THE UN health agency, World Health organisation (WHO) says the H5NI avian influenza virus has so far shown no signs of adapting to allow human-to-human transmission. So far, one human case has been reported in the United States since the…
THE Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has charged youths across the country to build resistance against cybercrime. He made this call in Abuja on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, when students of ARWA…
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, have brokered fresh collaboration to tackle economic and financial crimes and other acts of corruption. This pact was made in Makurdi on Tuesday, May 7, 2024…
AFTER a short break from the turbulence social media space, I bumped into a recent costs list of electronic transactions and others ancillary economic burdens reeled out and imposed on the long suffering Nigerian masses by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
AS Nigeria prepares for a future with a projected population of 400 million by 2050, accompanied by the overwhelming statistic of 70 percent of the population being under the age of 30, it is evident that the country is on…
ETHIOPIA’S coffee exports have surged, bringing in $835 million in revenue over the past nine months, reports the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority (ECTA). During the first nine months of the Ethiopian 2023/24 fiscal year, which began on July 8,…
MALAWI has taken action after 12 of its farm workers were deported from Israel for violating employment contracts by leaving their assigned duties to work at a bakery. The confirmation came from Malawi’s Minister of Information and Digitisation, Moses Kunkuyu,…
IN a bold move challenging the long-standing rule of President Paul Kagame, Rwandan activist Diane Rwigara declared her candidacy for the presidency in this year’s elections. The announcement, made on Wednesday via social media platform X (formerly Twitter), marked a significant development…
GHANA’S Supreme Court commenced hearings on Wednesday regarding an injunction aimed at overturning the contentious Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, which significantly restricts LGBTQ rights in the country. Lawmakers approved the bill in February, prompting widespread international condemnation despite garnering significant support among…
THE Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) announced on Wednesday that the country’s inflation rate dipped to 25 percent in April, marking a 0.8 percentage point decrease from the 25.8 percent recorded the previous month. Samuel Annim, the government statistician at the…
