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 […]
Botswana remains one of Africa’s least impacted countries, one of a handful with less than 100 cases of COVID-19. Government has in the past month taken drastic measures including a strict lockdown. President Eric Masisi tested negative for the third time on June 1. The wholes parliament was quarantined at a point when a health […]
Desert locusts continue to threaten Kenya’s food supply after invading the north-western part of the country by the millions. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations works with Kenyan logisticians to search for and monitor dense areas of locust invasions in the country’s desert. Among them, Boris Polo and his team are using […]
Members of the Imo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has commenced seven-day fasting and prayers in the 647 autonomous communities over non-payment of their three-month salary arrears. The union gave the directive to commence the exercise in a statement issued by the state Secretary of the union, Godwin Osogwa and made […]
Stella Odife Today, the voices of hunger, the voices of insecurity and the voices of COVID-19 have been almost drowned with the voices of rape. At least within the life period of this administration, no demonstration has thrived without being met with brutal force by the police and the army, except that of the cry […]
Egypt reopened its famed Giza pyramids to the public yesterday after a three-month closure, seeking to restart a vital tourism industry battered by the novel coronavirus. Dozens of excited tourists snapped selfies as they wandered around Egypt’s most iconic ancient site. The pyramids were the country’s first tourist attraction to reopen, along with the Egyptian […]
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile river has become a major point of contention between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia, which hopes to double its electricity generation capacity through the project, is intent to start filling of the dam’s reservoir as early as July 2020. Egypt, on the other hand, insists […]
Burundi’s new president has signaled that his government will take the coronavirus pandemic more seriously than his dead predecessor, calling the virus the country’s “worst enemy” and announcing new screenings. President Evariste Ndayishimiye on Tuesday said the screenings will be launched wherever clusters of cases are suspected, and that soap prices and water bills will […]
Nollywood actor, Nosa Rex has defended her colleague, Funke Akindele after the latter was called out by her ex-staff over alleged physical, emotional and financial abuse. In a lengthy video shared to his Instagram page, the actor who stars as Terwase in the series, Jenifa’s Diary, stated that people ought to show grateful when it […]
Nigerian football star Ahmed Musa is not only making waves on the pitch, the Al Nassr winger is also doing awesome outside of the field. The former Leicester City forward is the only Super Eagles star to have recorded four goals in the FIFA World Cup championships. His successes, however, transcend the field of play […]
Senegal is easing some restrictions that had been imposed to aid curb the spread of the Covid 19 pandemic. In a televised address, president Macky Sall said the country’s state of emergency and curfew which were imposed on March 23 will be lifted as of Tuesday 11pm local time. The president further added that as […]
The Osun State Government on Tuesday went a step further in its attempts at enforcing the use of face mask by residents, when scores of violators were arrested in Osogbo and shown videos of isolation centres. The arrests were made by the COVID-19 Joint Task Force on the order of the state government. The JTF […]
An initiative, which involves a $40 million fertilizer-revolving facility and another $170 million for value addition is to be implemented in the Eastern, Northern, Western, Central, Lusaka and Copperbelt provinces under the first phase from the 1st July 2020. The initiative will focus on: job creation for the youth; improved farming practices among small-scale farmers […]
The death toll in Africa from the novel coronavirus topped 10,000 Tuesday, according to a statistics website. The number of fatalities on the continent from the coronavirus now stands at 10,166 while 195,045 people have recovered, according to data from Worldometer. Some 11,022 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours, bringing the total […]
The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, congratulated, last Monday, the elected President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera. At the age of 65, leader of the Malawi Congress Party, Lazarus Chakwera won the June 23 elections with 58.57% of the votes. In the congratulatory message, João Lourenço says that the election of Lazarus Chakwera “is a […]
The Executive Committee of the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has announced the postponement of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON to January 2022 citing the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament had been scheduled to take place between January and February next year. The football governing body, however decided that the local version of the […]
Nigerian football star Victor Osimhen edges closer to sealing a dream move to Serie A giants Napoli this summer after been spotted in Italy. The 21-year-old striker who recently won the 2020 edition of the Prix Marc-Vivien Foe award has been on the radar of the Partenopei. Osimhen attracted the attention of top European clubs […]
Popular singer, Adekunle Gold has called out the Nigerian Customs over the continuous increase in customs duty despite Coronavirus pandemic in the country. Adekunle accused Customs of crippling businesses in Nigeria by the act. According to him, the government is making things difficult for those doing legitimate business in Nigeria with the increased levy. On […]
Somalia’s national stadium in the capital Mogadishu officially reopened today years after it was abandoned due to insecurity. A game was also honoured today after extensive renovations since 2018 when government took control of the facility. It was adversely affected by the country’s civil war, at a point it was occupied by Al-Shabaab insurgents and […]