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…
Ivory Coast: President Ouattara Nominated For Third Term
President Ouattara on Wednesday requested for extra time to consider the nomination, indicating he would announce his decision in a speech to the country on August 6. I have heard messages from the a…
Zimbabwe: President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces possible coup’
THE ruling Zanu-PF formative years league has sensationally claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was under threat from within his own celebration and accuses some insiders of working with exiled officials to dislodge him. Zanu-PF early…
Tunisia: President Kais Saied Names Hicham Mechichi as…
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied picked his former felony adviser to shape a new government, nation news organisation TAP reported. The 46-year old Hichem Mechichi held the indoors ministry in the outgoing government of Elyes Fakhfakh. Fakhfakh resigned…
Nigeria: President Buhari finally wears face mask
Nigerians finally get to see their president with a face mask since the coronavirus pandemic started. Muhammadu Buhari has never been sighted with a mask through his official engagements back home. But that changed when…
Gabon gets first woman Prime Minister: Rose Christiane…
Gabon president Ali Bongo Ondimba on Thursday named a new Prime Minister in the person of Madame Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda. She becomes the country’s first female Prime Minister. She will replace Julien Nkoghe Bekale,…
Burkina Faso ruling party endorses president for re-election
Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore’s party backed him Saturday to run for re-election despite struggling to crush a bloody jihadist insurgency. Simon Compaore, president of the People’s Movement for Progress (MPP), made the…
Breaking: Tanzania president endorsed for re-election, rejects third…
Chama Cha Mapinduzi, CCM; Tanzania’s ruling part has endorsed the candidature of President John Pombe Magufuli for upcoming presidential polls. The president doubles as the CCM national chairman. His endorsement was at a National Congress…
NEWS: Buhari writes South African President, laments huge…
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged African leaders to ensure the immediate actualization of the Common African Position on Assets Recovery (CAPAR), as the continent celebrates Anti-Corruption Day, July 11, 2020. In a letter to South…
The World: President Trump commutes Roger Stone’s sentence
President Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime adviser Roger Stone, calling him a victim of the “Russian hoax” and saying he would have been put at serious medical risk in prison. Trump on…
Nigerian president suspends head of anti-corruption agency
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu on charges of embezzlement. Magu was on Monday invited to appear before a Presidential Panel that…
Nigeria: Buhari bars VIPs’ aides from airport terminals
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has given an approval to the Federal Ministry of Aviation to stop all aides of public office holders and other very important personalities from gaining entry into airport…
Breaking: Mali president meets protest leader first time…
The Mali presidency posted a video on Twitter earlier Sunday of the meeting between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Mahmoud Dicko, the leading figure of the protest, in the capital Bamako on Saturday. It was…
Botswana coronavirus: president enters fourth quarantine
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…
Malawi’s opposition chief now president: Lazarus Chakwera
Lazarus Chakwera is the latest addition to the list of African opposition figures that have unseated incumbent presidents. He was on June 27 declared winner of Malawi’s presidential election re-run. Reacting to his victory on…
Malawi president says Tuesday’s vote was worst election
Malawi President Peter Mutharika described Saturday a court sanctioned presidential election earlier this week as the worst in the country’s history. “Much as I find the election unacceptable, I ask all Malawians to be peaceful…
Impossible to hold 2020 polls – Somalia elections…
Somalia joins the league of country’s that cannot hold elections – not because of the coronavirus as in the case of Ethiopia but because of preparatory challenges, the elections chief has disclosed. According to National…
Malian protesters continue mass rally demanding president quits
Malian opposition activists turned up in their thousands on Friday marching through the streets of the capital, Bamako, to demand the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The massive response to the anti-government protest comes…
Burundi swears in Evariste Ndayishimiye as president
Burundi has a new president in the person of Evariste Ndayishimiye who won May 20 elections as the country entered the post-Nkurunziza era. Ndayimishiye was originally supposed to take over in August but the Constitutional…
