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 Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that cinema lovers would enjoy discounted […]
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. The arrest took area days after her brand new novel, ‘This Mournable Body,’ was once protected in the long list […]
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 hours putting the variety of fatalities at 15,857. For the previous six weeks, South Africa has been experiencing a decline […]
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 scored 15 dreams in sixteen video games in the Virsliga given that the league started out in June. Speaking to […]
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 he played in VIP’s ‘Ahomka Wom’ for his recent song: ‘Take.’ Vanguard, however, gathered that Jay Q began litigation processes […]
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 in exile for years. He holds both Belgian citizenship and a US Green Card. He has been charged with terrorism […]
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 popular nature reserve which sits 60 kilometres (37 miles) from Niger’s capital Niamey. The statement, issued in the Islamic State […]
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 highest number of cases. Hospital admissions have started to slow down, but the number of deaths is yet to follow […]
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 the announcement on Twitter. The president wishes him to perform his responsibilities effectively and efficiently, it brought in the statement. […]
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. He took over from his predecessor Pierre Nkurunziza, who was in office for 15 years. During his tenure, at least […]
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 the desolate tract in Moroto, in northeastern Uganda. “We noticed the prisoners all over the mountain when they had been […]
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 winners at the Molineux on Thursday. The victory means that Michael O’Neill’s side will play League One outfit Gillingham at […]
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 kids below, Earlier in the year, the filmmaker penned down a tribute to his father Adeyemi Josiah Akano Afolayan who […]
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 passing at his house ultimate week at the age of 92. President Cyril Ramaphosa gave a televised national address on […]
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 the October 18 vote. Clashes erupted last October, claiming several dozen lives, after the 82-year-old leader pushed through constitutional reforms […]
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 cases recorded, placing the total number at 653,444. Cases of COVID-19 had slowed down in South Africa in the past […]
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 brought on a deadly explosion in Lebanon on August 4. “Forty-one people had been arrested in possession of explosives, ample […]
On a peninsula east of Lagos, 30,000 employees are employed on a task that holds out the promise of transforming Nigeria’s economic fortunes. It’s right here that Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, plans to spend greater than his internet really worth of $13.5 billion building one of the world’s largest oil refineries. If he succeeds, he should […]
