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 government authorities of Ethiopia has refused the mediation in the ongoing Tigray dispute, that has seen many displaced from their homes. The Ethiopian government has vowed to retaliate the attack of Tigray’s regional government rocket attack on it’s airports. Kenya and Djibouti encouraged a quiet goal and the kickoff of philanthropic halls while previous […]
Serbia’s president on Thursday rejected a US suggestion of mutual recognition with Kosovo, in accordance to Belgrade’s pinnacle diplomat. With a Serbian delegation in Washington for two days of talks subsidized by using the US aimed at enhancing family members between the two Balkan combat foes, Aleksandar Vucic firmly became down the proposal, which was […]
The State Minister for Fisheries, Ms Christine Andoa, Kayunga leaders and residents of Galilaya Sub-county, in Kayunga District had been treated to drama after two contributors of Parliament came close to a physical battle at a public function. The drama was sparked by way of Kayunga Woman MP, Ms Aida Nantaba who branded Baale County […]
The ECOWAS envoy, which arrived in Mali saturday for talks with the military junta, has called on restoring power in the country to a civilian government. The head ECOWAS delegate highlighted the efforts of Mali’s military to avoid bloodshed in the country after the recent coup. The delegation headed by former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan […]
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 […]
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were detained by mutinying troopers on Tuesday, according to safety sources. It comes after troopers fired pictures at an military base in Kati, 15 km backyard of the capital Bamako. In 2012, a mutiny unfolded at the same base, main to a coup that toppled […]
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 […]
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia at an Impasse Egypt withdrew from the Nile dam talks scheduled today with Ethiopia claiming that the inspiration put forth by way of the nation lacked rules on dam operations and any felony mechanism for settling disputes. Sudan also threatened to step out in rejection of the concept of sharing Bule […]
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 […]
Egypt has accused Ethiopia of ‘‘warmongering’‘ Sunday in dispute over the latter’s plan to start filing a huge newly-built hydroelectric dam on the River Nile. The Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry was responding to comments by his Ethiopian counterpart in an interview with the Associated Press Friday. “We find it strange that in his recent […]
Ethiopia on Saturday said it was disappointed by the mediation efforts of the United States over its dam project on the Nile River, suggesting that a deal would not be agreed soon. The U.S. Treasury, which oversees the talks between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan, said Friday in a statement that an agreement had been reached […]