AT just 36 years old, Captain Ibrahim Traoré is not only Burkina Faso’s head of state but also the world’s youngest sitting president—a stark contrast to the continent’s average presidential age of 63. He seized power in September 2022 following a military…
POLITICAL tensions boiled over in Cote d’Ivoire on Thursday as supporters of opposition leader Tidjane Thiam took to the streets, protesting a court decision that disqualified him from the upcoming presidential election. The country’s main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Cote…
WHATSAPP is beginning to roll out a long-awaited in-app translation feature, offering hope to users struggling to follow group chats in unfamiliar languages. The new tool, currently available to select Android users in beta testing, allows messages to be translated directly…
PRESIDENT Donald Trump holds Africa in high regard despite sweeping aid cuts that have triggered humanitarian crises across the continent, according to his Senior Advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos. Speaking to BBC Newsday, Boulos defended the Trump administration’s decision to freeze foreign aid—a…
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Thursday he had spoken to US President Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine, with both leaders agreeing on the urgent need to end the conflict and pledging to meet soon to rebuild strained relations…
THE management of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma has announced the promotion of Dr. Austin Aghemelo of Political Science Department into the professorial cadre, pending the ratification of the chief Dan Orbih led governing council. The announcement made on the…
WHATAPP’S latest feature, a built-in artificial intelligence chatbot known as Meta AI, is drawing sharp criticism from users and privacy experts alike—despite Meta’s insistence that the tool is ‘entirely optional’. The chatbot, prominently displayed as a permanent blue circle in the…
Meta, the parent company of Facebook has revealed that in 2024, it took down over 100 million fake pages engaging on Facebook. In a statement made available on Thursday, the company said that it also axed over 23 million profiles…
By Salihu Inusa, Maiduguri THE Deputy Governor of Borno State, Dr Umar Usman Kadafur, has officially commissioned a newly constructed, state-of-the-art General Hospital Phase II in Biu local government area that was also equipped by the World Health Organisation…
MARKING the country’s 10th Space Day, China launched three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-20 crewed spacecraft on Thursday to its Tiangong space station, continuing its rotation of personnel as part of its long-term space habitation ambitions. The spacecraft lifted off at…
