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A statement by Professor Kingsley Moghalu, OON, a presidential aspirant of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) (Oxford, 20 October 2021) A year ago, Nigerian youth organised themselves in the peaceful #EndSARS protests to demand freedom from police brutality. Quite sadly,…
FROM Washington to Moscow, Tehran to Ankara, Sudan’s strategic Red Sea ports, blockaded for a month by protesters, have long been eyed by global powers far beyond Africa’s borders. Blessed with natural resources such as gold and rich in maritime…
ON the tarmac at Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport on the shores of Lake Victoria, Chinese technicians and their Ugandan counterparts put final touches on the aprons as planes fly in and out. The 70-year-old airport, opened in 1951 by the…
IT was a day of pomp and pageantry when policy makers, diplomats and Legal Practitioners on the African continent converged on Niamey, Niger Republic. It was the annual conference of the voice of the legal profession on the continent, African…
WITH the present level of Nigeria’s external debt, every Nigerian citizen in the country is currently indebted to the tune of $157 or N64,684. This trend, according to a development economist, Dr. Tayo Bello, is worrisome as the borrowing rate…
Multi-year, multi-Gbps wholesale capacity commitmentShowcasing satellite’s ability to enable telcos to achieve ubiquitous reach for their services, helping to bridge Africa’s digital divide PARIS, France, 6 October 2021,-/African Media Agency(AMA)/-,In the presence of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, Eutelsat Communications…
JUSTICE Musa Mustapha of the State High Court sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, has convicted and sentenced one Abdullahi Adamu to four years imprisonment for a N3, 000,000.00 (Three Million Naira) fraud. The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC arraigned…
THE General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has described as worrisome Nigeria’s current economic woes. Adeboye said he was alarmed when he learned that debt servicing alone gulps a high percentage of the…
CBN plans massive local production to save $2b spent annually – Advertisement – By Nduka Chiejina, Abuja WHEAT used to produce many staple food items, including bread and biscuit, will soon join the list of items restricted from official forex allocation…
GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the November 6 election in Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo has promised to create 130,000 jobs annually for youths in the state if voted into power. He also promised to…
