, who goes by the name Kambili Korie, took to Twitter to make claims that the media personality raped her in August 2017 she shared a screenshot of a […]
In between her shifts, Zimbabwean nurse Sinothando Mpofu used to go to Bulawayo’s open-air markets to buy tomatoes and cabbages for her family of nine – until the country’s coronavirus lockdown closed all stalls. Ms Mpofu worried about where she would get fresh food, until she saw a message in her local church WhatsApp group […]
It took a little while, but karma caught up with 38-year-old Johnson Emmanuel who allegedly killed and buried a 55-year old woman in his backyard at Wumba Community in Apo area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Police operatives attached to the Intelligence Response Unit of the Nigeria Police Force arrested him, earlier this week, […]
Confirmed coronavirus cases neared the 180,000 mark Saturday in Africa, according to a tracker. Data from Worldometer recorded 4,942 deaths from the pandemic on the continent. A total of 7,126 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, bringing the tally to 179,309. More than 80,322 patients have recovered from the virus. In the […]
Twitter gunned for U.S. President Donald Trump once again by disabling his campaign tribute video to George Floyd on its platform. The social media platform cited a copyright complaint, as basis for its action, reports Daily Mail. The clip, which is a collation of photos and videos of protest marches and instances of violence in […]
Journalists in Cameroon have taken to the streets of Buea in the South west region to protest and demand an account of their missing colleague, Samuel Wazizi, after local media reported he had died in military custody. Wazizi, was arrested in August 2019. for alleged involvement in the country’s anglophone crisis. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) […]
Soldiers from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger engaged in the fight against jihadists in the central Sahel have been accused of increasingly abusing local populations. The allegations will feature on the agenda of the UN Security Council on Friday. “Peace and Security in Africa”: the theme of the meeting organized by the Security Council is […]
The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced Thursday evening, the launch of an independent investigation into allegations of prevarication against its president, Nigerian Akinwumi Adesina, the only candidate for re-election to a new term. The Abidjan-based pan-African development institution finally gave in to the demands of the United States, which was dissatisfied with the internal investigation […]
The Parliamentary Sports Committee is concerned with the future maintenance and destruction threat posed by hooliganism at Nyayo Stadium even as the government prepares to re-open the facility. Whereas the committee gave the facility a clean bill of health,they expressed concern over how Sports Kenya plans to guard the facility from hooliganism going forward. Nyayo […]
Vihiga United captain Patrick Okullo has set a return to the top flight as the team’s irreducible minimum when they face Kisumu All Stars in the Kenya Football Federation /Kenya Premier League playoff. Vihiga finished third behind Nairobi City Stars and Bidco United in the 2019-2020 National Super League to book a place in the […]
As a result of the Covid-19 outbreak world over, a number of events falling within the affected dates have perhaps been celebrated differently or slip with the wind as shutdown to tame the spread of the virus continues. For the first time, the historical day that was on the calendar this week, Madaraka Day, was […]
The Federal Government has written the National Assembly, seeking its approval for $1.2 billion agricultural loan from Brazil and Deutsche Bank; to set up mechanisation service centres in 632 local governments of the federation. The $1.2 billion loan would be deployed under The Green Imperative programme, which is a Nigeria-Brazil Bilateral Agriculture Development Programme. The […]
Ex-BBNaija housemate, Kim Oprah has lashed out at Tacha for displaying high level of insecurity during the ‘Pepper Dem’ season. Kim claimed that Tacha’s was constantly bragging just to suppress other housemates because she lacked confidence and security around her. The second season of #BBNaijaReunion started on Monday with former housemates of the ‘Pepper dem’ […]