[caption id="attachment_162146" align="alignnone" width="1244"] L-R: VFS UKVI Account Management Team: Mr. Kingsley Magee, Chief Operating Officer of Global Operations, and Head of UKVI Account Management Team, Mr Srinarayan Sankaran; British…
THE Republic of Germany organised a seven-day basic training course for operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in Abuja. Mrs Annett Gunther,…
Alhassan Yahaya, the National Deputy President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), has emerged as the new National President of the union. He won the election with 436…
FORMER Nigeria’s Head of state and elder statesman, General Yakubu Gowon (retd), has explained why he championed the creation of 12 states in Nigeria while he was in office as…
INTERNATIONAL cocoa buyers have made more than half a billion dollars in upfront payments to Ghana’s state-run marketing board, Cocobod, as part of efforts to secure supplies and avert further…
MALI’S junta has arrested four employees of Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold, marking the latest in a series of detentions of foreign mining workers amid escalating tensions between the government and international…
THE commitment of $300bn annually to developing nations for climate change initiatives, as agreed upon at the COP29 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, represents a major step forward in global climate action. This…
ETHIOPIA is set to welcome its first green hospital, the Roha Medical Campus (RMC), a $130 million multi-specialty facility under construction in Addis Ababa. The hospital recently achieved a historic…
DR Faustine Ndugulile, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) regional director-elect for Africa, has died at the age of 55 while receiving medical treatment in India, Tanzania’s Parliament Speaker Tulia Ackson…
A NEW report from international NGO Equality Now reveals that outdated and narrow definitions of rape in 25 African countries are allowing many perpetrators to evade justice. The findings, from a comprehensive…