AFRICA’S business events sector, part of the global Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) industry, is seeing robust growth despite inflationary pressures and economic hurdles. The industry, valued at $16.6bn in 2023, is projected to reach $65.6bn by 2032, with…
RUSSIA is urging BRICS countriesto establish a new international payment system, immune to Western sanctions, at the upcoming summit in Kazan from October 22-24. President Vladimir Putin aims to strengthen BRICS—expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE—as…
UGANDA is developing a new internet cable route via Tanzania as part of the Northern Corridor Integration Projects (NCIP). The initiative aims to reduce the country’s reliance on Kenya, currently the sole route for Uganda’s internet traffic. Improving internet…
Burkina Faso commemorated its revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, on Tuesday, marking the 37th anniversary of his assassination. Sankara, a former president and military captain, was killed alongside 12 others in 1987 by a hit squad during a meeting of…
THOSE who recently visited the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) expressed dissatisfaction with the flood-soaked equipment and the enormous amount of money required to restore it to operational condition. This is particularly true of the machines in the radiology…
THE President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, GCON has advised Nigerians to disregard stories of impeachment speculations against him describing it as fake news and a figment of the reporters imagination and ethical deficit. Recall that an online publication,…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ola Olukoyede has directed the establishment of a Public Complaints Desk at all the Zonal Directorates of the Commission and the Corporate Headquarters. The Desk, designed to be…
The naira is one of the worst-performing currencies in Sub-Saharan Africa for 2024. According to the latest edition of Africa’s Pulse, a report by the World Bank, as of August 2024, the naira had depreciated by 43% year-to-date, placing it…
THE Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions (NASU) has vehemently condemned the inauguration of the Federal Government’s renegotiation committee, which was established to address…
A Kano Upper Shari’a Court, on Wednesday, issued summons for two prosecution witnesses, Bashir Sale and Salisu Sani, to testify in the ongoing trial of Shafi’u Abubakar, 38, the alleged mosque arsonist. Abubakar, who lives in Gezawa Local Government Kano,…
