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 first batch of results has trickled in Ivory Coast, The Resistance in the country attempted to boycott the elections. Their motive was abadon the election so that the election wouldn’t take place. As per the main outcomes, incumbent President Ouattara acquired 98% of the votes in Korhogo the northern capital, with a 88% investment. […]
Gunshots were heard in Lekki, Lagos State on Tuesday as close to 20 people were reportedly killed even though the Nigeria Army denied their involvement. President Muhammadu Buhari cautioned demonstrators in a broadcast address on Thursday not to “subvert public security” as he required a conclusion to far reaching fights grasping Africa’s most crowded nation. […]
Archeologists in Egypt announced on Saturday that they had discovered at least 59 ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of the country’s capital Cairo, one containing the pristine mummy of an ancient priest. This is than 2,600 years since they were buried. The ornate sarcophagi have remained unopened since they were entombed near the […]
The United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper signed a 10-year navy cooperation deal in Rabat, Morocco on Friday — two days after signing a similar deal in Tunisia as he made his final stop on a North African tour aimed at strengthening the fight against Islamist extremists in war-torn Libya and the Sahel-Sahara region. […]
Mali’s junta has removed a major obstacle to the lifting of ECOWAS sanctions. On Thursday it took out a major prerogative devolved to their transition leader who is supposed to bring civilians back to power in the country. The soldiers who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta on August 18 have renounced that Colonel Assimi Goïta, […]
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper signed a 10-year military cooperation deal with Tunis Wednesday at some point of his first stop on a regional tour, hailing US-Tunisia collaboration over the combat in neighbouring Libya. The previous decade has viewed growing cooperation between the Pentagon and Tunisia, especially on counter-terror training and securing the North African […]
After receiving the French president in March last year, Kenya’s chief Uhuru Kenyatta is on a go to to Paris. The President will meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace. Kenyatta who would be accompanied by five ministers is anticipated to attend a public funding financial institution conference, and meet with French […]
A pregnant woman, her two children and 3 others were killed in a freak accident involving a diesel tanker, a truck and six motor cycles in Ikare-Akoko local government area of Ondo state on Saturday, August 29. Many others were reportedly injured as the accident occurred at a commercial area. According to reports, the diesel […]
Flash floods have submerged over 200 homes in Kisuba Sub- County, Bundibugyo District. This is the 0.33 wave of flash floods that have ravaged the district this month. The floods had been induced by means of a heavy a downpour that pounded the region for about five hours on Wednesday. Mr Geoffrey Musobozi, a resident […]
The ECOWAS Commission has donated about 4,000 tonnes of food gadgets to the Federal Government for distribution to vulnerable households, to mitigate the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sangare Sekou, the ECOWAS Commissioner of Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, disclosed this at the presentation of the gadgets to the Federal Government on Saturday in Kano. […]
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 […]
Unknown gunmen on Sunday nighttime hacked down proprietor of Winners Comprehensive High School (WCHS) in Jalingo metropolis, Taraba State, Danlami Shamaki. The late Shamaki also reportedly headquartered the famous New Edition Primary School, Jalingo. The news of his dying came when the kingdom authorities used to be fashioning out plans to clamp down on hoodlums […]
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 […]
Authorities in Mbarara District have closed five inns in Mbarara City after reportedly accommodating two Covid-19 effective guests. The hotels have been closed in the course of an operation led via the district deputy resident commissioner, Mr Emmy Turyabagyenyi, who also ordered for police deployment to seal off the premises. “Mbarara District Covid-19 taskforce on […]