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 […]
Ebola outbreak in the western section of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is of grave difficulty as instances attain one hundred in much less than a hundred days, the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa said on Friday. In a statement, the UN health enterprise said, the outbreak has in […]
Some 3.3 million human beings are dealing with acute food insecurity in Burkina Faso at some stage in the present day lean season, the period which precedes the harvest in September, two UN businesses said in a declaration on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) stated pressing and sustained […]
Talks for the Transition The National Committee for the Salvation of the People — the military junta who ousted from power now ex-president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, under the leadership of Colonel Assimi Goita, have been in contact with opposition parties, trade unions, civil society and other groups in Mali, as communicated to the media by […]
In an effort to curtail the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, 32 states now have molecular laboratories for the trying out of the pandemic. The revelation was once made all through a teleconference meeting held Thursday between the 36 governors of the federation. It used to be similarly published that 50 per cent of instances […]
Students in Nigeria on Wednesday took to the streets of Abuja, the capital to demand the reopening of their schools, since closed as parts of efforts to contain the further spread of coronavirus. “We demand the reopening of our schools, because the schools educational sector is the number one sector of any progressive nation, one […]
As digital commerce continues to speed up owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mastercard has introduced it will provide tokenization services to retailers with app, eCommerce, and ordinary billing card-on-file application in South Africa, further defending consumers and growing comfort when storing Mastercard cards in merchant databases. Dubbed Mastercard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) for Merchants, the […]
New Genk striker Cyriel Dessers has published one of his ambitions play international football. The 25-year-old born to a Belgian father and a Nigerian mother, however is eligible represent Red Devils and Super Eagles but stays uncapped at the global level. Dessers trained with Belgium U21 squad ahead of a European Championship qualifier 5 years […]
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed alongside with three state leaders and the mayor of Mogadishu have reached an agreement on the country’s election model after days of talks in the central town of Dhusamareb. The election will be based totally on constituency caucuses, in accordance to a notification issued after the summit in Dhusamareb, the […]
A Locust Desert Storm The Horn of Africa, fighting an unprecedented proliferation of locust crop pests for months, is dealing with an exacerbated meals scarcity hazard — with plants of farmers in Turkana county, Kenya, decimated by way of an infestation of wasteland locusts. The unwelcome presence of the barren region locusts is severely impacting […]
On Wednesday, The United Nations condemned the National Committee for the Salvation of the People i.e. the soldiers — headed by Goita, who staged a coup d’état in Mali forcing the resignation of now ex-president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Stephane Dujarric — the spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, General Antonio Guterres, released this official statement, […]
Military Coup d’État Colonel Assimi Goita, presented himself as the head of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) at a meeting with the Malian government’s top civil servants in Bamako on Wednesday. “I am Colonel Assimi Goita, the president of the CNSP,” he told the press after appearing on national television […]
At least 27 people have been arrested for smuggling into a Somali prison weapons used to assault guards in the past this month, according to Somali kingdom run-media on Wednesday. “An inquiry committee into the central [Mogadishu] prison attack observed that on Aug. 8, pistols, ammunition, and hand grenades were smuggled into the jail secretly […]
Bloemfontein Celtic coach John Maduka defined how he master-minded the downfall of Kaizer Chiefs on Wednesday evening. Siwelele got here from behind to humble Amakhosi at the Absa Tuks Stadium, with Motebang Sera bagging a brace to along with Victor Letsoalo’s solitary strike. Maduka insists he wouldn’t allow his aspect to sit down back against […]
Jihadists have taken lots of civilians hostage from a city in northeast Nigeria, locals and militia sources stated Wednesday. Militants from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), an offshoot of Boko Haram, arrived in Kukawa in the Lake Chad area late on Tuesday with 22 trucks and had been locked in a conflict with […]
The international community condemned the rebellion in Mali and called for the immediate release of the ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who resigned on Wednesday. Rebelling soldiers detained the now-former president a day earlier, throwing the fragile nation already fighting against jihadism in the Sahel into further crisis. Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairman of the African […]
Nigerian rapper Erigga is quitting bachelorhood very soon as he is set to marry his girlfriend. Without warning, the Warri born rapper took to his social media pages to announce his wedding to his fans. Erigga will be marrying his girlfriend Morenike on the 3rd of October as shared in his post. The rapper and […]
The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic across Africa has considered a surge in digital payments and e-commerce transactions as economic institutions scramble to provide organizations and consumers contactless methods of spending, borrowing and lending, and making payments. Cashless solutions like mobile lending and digital repayments had been already growing hastily on the continent even earlier […]
Mali’s military ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who announced his resignation early Wednesday in the fragile West African State, which is battling an Islamic insurgency in the north of the country. “I don’t want a single drop of blood to be shed to keep me in power,” Keita said in a televised address to the […]