AFTER President Joe Biden announced that he was ending his campaign for president, he reportedly endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris to be presidential nominee in next month’s Democratic Party Convention. “It is in the best interest of my party…
PRESIDENT Joe Biden announced Sunday that he will end his presidential re-election campaign, bringing an abrupt and humbling conclusion to his half-century-long political career and scrambling the race for the White House just months before Election Day. Biden, 81, could…
George Ogunde, the first child of the late theatre icon Hubert Ogunde, is dead. His sister, Dayo Ogunde,announced his passing in a Facebook post on Thursday. She, however, did not reveal the cause of his death or his age. Dayo…
Guilds in the Nigerian film industry, popularly known as Nollywood, have urged the Federal Government to retain the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) as it implements the Oronsaye Report. The leaders of various guilds gave the advice in…
“When you hear people talking of demonstrations, when you do it in a place like Kampala where people are selling on the roadside, are you going to step in their products? You are playing. Don’t have such ideas in your…
Israeli fighter jets struck Houthi military targets near Yemen’s Hodeidah port on Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding 87, a day after a drone launched by the Iranian-backed group hit Israeli economic hub Tel Aviv. Most of the…
BENIN and Sierra Leone have formally accepted the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, bringing the total number of acceptances to 80. The acceptance documents were presented to WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala by Benin’s Ambassador Corinne Brunet and…
AFRICA is grappling with a severe shortage of 15 million teachers, a crisis that threatens to derail the continent’s development, according to Mohammed Belhocine, the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation. Speaking at a press briefing…
IN a significant step to foster innovation and entrepreneurship across Africa, the African Union (AU), in collaboration with partners including Google and Africa Practice, has introduced the AU Startup Policy Framework and Model Law. This initiative aims to address the challenges…
NIGERIA competition watchdog, the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), has fined Meta Platforms $220 million for breaching local consumer, data protection, and privacy laws. The investigation revealed that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, had…
