Adesina Donates $500,000 to Fight Hunger in Africa… Says We Are in a Race With Time to Unlock Africa’s full Potential
Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate Akinwumi Adesina Sunhak Peace Prize Laureate Akinwumi Adesina and President of the African Development Bank has pledged to do more to advance Africa’s fight…
Looters Bent on Undermining 2019 Elections, Democracy- Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has alerted Nigerians on the activities of looters of the nation’s resources bent on undermining the forthcoming general elections “and by extension our democracy’’. The President…
Corruption Does Not Invest In The Future, It Kills the Future – Akinwumi Adesina
Akinwumi Adesina, AfDB President “We are working hard with governments to improve transparency, governance, accountability and project delivery across the continent. Corruption does not invest in the future, it…
Our smart card readers are better now, INEC assures; retrains SPOs
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has expressed confidence in the performance of the Smart Card Readers to be used at the forthcoming general elections, insisting that no Incident Form…
Pope Calls For Decisive Action Against Human trafficking, Slavery Business
Pope Francis Pope Francis on Sunday urged governments to take decisive action against the $150 billion-a-year human trafficking business and the plight of millions of modern-day slaves. Francis…
Alleged $15m wire fraud: How US address landed Nigerian in detention
Fresh facts have emerged that Mr Ayodeji Olumide Ojo, the man alleged to be behind the travails of a young Nigerian Mr Olufolajimi Abegunde reportedly suffering in the United States…
Exposed: Rot in NEMA, DG Grounds Emergency Aircraft, Hires Unqualified Expatriate for Air Wing
There are indications that the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) can no longer support any air emergency response in the country following the grounding of the agency’s air ambulance and…
Brewers target youths in Nigeria’s fierce beer war
Gigantic billboards advertising beer now dominate the skyline of Nigeria’s megacity, Lagos, signalling the escalating battle between multinational brewers for drinkers in Africa’s most populous country. So far it’s a…
AU Chair: Kagame out, Egypt’s Sisi in
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who led an active, reformist tenure as African Union chair, on Sunday passes the baton to Egypt, seen as more likely to focus on security issues…
As Nigeria goes to the polls, ponder this
KEN UGBECHIE It is barely six days to the 2019 elections, chief of which is the February 16 Presidential poll. This year’s election is special in many ways. A record…