FORMER French President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a potential seven-year prison sentence as financial prosecutors accuse him of illegally financing his 2007 election campaign with funds allegedly supplied by the late Libyan…
DIGITAL momentum across Africa is accelerating, and by 2030, the continent’s digital payments market is expected to soar to $1.5 trillion, according to a Mastercard-commissioned report by Genesis Analytics. This forecast…
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the creation of a major new fund to combat hunger and malnutrition among school-age children across Africa. Known as the End School-Age Hunger Fund (ESAH), the…
PROLOGUE THE BIRTH OF A WARRIOR In the quiet hills of Du, in the quiet suburbs of Plateau State, a child was born on the 13th of March, 1944. On…
ELECTRIC air taxis could soon be flying over African skies, as Ethiopian Airlines teams up with US-based Archer Aviation to launch an all-electric urban air mobility network. The agreement makes Ethiopian the second customer…
The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service, Headquarters, Abuja, (Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria). Sir, We write to formally bring to your attention the ongoing and deeply entrenched corrupt practices at the…
THE Delta State government, purportedly under pressure from press reports, has ordered the Provost of Delta State College of Nursing Sciences, Mrs Evbodaghe Rita Ogonne, to withdraw the written query…
● Approves monetization guidelines for lecturers, students, and researchers ●Students now obligated to deposit final academic reports into a national database ●Targets USD9.85bn global market The Federal Executive Council,…
Vice-President Kashim Shettima has urged Nigerians to pray for President Bola Tinubu’s leadership, as well as the peace, stability, and progress of the country, as Ramadan ends. Shettima made the…
FORMER Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has stated that the Nigerian constitution is the supreme law of the land and the National Assembly must align with its provisions. She accused…