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 […]
The Ministry of Health on Sunday verified every other demise of one COVID-19 patient, bringing the range of humans who have succumbed to the sickness in Uganda to seven. A announcement via the ministry says that 16 new COVID-19 instances have been validated from samples tested on Saturday, bringing the cumulative proven cases of Ugandans […]
Entrepreneurship is gaining more traction across the African continent as greater and greater adolescence are searching to start their own business. Kolawole Olajide is the co-founder of BridgeLabs, his 1/3 entrepreneurial task that used to be established from his pastime in building gorgeous technology products designed to allow forward-thinking agencies to compete and operate in […]
Nollywood actress Nse Ikpe-Etim made the cowl of the latest edition of The Guardian Life Magazine as “The Silent Tsunami” The 45-year-old actor who interprets her role and can provide them without difficulty shares an perception into the trip at the back of the Nse Ikpe-Etim we comprehend on the journal issues. On turning into […]
Victor Osimhen has slammed Nigerian media over a report purportedly projecting him to be aiming for the legendary Diego Maradona’s achievements at his new club Napoli of Italy. Napoli completed the transfer agreement for the 21-year-old for fee plus an array of potential bonuses that takes the deal up to €50million (about N23billion). The 21-year-old […]
Economists are warning that large scale intervention is needed to rescue the Algerian economy from accruing huge foreign debt, following the double blow of COVID 19 and tumbling oil revenues. The National Office of Statistics has mentioned a 3.9 percent fall in Gross Domestic Product in the first quarter of 2020 alone, with unemployment nearing […]
Residents and preservationists have registered their alarm as demolition continues in the Cairo cemetery complex known as the City Of The Dead. The work’s being undertaken as part of a new 17.5 kilometre highway project. The highway, named Al-Ferdaous – or Paradise – is intended to connect major road arteries and ease traffic in the […]
Former Ekiti State Governorok, Ayodele Fayose has condemned the remark credited to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo over the death of Senator Buruji Kashamu. Fayose said that Obasanjo should quit claiming to be a saint, reminding him that one day he would also die like Kashamu and that “nobody knows how the cease will be.” Obasanjo had […]
Zambia, August 9, 2020/KnowAfrika/ — 416 new validated cases; three deaths; 167 recoveries New cases mentioned from: 150 Lusaka, seventy three Kabwe, 60 Solwezi, 30 Masaiti, 25 Ndola, 24 Lumwana, 16 Mwinilunga, eleven Kitwe, 10 Lufwanyama, 7 Mpika, 4 Choma, 3 Chibombo, 2 Livingstone, 1 Chingola Death pronounced from: 3 Lusaka (Facility deaths – Levy […]
Baganda should raise cash to set up a sanatorium just like they did beneath ‘Ettofaali’ initiative to rebuild the royal tombs at Kasubi and Masengere constructing in Bulange, Kampala, a former kingdom legit has advised. Mr Emmanuel Ndaula, a former Buganda kingdom deputy prime minister, stated this for the duration of the launch of Katikkiro […]
Former Kaizer Chiefs and Chippa United striker Lucky Khune has defined the challenges he faced in the course of his time with the Soweto giants. When Khune joined Amakhosi in 2009/10 season, a lot used to be predicted from him mainly being the younger brother of goalkeeper, Itumeleng who was once already making waves in […]
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa vowed to battle an utility with the aid of employers in the petroleum enterprise to have employees declared as essential services, announcing it would inhibit their capability to strike. According to the Labour Relations Act, an integral carrier is work whose interruption would endanger the fitness and […]
At least nine people had been killed and 14 others injured on Saturday in a suicide vehicle bombing in the Somalian capital, officers said. Salad Mohamed, a senior police officer in Mogadishu advised KnowAfrika via phone, that a auto weighted down with explosives blew up at the gate of a Somali military military base in […]
Senegal has reintroduced restrictive measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus, following a suggested upward thrust in cases. The Senegalese Minister of the Interior Aly Ngouye Ndiaye told a press convention in Dakar that, on the grounds that the lifting of the state of emergency, the authorities had seen what he known as “a sure laxity” […]
Supporters of Vital Kamerhe gathered in Kinsasha on Friday only to discover the appeal hearing of the former chief of staff to Democratic Republic of Congo President Félix Tshisekedi had been postponed again. It has now been pushed back a further two weeks to August 21st. Mr Kamerhe was found guility in June of embezzlement, […]
The prime minister of Mauritius has declared a state of environmental emergency after a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground in July began spilling large amounts of fuel into the sea. Pravind Jugnauth tweeted that the MV Wakashio represented a ‘great danger’ for Mauritius and admitted that the country didn’t have the skill or expertise to […]
Tanzania President John Magufuli will recognize the constitutional presidential time period limit, CCM secretary-general Bashiru Ally stated yesterday. “You have labored carefully with the people, and you will be voted into office by the same people. You are now not the variety of a man or woman with a tendency to dangle on to power, […]
South African investigators are seeking to recover more than R400 million from German software program firm SAP for two government contracts they allege have been entered into unlawfully, court docket documents considered through Reuters show. Although the quantity of cash sought is small for a organisation with a market fee of round 162 billion euros, […]
Zimbabwe’s High Court on Thursday denied bail to a journalist who used to be arrested ultimate month for assisting anti-govermnent protests, in a case that has sparked an outcry over muzzling of the press. Hopewell Chin’ono, a freelance journalist and critic of the government, was once charged with inciting violence final month, together with opposition […]