Africa

The Defence Headquarters says troops of Operation Accord have arrested 11 illegal miners and eliminated scores of bandits on November 21 in parts of Zamfara and Katsina States. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, in a statement on Monday, said the troops continued to record successes in the …

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered Sen. Ali Ndume to be remanded in Kuje Prison following Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT)’s refusal to appear for his trial. Justice Okon Abang gave the order when Ndume, who represents Borno South Senatorial District, failed to …

The increasing cases of gender based violence in Nigeria can be traced to the “deliberate delay in the adoption and transmission (into law) of the Child Right Act in many states since its passage in 2003,” Chioma Kanu,the Executive Director of Mothers And Marginalised Advocacy Centre (MAMA Centre), has alleged …

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has just published its 2020 report on good governance in Africa. And for the first time in 10 years, the Ibrahim index slid on the continent. According to the document, the average on the continent was 48.8% in 2019, making a decrease by 0.2 percentage pt …

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the challenges and opportunities of Africa’s development landscape, former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday in a lecture organized by the African Development Institute in Abidjan. “We have the same problems but what we also have is vastly increased urgency…not so much a …

Former Ghana’s President Jerry John Rawlings, the longest serving political leader, (19 years) has died on Thursday, at 73. Former President Rawlings, who buried his centenarian mother a few weeks ago, is reported to have died at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, where he was on admission. Mr Rawlings …

Barely two months to the operationalisation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the instruments of ratification of the Agreement. The Commerce Africa reports that ahead of the AfCFTA operationalisation scheduled for January, 2021, no fewer than thirty countries have deposited …

A Chief Magistrate of an Abuja Court, Musa Abdulrazaq Eneye has granted bails to six EndSARS protester in the sum of N50,000 each with one surety each in the like sum. The six defendants who were arrested while wearing RevolutionNow T-Shirt during a protest at the front of National Assembly …

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) have alerted, through a joint report published on November 6, about an increase in acute hunger around the world. In “The Early Warning Analysis of Acute Food Insecurity Hotspots,” the two UN specialized agencies point out that …

Remittances to sub-Saharan Africa are forecasted to drop to $44 billion this year, down 9% compared to 2019. This prediction by the World Bank is attributed to the pandemic currently hitting global economic activity. This situation could, according to the World Bank, exacerbate food insecurity and poverty in this part of …