The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the…
Business: Comair closer to take-off as creditors implement…
Comair on Friday surpassed another great waypoint en route to returning to the skies when the giant majority of creditors and shareholders voted to adopt the business rescue plan. The company stated on Friday that…
Two African women still in running for WTO…
Two African women are among the five candidates still in the running to take the World Trade Organization top job. No Africans and no women have ever been at the helm of the global trade…
NEWS: Court set date for Zimbabwean Author Tsitsi…
Required to appear in courtroom on Friday, award-winning and famend Zimbabwean author, Tsitsi Dangarembga — dealing with expenses for disturbing the peace and inciting violence following her arrest at anti-government Harare-based prohibited protests in June.…
South Africa records 2,055 new COVID-19 cases, 85…
South Africa mentioned 2,055 new COVID-19 instances bringing the number of validated infections to 657,627, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced late Friday. Mkhize stated 85 human beings died from the coronavirus in the past 24…
Sports: Nigeria’s Tolu Arokodare joins Bundesliga side on…
Nigerian striker, Tolu Arokodare has been snapped up by way of Bundesliga outfit 1. FC Köln on a season lengthy loan from Latvian top-flight club Valmiera FC. The 19-year-old striker who stands at 1.97m tall…
Entertainment: Jay Q sues Selebobo for copyright infringemen
Ghanaian music producer Jeff Tennyson Quaye a.k.a. Jay Q has accused Nigerian artistes and producer Selebobo of using his work without his permission. According to him, Selebobo (real name Udoka Oku) used the horn melodies…
NEWS: Hero of Hotel Rwanda denied bail in…
Paul Rusesabagina, whose movements during the 1994 Rwandan genocide inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda", was once denied bail by a Kigali court docket on Thursday. Rusesabagina, a critic of the Rwandan government, has been living…
Breaking: Islamic State claims August killings of French…
The Islamic State group claimed the August killing of six French aid workers and their two local guides in Niger. The NGO workers, aged between 25 and 30, were visiting the Koure National Park, a…
COVID-19: The latest in Africa
Africa is seeing an average fall of 10% in new COVID-19 cases. But situations on the ground vary widely. South Africa has reported the continent's highest number of cases and deaths, and the world's seventh…
President appoints new prime minister in Somalia
Somali President Mohamed Farmaajo appointed Mohamed Hussein Roble as the country's new high minister early Friday, hours after regional leaders agreed on a revised mannequin for presidential and parliamentary elections. The Somali presidency made…
Burundi: Human rights abuses continues, UN watchdog report
Human rights violations are still being committed in Burundi, including sexual violence and murder, a report by a UN watchdog said. Hopes had been pinned on new President Evariste Ndayishimiye, who was elected in May.…
NEWS: Manhunt for more than 200 naked and…
Ugandan forces are looking for greater than 200 naked inmates, who escaped in a jailbreak on Wednesday. Many of the 219 escapees stripped off their yellow uniforms to avoid being identified as they fled into…
Sports: Ex-Super star missing as Stoke City beat…
Super Eagles captain, Mikel Obi was missing as Stoke City earn a shock 1-0 victory over premier league side Wolves in the Carabao Cup. Jacob Brown scored a late winner as the Potters ran out…
Entertainment: Actor and movie producer, Kunle Afolyan shares…
Post-birthday pictures with Eyiyemi. Do have a great day," the talented filmmaker with a handful of Nollywood blockbusters to his name, wrote. Checkout more lovely photos of the filmmaker, the celebrant Eyiyemi, and his other…
NEWS: South Africa Holds Apartheid Activist Lawyer George…
A funeral service used to be held for the famend human rights legal professional and apartheid social activist George Bizos on Thursday morning at the Greek Orthodox Church in Johannesburg, South Africa — following his…
Politics: Anti-Conde movement plans protests ahead of Guinea’s…
Guinea's opposition movement announced a new round of protests from late September, just weeks ahead of a presidential election. The movement is opposing President Alpha Conde's controversial bid to run for a third term in…
South Africa records 64 new Coronavirus deaths
South Africa mentioned 64 new coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period, bringing the whole range of fatalities to 15,705, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize stated late Wednesday. Mkhize stated there have been 1,923 new COVID-19…
NEWS: Authorities seizes explosives ‘large enough’ to blow…
Sudan has arrested forty one human beings and seized a large amount of explosives huge ample to blow up the capital Khartoum, authorities stated on Wednesday. The substances included amonium nitrate, the identical chemical that…
